[stormer426]

What was faster? What was better? lesee now heah hmmmmmmmm tough one if you wanted to go to yer local palace o' GM crap and buy the LS-7 heads and camshaft the LS-6 now, LS-7 454 Chevelles were the ones cutting the low 13 quarters but put some slicks on your 440-6bbl 69 Road Runner and get into the 13.0's, do same with "J" code and run high 12.'s Motor/Trend 2/1969 test was getting 13.50's @ 105 on stock polygalss with a 727 and headers running uncorked! analysis of e.t. v trap speed showing the first couple a hundred feet were quite un-hooked.

Can't really call a 68 SS Dart/Barracuda in the same class as the regular production cars all in all counting these things Ma MoPar had them all by far, I guess SS/A & AA still being dominated by these cars now a days cars isn't proof enough for most chiverlay types though. Yet most of these 68 cars were run first as SS/B's in the 68 season.

Thanks to The Baldwin/motion and Yenko's I think there are a few (way less) than any 68 Hemi Dart/Barracuda (50 or so of each) ZL-1 Camaros or LS-7 Chevelles that I've seen in SS/A (not a clone) nice wicked mean even but they still just don't cut the mustard lined up next to the Hemi A body.You ever watch a hemi car 800 foot out, drive by a big block Camaro after being launched with first and second air gears, seen plenty of that.(Rick Hauser most often I think).

Don't think there was is one car bettter than the other after all "all cars are a piece of ****" but I'd have to summerize that a Hemi anything would put the hurt to most.

Better , I don't know a Stage GS or 71 or 72 HO GTO probably better. certainly more comfy in the long distance cruise.

And then there's the E body Hemis

Mr devilreject's got it backwards. belly up to the GM counter more so than the Dodge boys would have too. Getting the LS-6 to it's best, needed the L-88/ZL-1 solid cam and the LS-7 cylinder heads at least. All Factory efforts in early 70's HP wars stiffled more due to emissions regulations than insurance, insurance was way too much money and going up at the time for anything with a big block hence the evoloution of 400 HO Pontiac's, LT 350 Novas,302 Boss, 340 Demon/Duster etc. Hemi was real dirty emitter even when Ma MoPar tried ball stud and single 4bbl Hemis. Potential of the hemi cars was unlocked with a set of 4.30's or 4.56 and converter if 727 and some gooey slicks.Most hemi cars were equiped with 3.54's Scatpack cars had 4.10's.


The only publishied testing I can recall putting the Chevelle faster than the hemi was a hemi cuda a match up of LS-7ified chevelle v 3.54 geared hemicuda all the other tests have the hemi cars on top with the 440's not much behind.
So I guess my conclusion here would be hemi,hemi,hemi,hemi,hemi,hemi!!!!!