helped a friend run 10's!
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helped a friend run 10's!
I swapped out some engine work and other stuff for a motorhome and built my friend 440 in his 69 Roadrunner. He took it to the Mopars at the Strip race in Las Vegas and he ran a best of 10.91 @ 122.6!
I'm stoked since the engine was total shambles two weeks before the race, I had to get a good crank, rocker arms, camshaft/lifters, new rings and bearings, and I honed it myself and thrashed it together and 1st pass off the trailer with a 750 Demon was 11.22. I loaned him my Dominator and it improved to 11.0! After that it ran the 10.9 but the next day we had a 30mph headwind and it still ran 11.0's, but I think it would have gone quicker since the 1/8 mile time was 6.89.
I'm proud of the little junkyard motor! Just a sidenote, the car is light, it weighs 3260 with driver so it's wasn't too hard to run 10's with it, but I'm still proud!
I'm stoked since the engine was total shambles two weeks before the race, I had to get a good crank, rocker arms, camshaft/lifters, new rings and bearings, and I honed it myself and thrashed it together and 1st pass off the trailer with a 750 Demon was 11.22. I loaned him my Dominator and it improved to 11.0! After that it ran the 10.9 but the next day we had a 30mph headwind and it still ran 11.0's, but I think it would have gone quicker since the 1/8 mile time was 6.89.
I'm proud of the little junkyard motor! Just a sidenote, the car is light, it weighs 3260 with driver so it's wasn't too hard to run 10's with it, but I'm still proud!
