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This is a car me and a few friends race

Nice looking nova.....but I think your connecting rod is not connected.

Nice car. Silly question but is that a Weiand Team G intake????

yes that is a weind team g, nice job nightstalker

thought id post a pic of my buddys dog his name is CAM as in camshaft

Sweet ride! Can't imagine what running 9's feels like. With tires like that, Maybe I could reach 10's! Oh but wait, half shafts lol... damn.. ah well, I still have the road racing. What kind of power do you need? Looks like it's pretty bare, under 2500lbs? What are the regulations and rules for your power/weight? Sometimes drag strips I visit (usually a get-together/meet is assembled there) will warn me/throw me out for the trap/mph I run without some modifications that would take away from the luxury of my car. I usually abide, a straight line run isn't worth the trouble with the drag staff.

Looking at that reminds me of back when I used to build that kind of stuff....not that big and fast but pretty close.

What I miss about it:

Large pure brute force power that plants your head back and makes it immobile.
sound of a built V-8 that can hardly idle
working diligently to eliminate weak links.I learned a ton about how and why things work together.

What I don't miss:
custom carb linkage,spacers, gaskets, springs, adjust, adjust, adjust.
distributors. wires, timing and banging firewalls to make room so you can use a custom wrench in a tight spot.
trying to keep big engines cool.
spending $1,000.00 and having it all wasted because of some $10.00 part elsewhere.
getting fuel
spending hundreds and thousands of hours on something only to enjoy it fully for well under a minute. It's like pursuing that supermodel of your dreams with everything you got...and shooting your load as soon as your pants are on your ankles.

Jay I know that at my local dragstrips there were certain 1/4 mile times that if you beat you needed to have safety items in order to run again. From memory I recall driveshaft hoops as being one of the first things, and then it kind of snowballs from there. Not really a bad thing as I have personally seen some real "booty fab" vehicles that are a danger to everyone within 100 yards.

Same here Tooly. Helmets are required regardless of speed. Roll bar up to a point and then a cage past another point, dual return springs on the throttle linkage etc etc. I think they made the transmission "blankets" a requirement to.

Blaine only reason I asked was that was the same intake we ran with a 1050 Holley Dominator on a pro-street truck my dad and I were building.

Yeah it's the rollbar/cage that I don't want to have to deal with. That and the racing harness lol. I have my own helmet, needed for the curvy track too

Life is tough.....wear a helmet.

well the block is a cast iron 454 out of a dump truck bored and resleeved and steel crank resroked to a 502cu the heads are world racing, the intake is a weind team g, in the pick it had a holley double pumper last run we did it had a 1400cfm dominator we havnt dynod the motor but our guess are around 1100 horse power, but we baught a b&m 471 blower at a swap meet but still needs to be rebuilt, and a nos injection system were hopeing.afterwards to be around 2000 horses. the car has done mid 7s when another guy owned it but the set up is kinda close, but we have been running consistant mid 9s the way it is.

my thats some really big... tires