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Old 08-23-2009, 11:59 PM
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Re: The Fastest You've Driven Part II
1996 - Montana.

I was driving my 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood on vacation. The week before, I had installed a 1969 Olds 455 V8, bored 60 over, with Crane cam, Holley 750 carb, Edelbrock intake, etc.

I had a built THM 400 trans and stock 2.54:1 rear end.... so it was geared really tall and loved to go fast. This thing seemed to just idle at 60 mph. At full throttle, it would do 55 mph in first gear, before shifting to second.

I turned about 130 mph, as measured by a stop watch and mile marker posts. I had lots of unused gas pedal and revs left, but I was not thrilled about going faster on an unfamiliar piece of Interstate.
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