71 Chevelle vs. 86 5.0

[Muscletang]

This happend several months ago but I remembered it and thought I'd share it with you guys.

Ok my friend and I had both been out cruising and stuff one Saturday night and decided it was time to go home. So you know he drives a 1971 Chevelle that had a fairly new 350 at the time. I was driving my 1986 5.0 which was mainly stock.
It was around 2 a.m. and we were heading home on a big four lane with nobody on it. We stopped in the middle of the road and I told him after three honks we'd go.
So I honk three times and we both step on it spinning a few feet before we hook up. I was able to pull a nose on him and kept it all the way up to 80. All of a sudden though I hear his car changed tones. His car sounded like the engine jumped a grand in the revs and the sound coming from it got a whole lot louder.
When I was at 80 he started to pull on me.
When I hit 85 he had half a car on me.
When I hit 90 he had a car on me.
When I hit 95 he had two cars on me.
When I hit 100 he had four cars on me.
By the time I was able to get to 120 he probably had at least 10-15 cars on me and that's when I shut it down.

We pulled over at a gas station about 10 miles down the road and I asked him if he had some nitris oxide he didn't tell me about. He said his Edelbrock carb doesn't really open up until his revs are fairly up and he's doing at least 70. He says before that it doesn't really open up much and he doesn't get much air or fuel. The Edelbrock intake, he added, works really well when the carb is opened up all the way and the two really add some power. I guess the sound I heard is when that thing opened up all the way and made him shot off.

This is the guy's car right here. Nice isn't it?



Here are his mods and he had most of them done almost after the engine was rebuilt.

HEI distributor with curve kit and super coil
Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake
Edelbrock 600 carb
#487 heads
Lunati .420"/.442" cam
Sealed Power pistons
bored .030 and balanced
Flowtech ceramic coated headers
Exhaust: 2.5" into Flowmaster Super 40's into 2.25"

[CivRacer95]

That is one helluva machine! Looks real nice and clean. Nice, good death too. L8...

[ViperJ]

Yup good old Chevelles, my best friend has a 72 that he just dropped a 350 SB into. That thing is just like your friends, when hes at about 65 it really opens up and man does it go. Thats why he only does freeway races just enough so the other car gets the jump then...

BTW Muscletang why is the Mustang have his reverse lights on and saying "who's first"? The picture was made by an F-Body owner and it originally was an "Owned" pic. *I am not trying to start a Chevy vs. Ford thread*

Anyway good kill

[Muscletang]

Originally Posted by ViperJ

BTW Muscletang why is the Mustang have his reverse lights on and saying "who's first"? The picture was made by an F-Body owner and it originally was an "Owned" pic. *I am not trying to start a Chevy vs. Ford thread*

I was bored one night and took the "owned" picture then put my own little twist to it. Reverse lights? What reverse lights?

You're right though about those things really opening up and going. The thing I loved though was I have straight pipes and at the time he had a pair of 17 inch glass packs. It was so awesome, and loud, hearing two V8s opened all the way up.

[Robs71Nova]

Nice death.

On a side note, the whole "my carb only opens up at 70 MPH" sounds like a pretty big case of bullshit. His carb is to small for his setup anyway, running a 600 cfm on a 355 (350 .30 over). He is probably running a stock 3.08 rear-gear, and didnt get into higher RPMS (in his powerband) until about 70 mph when he started to pull. But ya, "my carb wasn't working cause my RPMS weren't up," is bullshit. Just figured you'd like to know. That is definitely one sweet looking car though.

Rob

[Igovert500]

Originally Posted by Robs71Nova

Nice death.

He didnt get into higher RPMS (in his powerband) until about 70 mph when he started to pull. But ya, "my carb wasn't working cause my RPMS weren't up," is bullshit.
Rob

That is what I was thinking when reading it. Nice race though. Chevelle's are beautiful cars.