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Re: Muscle cars the factory should have built

As I remember the SK mr heads were as good or better than Hr?

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Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson (Post 300133)

66-67 fairlane with hi riser heads on the 427

Re: Muscle cars the factory should have built

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Originally Posted by BlueOval Ralph (Post 300193)

As I remember the SK mr heads were as good or better than Hr?

no sir

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I did the tunnel port in a mustang for them. In 1983 I purchased a 427 tunnel port from Mickey Thompson that Ford had given him. I put it in a '67 mustang and it ran 10.80's bone stock with headers, 3500 stall and 4.56 gears.

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'64-'65 Chevy ll and Chevelle with the Corvette 327/365 hp.

'64-'65 falcon with the 289/271hp with 4sp.

'63-'65 Valiant/Dart with the hyper-pack 225 slant six and 4sp.

'64-'65 Mopar B-body with a street friendly Hemi.

'68-'70 AMX with a 401 and cross ram.

'67-'70 Mustang with the 427 with dual quads.

'64-'65 Fairlane with a streetable 427.

JimR

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Jim,,,,,

You sure like those Mopar Packages,,,,,;)

Always wondered,

1965 1/2 Buick GS
The car only weighed #3393 lbs.
With a, 425/380 HP,,,,,,,,(Y48 option, dual-quad intake and radical cam)
Wt/Hp = 8.93
Car optioned with 4.45 Gears/Posi-traction and Belanger Headers

May have forced the NHRA to create a BB/Stock Class for 1965,,,,,,
8.70 to 9.29 Wt/Hp Factor
That would have been nice,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Originally Posted by Alex Denysenko (Post 300040)

I'm sure that every one of you as me at one time or another imagined, bench raced about or maybe even actually created one of these muscle cars.

Anyone of us could have been a Don Yenko, Carrol Shelby, Geroge Hurst, or Mr. Norm if the factory's would have just listened.

It would have been so easy as all parts were readily available and fit without modifications to existing platforms.

In many cases some of these actually made it to the prototype stages but for whatever reason, be it fears of insurance surcharges, bean counters, emissions, or internal politics none ever became production packages.

This is my list in no particular preferance of cars that the factories should have built.

Feel free to add to this thread espcially if you can think of any more that I may have missed.

Alex,
You left out your friends Stage 2 Buick. (Wait, they actually produced all the parts and sold them as a kit, just not installed. Wonder what fool thought that plan up.) Imagine it with a 'glass hood, plastic fenderwells, and aluminum heads!

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425 in a 442 definitely would have been a good combo!

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I like Dave's idea. A '70 Maverick with the Boss 302 or a '71 with the Boss 351. :cool:

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351 need spring towers cut.
A neater car would have been the German Capri that was imported here. Here is some in sight on the in 1971 Ford of Germany built a kit to put the Boss 302 in these cars. %0 were built for South Africa for Rally teams. Engine fit perfect you could build good headers and put a large oil pan on. Only problem was the real wheel wells were very small.
Ralph

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Originally Posted by copperhead (Post 300423)

I like Dave's idea. A '70 Maverick with the Boss 302 or a '71 with the Boss 351. :cool:

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455 in the 1970 Firebird. Of course, it would have been better with the RAIV round port heads. But, even with the #64 D-ports, it would have been a great way to introduce the 2nd gen Birds, IMO.

But, as it was, there was never a high compression 455 in a Bird. :(

Would have also been nice to have a 455, or at least a good 400 in the X-body '74 GTO. It's a shame the GTO went out with only a low CR 350.