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Originally Posted by CBS
I have to comment on this one....I was an old car kind of guy too...certainly loved old camaro's....chevelles and vettes....owned, raced and worked on many.....and I loved them....I had no use for fuel injection and overhead cams....and all this new stuff....but being kinda open minded.....I said why not ...lets try it.....
And of course now its pretty neat.....a tremendous amount of work but a lot of fun also....the new engines are really well developed from the factory probably because of guys like Terry that worked on those old combos for years and many of those things are standard on engines today......We done many things to our cars to make it much easier to work on....which I think scares a lot of people away....I know I was...but all in all when you get it the way you want...its no different than the old cars.....just a few more wires for fuel injection......lol...some of you old timers would be experts in no time...and probably love it....try tuning cylinder 6 only in 2 minutes.....with a couple of keystrokes.....
I still enjoy driving my 170 mph super gas vette.....but the 08 CJ is a blast.....
Rock Haas
323 SS/DA
302 S/G
It was in Drag Racing Action Nov 09 issue.....
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Dont take this the wrong way and I DO think your car is cool but how many would be running these newer cars if they DID NOT have a favorable HP rating (excluding the "hard to find parts" excuse)? Yes they are eaiser (to a point) to work on after removing all of the junk that a stock new car has installed that in the way but you cant do all of that on a street driven car. Thats race car stuff. Ever since the manufacturers went from a gross rating to a net rating its been an up hill battle to place a close and fair HP rating on these cars. The blower on the new Mustangs is just another variable to deal with. Maybe its time to classify combos some other way? Dont ask me how as I sure dont know.