Muscle Motor Week 2011!!!

[GarysZ24]

I may not own a car with an engine/hp set-up of such, but I still wish to celebrate the week...to wit:

4/25 or 425hp If my memory is correct, this is the factored hp for both a 426 hemi, one of the famed 409's, and a 427 Chevy, which with regards to the hemi, brings me to;

4/26 Need I say more???

4/27 You 69 Camaro racers with that engine and you Ford SOHC engine runners should love this day!

4/28 Isn't this "The Original Cobra Jet" Ford?

4/29 Can we say, "The Boss"!!!

4/30 The Hp of the "Mystery Motor" Z11 Chevy.

Furthermore, in all due fairness to the month of April, this month graced us with some other noteworthy dates for engines:

4/01 AMC had a dog in this fight too.

4/09 "She's Real Fine, My 409"!!!

4/21 The great "Poncho" Pontiac.

Unfortunately this month isn't 55 days long or else we'd be able to honor other luminaries such as the 454 Chevy, and the 455 Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac monster motor too. Did I miss any? I often think of this at this time of year, because I'm a gear-head (and Damn Proud Of It)!!! I may not race one of them (due to lack of funds for such), but I can still appreciate them, so kudos to you who can!!!

[Ed Fernandez]

Forgot 406 Ford 410 Merc. Also 440 Mooopar.

[johnny shot]

Um, you can't do a 440 on a calender date... but you can do the Mopar 413, Chevy 402, Olds 403 & 425, Caddy 425 & 429, I'm sure there are others but I'm too lazy to go further. Guess some would apply to motor month, not so much motor week.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by johnny shot

Um, you can't do a 440 on a calender date... but you can do the Mopar 413, Chevy 402, Olds 403 & 425, Caddy 425 & 429, I'm sure there are others but I'm too lazy to go further. Guess some would apply to motor month, not so much motor week.

Yeah I guess so.But I did get the Merc 410.A lot of people don't remember them.Pontiac 428 also.I should have known the 403,that's my birthday.I swapped a 403 from a 350 olds in my Pontiac Paresianne S/W tow vehicle.Pulled nice but the gas milage,not fun.

[GarysZ24]

Somebody told me about that 410 Merc, and I forgot. However those additions are cool, keep it coming....

[ALMACK]

Looks like the largest of all engines is s.o.l. in May.

Cadillac 500...there is no 5/00

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by johnny shot

Um, you can't do a 440 on a calender date... but you can do the Mopar 413, Chevy 402, Olds 403 & 425, Caddy 425 & 429, I'm sure there are others but I'm too lazy to go further. Guess some would apply to motor month, not so much motor week.

True Johnny, but great additions to the powerful month of April!!!

[Jeff Lee]

My triplet girls were born on 3/27. They were little "high revers" but then on 4/27, when they were one month old, they were less peaky, more powerful!

[Marvin Robinson]

Love it!!!! Good to know I'm not the only one who looks at the calendar like this... now we can even celebrate in MAY... (502, 515).

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Forgot 406 Ford 410 Merc. Also 440 Mooopar.

Sorry Ed, but since there's only 30 days in April, the great 440 Mopar mill faces the same fate as the 454 and the 455 (not enough days in the month to be included in this). However, since those engines are truly Muscle Motors, they would get my vote...if only the month of April could be extended 25 days longer.....but then March would have to be extended as well, so it could include such great engines as the 340 Mopar, 350 Chevy & B.O.P. 350, the 383 Mopar, the 390 Ford, and the 396 Chevy...to bad there's no 4/00 date, or even the 400 would have a place...life just isn't always fair, but this is still is a great week, and one I'll remember always for it's ironic significance to our sport!