Boss 302 stocker

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Unless I am badly mistaken, the 340 T/A and AAR drag cars never had the right power-to-weight factor to run C/SA. They usually ran E/SA or F/SA.
The REAL TransAm E-body Mopars had a de-stroked 340 with 304 cubic inches, but the dealerships never got their hands on any of those to sell.

There was a pink 340 NHRA Stocker from Apple Valley CA, driven by a girl, who ran competitively in Division seven for several years, and I think it ran E/SA. As an aside, the guy who tuned it told me one day, that it ran marginally quicker and faster with single 750 Thermoquad carb than it did with the three twos.

What you may have seen in C/SA was a '70 Barracuda or Dodge Challenger with a 440 6-pack engine; I believe they ran C/SA, or B/SA, depending on their ballast situation.

Hope this helps...

Bill

You are mistaken. As named in the last post, it was Gene Buell who set the C/SA record with a 1970 Challenger T/A with a 340-6. The original factors had them in slower classes because they were difficult to make run competitively. But he apparently got it figured out and got factored several times unil the car could actually make C/SA.

Check out a National Dragster from last Summer or so. I believe it was a factored 10.33, but apparently retired/reset last year.

But you are correct about the owners of the pink Challenger running faster with a TQ as a '71 than it did with a 6 pack as a '70.


As for the Boss 302 in Stock, my ex-boss had one in the day and always complained that the Z-28's would always get out quicker and a 1/4 mile just wasn't quite enough to reel them in. (Paul Duzs - York or US 30, or something like that.