Where are the lower class cars?

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

(Or would you rather go one at a time?)

I think one at a time is good.

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Paul Wong

Im sure some of the combos will require g rated tires on your open trailer. Im all for another U/SA war. There are plenty of good slow combos left. Im still not sure if anything will run with Mr Shaw's cadillac without good money put into it.

Yes, the U/SA wars were fun!! Why can't there be a P/SA war or a Q/SA war or, . . . you get the drift.

x2 on the Shaw-dillac. However . . .

[Michael Beard]

What's the problem with FWD cars? Hey, if you want to spend more money...

1980 Plymouth Volare 225. More cam, more compression, more carb than Billy's 230 straight six Nova, both factored the same at 140HP, and I presume a 3spd over a Glide would make a big difference in one of these slower cars.

MMM! Can't find the Chrysler Conquest or Plymouth Sapparo in the Guide! I thought for sure someone had one at one time, running P/SA. Guess that must've been a turbo combination anyway. Found a 1980 Dodge Challenger inline 4 for V/SA.... hm. Dunno. 400# lighter than the Volare or Nova in V though....

That's all I've got for now... back to work.

[Pvt Parts]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Yes, the U/SA wars were fun!! Why can't there be a P/SA war or a Q/SA war or, . . . you get the drift.

x2 on the Shaw-dillac. However . . .

That would be a neat project for the right person Dwight. I bet you could build one for almost nothing but the cost of the body/stock motor and machine work. About all I paid for on my SS/AM car was the motor, tranny, chassis and paint. Everything else was supplied by sponsors. In that case the car itself was even free.

[Dennis P Chapman]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

I think one at a time is good.

Billy
This is getting good.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Polhill told me that Avon (a sister company to M/T) makes a 19.5" road race tire.

Gary - I've run my tires down around 13psi with much more success. We tried higher pressure, but it wasn't consistent. With my "big boy" 22x8-13's, it likes 12psi. Bigger tire with a smaller rim actually gives it some sidewall to work with.

Thanks Michael, I'll have to research that road race tire...although I'm trying to get into a tire that I don't need to change over to at the track since my trailer is high enough that I need more ground clearance when loading/unloading the car to keep my ground effects from scraping the ramps. Perhaps some longer ramps (with no slots inbetween the cross bars for my tires to drop into) could help that? Plus those small slicks don't travel well, and they don't even hold air for much more than 4hrs., w/o tubes

With the low sidewall that the 20x6x14's, and 20x8x14's have, I'd be nervous to run that low of air pressure. However, running with 20psi, I've carded (with a decent burnout) 1.96-1.98 60fts, which is great for my car...I guess I could next try 18psi, but w/o tubes in my tires, I'll be leery of that low of a pressure? I'm glad to know it works with the 22's, I'll have to keep that in mind if/when I make the switch to the 22x8x14 dot's....thanks for the tip Michael....

[GarysZ24]

I have an ideal that might be rather inexpensive, how about the V6's in the '78-82 Malibu's? They came with (I believe), metric Turbo 200's (which some tranny companies make convertors for), and they could be great for V/SA, and possibly U/SA. I believe they came in both the 200ci, and 229ci offerings...I'd be interested in one of those for a second car....

[Dwight Southerland]

Well, Billy, where shall we begin?

[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by GarysZ24

I have an ideal that might be rather inexpensive, how about the V6's in the '78-82 Malibu's? They came with (I believe), metric Turbo 200's (which some tranny companies make convertors for), and they could be great for V/SA, and possibly U/SA. I believe they came in both the 200ci, and 229ci offerings...I'd be interested in one of those for a second car....

not sure where they'd fit in all this but didn't they make some 4.3 monte carlos?

oh yeah, i kinda toyed with the idea of a 74-78 amc matador coupe with a 304/727 to run u/sa...
thank god the body was too far gone....


but it would have been "different"

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Well, Billy, where shall we begin?

Suprise! I did!