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I would guess we all have that story somewhere. I remember testing my 68 Impala at Island Dragway, ran a 11.90, a few fellas came over to look at the car and commented if it was a 454 big block in the car. I told them no, just a oval port 396, then they see the Quadrajet and iron intake and heads, then you tell them, :"oh yea, stock lift cam with .398 lift" I use to MPH pretty good too_ 117.11 best
we could probaly fool a lot of the contestants on the "Pass Time" show, except for that guy from Texas Chassis_ he would know. Will Lamprecht 65 Impala in progress-using above 396-325 motor |
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The question we get " How do you get the car to do that? "
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2 young hopefull racers looking at our stocker...."If this car runs 11's......your's will run 9's easy".
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Good one!!!!
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hi, you're right, other racers don't understand about stockers!!! going back to vegas pass time race, the expert missed about every class car time wise. he guessed the 57 chevy with 525 hp,/283would run 9.88, it was 11.0. it was a blast to watch. overheard was when pond made a pass in his 425/427, muttered 425 horse my ##s. lol.
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Great story! When we explain why a Stocker runs so well. We explain that although the rules are limiting what parts you can run this keeps you from making bad decisions on parts that actually hurt your performance. Like 1000 cfm carbs, over 2" primary tubes, crazy size heads etc.
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“No, sorry, stock class cars are not allowed to use anything like that, our cars have to be factory stock, but we can have headers! I then began to explain to him what stock class was and about, but he kept interrupting me"
Yeah, that part's important, because, of course, they ain't as stock as they look. He should've listened. A friend ran a 65 belvedere wagon in U/SA. One time there was a guy who was in utter amazement that it had a 273 2 barrel. Stockers haven't gotten very much ink at all for many years. There's at least one generation that has no clue about them. It's very rare that when talking to someone about the kind of racing I enjoy and participated in briefly, that the person knows what I'm talking about. |
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Love it. I was talking to a very well know high performace specialty parts provided and asked a few questions about thier product to get some ideas for our stocker and he asked me how fast it went. I told him and he said "Oh you have nitrous" No. "Oh you have a blower" No. " You can't go that fast" My response to him was "I guess I am talking to the wrong guy."
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