Nine Second Ride

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Shes so fine my 409!

I had a friend in high school that had a '58 Belair with a 409

I think it was stock and really wasn't special as far as performance goes.
They seem to be kind of in between a small block and big block.

Now my other friend that had a '66 Chevelle with a '71 402 (396 bored .030" over) was a real torque machine.
That car always impressed people.

I actually like the Chevy 327 as far as small blocks go.

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1971 Chevy 402

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otaWTauHDUE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWUQcHtOks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2GVfua84

Hawt

[beasleybodyshop]

I wish I could have lived in those times. Now all we have is plastic cars and lady gaga, but what can I do?

I feel pretty lucky to have worked on some awesome cars. Here is a photo of a 34' Roadster Pickup me and my old man built, as well as a photo of our shop. While I don't miss breathing in Isocyanate and Bondo dust, good memories were had working side by side with the old man.

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Now my other friend that had a '66 Chevelle with a '71 402 (396 bored .030" over) was a real torque machine.
That car always impressed people.

My first real hot rod was a 69 Firebird. I took out the 6cyl OHC 4.2L and put in, yep, you guessed it...a 402 BB from a 1970 SS Camaro.

10.75 : 1 compression, 375 horse from the factory.

Got the heads shaved, ported/flowed, ports matched to the Edelbrock intake, steel crank, Holley 750 double pumper, stock cam with those mods put out 445 HP on the dyno when done. Later I put in a real cam with new lifters and started breaking rocker arms. Had to upgrade all of those to keep it solid.

I was outrun on a street race, once, by a 68 Camaro with a bored over 35o with nitrous. He won by a 1/2 length. I just ran pump gas, headers, dual exhaust.

My g/f drove it one night, came back really quick...with the oil light on. Wish she had stopped immediately, but she drove a 1/2 mile or more. Sigh.

That 402 in the YT video looks exactly like mine did. Took me all the way back to 1978.

Thanks for the memories, Tom!

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My brother had a '67 Chevelle with a bored & stroked 396. He put a Holley 3 barrel on it briefly - it wouldn't idle for crap but stomp it and it Screamed! He won a few at the local strip with it.

[ToneMerc]

Later I put in a real cam with new lifters and started breaking rocker arms.

Classic sign of poor valvetrain geometry, I bet the pushrods were the wrong length.

TM

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Classic sign of poor valvetrain geometry, I bet the pushrods were the wrong length.

TM

Nah, classic case of too much lift and the rocker arms died! LOL The push rods were fine, but those 6000 rpm passes toasted the stock rocker arms. That motor was sick.

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Roller rockers?