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What is the highest oil temperature seen so far?

Wow! What fuel?

My car is not tuned. It is still as Ford designed it. I paid close attention as I floored the gas pedal (already rolling, not from a standing start) and just left it pinned there long enough for me to risk handcuffs and jail time. What I noticed is that in less than two seconds my engine was...

Ford pushed things a lot more than the Big 3 usually do. I am sure that there are probably gains to be made, however. Probably not dramatic. E85 tunes get another 4 degrees or so of spark timing. Headers gain some, and tuning for the headers gain some. I see YouTube videos where Gen3...

Never sold in the US or Australia. The internet cannot seem to agree on the number of these cars produced, but it is in the range of 138 - 150. Average sale on the used car market is around a quarter million US $, with prime examples fetching over $300k.

:facepalm: Sorry everybody for the wrong information. But it will be helpful to you next tax season! :like:

LOL, seriously? You are way better off not paying interest for years . . . Invest the $1200-1500 a month that Dark Horse payments would have run you and see how you come out in the end.

Is the Interchiller worth it? Which blower?

Other than rubbing and scrubbing, is there something better for removing bug splatter? I thought I did a good job washing my dark blue ember Dark Horse, and then I parked with the front toward the setting sun and saw all of these splattered bugs on the front that had not been visible when I was...

Does that make the car purchases tax deductible?

Dark Horse with handling package 60-0 is 86 feet.

All great points. The sticky tires one applies even in the twenty first century. A lot of folks are taking 2024 tires and sticking them on 20 year old cars (otherwise stock) and setting new record lap times with them. 2004 Porsche Carrerra GT with 2024 tires, Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2N0...

Sorry, but it is hard for me to find a real, unmodified L88. Like that one, the other I found has a different camshaft, too. I think they show it was probably underrated, well, at least once you get that 2 inch exhaust off of it, and the log manifolds. Maybe it was dead on with the manifolds...

https://www.hotrod.com/how-to/chevrolet-l88-big-block-v-8-engine-build-and-dyno-test

Maybe it was over 500. I am not the keeper of knowledge regarding L88 engines for these 216 cars. I was just pointing out some iffy stuff about that guy's post that you linked and also pointing out some real world drag strip e.t.s with optimal conditions slightly better than as delivered by...

and we are talking about 216 cars . . .

(and the pure stock guys are running faster than 11.99 now, but I really don't think the results after years and years of this competition for any of these cars reflects what they could have done new).

I can take everything you say at face value and still point out that competitive racers with every trick in the book in a more modern racing class using a larger exhaust than stock ran 11.99 at 119 using traction tricks not available back in 1970. That means that this car would have been a 12...

They dropped the compression in 1971 and the hp dropped to 330. In 1972, no change to the engine, but they went to net ratings, and the new rating was 255 hp. This net rating is the real world horsepower rating and is a big difference from 330. What do you think that would be to the wheels?

LouG, All the time int he 80s in Hot Rod and Car Craft, builds were trying to get 1 hp per cubic inch, and lauding the factory models that exceeded that (the LT-1, a small block 350 chevy that got 370 hp in 1970, gross, mind you, this was before the switch to net).