question about engines

i love my honda for that reason, 4 cylinders and beating v8's it comes stock with 170, im p utting out about 180-185 about 150-160 to the ground with it. and it actually sets me back quicker then my 300 hp ford

i've seen some built vw bugs blow some doors off. you'd be surprised what you can do with 4 cylinders, like porsche did!

hey im not THAT old pushin 40.
the car is a 69 nova i tried to talk the owner into a 572(?) i think that was it, but he said it would be just to much for him and opted for the small block,oh well i tried.
it'll rev about 6g the cam is about .430/.450 (dont have exact specs with me right now) and it was 2 bolt main so its been bowtied.
on top of bein a mechanic i worked in a machine shop for 7 years, so doin all the machine work is no big deal for me.
the car will be streetable but able to old its own on the strip. nd i also know about wheel hop, built a 1400 hp small block that ran a flat 8 at 180mph could have been in the 7s if the wheels would have locked up better.
any way i go some photos ofcars ive worked on but theyre to big to upload so as soon as i figure out how ill get em up.

when i worked at aamco few years ago we got a tech bulitan about the new caddys, the ones withthe 405hp engines, that said customers were bringing the cars back to the dealers and trany shops complaining of vibrations on take off, the vibration ocured when stopped at redlghts and when they would give it gas the back end would shake. the shake was due to rear end wheel hop and the bullitan said there was no way to fix the problem, to explain to the customer that this ws a high hp motor and they were giving it to much gas at take off and basicaly doin a burn out. it other words get your foot outa the gas ya old fart.

^ no rear stablizers or even a rear sway bar?? Yenko in 69 was selling weld in kits if you didnt have the steel

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Originally Posted by yokinazu

hey im not THAT old pushin 40.
the car is a 69 nova i tried to talk the owner into a 572(?) i think that was it, but he said it would be just to much for him and opted for the small block,oh well i tried.
it'll rev about 6g the cam is about .430/.450 (dont have exact specs with me right now) and it was 2 bolt main so its been bowtied.
on top of bein a mechanic i worked in a machine shop for 7 years, so doin all the machine work is no big deal for me.
the car will be streetable but able to old its own on the strip. nd i also know about wheel hop, built a 1400 hp small block that ran a flat 8 at 180mph could have been in the 7s if the wheels would have locked up better.
any way i go some photos ofcars ive worked on but theyre to big to upload so as soon as i figure out how ill get em up.

when i worked at aamco few years ago we got a tech bulitan about the new caddys, the ones withthe 405hp engines, that said customers were bringing the cars back to the dealers and trany shops complaining of vibrations on take off, the vibration ocured when stopped at redlghts and when they would give it gas the back end would shake. the shake was due to rear end wheel hop and the bullitan said there was no way to fix the problem, to explain to the customer that this ws a high hp motor and they were giving it to much gas at take off and basicaly doin a burn out. it other words get your foot outa the gas ya old fart.

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I cut my teeth on the autocross track (SOLO2) in the mid 70s :D

I learned early on... break traction, and you lose time, lose time, lose the race.... instead of top time of the day, you might come in 4th or 5th.