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| RE: 390 GT 4 speed as quick as a 429 CJ? |
| By McQ - 11/23/2003 12:41:22 AM; IP 63.191.225.72 |
You like to stir things up don'tcha Blinker! Actually I don't mind especially when it allows me to blow some hot air about the lackluster 390GT.
But first I want to compliment giacomo's fine times/mph with his built 390 '69 Cyclone. That certainly ain't no '69 390 IP.
A stock, standard, non-prepped 390GT/4 speed, '66 - '68, would run low 15's/high 14's but with a good driver, i.e., "Fast Eddie" Schartman, traction bars, 4.11s, cheater slicks, and a little fine tuning, a 390GT/4 speed car could dip into the low 14's/high 13's. With a little deeper work like cc'ing the heads, basic blueprinting, the high 12's were attainable.
A stock, standard, non-prepped 429CJ/4 speed car could easily hit mid/low 14's. From my personal experience/observations, the standard 429CJ would generally out perform the 429SCJ. The hot trick back in '70-'71 was to replace the solid lifter SCJ cam with the better performing hydraulic CJ cam. But there I go talking about 429's and I don't like to talk about them very much.
I'm with giacomo, I like spending my scratch on the old Ford big block designed back in the fifties when FoMoCo engine engineers weren't spying on the boys at GM.
Oh gawd I'm going to get flamed for saying that but what the hey. Sometimes you gotta say whatyathink. |
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