Hey I'm a Die Hard !! Mopar guy, as most you here already know !! & my 1st car was a 68 Charger R/T, my step father Bob was a die hard Pontiac & Mopar racer, in the hay day from 1962-75, don't misunderstand what I'm about to say & I was raised a Mopar & GM guy, but I like more than just Mopar's too, but they are my 1st love, but also just calling Chevy/GM slow &/or junk as a blanket statement, "is just not accurate, at all".... Chevy's best selling point {for racing anyway} was & still is afford-ability, you can build {& sometime buy} 2-3 Chevy's, for the money spent on building a single Mopar of equal horsepower & ET... Allot of available parts & support from GM/Chevy, that we don't have with our Mopar's, anything/everything you need &/or want is readily available for them... I know, I broke the 7 sec ET, 1/4 mile barrier in 1981 with $10k w/everything off the shelf parts, no special orders etc. & a little Top Gun N20 system, in a 67 "back halved" Camaro 468ci LS7 stock & balanced/blueprinted bottom end w/ necessary SFI safety equipment, w/fully ported "rectangle" port LS7 headed w/full roller, titanium & S/S valve-train {Hands down much better flowing "stock" iron Cylinder Heads, for the money, until you compare a Hemi}, single 4500 Holley 4bbl all iron BBC & Powerglide, with a 9" ford rear w/4.56:1 gears & a spool & 14"x32" d-5 Goodyear's & an old Alston Engineering Ladder bar rear suspension, stock type front suspension & sub-frame connectors, w/10pt cage.... At the same time I was building a 69 RR basically the same suspension set-up, to do the same thing {well almost anyway} & It took me nearly $30k to do it in a similar size/weight/& w/allot more CI Mopar wedge {with highly modified & fully ported "max wedged" heads}, it was also on N20 & a stroker 440ci/517ci @ 0.060" over w/4.4" bore & 4.25" stroker "billet Hemi Crankshaft" & Carrillo Rods/custom Venolia pistons {only thing available for Mopars at that time}, full 0.750" lift custom roller & S/S & Titanium valve train, w/2 660 Holley 4bbl's on a Tunnel Ram it never could break into the 7's & not for lack of effort money &/or time testing & thrashing... In my honest opinion allot of the car hobby is about $$$$$$$ spent & afordability, especially while raising children, maintaining a household, working your a$$ off to survive... Also in the mid 80's & until the late 90's Mopar Performance/Direct Connection had almost no decent flowing race cylinder heads for Mopars, 300cfm was a milestone, for Mopar Wedge Heads {350cfm was a norm for Big Chevy's}, before the B1 for the wedge engines & unless you owned a Hemi & had a very fat wallet &/or fat bank account, had the ability to build a big stroker engine when parts weren't readily available like they are today &/or had a car passed down in the family or some-other way of cutting the extraordinarily high costs of building a "truly fast race car", Chevy was very easy to get 800hp from on a budget, evn in les than 500ci's & that's not really practical on any Mopars, especially while on a strict budget, "still isn't really"... But it's much better now, than it use to be... It was nearly impossible especially on a budget to have a Mopar car A, E or B-body, that could run faster than the 10.0's in the 1/4 mile, with out throwing "a ton of money at it".... It's much better now, than even just 10 years ago, it ain't the 60's anymore either, for the Mopar enthusiast, those very fast cars refereed to by a few were very rare & for only select few Chrysler Race Teams & not the average Joe Racer & the mid 60's were a different story all together, than today, GM had quite a few very competitive cars, in all drag racing classes, today they dominate drag racing except in a select few Blown Pro/Mod cars, select P/S cars, most of T/A & both the T/Fuel all Pro/Semi Pro classes... But also almost all their stuff is based on the old Mopar Hemi design, but have very little/if any original Mopar, blocks, heads, camshafts, crankshafts, intakes etc. or any Mopar parts in or on them still, like the 60's & 70's cars did, it's all aftermarket stuff now, except in the high dollar $$$$$ ultra rare S/S cars, that are not in 95% of most cars guys price ranges & only very few were actually ever produced & very few ever were sold to the general public.... The BBC Chevy can handle allot of RPM too 7500rpm easily, even with stock HP parts, where the Mopar Wedge engine usually shouldn't be &/or can't be spun that high, with out being highly modified... I really almost think it's envy or jealousy for the most part.... Also I never have really tried to build a truly fast Ford, not my area of knowledge, "but have had a few very quick ones"... That's the facts my friends, just the facts... Hey I love Mopars too, but why bash the Chevy, Pontiac, Buick, Olds & Ford guys
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