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My brother and I raced this Cuda in the 90s. Sold in 07 but kept the engine finally rebuilding it now for a B Body! So you you guys should be seeing me more over here on the racing side.
stage VI 440,13.4:1, m1, 850 race dp, 030 over domed trw, ly rods w arp rod bolts and main studs. 274/282@ .050 on 111, .630 lift. Harlan sharp 1.5s. 2 1/8 hooker super comps.
70 v cude cuda(turned into a race car unfortunately)..backhalfed, ladder bar, leaf springs, 12point dana 60 4.88, 14x32, 3650 race wt. Built the tranny out of a 77 lockup727 switched the front guts, bolt in sprag, tranZact of indy pro brake, turbo action 5500 J 8" converter. On the brake full power it would carry the wheels nearly through 1st. But the second pass the brake wouldn't hold(we blamed it on a weak front pump) so we always left at 2500 on a two step with the delay box on the top bulb and lost some e.t. The stage VI heads were a very early set they were bought from ray Barton, barton cleaned up the seats and flowed them and they were in a magazine. But I can't remember the publication. They flowed 270 with the stock port. With the stock port and a 270/280 @.050 roller .610 lift on the 2 step we ran a 10.75@121. We built our own flowbench and ported the heads...started out in the bowls and actually lost intake flow. Interesting Barton had the seats maximized for the ports...but we didnt give up started make the port taller...a lot...had to tig weld some holes about 330 cfm. With head porting and slightly bigger cam resulted in a 10.30@127. Did not even get to tune the new combo,...unfortunately the ly rods didnt like the new power and we pulled one in two...when we took the engine apart we were also getting spider cracks in the middle of two cylinders. Combo had several tenths left just not w the ly rods. LOL Just picked up the engine last week...new block shortfilled, scat h beams, maybe tunnel ram this time? And several project cars in our stable looking at more street then strip this time, probably 6 point and leaf springs,.possibly in a 73 roadrunner...not sure on the car 100% yet.