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Every once in a while I play "1957" with my Fury just to see if the tranny can take it off the line. I put it into 1st gear and give it gas with my foot on the brake. Like I did in the "old" days. And go through the gears to hear that chirp when it slams into 2nd. I also floor it doing 35 on a highway to get into passing gear, which really still throws me back into the seat. It still makes butterflies in my stomach, just like it did in 1957 and after, at Island Drags and on the street. But today if the trans blows it's $1200-$1500 bucks, not the $250 it was back in '57. But it still feels great to go out and see if the car can do the tricks it did back when I was a kid. John Paxos '57 Fury '57 Belvedere Convertible -----Original Message----- From: Jim Hoekendijk <57_Super_D-500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 1:29 pm Subject: Re: [FWDLK] ...I Ain't afraid of no Ghosts (or: Mythology Ain't what it used... Good idea!
I wouldn’t be afraid to floor the gas peddle on my 1957 OEM D500 and Super D500. Only thing is they’re not in the US…
But I will surely do that, once…
Regards, Jim
1957 Dodge D500 x2
Van: Forward Look Mopar Discussion List [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Fury Jim
Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2007 18:18 Aan: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Onderwerp: Re: [FWDLK] ...I Ain't afraid of no Ghosts (or: Mythology Ain't what it used... regardless of what times were recorded, official, or unofficial... by the means of the modern world.... they weren't able to show their full potential anyway...
a neat fwdlk event would be to get out some of the D500s, letter cars, Furys, and adventurers and have a nice track day- i'm sure some would be afraid to actually run these cars now- but with a modern tire instead of the pizza cutters they were using back then, something simple like a dot on a steel wheel- would cut time off right there... and add a little purple to the gas to get the octane up and add lead - how these cars were meant to run anyway.
as for the MPH issue- that is a measurement of horsepower- you can change the gears, drop e.t. and 60', but the mph will still be real close- i'd have to dig out timeslips- but a while back i swapped from a 3.23 to a 4.10 gear... amazingly went from a 15.7 to a 15.1, with 3/10 off the 60'.... but picked up 1-2mph only- since absolutely nothing but gears were changed..... after that [considering this was a daily driver- most of the time] a cam swap, carb tune, recurve, and clutch fan... the car got down to a 14.6-14.7 consistently...
granted that's still slow numbers to speak of- it backs the output of the engines of discussion, not nesessarily the actual e.t.'s they pulled
the manual cars have the stump pulling advantage and less mechanical drag than teh auto- but notice the mph is close, the hp loss of the hydraulic trans makes up for the human downtime of completing the shift of a manual, over the instant shift of the iron auto...
i know some list members have fwdlk cars that can "run" with the modern times... they'd have to come out to the NOW drags too... just in case some 5.0 or LS1 guys are in the audience... 14.anything from a car in the 50s is more than respectable- if it happened then... but minivans pull down better times now.. so some of the 10-13 sec full bodied mopars would have to run too... the ones that aren't aaca judged that is
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