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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