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
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Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2007
18:18
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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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