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=). ok I will allow myself to talk fast cars here. In the early 90's I had a 71' Ford Torino GT with the 351-M cleveland engine that had a High rise manifold and headers. I bought it cheap, put a 750 Dual pump holley (4 barrel of course) and numerous other upgrades and fixes. It would not take off very well (There is a way to powerlock the converter at 3500 or so and let the tires go) but it shined at 2900-4800 RPM I could catch anything on the top end. The Glass packs exhausts ultimately did me in as State troopers lived in the county I was in at the time and they would visit my place of work for coffee and ask how fast that old car can go. And give me certain stretches of rural roads to slow down on due to noise at night. One could hear me 1/2 mile away. The Michelin 225's by 60 r14's on there were murderously expensive but they have never ever failed me on a tight back road curve. There were other cars classics that were on the road that summer and there were a few on the spot meets to see who was top dog. There was a 71' Dodge Charger with the 6 pack and a Firebird with a blown out 454 V8 shoe horned into it that would show me dust and smoke. However for a 30 year old car at 132 mph at 5200 RPM with another 500 RPM to go before absolute red line was not too bad. As fast as I thought I was there was a friend of mine who had his Mom's Pontiac Ventura I think a 78 model. I used to beat him with a 4 cylinder everywhere he went. Ultimately he was to swap the engine, transmission out and replace it with a custom engine that put out something close to 500 horse and 350 pound of torgue and a Super snap transmission on it. Click click and off you went. That car was a Monster Incarnate. It was so fast and full of power you had to stand on the brake with both feet while pulling out of a parking spot, the slightest touch of the gas sent you past 30 mph in maybe 40 feet. and about 170 in less time it takes you to catch breath. Too fast for me even thought I love watching the speedo go one way and the gas gauge the other he he he.
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