dude same thing here, they do not like the 305s beatin up on their mustangs. i made it even more obvious what it is by puttin JOES-5O on the license plate he he he

 

That's the bottom line.

 

I like the "Bigger is better" theory. Go back to a 305? No thanks.

 

hmmm, 305 that run's 11's or a 383 that can't? I'm gonna take the smaller, yet faster 305.

 

No disrespecting a 305 running 11's, but give me a 383 with the same set-up and n.o.s. Goodnight little 305 :lala:

 

that wasn't the point. Ofcourse a larger displacement motor will beat a smaller displacement motor given equal parts, but the arguement was would you take a 305 with nitrous that can run 11's or a 383 without nitrous that can't. My answer, is simply, I don't give a *** damn about cubic inch #'s. The only #'s I care about are the numbers on the slip at the track regardless of how you got there. So you are saying you'de rather have a huge engine over a small engine that's faster? Well you can go brang about how big your engine is all you want, but the guy who just beat you in his smaller displacement engine just drove away laughing because he kicked your ***. It doesn't matter how you win, but the fact that you did win that counts in my book.

 

Yes absolutley. It's just that I would think it would take a whole lot more time and money to make the "smaller" engines go faster but at the same time I suppose it is also gratifying to say "my 305 hits 11's". That's the same reason most on-lookers don't believe it's a 305. Most of us don't have the money to do that and find it a better value to basically go with a bigger engine. But hey how fast you want to go depends on how much money you want to spend. It's amazing to see the inports with 2 liter engines clicking off 10's and 11's with a turbo and nos.

 

How much does that sucker weigh???

 

last time i weighed the car it was 3120 lbs. w/driver 3300 lbs.
next time at the track i'm going to weigh it again because it's undergone alot af changes since than

 

my car weighs about 3400 lbs

about 3620 with me and a half a tank of fuel......that sucks

 

there a guy at new england dragway (hes actually from my town) that runs 9.8x's with an 85 IROC with a 305 tpi motor in it.....granted it has about the biggest innovative ball bearing turbo iive ever seen on it, but were still talkin about a 305.

this dude is about 55, he bought the car new and has had it ever since, he had the heads built to his specs and (hes an engineer) and lots of other mad scientist sh*t.

is that cool??? yes, that f-in rocks....but am i gonna run out and get a 305??? i dont think so

 

You know some people that get on this board and post stuff really amaze me sometimes. Why is there always someone that has to rain on another persons parade for getting good times out of a combination that seems a little hard to swallow? I find it pretty damn cool that this guy has a good running heavy car that has a 305 under the hood. I know that my 305 didnt run very well and thats why there is a 355 sittin under the hood nowdays.

Obviously he has a good combination that works really well, I know that when i rolled off a 6.47 1/8 mile pass on my "punk" 355 there was a bunch of people that tried to call bs on me. Then i showed em timeslip and the vid.

Oh well, it doesnt matter what you do or where youre at there is always gonna be someone that is jealous and wants to be a PITA because of it.

So anyways man as far as im concerned youve got the best runnin 305 Ive heard of.. esp. at 3300+ race weight.

 

yeap, I agree. I've got a friend with a 406 that runs 11.7's consistantly NA. I would kill to have that engine, but if someone else came along with a 305, or even a 283, that could beat him, I don't care how they did it, i'de still take the smaller engine over the bigger one any day, just because it's simply faster. Now my friend with the 406 also has run a 150 shot of nitrous before and managed to pull off a 10.7 so would I like to have that engine if it could beat the smaller engine, hell yeah. I'm just not all about cubic inches, but more et's. Cubic inches is good, but being able to take full advantage of those cubic inches is even better, which obviously this 305 did.

 

just a thought.....

he's running 11.47 on a 305, but everyone else is getting rid of them to go bigger cubes.
who's the moron if he's figured out a way to go fast on everyone else's throw away motors ??????

even if you only spray into the twelve's in the quarter, but everyone is giving up their motors for you for 50 - 300 bucks, who's the moron ???????

gonna spray mine til it pukes!

got a complete 86 tpi car for 500 bucks. runs good, no title as it was a towing company tow - away car.

time to play!
tpi motor for my RS, along with a spare trans, oh, and a disc brake rear!

 

I'm not prejudice against any engine, If it runs good - who cares.
I built a 406 because its I had a block laying around going to waste.
It has rewarded me with 11.55 @ 120 mph, With a higher stall and 4.10's it will go 11.2s. That is all on PUMP GAS and natural.
Would I build a 305? Heck yeah!
I had a 80,000+ mile shortblock 350 out of my friends truck that with my dart heads and a 100 shot powered my camaro into the 10's that engine also showed 50% leakage on a leakdown test.
I put that engine in to finish season when the blower motor broke a piston.

oh yeah! The new worlds fastest car on radialds is a grand national with a DESTROKED! 231 to a 207 cubic inch.
Now thats with 45 lb of boost, but its awsome!
As is your 305 !

 

thanks for all the positive response about the 305 engine. seems we are all a bunch of believers that the 305 can run. damn i'm going to miss that engine and the look of disbelief when people found out its a 305.