my first run in my new ride. Going down the freeway tonight, an LS1 SS with exhaust and 6-speed pulls up even with me and throws a few revs. I'm not too enthused about racing, specially cuz my car's way out of tune and a 400 isn't the best highway motor; but "what the hell" I say. We go from about a 60 punch to about 110, and he barely pulled 2 and 1/2 cars on me by then. If I were him, I'd be a little ashamed....my car's running like poop, my tach isn't hooked up, and I'm running pig rich. But it got my blood going, 'specially after 3 months without a race ( just bought this car 3 days ago) :lala:

Nice, what's the stats on that 400?

You still have more displacement.

Well, from what I can tell ( I just bought it 2 days ago), it's a basic passenger-car 400. It's got a really crappy Carter 600 on top of a Weiand Stealth, breathing through stock heads and a tiny cam. It has nice torque at about 2500, but runs out of breath by 4700-ish. Also has a bad 2.73 pegleg but that can be cured. With these gears, I can still blow the tires (tire?) off pretty easily, and it's way out of tune, and acts like it's got a vacuum leak somewhere that we haven't determined yet.

Goodies: Mallory Hy-Fire Box, Blaster 2 coil, Weiand Stealth intake, Carter 600 carb, Heddman shortys, no cats, and a single-out 3" flowmaster.

yep.

Looks nice!

I have a 406 small block in my 82 camaro. Crane cam, edelbrock intake, 750 holley, Vortec heads, and im sure some other stuff cant remember but its pushing out 370 horse and round 450 torque :hail: 400 small block

i would be ashamed also, because he spent alot more money then you did!!

Yeah, I've never had such a torquey car before, it's addictive to keep it in 2nd and just punch it