In a time long long ago there lived a small band of cave dwellers that started racing Dinosaurs. Among that band of dwellers lived another band called the Chevrolites. Once upon a time the Dinosaur racers felt sorry for one of the Chevrolites and assisted in building and tuning a 1970 Chevelle. It was built .030 over bored,with flat tops, a Performer intake, 300 HP double hump heads,750 CFM WIDE Ratio Muncie; it was all the Chevrolite had, and 3.42 gears in a 12 bolt. It ran great on the street, but spun bad. They even went as far as to loan the Chevrolite the Slicks off the now passed on Stage 1 Car one of them owned at the time, 28-29.5 or so tall. They told him he needed more gear and a close ratio transmission, but as you know the Chevrolite would not listen. The Chevelle looked impressive off the line, leaving at 6000+ RPM it could easily lift the front left tire high enough the guys were expecting to see the windshield come out at anytime. During this time the cave dwellers purchased a 1967 4DR LeSabre to get the Super-Turbine 400 for use in another Dinosaur. Before picking the bones on the '67 Dinosaur, one of the cave dwellers suggested they see how fast they could get the '67 Dinosaur to go without spending any real money on it. So off to the "tar pits" they went with the '67 just as it arrived. It ran around a 23.75 1/8 ET the first few passes. then they started tuning, by the end of the night they were into to low 20's! they worked on it every week, adding dual ram air, wiring the ST-400 high stall to the brake lights, side gapping the plugs, re-curving the distributor at the local Tech school, re-jetting the Q-jet with parts from the local bone yard. In the end they managed to get the '67 to run a 10.0 in the 1/8 after just 8-10 weeks work. The engine really didn't like the light weight oil, at idle the oil light stayed on, at full throttle it smoked a bit, but with over 200,000+ miles on the ole' girl it ran pretty good. Now they decided one Saturday to actully race it instead for just playing with it on test and tune Friday night. Guess who they drew first round, yep you guessed it, the Chevrolite. The Chevrolite was strutting around like a proud pterodactyl, saying how much of a race it would not be. That's when one of the cave dwellers noticed the Chevrolite was dialed in at his best ET of 10.1, the Dinosaur was in at it best 10.0, the Dinosaur was going to have to spot the Chevrolite off the line! Now the Dinosaur driver wasn't real good at cutting lights and he knew it, so when they came down, the Dinosaur driver thought the Chevrolite had sprayed his car when it left, all he could see was the tail end going away. He kept his cool and leaned on the tree to around a .032 light or so and tried to press the gas pedal through the floor, all the while looking at the Chevrolite getting farther away. Now that old '67 grunted, moaned and groaned but as the first set of light got closer it ran the Chevrolite down like a Tyrannosaurus Rex running down lunch! He caught him right at the lights! It turned out the Chevrolite was actually faster, both run without breaking out, but the Dinosaur really had him from the start, the Chevrolite cut a really bad light, something like a .950, maybe a little better. But in the end he never raced again when the ole' '67 was prowling around. Seemed another cave dweller that ran with the bunch made the comment to the Chevrolite about how to make it go faster, he could buy the engine from the cave dwellers for a $100 or so; they really just wanted the transmission to start with, and a BOP bell-housing and BBB flywheel and put it in the Chevelle. He could sell the his motor to pay for it and still have money left over! In the end the "Tar Pit" owner asked the cave dwellers to either have the '67 "fixed" or not bring it back, as the really fast cars were getting worried it would puke on the track. So back to their caves they went and picked the carcass of the '67 and spread the remains to the winds. The moral of the story is you might eat out of the same dish but if you try to run off with a dinosaurs food, they can run you down and take a bite out of you no matter how old they are!
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Yep, it was that ole' '67 I bought from the shop foreman at the Ryder shop in Rocky Mount,NC with the bad CV joint in the drive shaft and the broke belt in one of the tires, it sort of "limped" a little when it walked! What ever happen to the heads off that engine and the transmission while I'm thinking about it? What did Tracy ever do with the Chevelle? ou:
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