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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (67070)	8/7/2005 5:30:56 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

How fast where you able to go ?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (67070)	8/7/2005 10:34:44 AM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

Jim Re: "muscle car" Near my hometown there was a ten mile unfinished and dead ended stretch of I-75 that the local hot rodders were able to use for a late night race track for several years in the late 1960's and maybe till 1972 or so before resumption of construction put an end to this recreation. The local cops knew about it and didn't care, even came there and watched sometime. And there was a regular quarter mile dragstrip in the town with a "Christmas Tree" and "electric eye" timing and speed measuring system but of course the interstate strip had none of these features, just wide marks painted on the asphalt about five miles apart. The way they raced this was to run up to about 60 mph side by side and then accelerate as they passed the first paint mark and race to the second marker five miles down the road. As this was a top end test any car good at this would just smoke the tires away from a standing stop and that was the last thing you needed if your were goning to run a 1960's tire at 200 mph, hence the rolling start. There was no instrumentation there so the guys just calculated their top speed by the tachometer and there were many who claimed 200mph. And of course you had to have the right gearing. A guy might run up at the drag strip on Sunday afternoon with a 4.56:1 rear end and slicks. If he used the same car for the five mile run he would change the chunk to a 2.73:1 and without the slicks. Now you can't tell me that a 427 tri power Corvette with the right gearing wouldn't run 200 mph, heck that thing had more muscle than a Daytona car. And I'm pretty sure that a 396 Chevelle like the one I had would too, but not on todays gasoline and only with the right gearing. I never put the right chunk in mine to make the run but I rode in one one night that did. Scary feeling. I remember a Dodge Satellite with a hemi that was fearsome on top end. And I remember guys bringing Jaguar XKE's that were supposed to be top end cars and the US muscle cars just ran off and left them. No contest. Then there were those 454's that they put in Corvettes, Chevelles and I think even Camaros. Stock. Now with 450 hp in a small car and the right gearing on a several mile run you would pass 200 easy. And I'm not kidding about the 1974 150 MPH motorcycle sitting in my garage. Mine, the US model would probably run out of steam at about 140. But the Euro model had a single tooth difference in the final drive and reviewers tested it at 152. I changed sprockets and geared mine to the Euro gearing. Slagle