when I was younger I had a older neighbor , that had a 1933 buick, into which he had stuffed a 413 chrysler wedge engine, it looks similar to this picture I found posted.
the engine had a radical cam , a push button auto trans and a dana 60 rear differential, it was low, light weight, two seat and very quick! and he had the annoying habit of very easily staying about a door length ahead of you any time we raced no mater what car you drove.
as I got older I talked with him about that frequently and he made a point of saying that his engine probably only made about 440hp , but the car weight was just a bit over 2100 lbs so he had little problem keeping up with or ahead of even my Pontiac lemans with the 496 BIG BLOCK CHEVY POWERED DRIVE TRAIN I built a few years later
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...y-fast-car-resulting-from-an-engine-swap.898/
I rather quickly came to respect the concept of a high power to weight ratio, as it was all to obvious that building a powerful engine and installing it in your daily driver was not the way to produce the fastest car in the area.
we had one guy in the neighbor hood that had a car similar to this picture I found posted that had a 427 chevy with a 4 speed muncie that we always tried to get these two cars to race but in the 30 plus years I know I lived in that neigbor hood I don,t think I ever saw the chevy powered t-bucket's owner exceed 60 mph or even do a single burn-out, he was content to simply drive around occasionally and park and BS with the car guys, I talked to him years after I moved from MIAMI when we accidentally met in a home depot and I asked him if he still owned the car, he said he had given it to his older son, who wrecked it a few years earlier (his car looked very similar to this picture I found)
http://vexer.com/automotive-tools/1-4-mile-ET-HP-MPH-calculator
http://www.wallaceracing.com/et-hp-mph.php
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-info-worth-reading-through.11528/#post-53210
https://robrobinette.com/et.htm
http://www.ajdesigner.com/fl_horsepower_elapsed_time/horsepower_elapsed_time.php
http://www.tuneruniversity.com/blog/2012/03/power-to-weight-ratio/
the engine had a radical cam , a push button auto trans and a dana 60 rear differential, it was low, light weight, two seat and very quick! and he had the annoying habit of very easily staying about a door length ahead of you any time we raced no mater what car you drove.
as I got older I talked with him about that frequently and he made a point of saying that his engine probably only made about 440hp , but the car weight was just a bit over 2100 lbs so he had little problem keeping up with or ahead of even my Pontiac lemans with the 496 BIG BLOCK CHEVY POWERED DRIVE TRAIN I built a few years later
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...y-fast-car-resulting-from-an-engine-swap.898/
I rather quickly came to respect the concept of a high power to weight ratio, as it was all to obvious that building a powerful engine and installing it in your daily driver was not the way to produce the fastest car in the area.
we had one guy in the neighbor hood that had a car similar to this picture I found posted that had a 427 chevy with a 4 speed muncie that we always tried to get these two cars to race but in the 30 plus years I know I lived in that neigbor hood I don,t think I ever saw the chevy powered t-bucket's owner exceed 60 mph or even do a single burn-out, he was content to simply drive around occasionally and park and BS with the car guys, I talked to him years after I moved from MIAMI when we accidentally met in a home depot and I asked him if he still owned the car, he said he had given it to his older son, who wrecked it a few years earlier (his car looked very similar to this picture I found)
http://vexer.com/automotive-tools/1-4-mile-ET-HP-MPH-calculator
http://www.wallaceracing.com/et-hp-mph.php
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-info-worth-reading-through.11528/#post-53210
https://robrobinette.com/et.htm
http://www.ajdesigner.com/fl_horsepower_elapsed_time/horsepower_elapsed_time.php
http://www.tuneruniversity.com/blog/2012/03/power-to-weight-ratio/
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