i hit dragway 42 last month for a few runs with the 54 belair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4Wf1cM_eM

best of the night was a 13.9@99.58 - just missed 100mph, i'll get it next year. i think it moves well for a 4 door with a mild street 350 and a 2.73 open diff "launching" on 245/45/17 HTR-Z's

needs more gear, but i don't want to give up my cruising rpm, so i might add more power instead.

it's officially .5 sec and 6mph faster than the vette if you count the runs i made at beech bend in 01 with a cracked spark plug when it was my dad's car and he had no idea i was running it.

NEAT!

Sweet! And here I thought there was a Blue Flame Six under the hood ;-)

once upon a time i rebuilt the original 125hp six. it was so painfully slow, the 4 wheel drums didnt stop for crap and the kingpin front end liked to wander all over the place. the original engine now resides in a "rat rod" (i hate that term) 54 chevy pickup that belongs to a HAMB member in illinois.

Art Morrison frame and LSx motor. 54 would then move!

dont need it, built my own chassis using only the cleaned up original frame rails, the rest is new from crossmembers out. tubular everything in front w/ discs and rack&pinion and corvette sway bar and 4 link w/ panhard bar and coil overs and discs out back.

the LS stuff i have is going in my truck but thats a whole other deal to get into.

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I do too, I detest it and the concept. I like traditional style rods and it pisses me off when someone calls one of those a rat rod because they're too ignorant to know the difference.
So besides a healthy V8, what else did you do to update the old girl?

What were you running against? Looks like an EVO. I bet he figured he'd smoke the old lead sled next to him, but it turned into a very close race.

Looks like a good launch for what you've got!

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Nice run......neat car

A trip to Norwalk would get you the 100mph.....

that was an SRT-4 supposedly with nitrous and slicks and all kinds of other stuff with a guy behind the wheel that can only manage a 13.4 - i heard him tell people it was his first time at the track and then i talked to other people that say he's there all the time and can't drive for crap. his fronts were aired so low that i was afraid to be next to him, but D42 has zero tech, they dont even ask for your license. the guy at the line asked if i had a seatbelt and that was it.

not too much done, the above suspension stuff, 355 with vortec heads and a very very mild gmpp roller cam, full 2.25" duals w/ h pipe and $15 summit turbos, 4 link has panhard bar and all QA1 5/8 rod ends, tilt steering and i made the column with flaming river joints and hacked up gm steering shafts. it has a sumped 2nd gen camaro gas tank with a mallory comp 110 fuel pump, howe radiator, electric fans, power steering and brakes. not much left original except the body and frame rails and the torn up seats i got out of another belair that a dude gave to me after he pulled it out of a junkyard for the rare power options it had. and 17x8 cragars all around. 4 wheel discs, etc...