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Originally posted by poprivit:
Chit! My Lexus ES 350 has 270+ hp and would outrun any of those muscle cares with less than an engine size that started with the number "4". "Course, it sure as God made little green frogs, doesn't should like my Road runner, nor any other big V-8.

Them were the days.

I just sold my Benz E-500 with 330 horse. My roadrunner would eat it for lunch any day of the week. In a straight line quarter mile. Exactly what the car was designed for.

Cheers
Jim

You know it's a darn shame that we got all this pollution control stuff on newer cars these days.
I would love to take a late model Benz and drop a forged 302 based stroker in it and drive it on the street. One with a carburetor.

Go to engineswapdepot.com. Lots of neat and weird swaps.

http://www.engineswapdepot.com/

Interesting RX2 Mazda with a turbo 4 rotor that is in the 6s and over 200MPH in the quarter. It is on the second or 3rd page.

Frostbit

ES350 0-60: 6.3
!/4 mile 14.7
(Motor Trend 2010)

440 RR: 0-60 6.6
¼ mile 14.4
(Motor Trend 12/69)

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Originally posted by poprivit:
Frostbit

ES350 0-60: 6.3
!/4 mile 14.7
(Motor Trend 2010)

440 RR: 0-60 6.6
¼ mile 14.4
(Motor Trend 12/69)

Mine wasn't stock.

But the one tested by Ronnie Sox and Roland McGonegal was. We all know what kind of driver Ronnie Sox was and he rung low 13's out of the A12, while a magazine writer averaged 13.5

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Ronnie Sox got into the 12's just by removing the air cleaner.

I had a '69 383 roadrunner 4 speed in high school in 1970 and raced it at Cecil County and Atco Raceway in F Strickly. My best time was 14.26

Thanks Butch.

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Originally posted by butchlambert:
Go to engineswapdepot.com. Lots of neat and weird swaps.

http://www.engineswapdepot.com/

Interesting RX2 Mazda with a turbo 4 rotor that is in the 6s and over 200MPH in the quarter. It is on the second or 3rd page.

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Originally posted by odies dad:

Here is the 327 in my 64 Impala SS conv.

Here is the car

Jeez, that's a big car, do the hood and the trunk each have different zip codes

A person could live quite comfortably in the trunk.

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Ronnie Sox got into the 12's just by removing the air cleaner.

You been in the boonies too long.

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Originally posted by butchlambert:

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Ronnie Sox got into the 12's just by removing the air cleaner.

You been in the boonies too long.

Nah!! Never too long.