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pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sat Feb 22, 14 11:47 am

Is that Lez on the tilt ???me old eyes ain,t that good these days

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Sat Feb 22, 14 11:53 am

nope
think that was mopar brothers racing the first guy to put an iron headed 440 cuda in the 9,s the duster was his brothers,,,,

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Sat Feb 22, 14 11:59 am

Gordon & Alan Smith, Gordon had the Duster & now runs a Fuel Funny Car

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Sat Feb 22, 14 5:33 pm

Cannonball wrote:nope
think that was mopar brothers racing the first guy to put an iron headed 440 cuda in the 9,s the duster was his brothers,,,,

Not that I particularly care who was the first....but it would've had to have been in 1990 or before

Les

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Sat Feb 22, 14 5:36 pm

Would have been around '89 IIRC, I was racing the Demon in the same class.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Sat Feb 22, 14 5:45 pm

must've been S/G then rob?....would've thought I'd noticed another 'Cuda...just started running my '69 with an almost stock motor..

Les

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Sat Feb 22, 14 6:36 pm

No Les it was the Custom Car Wynns Street Challenge IIRC there were just 2 classes street tyres & slicks, dial your own index, normal breakout rules. I couldn't get the hang of it lol, just wanted to go faster all the time.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Sat Feb 22, 14 6:51 pm

ah ok, yes I seem to remember something about that.....what was the spec rob out of interest?

Les

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Sat Feb 22, 14 7:16 pm

I was in the wynn's pro street challenge back in 88 in my GTX came 5th and I drove it there and back for all 8 rounds, just used to drop the exhaust and take the air filter off and race 12.8 all day long.

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Sat Feb 22, 14 9:22 pm

Yeah, used to do that myself in the early 80's in Street Class Jim, ended up trailoring it though in the end, bit of a pain with the gears after a few years. The Peach Brothers with their Black Roadrunner used to change their diff as well. Those were the days when a 12 sec motor was a quick car.

Les

Les Szabo · Post by **Les Szabo** » Sat Feb 22, 14 9:40 pm

pete walton wrote:Is that Lez on the tilt ???me old eyes ain,t that good these days

ALmost the same Pete

Les

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sun Feb 23, 14 9:34 am

So who was the fastest iron headed mopar ,,,,with gas and without ,,and what was your combo.....Mick Deacon is about the fastest about now i think,,, i will stand corrected if i am wrong

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Sun Feb 23, 14 9:54 am

I did most rounds of the challenge, ran a best of 11.85 on street tyres 125 shot of NOS with only 9.0/1 compression & a .484 csm. Drove to the track dropped the mufflers, raced & drove home. Once on open headers after it passed with rain & I didn't want to get soaked putting the exhaust back on!

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sun Feb 23, 14 10:04 am

shovelheadrob wrote:I did most rounds of the challenge, ran a best of 11.85 on street tyres 125 shot of NOS with only 9.0/1 compression & a .484 csm. Drove to the track dropped the mufflers, raced & drove home. Once on open headers after it passed with rain & I didn't want to get soaked putting the exhaust back on!

What car Rob???was it full weight or gutted

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Sun Feb 23, 14 10:39 am

I ran 10.41 at 130mph with a iron headed 440 in Cooky's Dodge but had the wrong gears and the tyres were too big, not sure on the weight, but wasn't a super lightweight car

Mopar Muscle Association UK

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