2023 Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race - Highlights

me too. In the 70s and 80s I would go to the track to watch these street cars run and could relate to them more than Funny cars.

A stock SD Formula or TA is a mid- to low-14 second car at best.

@@justme307 A friends totally stock and never touched formula went 14.20 @ 100 mph leaving in drive weighing 4100 lbs with a 3.08 gear. It could probably go 13.90s with a open shaker and manually shifting the car. kzhead.info/sun/dqaTZ9mBnHecaqM/bejne.htmlsi=GNYwHKkEnDIWzw2a

@@justme307yes they are several of these cars are far from stock, if you go back and check road and track or car and driver magazine from 1970 a 454 Chevelle 454 would be faster than a 340 Plymouth Duster although they were no slouch. And a 69 Camaro 396 would not beat a 1970 Dodge Challenger 426 Hemi, the Hemi would beat the 396 easily. These cars should be a little faster because o modern day tires but not 10 or 12 mph faster and 2 seconds quicker.

A 73-74 Super Duty Pontiac 455 engine doesn't have heads, block, crank, rods or pistons that are interchangeable with any other Pontiac engine. In those 2 year models only about 3000 were made. The block also has plugged ports for adding dry sump oiling. Pontiac payed a separate from GM racing engine company to design and build the Super Duty 455 engine. The 310 horsepower rating wasn't realistic as they squeaked it by limiting the carburetor throttle opening as well as retarding the timing. They were one of a kind engines and were very powerful as the 7:11 heads and cam had been meticulously dyno engineered to squeak past emissions tests and still deliver a LOT of horsepower. No parts available for them anymore making them irreplaceable. Somewhat surprised the owner was running such a car. A few factory installed production Ford engines are as somewhat irreplaceable but more for the carburetors, intake and exhaust manifolds. The 426 Max Wedge engine is similar in that respect as well all though several years of those were produced. It would also have the highest compression ratio of any car there as MANY Max Wedge cars were sold with 12.5 to 1 compression.

Thanks for the feedback. I hope to be back this year.

Smoked that ls6 chevelle. I was pleasantly surprised. 340 in a light car is nothing to sneeze at.

I'm a Mopar American moters guy. But really good to see how Pontiac produces so much power will such low compression. In 78 they were 8:1. But I don't know what the rules are.

@@joelhatescops I think some might be warmed up a tad.

Gracias por tu comentario. Creo que es fantástico ver comentaristas de fuera de EE. UU. Creo que Ferrari fue una influencia en el diseño de los Camaros de segunda generación y de las carrocerías A de General Motors del 68 al 72.

I relate to that. We are a ford family. Yes I own chevys. Yes I race chevys (,-my dirt oval car) ,but when I blow the chevy engine up, no heartbreak. My wallet hurts but not my heart.

This announcer should hold off of the medical marijuana until the race’s are over, by the time he finishes talking about the cars at the start the race is almost over.

@@rogerlairamore207 All the trivia, xx made etc is irrelevant. State the yr car and let us hear them wind up

That's cool! I will check it out.

@@markreilly7052 Thanks ! All the Best to You ! And Your KZhead Channel !

@@markreilly7052 Thanks ! All the Best to You !

I suspect traction compound is on the track, but the mph is high for quite a few so they may be modded some (smile).

All stock….

There are cars this day required to run Coker supplied redline bias ply tires that run mid to low nines in the quarter mile. The tires have most of the tread removed and have had the sidewalls broken down so they wrinkle some. I doubt any of these cars were running tires that have been through that treatment but it proves that low times can be run on stock size bias ply tires similar to the tires back in the day. I didn't believe it until I saw it !!!

Wish we could go back to basics.so much fun.and lots of memories.i miss it

These cars are pure muscle . no turbo no supercharger.take away this from these plastic cars and they are going nowhere.this is the real deal

What are the odds fifty year old cars have not been "upgraded" ? Nice to watch though.

A Super Duty Pontiac would absolutely do that. There were only 1500 made in 73 then about 1500 again in 74. Those engines had heads block, crank rods and pistons that were not interchangeable with any other Pontiac engine and the engines were not assembled at a GM factory. They also all came with plugs that could be removed for changing the pan and running a dry sump oil system. Look it up.

That's not American Muscle though.

Yep...wish I would have kept some of my old vehicles like my 67 Ford F100 stepside 6' Bed with a 352 and 4:11 rr, or my 69' 383 Road Runner. But my current car in a 17' Super Sport Camaro with a 6 speed manual so it takes away the pain.😁

There are some modifications allowed. www.psmcdr.com/rules

Seems a bit lumpy for a stock cam.

The announcer did make a mistake there.

Un deuxième quart de mile de 11,80 dans un El Camino de 1977 avec un Stroker 383 suralimenté ? C'est plutôt cool. In English: An 11.80 second quarter mile in a 1977 El Camino with a supercharged stroker 383? That's pretty cool.

Less talking more revving. Trivia drivel etc just not needed.

I suspect that the owner wasn't interested in flogging the guts out of it but it could be as simple as the reproduction mufflers on it were made in china or possibly the cam isn't the exact cam that actually cam in the production car. Imagine a stage one with the cam from a 455 Electra........ Stage 1 should mph at least 101.

@@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195 what cam came in the electra?

​@@gordocarbothe factory cam specs for the Electra, Rivera,Wildcat and Lesabre have less intake valve lift, as much as 23 degrees less duration, a wider lobe separation angle and the exhaust valve opens 6 cam degrees sooner after combustion. Those differences don't sound like much but the heads on a Stage 1 455 have bigger valves and the 70-71 engines had higher compression than a standard 455 so those cam differences were worth at least 25-30 horsepower.

Not so much back then from factory, most of these cars are far from factory specifications. A 1971 Plymouth Duster 340 should not beat a 1970 Chevelle SS 454. A 1969 Camaro 396 should not beat a 1970 Challenger 426 Hemi. Even though it was a close race here. From factory it wouldn’t be close the Hemi would leave it bad

@@rogerlairamore207 Driver talent has a LOT to do with it in drag racing at any level...

@@bultacowally yes it does, I know what to expect from cars of that era, my first car was a 72 Plymouth Cuda it did beat a friends 70 Mach 1 351 and a friends 74 Firebird Formula 400 and my cousins 70 SS 396 Chevelle, Richard Petty couldn’t win in some of these match up’s like a 396 Camaro beating a 426 Hemi Cuda, the race was close and in reality it wouldn’t be, any one that has these expensive vintage muscle cars one would think they would know something about them.

​@@rogerlairamore207Street factory hemi's could be beat .Saw it personally back in 1970,by a stage buick

@@stefanovichmichael9686 I’m sure both have beaten each other, but the street hemi needed some tuning but nothing major to make them really wake up

I own a 2019 1.5L Accord LX, and it's a mid-15 second car.

Watching modern hondas are even worse. Enjoy the mom mobile, btw no honda made back then ran better than 0-60..eventually.

@@gordocarbo I mentioned the 2.0t Accord simply as an example of how technology improved cars over the last 50 years. I could have mentioned other modern cars, but we know those running 9's, 10's and 11's right of the showroom floor would totally trailer the old fabled cars of the past.

Only ones who arent married to a celphone attended. Remember when stands were packed I was a kid.

Nice creation.

1990 LS6?

Read the rules. Still have to get creative to run well