"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
06/24/2015 at 23:50 • Filed to: None
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"PyramidHat" (pyramidhat)
06/24/2015 at 23:50 • Filed to: None | 1
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Hi Folks -
Haven’t done this in a bit... There’s a shop I drive by in SF on my way home that has some older cars parked outside of it with decent frequency.
Eldo? Don’t mind if I do! Without knowing I’m guessing this is one of those models with the 492 ci engine that put out like 180 HP, or something ridiculous like that (my memory is foggy and I’m too tired to Google it)... Regardless, this still looks pretty damn majestic for a 40 year old car...
OK, to be honest I’m not a Mopar afficionado (my experiences with a Chrysler Cordoba is widely documented) so I can’t say what this is definitively...I read the name on the back, but I cannot remember whether it was a Charger or a Challenger
Finally a bonus pic. All I can assume is that he normally runs larger wheels and tires...at least I hope so...
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> PyramidHat
06/25/2015 at 00:15 |
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Don’t skip leg day.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> PyramidHat
06/25/2015 at 04:48 |
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NICE!
bryan40oop
> PyramidHat
06/25/2015 at 11:41 |
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You said car, this is a tankboat
Jedidiah
> PyramidHat
07/07/2015 at 00:49 |
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This is actually a 68 so it had a 375-ish gross hp engine
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PyramidHat
> Jedidiah
07/07/2015 at 01:38 |
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Ah! Very good, then. That’s the proper amount of horsepower for such a car...I guess the low-output versions occurred more in the 70’s...
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Jedidiah
> PyramidHat
07/07/2015 at 02:25 |
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GM put low compression pistons in everything in 72 because they thought it was necessary to run on cheaper grades of unleaded gas. Going from 11:1 to 8.5:1 compression tends to reduce power output.
They built a couple of degrees of retard into the cams as well in most of their engines and tuned them with hardly any advance at all.
The smoggers from the late 70s and all through the 80s were filled with vacuum controlled smog junk that was just parasitic.
Not to mention the tiny, well-muffled single exhausts on these that they decided to choke even further with cats