"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
08/29/2016 at 13:00 • Filed to: None
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"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
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I spent all day Saturday at Gateway Motorsports Park watching the Street Car Super Nationals. There was some neat stuff there. (weekday repost)
426 Wedge with a cross-ram, induction perfection.
Arnie Beswick Lemans:
A ‘57 short wheelbase funny car.
A gorgeous split window pro-mod corvette.
Big Chief’s Crow-mod ‘68 Firebird. He showed up unannounced to test the car.
My favorite of the pro-mod cars, this Yenko Chevelle.
Some vintage Super Stock racing.
A 4th-gen TA beating up on a mustang in the drag radial class.
A Malibu and a Cobalt facing off.
Yamahog bait, a Monte SS going wheels up.
Look at the banners on the wall, that Monte is still wheels up 200 feet down the track. If you’re gonna lose, lose in style.
Then there was this twin turbo V8 Skyline, it smoked.
See:
That raggedy TA again, it had a post-facelift nose and taillights on a pre-facelift body.
One of my favorite moments of the night, watching “Big Chief” from that terrible “Street Outlaws” show get blown out of the water.
Shortly after this was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
While we waited for the track to be cleaned up I went to see the Crow-mod again, since they’d just been eliminated.
After a while they announced that it’d be another half hour before the track was ready. It was late and the mosquitoes were eating us alive so we called it a night.
Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
> Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
08/29/2016 at 01:18 |
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Awesome pictures! One minor correction is that the “Cross Ram” was used to describe engines with an elongated intake manifold like this...
The idea was that the left carb would feed the right side and the right manifold would cross over (hence Cross-Ram) to feed the left. The elongated manifolds caused air to bounce around before being sucked in, and the bouncing helped force more air in. Typically these manifolds showed up on 383 and later 413 wedge engines.
That 1963 Polara likely had the Stage II Max Wedge engine. No more Cross-Ram goodness, but improved cylinder-head design which ultimately led to the Hemi. It’s my dream to get a hold of a 63 Wedge Polara, or the 64 with (in my opinion) improved styling and the even better Stage III wedge.
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Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito
08/29/2016 at 01:26 |
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Except that manifold is still called a cross-ram, even on a 426 wedge.