what is the best street/strip motor?

yeah all the numbers that gm claimed were bs. most of them not even close.  

yeah most automakers were like that in the 60's.  

i've always heard that in the 60's, the factories low-balled the torque and horsepower numbers due to the increasing costs of insuring the ponycars

like insurance rates jumped for anything over 350 hp

i knew a girl years ago that had a '77 toyota celica gt as a first car, insurance was higher because the car was a gt...it still had the same little sick 1.?L motor and an automatic transmission...meanwhile, my similar year gm a-body with 5.7 motor was cheaper to insure...bass-ackwards but i didn't complain...my car wasn't a factory "hotrod"  
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the red-headed step-child of the mailing list

fuzzy dice, air shocks & N50's rule

yeah. if u own a sporty car insurance gets to be fairly pricy. mean while we drive a  67 gto and its got pretty cheap insurance. i guess the claim its not a sports car and its a collecter  

here in mich any car is the same if theres no loan on it and you put plpd on it instead of full cverage.a minivan would be the same as a corvette  

KY is same way...my 97 1500 is the same price as my wife's 92 mazda (don't laugh, it was CHEAP...$1.50, and been in the family since new), while my '75 monte carlo is $11/month w/antique tags  
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the red-headed step-child of the mailing list

fuzzy dice, air shocks & N50's rule

if u have a v8 camaro or mustang insurance seems to go through the roof. we recently swithced our insurance on our gto to hagertys. full years coverage thats cheaper and offers better colision coverage  

insurance companies are very discriminatory when it cars to the model of the car...i.e. camaro, mustang, corvette, and anything else they deem a performance car

they wanted to know if my pick-up was a sld, slt, or some such...for the record, it's just an sl...trim package was going to affect the insurance premium...more discrimination hidden as standard operating procedure  
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the red-headed step-child of the mailing list

fuzzy dice, air shocks & N50's rule

Yes Hagerty is pretty good for collector car insurance.  
Professional hi-performance engine builder

Horsepower sells Engines and torque wins races.

i aspire to own a car worth collector's insurance  
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the red-headed step-child of the mailing list

fuzzy dice, air shocks & N50's rule

ha. u really dont have to have that great of car. just old  

to that 426 vs the 440. i gotta say the 440 would win cuz the hemi is such a difficult motor to keep tuned right before something goes wrong. i went to brainard for the muscle car shootouts and them 440 were snappin 1/4 miles like nothin. but tuned and dynoed right them hemi's are bad fast  
Livin' Life A Quarter Mile At A Time

yeah like i said before if a hemi is setup right there very quick but stockers i would say 440  

so you gotta take the hemi.we are talking about who who win the race.who the *** would take a out of tune peice of *** to the track  

I'm surprised no one mentioned the LS engines.  A good 5.3, 6.0, 6.2 pulled from a wrecked vehicle, just swap cams, add an after market EMS and you'll have a tons of power, better fuel mileage, less weight and boat loads more reliability.  And as one guy I heard say, it won't go marking it's territory every where it parks, lol.  Add a turbo into the mix and you'll be in the 800-1,000Hp.  
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The Silver Buick- '77 Skylark coupe w/ a Fuel Injected Buick 455&TKO-600, '72 Centurion Conv't - 455w/TH400, '67 T-bird 4Dr (suicide) w/428&C6. Needing to replace a '69 Firebird 400.

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