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Re: Full Throttle

To: rday@hot.rr.com
Subject: Re: Full Throttle
From: Phill Brook <fairlady@telstra.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:50:32 +1100
Haven't heard of or seen the program you're referring to but any model of Z 
that can't do the standing quarter in less than 17seconds definitely has 
something wrong. 

Regards,
Phill Brook


----- Original Message -----
From: Ronnie Day <rday@hot.rr.com>
Date: Monday, November 8, 2004 4:23 pm
Subject: Full Throttle

> My opinion, but I thought the show was pretty lame. They got some 
> historyway wrong. The L-series motor was not based on the R/U 
> roadster motors, and
> while they didn't go into much detail (IMHO) the fat cam, 4 barrel 
> carb,header approach, especially with stock gearing is totally 
> wrong. Especially
> for drag racing. I think I could turn a 17.80 in a decent totally 
> stock Z
> and probably do much better simply by bolting in a 4.11 or a 4.38.
> 
> 
> FWIW,
> Ron






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