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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Feb 10 17:10:24 2011, in response to Re: The (Not So Good) Old Days, posted by MickeyG on Thu Feb 10 16:24:23 2011. "You could take it home, remove it...easily tweak timing, change heads, install dual exhaust and you were working with basically the same engines as the 60s cars"And you also completely voided the car's warranty. Plus, even if you do all that, you're still left with a '70s car body and chassis that is much heavier and overstyled than the cars of the '60s were. Take my '75 Grand Prix with the 400 inch engine. Stock, it made 180 hp and 320 lb-ft of torque. The car weighed 4,144 pounds. Lets say you do everything to the engine that you mention above and get the hp level to 275-300, which is about where the 400 inch engines were in '69 through '72, before the GP got big and fat. You're still stuck with a '75 Grand Prix with its bloated body and chassis that will never handle or perform as well as a '69 - '72 model would. Now, if you're talking about doing all that to the engine and then pulling out of the car to put it in another car, that's a whole other ballgame. |
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