Short lived 68 Z28

[70w30]

One drag racing story I forgot about;

There were quite a number of fast cars in this small town of 5000 people, one of which was a 69 442 W30. Well, one weekend a bunch of them head down to Byron and dad lines up against the W30. Well, the guy with the W machine has slicks and dad didn't bring his this weekend so this is going to be interesting he thinks. He still had the 3.73's in it at this point but had done the other work on the car so it was going to be a bear to launch to screaming, no torque 302.

The lights come down and the W30 leaves him like a bad habit on the line as the Z blows the tires off. Dad pedals and pedals the car and finally gets it hooked up and "on the pipe" and starts running down the Olds. The Olds runs a 14.2 while the Z ran a 14.3.

The difference is the MPH. 97 for the W and 110 for the Z. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] Dad never left home without the slicks again.

The guy with the W30 said he thought he had him easy until dad came screaming by him through the lights.

Being an Olds fan I don't mind this story as the 68-69 small bore 400's are complete stones.

And with a little work the 302's would really scream. According to dad when he got the car it was not fast at all. About a 15 second car. The intake ports were damn near triangular on the car from the factory. Some porting, headers and the TA cam transformed the car.

Wasn't much fun to drive around town though as it didn't get on the cam until 4 grand or so.