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Old 01-04-2012, 11:31 PM   #14
Paul Precht
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Default Re: Warren Johnson and his race cars.

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Originally Posted by Tom Goldman View Post
Danny ,that 10000 rpm shot was in the pre 500" days ,when a lot of BBC Pro ,and Comp eliminator engines were destroked using a 348 crank with a stroke of 3.25 or less..
We ran one in the mid '70's in a B/A that was 379" and it regularly went over 9 grand!
It took me a long time to become a WJ fan, and now I'm sorry I was'nt one sooner.
Back in 77-78 I worked in a shop with Richie Zul who was building Bob Ingles Pro Stock motors for a while. He was using the 348 cranks in a 396 block, the CI was 360 or 366 I think. The dyno pulls were in the 8,000 range I seem to remember a little over 500 flb in torque and a hair under 800 in HP. I did a lot of the block prep and boring but Zul did every inch of the heads and manifold with his bare hands. We had a home made flow bench, but it did the job.
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