Darren Smith wins 3 in a row

05-08-2007, 01:49 PM

I don't know Bill....I got my start with street / strip racing with a '71 Challenger I built using an 8.5:1, small valve 340. This is when gas just started getting piss-poor (1978-1982). It was a 7000 RPM screamer, never pinged / detonated and I ran it all the time with 38-40 degrees of timming, which was a huge part of it's success (won numerous street races in high gear when the opponent was rattling, I knew he was toast). MY favorite races were against any BBC, preferably anything that said "SS454" . More than once had to prove it was a small-block as those BBC's didn't take well to loosing to a lowly 340!
I had a friend who's mission in life was to get his bone-stock '69 Dart 340 in the 13's. He did, something like 13.92 with nothing more than jetting and timming.

NHRA #7494 SS/H
1970 AMC AMX
"Best Appearing" @ NHRA '06 Pacific Sports Nationals
JeffLeeAzRealty@Qwest.net
602-418-9797

05-08-2007, 01:49 PM	#1
Jeff Lee Guest Posts: n/a	I don't know Bill....I got my start with street / strip racing with a '71 Challenger I built using an 8.5:1, small valve 340. This is when gas just started getting piss-poor (1978-1982). It was a 7000 RPM screamer, never pinged / detonated and I ran it all the time with 38-40 degrees of timming, which was a huge part of it's success (won numerous street races in high gear when the opponent was rattling, I knew he was toast). MY favorite races were against any BBC, preferably anything that said "SS454" . More than once had to prove it was a small-block as those BBC's didn't take well to loosing to a lowly 340! I had a friend who's mission in life was to get his bone-stock '69 Dart 340 in the 13's. He did, something like 13.92 with nothing more than jetting and timming. NHRA #7494 SS/H 1970 AMC AMX "Best Appearing" @ NHRA '06 Pacific Sports Nationals JeffLeeAzRealty@Qwest.net 602-418-9797