[oldman]

Originally Posted by AndyUK

Thanks for the insight. I'm sure some of it will be useful for the guys looking to drag race

It would be interesting to see what results you'd get with H/C and just delete the cats, vs the catless headers you were talking about.

Actually I'm saying the opposite, sans a prep track and slicks, there is no difference in any of these FBO vs Hellcat vs
supercharged SS on the street with the tires that guys have on the street at an legal or reasonable speed. The best driver with DRs should win and everything else is a driver's race.

The cars are getting more powerful but the roads are more congested. Give me a Datsun 510 setup for road racing with twin solex carbs and the traffic of 40 years ago any day.


I loosely speculate the hooker short tubes and 4 cat deletes would yield close to the same HP (say 12 HP) as LT and cat deletes just not as broad and as useful of a powerband. I would have done it that way, but feel I need just a little more in 2nd gear from 4700 to 5500 about 65 MPH to 75 MPH, I feel the car lays down slightly maybe because of the MSD. The LT will be better with headers and cam. Actually the rear cats are straight through and sized at 2 and 3/4 in and out (yes I know the neck down in front to 2.5), so maybe there is no / little restriction on the second set of cats.

If I did not plan do to heads and cam, a very valid option would be:
Hookers ST, all 4 cat delete, crush tube delete, cutouts
ported TB and IM
green filter and cut air box
Tune + E85

Still yielding a nice curve and WAY cheaper. Put it this way car 1 has the above, car two has the above plus LT, MSD, RotoFab. I still think it would be a driver's race. So that is at least $2000 that really is not gonna lead to a blowout.

I will note that Lingenfelter does: Tune, cam, heads and green filter. They have a customer base laying down hard cash on the combo.