My 1970 Plymouth GTX
just the ticket for the Sunday drive.. a quarter mile at a time...
440 cubes of badass mopar- Best pass of 11.27 at 124 mph.
Some current specs:
Weight, 3800 lbs. with driver
Engine, 30 over 1971 440, forged 10.5 TRW pistons, stock rods (blueprinted with ARP rod bolts) stock steel crank, 1977 heads ported by incomparable 440 Mopar guru Herb McCandless, oversize valves, titanium retainers with Chrysler battleship tool steel triple springs, max wedge mechanical rocker gear, Direct Connection 528 lift 284 duration camshaft, Hooker 2" tube headers with 2.5 dual exhaust, tunnel ram with Carter 500 cfm carbs. Good for excess of 600hp.
Transmission, 727 transmission with B&M manual valve body with a bone stock 1972 340 factory torque converter.
Rear end, 8 3/4 with 3.23 gears (Normally 4.10's) Car ran 12.65 at 108 with 3.23's
The GTX in the 11/98 issue of High Performance Mopar.
It starts...
Here's a little more....
Now were cooking!
HEHEHEHEHH! Big Blocks are FUN!
The GTX wasn't always so... lets say clean...
These photographs were taken sometime around 1984-1985
It's come a long ways...
I used to drive this car to work
everyday and then to the track to race!
I was lucky it never broke while I was racing!