Boy, I stopped reading this thread because of the initial ricers vs muscle car bull that gets repeative. I missed alot. First off, Reaction time has nothing to do with ET. You can sit at the green for 30 seconds if you wanted to and still crank out a 14 sec ET. My 77 has a stock 289 and could only muster a 16.2 ET. I've since put a set of 3:55's and got the rear barrels to work but I still doubt it could do much better than a high 14's / low 15's. These cars are heavier than you think. I'm not sure what your looking at but new gears are around $180. A bearing/installation set is around $100. The center section for a limited slip is over $300. Plus the labor to put it all together. Do you have a part number?. I'd be curious as to what it is.
Bossmav and Mavaholic, If you look up a few posts it was the price just for the housing not the whole set up. I was asking someone if what I had seen on Summit's site was the whole diff set up but unfortuanately it was wrong. Jeri*
i got a queistion who all here that races has smoked a rice burner or any import 4 that that trys to race us good ole american racers and by the way im a 14 year old almost 15 i got a nice 74 mav and im just wonderin how many other ppl have 302 mavs that smoke almost anything so i can c what my car might do also i cant recall the guys name that was 18 that knew mucsle cars but i know quit a bit my self so i m work on more but anyways yall get back to me on this
another thing im in high school goin to be drivein my 74 mav and everybody else is goin to have those new hondas andand other shits that there parents bought i thoght i shoukld add yea some didnt but u get the point i have my mav that i paid in full 4 and everything on it i paid 4 and i just want to now from someone that races how if my cars good enogh and if i might have some bragin rights also anyone know a good horsepower nuber 4 a stock 302 i was thinkin around 300 but i could be wrong
in 1971, it was 210. Dont get your hopes up too high about taking a stock 302 74 mav out killing rice. It won't earn you a lot of brownie points. Read up about your engine and build it right, then you could go out killing hondas, at the track. These cars are becoming harder and harder to find nice body panels, why risk breaking your car. Keep it safe. -Todd
hey im 14 almost 15 own a 74 mav and i intend to stay with the good ole american muclse car nothin can beat em i was rasied up with em and no way im goin to a pos import yeah i know there are a lot of dipshits that think just becuase they spend 20,000 o wait exuse me there parents pay that on a car then put the shit to get the horses up wich they start with like in the low hundreds unlike the muscle cars but they think they have sumthin with a damn exust shit wich if i may add sounds like SHIT compared to a load roar of a muscle they aint got shit and thats all i have to say also i paid 4 my car not my parents and everything on my car i paid 4
yea i know its backwards lol yea i had to use my pc cam i dont have a digatal cam and i think its either the way it takes the pic or i messed up the setings
thanks todd i know it always takes work and i wasnt talkin about right nowq i was just wonderin what my start number might be plus its not the horses that matter the most its ur ratio right? i mean more horses but u can have a high horse power car that cant do shit but anyway thinks
speaking of pintos I am currently elping my 19 year old brother build a pinto with a 2.3l turbo out of a TBIRD hehehe here litle honda...........I should say it will be a 2.5l with the crank swap turboneticts upgrade turbo hand ported intake and custom made header by yours trully. T5 tranny subframe connects atc.....Im thinking low 12s maybe a shot a of NOS to really stir things up but that DEPENDS on his budget. Little shit makes more than me got with Ford Motor company at a tranny plant through a local Vocational school. 19 an hour with all the overtime you can handle..................so i think it will come together soon.
Since your 14....here's a little advice: If you want to keep your license and your life....don't even think about street racing anybody!! Keep it on the strip!!
Agreed, one of the things that bugs me most is that about 88% of street racing is crappy hondas and their giving racers a real bad rap around here. I think it has something to do with them also driving around with their subwoofers cranked up real high. Neighborhoods are complaining and big time police crackdowns are coming, although their basically only on one street and the funding is almost all gone now.
