I came across this nonsense while surfing the net and simply had to respond:
First of all, an L-88 is NOT an aluminum block. The aluminum block 427 was the ZL1 and Chevy made a total of 2 production ZL1 Corvettes. They produced roughly 375 NET HP as installed in the car (with engine accessories and the full factory exhaust system in place. I can prove that if requried to do so.
I believe you meant to say, “required”, so prove it! I KNOW you MUST have a stack of magazines with pictures somewhere, because it sounds like that's where you get informed.....
'02 - '04 Z06 Corvettes (LS6, 346 cids) are faster cars and the new LS7 Z06 is a lot faster still.
SO what! Who cares! That's not what this thread was about, try to focus zilch.....
Cars running in the "pure stock drags" are allowed to use engines that have been MODIFIED per NHRA "stock" blueprinting specifications, which are very different than how the engines left the factories when new.
I have a BIG flash for you big zilch, CARS CAME RIGHT FROM THE FACTORY WITH BLUEPRINTED ENGINES!!! Not ONLY were the R3 Studebakers TOTALLY blueprinted right from the factory, there WERE Ford, GM AND AMC cars sold that were blueprinted, RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX! Just ask me, I was THERE when they were sitting in the dealerships!
The NHRA blueprinting specs permit large overbores (which add displacement and, perhaps more improtantly, unshroud the valves), milled decks, milled cylinder heads, 3-angle valve jobs, thinner head gaskets, cheater cams (also known as "improved stock cams," which retain the stock lift and duration, but have much more aggressive ramping angles) and forged internals.
This last statement is LOADED with BS...... The ONLY thing this blowhard, turnkey, bellybutton steering organism did right was give the PSMCD website links so anyone can see what the PSMCD considers "stock". It's true, you CAN punch out the engine, (as an owner could do when the car was new), you CAN blueprint the engine, (if it wasn't blueprinted from the factory), but you CANNOT do the rest of the stuff this nitwit claims. Ask me, I’VE BEEN THERE, I KNOW what the PSMCD will pass and what will NOT!
Blueprinting basically means that all of the internal engine tolerances are set EXACTLY, as perfectly as possible, to original factory specifications. It means that you are just trying to get the engine as close to perfection as it was designed, and we all know that mass produced machines are never perfect from the factory. Actual tolerances for what comes out of the factory vary greatly, even in the most modern machines.
The PSMCD specifically states that the block, heads and cam MUST BE STOCK, OR EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHAT WAS OFFERED BY THE FACTORY FOR THAT YEAR! Get it? You CAN use what ever performance parts that were available for your car from the factory for that year! If the zilch had ANY idea about what "blueprinting" is, he might have gotten a bit closer to fact......
The mods don't stop there, either. In addition to the engine enhancement, these cars are allowed to run modern, mandrel bent exhaust system, ANY axle ratio, FULLY LOCKED DIFFERENTIALS, "shift improver kits" (on automatic cars) and various other performance enhancing devices.
Oh for cryin' out loud...... What the hell does, "modern, mandrel bent exhaust systems" mean, or REALLY have anything to do with it? Yes, the exhaust system can have larger pipes, and less restrictive mufflers, SO WHAT! That's the SAME thing that could have been done by the owner when they were runnin’ on the street the year they were made! You CANNOT run "straight through" mufflers, (Cherry Bombs, gutted, etc,), the car must have a complete, factory style/routed baffled exhaust system.
"Any axle ratio", means ANY THAT WAS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR CAR FROM THE FACTORY WHEN IT WAS MADE! What's the problem with that? Locking and limited slip differentials WERE AVAILABLE FROM ALL CAR MAKERS WHEN THESE CARS WERE MADE!
Ya got me, "shift improver kits" ARE aftermarket parts, BUT, they are added as much for safety as for anything else! Ever see a slipping, overheated automatic transmission blow up? You CANNOT CHANGE A SINGLE THING IF IT'S A MANUAL SHIFT CAR. Sheesh.....
Many of the faster cars running in those events are little more than purpose-built drag cars that were shrewdly built around the often loosely enforced rules.
TOTAL AND COMPLETE BS! You wanna see the ET sheets for the last three years? Check the PSMCD website, if these were "shrewdly built", "purpose built drag cars", WHY ARE THEY RUNNING THOSE ET'S?!
We run Studebakers in the PSMCD, and TRUST ME, if we thought there was a cheater in the bunch, (and everybody who races the PSMCD feels the same way), we would be ALL OVER the car/driver! It’s called, “a protest”, and that means immediate tech inspection/tear down or banishment from the PSMCD, period. The PSMCD DOES spot checks, how come you didn't mention THAT zilchmeister? A good example, we wanted to change wheel covers on one of the Studebakers, we had to have them WEIGHED by the PSMCD before they could be used!
Here's the actual link to the Pure Stock Drags. E-mail the POCs if you don't believe in.
http://www.geocities.com/psmcdr/cstock.html
PLEASE DO go to the PSMCD website and you'll see for yourself how strict the PSMCD IS, and how full-o-chitt the big zilch IS.
Even the more stringent "certified stock" allows a boat-load of engine modifications........
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F.A.S.T rules permit far more modifications:
So what, we aren't talking about F.A.S.T. cars..... Whooooole different venue.....
These series do prove one thing, however: It wasn't the tires that were responsible for the relatively poor performance of the (truly) stock vehicles back in the day. Rather, it was the inefficient engines! "Old Muscle" is garbage by today's standards. Anyone who's ever driven a MODERN performance car (like my LS1 Camaro) knows that.
The big zilch's post does prove one thing, however; This know-it-all, wet-behind-the-ears, blow hard, turn-key-bellybutton wheel gripper has NEVER been to a PSMCD race, has NO idea WTF he's talking about and the ONLY information that he can parrot is something he heard from a grownup somewhere, who was ALSO misinformed.....
Talk about garbage, get your greasy butt out to the track zilch, with your, (and the bank's), L-whatever Camaro and we'll SEE some MODERN garbage get taken out....
In the future, please research the facts before providing others with false and misleading information.
In the future, before you use the yardstick that you use to measure yourself on others and call people cheats and liars, or call cars worth 10 times more than the one you and the bank own “garbage”, take your own advice, lose the attitude, sit down, shut up, research the facts, (or bring YOUR garbage out to race), but just plain stick to something you know about……
Oh, and use spell check, you zilch.....