I'm a total Fbody nut as well. I love my 00 Firebird. I like to think of the late year LT1/LS1s as Modern Muscle and the 60's and 70's as Classic Muscle. I gotta say, as much as I love the look of late 70's Camaros and Trans Ams, their pathetic engines make them unqualified to be deemed muscle. Damn emission control crap.

To the OP: If you sell and go with a Mopar, I am envious of you. I'm a die hard GM guy, but I gotta admit it was the old school Hemis that sparked my love for engines.

 

yeah,one of my Mopar mags did a dyno a few years ago on a "stock" build of a Hemi, and it dyno'd out @ just under 520hp @ 63 or 6400rpm. i mentioned "stock", since no one-outside of the builders-know for sure if nothing was "teaked" before the engine was buttoned up.

kinda crazy what they got away with back in the day, eh?


while the "hemi head" design was started with an inverted V-16 aircraft engine in 1942 and numerous small block Hemi's in the late 40's & through the 50's, don't forget about the 413 Max Wedge, that's what started it back up for the 426 Hemi!

 

Yup yup, I'm glad someone else on the forum understands what I'm saying and can elaborate it a little more for the other viewers.

See but just because it's a mopar doesn't mean Hemi only.. you can make plenty of power with simple builds on a small block, just gotta know what your doing and buy the right equipment

 

damn skippy!

i had a 318 in my 1st Dart that would just out pace a buddy of mine & his '80 4 speed Z28. he only got away on the top end.

running 3.91's on a small 14" tire, kinda runs you up to the top of the RPM's quick!

 

Haha I bet it would, my buddy had a junk yard 318 that he threw a bigger cam in, car literally had to turn over for 10-15 seconds to build compression before it fired, in his Duster. Damn thing actually ran pretty strong and beat a lot of stuff that nobody thought it would.

As for what actual car I want, who knows. I'll know the car when I see it, all depends on the opportunity and my price range, especially since I don't even know what I could get out of my blazer.

 

that's how it was with my 1st Dart, didn't even know what Mopar really meant back then (although my Dad did have on badass '70 Monaco when i was a kid).

but from the moment i saw it sitting there with a for sale sign on it, i knew i had to have it. been hooked ever since.

and i think half of the reason that 318 of mine would haul so hard was, i was running a 750 DP Holley on it, re-jetted up 6 sizes (definately wasn't made for fuel economy )

 

Lol well that's obvious, M.assively O.ver - P.owered A.nd R.eliable

Yep I've been raised around mopars my whole life, almost everyone on my dad's side of the family has one, barracudas, darts, dusters, roadrunners, you name it one of them had it at one point or another haha.

Yea all the important and fun cars in life are never built for fuel economy. If your going for MPG's stay out of the game lol.

 

Burnt Rubber Smells Great. haha lol