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Old 09-23-2021, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Skip Fix View Post
Not sure about those 8.2s and high HP motors. In my class in the old NMCA was John McWhirter(an original Comp Cams owner) and his 66 or 67 tripower 442 stick car. It had been a race car since new. He ran high 11s with it, most of us in the class low 12s. BUT there was a 25% chance he would break the rear, and you would win usually gears until he started having them re heat treated.
I always cringed watching this 66 W30 run with that 8.2 out back.

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