In 1997, I had a conversation with Bruce Fulper. I was intrigued by the 350 and thought it had potential, was thinking of doing one for a friend and asked him if he'd had any experience with one. I got the same tired old mantra from him that you always got if you were thinking of doing one. "Don't waste your time, build a 455 and tear everybody up."
There have been a lot of NHRA class records set by those poor old 350's despite being factored up just about every year. Bill Rink got his '74 GTO down into the low 11's running Stock. He's running S/S now, holds the SS/LA record at 10.51.
Oh, yeah, remember Fulper telling me to not waste my time? Well, he built one and got 632 hp out of it, naturally aspirated. There have been a couple of magazine articles written about it.
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Rich
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