david montanbeau
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Had this question put to me. My new office decore.
Had this question put to me. My new office decore.
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How fast is the fastest 409 that is streeable
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My 09 is not exactly a daily driver but I could I guess. No parade car for sure but reliable and with 4:56 gears will cruise at 70 mph on the highway at 2850 rpm. Car has run 11.58 in the 1/4 mi. Naturally aspirated. Heater blows hot air and everything works including the original clock, full interior.
"Streetable" is defined in many different ways, usually quite loosely, just like stock in "super stock". I guess if a car has a valid state registration it would be "streetable". Probably some cars in the 8-9 sec range.
david montanbeau
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Not a 409 but a 392 Hemi with an 871 blower. can drive daily if you own a gas station. Have a 36 Gall tank for those long trips. 7 mpg and runs low 12s.
Owned a 1965 Impala SS convertible, 409-400 4speed in 1968 when I was 16. Was my daily driver, work, dates, street and strip racing, school when not skipping and that car ran high 13s.
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Guess it makes a different's if you are talking about a 409 or a bored and stroked engine.
david montanbeau
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I'm talking about any 409 in any car. Factory or none factory, even if it has a 454 crank with W heads and W valve covers. It could be a truck 409 with a 2 barrel. Longs as it gets from point A to point B without over heating.
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david montanbeau
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Here is another one of my ex 409s. Daily driver, work,street and strip and the cruise on hot nights. Even drove the car from Detroit to Great Lakes Dragway in Wisconsin for a 409 meet. Had no heating problems until I removed the headers and put the full factory exhaust with resonators. Engine ran 30 degrees hotter. 1962 Impala SS, 409-409 4 speed with air. was a 327 300 4 speed car.
I'd say it just has to have plates and be street driven as well as track driven? Not that it "could be"? So, is MRHP the fastest so far?
david montanbeau
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He is the only one to answer the question so far.
Mine has plates and is street driven.
david montanbeau
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Time tickets, video, pictures would be cool to prove. We have a bet going on with a Mopar guy with a 413.
david montanbeau
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Time tickets, video, pictures would be cool to prove. We have a bet going on with a Mopar guy with a 413.
I see you are near Lansing? My shop was near I96 in New Hudson MI in the early 90s.
I don't have to prove anything, my word is my proof. Is this for money?
david montanbeau
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What difference is it? A lot of wannabe bench racers out there that their mouth runs faster than there cars. Sometimes me also in the heat of it all. If you must know, it's for a 6 pak of Strohs.
david montanbeau
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NOW!! This is what im talking about. Very impessive.
Here was an 8:50 back in the early 80s but not street driven far. Car on the lower right.
