We lied and said our 265 was a 327
..........and hoped no one looked to close?
We we're the other way around. Trying to sand bag. It's a 283 when it was a small block 400. That one was hard to get by with on some of the guys cuz they knew that 400 balancer when they seen it, and cuz a 400 is external balanced, it certainly had a different balancer than the other small blocks did. I could tell the difference in a small journal balancer and a large balancer so when they said 283, which only comes in small journal, then I knew they were full of $hit when I seen the thicker balancer on it. So it could have been a large journal 327 or a 350 but for sure not NOT a 283. But see, for the longest time, I knew everyone knew Chevy engines and I always liked to be different than everyone else. So I did run Pontiac and Olds for awhile. Cuz people didn't know Pontiac and Olds engines. And with Pontiac, there is no such thing as Small Block or Big Block. 455 Pontiac is the same LOOKING block as a 326, so I could easily mislead and just call a 455 a 350 and they didn't know any different. And I also liked to surprise people. It's not hard to do. For example, a Chevy Nova was the same body as Olds Omega, Pontiac Ventura, and Buick Apollo. So I'd pop the hood on my Chevy Nova, and it's a got a BOLTED in Pontiac 455 in it, looking like a Pontiac 350. I just took the motor mount pads out of a Pontiac Ventura at the junkyard, mounted them to my Chevy Nova frame and bolt it in just as if it was a Pontiac Ventura. Also ran an Olds 350 in a Nova for awhile too. Same deal as Olds Cutlass, Pontiac Lamans or GTO, Buick GTS or Skylark I think it as called, was the same bodies as Chevy Chevelle. I did have a buddy, his dad was in Buick big time, I showed him how to put a Buick 455 in a Chevelle and he was winning lots of races. And all those, Buick, Pontiac, and Olds, all made a 350, so you just said, it's a 350 when it wasn't. Had to lie to have the advantage to set up a race and not have to give up any space or give up the move off the line. I liked straight up and flashlight, which was another term I could have added to the list. Chase is a Race, Give me 2 and the move, I want straight up and a flashlight, or straight up and an arm drop, same thing. We did have some terms back in those days. This thread turned into bringing all those memories back. Fun Fun times for sure. Ad we talk about how fast we were now,, pffftttt, is that all? Yep, we were slow compared to now days. Technology has gotten crazy and why they race 1/8 now. To damn fast for the street, people would be dying without a doubt running 1/4 mile now. Street cars running high 8's and 9s in the quarter. FAST and I mean FAST to us was 11's. Anything in the 10's was usually trailered but that didn't happen often, we drove our $hit to the street races. We drove our daily drivers to race. If you broke, you'd be looking for a ride to work Monday morning or fixing it all day Sunday with no sleep at all. Great Times and memories without doubt. Oh and running from the cops too. All good fun. We had 1 street we raced on, we called The box. Cuz it was just an L. You could come off a short side to that long street we raced on, or you came in from the other end of that long street to get there. It was a litteral L. The cops just block the 2 ends and we were stuck. SO THE COPS THOUGHT. I happen to work at a business that backed up to that long street and it had a back gate to the yard, and then that yard, you could go beside the building and out the front parking lot of the business and you were free. So yeah, you wanted to be MY FRIEND if you raced at THE BOX, cuz I had a key to that back gate and we could escape, lock the gate back up and every else that wasn't my buddy, they got popped. hahaha Name of that street was Greenstone Ave in Santa Fe Springs, CA if you wanna google map THE BOX and see what I mean. If it's still there, the place I worked at was Steelform that the front faced and had a Shoemaker street name address, and as said it backed up to Greenstone.
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but he did get over it.
