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460 TZILLA
Yes Jim, she was carb'd 2 600's right out the box minus the choke plates edelbrocks and the scoop was a MR GASKET street scoop..love to watch them butterflies open and close..JFI that lower intake was a dyno don nickelson hand built deal..the top part was weiend crossover with out the carbs on you could almost reach down threw the intake and touch the valves
ask Julian(LLFORDMAN) how much fun we had in this one 31x18 rear tires on a narrowed 9in. 390 gear ,moser axles, 3500 stall and no cage
car was stupid scary
Oh I bet,.. with all that torque. Thats my kinda ride right there. If I had a 460 short block to work with I'd go that route for sure. But I've got this C9OE block that was given to me,.. so I'm devoted to this one for now.
Back in the day I had a brand new 89 GT. Before this car I was strictly a Chevy guy and had nothing but Camaro's except for a 78 Mustang Cobra II before that. My good friend was still in his 80 Z28 and I was busting him in the ass. He finally picked up a 90 LX hatch. But by the time he got his car I had already done all the bolt ons, exhaust and 4.10 gear. So I was putting the whoop ass on his LX too. Each time he modded his car I was 1 step ahead of him. He got so pissed off that at 12k miles he yanked the 5.0 motor out and put a built 460/C6 combo in there complete with Cobrajet heads. He was running low 11's on the motor spinning halfway down the track. At best guess he was making 600+ HP. I couldnt touch that LoL.
Funny thing is I ended up with his old motor 15 years later. It still had the 1990 plug wires on it. I ended up selling it to Frank. He tore it down and said it was still all very good inside. And it had been sitting for 15 years on a milk crate in his garage and then another 2 years on an engine stand in my garage.
Hurst