bigrich wrote:My mildly modified 253 when fitted in a HQ sedan made 200 rear wheel horsepower and ran 15.6 on the quarter mile stix. It was noticeably quicker in the torana but I never got the chance to run it on the quarter mile. I had a mate who built a 253 skid car engine that went in a Gemini, solid cam with big heads and a cain tunnel ram with a pair of 390 four barrel holleys. That made 171 rear wheel horsepower at 7800 rpm , in first gear !
Cortina’s could go hard, but they didn’t go round corners as well as a torana.
Of coarse if you want a real missile , a centura with a 265 hemi is hard to beat.
They definitely don’t go round corners
Haha...!!
Good stuff bigrich...
Im not sure what you mean about running the quarter though...you say it ran 15.6 but you never got to run it...
Anyway...a 253 running in the 15's is pretty good...
But at the end of the day, you have to admit getting a 253 to go fast would be like trying to get a 310 cadet to perform like a...well...like a 308...
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The amount of money youd spend on one just isnt worth it--if you wanted fast, youd put your money into a 308 or go a Chev 350 or something...
And i hope you know im mucking around mate with my silly stirring banter...
Speaking of Hemi's...
For something different, to compete down the quarter I wanted to build a sooper dooper 265 powered HR Ute & call it "
Sacrilege"--sacrilege for doing that to a holden...
I rekon if couldve got power to the ground it wouldve built a funny little fan club & done well as theres not much weight in a HR Ute...
The man who knows everything, doesnt really know everything...he's just stopped learning...