I have that same casting from years ago. The paint is a lighter orange, but the same stripes. It had a white interior and white wall tires. I painted the interior black and reversed the white walls to look as a friend's 1:1 he had in 1975. His was a standard 302 2 bbl carb and was a "DOG". The car couldn't get out of it's own way, but at first glance looked like a Boss 302 from the stripes.
To get around insurance rates, you could get those 302 2 bbls to run pretty well. It took some work though. An Edelbrock aluminum intake manifold, a Holley 650 cfm double pumper, a small Ford Motorsport camshaft to handle the extra fuel flow, and the hardest part of port matching and polishing the heads to a set of good Hooker headers. An electric fuel pump also helped to increase fuel pressure. They did have allot quicker throttle response and you could feel the difference how the ride pulled much harder. But 1972 rolled around and Detroit cut compression in all the muscle cars which lowered the horse power a great deal in the Hi-Po cars. Chrysler had a back stock of high performance stuff they still offered in later years. What was a High Performance package was called the Trailer Package. All the good stuff except for a good Hi-Po engine. Yes I am an old Gear~Head, Grease Monkey who loved the hot cars and fast ladies of the 70s!!!
@stevemason5173 Oh, I know who you are, Mr. Mason! 😆 How's it goin', buddy! I've only had a couple of 302 powered cars myself, but I've worked on a bunch of them! They are great little engines; gotta be to have the lifespan they had! The two that I had really accentuated the difference that the drop in compression ratios made on the smaller engines in general. I had a '70 and a '73 Torino, both 302/auto, 2-V, that I just did the typical stuff to, a good tune with a bit of a bump in timing. The '70 just lit up! It was a ball to drive! The '73 was a D O GG dog! I'm couldn't tell you what gearing they were running; maybe the '70 was a bit steeper, but I doubt it. They both turned about 2400 rpm at 60, so... The '73 just didn't have any snap.
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I have that same casting from years ago. The paint is a lighter orange, but the same stripes. It had a white interior and white wall tires. I painted the interior black and reversed the white walls to look as a friend's 1:1 he had in 1975. His was a standard 302 2 bbl carb and was a "DOG". The car couldn't get out of it's own way, but at first glance looked like a Boss 302 from the stripes.
To get around insurance rates, you could get those 302 2 bbls to run pretty well. It took some work though. An Edelbrock aluminum intake manifold, a Holley 650 cfm double pumper, a small Ford Motorsport camshaft to handle the extra fuel flow, and the hardest part of port matching and polishing the heads to a set of good Hooker headers. An electric fuel pump also helped to increase fuel pressure. They did have allot quicker throttle response and you could feel the difference how the ride pulled much harder. But 1972 rolled around and Detroit cut compression in all the muscle cars which lowered the horse power a great deal in the Hi-Po cars. Chrysler had a back stock of high performance stuff they still offered in later years. What was a High Performance package was called the Trailer Package. All the good stuff except for a good Hi-Po engine. Yes I am an old Gear~Head, Grease Monkey who loved the hot cars and fast ladies of the 70s!!!
@stevemason5173 Oh, I know who you are, Mr. Mason! 😆 How's it goin', buddy!
I've only had a couple of 302 powered cars myself, but I've worked on a bunch of them! They are great little engines; gotta be to have the lifespan they had!
The two that I had really accentuated the difference that the drop in compression ratios made on the smaller engines in general.
I had a '70 and a '73 Torino, both 302/auto, 2-V, that I just did the typical stuff to, a good tune with a bit of a bump in timing.
The '70 just lit up! It was a ball to drive!
The '73 was a D O GG dog!
I'm couldn't tell you what gearing they were running; maybe the '70 was a bit steeper, but I doubt it. They both turned about 2400 rpm at 60, so...
The '73 just didn't have any snap.
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😆 Thank you, Your Grace!