Well....
Your lucky to have the hookup with such a great friend, makes the sport so much more fun. That’s the way it was back in the seventies with so many people as there was so many people building just to support their racing habits. A hot summer night in the seventies at the Fremont Raceway with a tight clan of racers and beautiful girls wearing tight black racing t-shirts.......that was the heyday of muscle car racing. There are all kinds of hidden gems in the racing world, like finding a 409 in an early sixties Chevy or GMC commercial short tanker truck that hauled oil products or a county water truck that could be found in Arizona....just look in the back of all the wrecking yards and you’ll find one. Its just knowing what engine was used in which application. It’s a stronger version of the 409 HP motor with heavy forged rods and balancing an engine with heavier rods with a heavier harmonic balancer seems to come off the line quicker. But the real surprise is the 1973 Lincoln 460 engine and the head design for that year engine is unique for some reason, had a guy that had a machine shop porting heads built a ‘74 Mustang with that engine that blew away a 427 SOHC Mercury Comet in complete disbelief....you could not have anyone even believe that someone blew away a 427 with a boat anchor 460 engine. Also, the SD455 Pontiac engine block that was used for one year is a full fledged high strength 4-bolt main racing block that can be supercharged beyond any other 4-bolt main block....saw one in a ‘70 GTO that dusted off a Hemi Cuba badly. Me, I was the junkyard dog with skills, a 409 in an early seventies Nova at the Raceway.....is the last night with Mary Jane.