Shop Tour - Hardcore Drag Racing

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Street Machine Spotlight    Shortly after this 1971 Ford Pinto was purchased new in Ohio , it was converted to a full-time drag car, complete with a small-block V-8 and a 12-point roll cage.   The first order of business was to replace the engine. The original inline-four cylinder boat anchor gave way to a 302-cu.in V-8 & C4 Transmission with a 4000 RPM stall converter .The engine was bored .030 over and fitted with 12:1domed pistons and a roller cam shaft.. The cylinder heads were milled .080-inches equipped with roller rocker arms.       The fuel system is complete with  a 10 gallon fuel cell via a Holley Red competition fuel pump and sent to dual Holley 400 CFM carburetors on a tunnel ram intake. The rear end is a Ford H.D. 9 inch from a 68 Mustang , filled with 4.10:1 gears and a spool . When the car was on the chassis- dyno, it put 398-horsepower and 318.5-lb.ft. of torque to the rear wheels, which is enough to send this Pinto into the low 11...

                              At any given weekend in America in the 1980's you could find a car like this at a car show, drive- in or just cruising the streets showing off .  The trend of Pro-Street started taking shape in the mid 1970's after the Street Freak movement, these cars were considered more street friendly because the rear tires were tucked in and they had some sort of exhaust system.   Don't think for one minute that these cars were slow by any means . They were just as powerful as before  and you could say that they were getting even more horsepower .  In the 80's builders were looking for the next new big thing to put into their cars , blowers & nitrous oxide , if one kit wasn't enough then three must be better , who needs two carbs when you could put on four of them . Later on there were multiple turbo's . And the ...