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Old 11-21-2013, 01:19 PM   #11
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Re: 472 vs. 283...help me decide!

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Originally Posted by curmudgeon View Post
I too am old enough to remember the gassers when I was in high school, I should have bought up all those tri-5 shoeboxes and Willys when the owners went off to college. Anyways, Gassers were purpose built for drag racing, beam front axles with big engines so my vote is the 472, especially with some kind of air scoop sticking out of the hood, or better yet a Roots type supercharger. Don't forget the fendwell headers into side pipes.
You paint a nice picture! I hadn't thought of the straight axles for a time. There was an actual store, Security Suspension, down in So Cal, that did nothing but.
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