My truck vs caddilac

[c-tenkid]

My best freind has a 1990 cadilac seville with a 4.7 v8 in it.

I have a 1969 lwb with 350 with an edelbrock performer RPM,edelbrock 1406,comp cams 270h cam,daul exhaust.And some other stuff.


Today we lined them up.We where racing a 1/4 mile slightly down a hill.I got the jump by about half a car.I pulled very slowly till 60mph where he was at my back bumper.Then he slowly reeled my in.And got me by about 2 car lengths.


I have 3:73 gears a 3 speed manual.I was pretty happy with the outcome.I thought he would beat me by more than that.


He said he had hit 97mph right at the 1/4 I was reading about 93.I was so scared I was revving it 5500 on a stock bottom end.

[68CST327]

It should actually be a 4.5L. I have a 1990 Sedan DeVille with the 4.5L in it, which was actually the prototype for the Northstar engine. There was a 4.9L in '91, which is a stroked 4.5, but is actually slower off the line than the '90.

Anyway, I'm not surprised. That Cadillac engine is one of the fastest accelerating engines I've ever seen. It is very fast accelerating up to about 50-55 mph, then starts leveling out, but still has plenty of power even past that. I've raced several people in trucks; raced my uncles '70 C10, someone in a Ford Ranger off of a stop sign, a couple of idiots in rice burners, an 80's Ford Thunderbird, a late '90's Mustang, etc. and pretty much smoked them all. Once I get a new computer chip for it from superchips.com, I figure it will be even faster.

By the way, how did he know he was going 97 mph when all Cadillac speedometers only go up to 85?



(ok, my memory is a little faulty; maybe the Sevilles had a different gauge configuration)

[c-tenkid]

Your right it is a 4.5.I am retarded.


Also his gauges are digital.


And yeah those caddy's can move.