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Old 06-10-2006, 10:35 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
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You don't NEED more power. But, after bitten, you WANT more power.
Very well said Rally Snake!

My car is a little unusual comparatively speaking, it is a 289 bodied NAF. Not an FIA wide hipped type but a slabside with the wheel arches tastefully widened about 2", so it accepts a 289 very well and THAT is the correct motor for it. When I built the engine it was originally built to 289/ 271 K motor specs. Later I changed the heads, cam, intake and headers. I have never desired a larger engine, but more Horsepower like all of us. Currently it's developing about 380HP as it is now and it hooks hard and rpms very quickly. Understandably it is not a torque monster so it does not overpower the tires past 2nd gear, the car just squirts like a "watermelon seed". It is very quick through the gears. Do not sell a well built "Real" small block short.
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