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just wantedto tell everybody hello. i built and own the black and silver 73 chevelle ss that was on the cover of popular hotrodding. just got to surf around a little on this site but it seems real cool. wish it was around when i was building mine.LOL

welcome aboard buddy with your help and so many others help we should be a vast ocean of knowledge before long LOL but welcome again

Welcome! I have mixed feelings having you here because I am jealous of your car. JB

I have a picture of your car on my garage wall.

your car is amazing!

Yea what they said, your car is very nice. hopefully ours will get there soon, but im more of an olskool guy. Welcome to G3GM

Thats a sharp looking car. Post some more photos of it when you have time. BTW, I havent read your magazine article, but do you have a big block in yours too?

it has a 540ci merlin block motor in it. it put out 755hp @ 6000 rpm without the squeeze fun as hell to drive!

wow...thats very impressive. So what kinds of times does it do? Have you made any passes with it just to see?

Looks like a car off OVERHAULIN to me!!!!!!!

hotrodredneck wrote:it has a 540ci merlin block motor in it. it put out 755hp @ 6000 rpm without the squeeze fun as hell to drive!

I have a 540 Dart Big M in my 74 Elky, but built it struictly for a fun street machine with low horsepower for ease of driving. Just guessing, probably around 550 or 575 HP. My engine builder tried to talk me into making it 572 c.u., but I knew it would have plenty of torque for my purposes so I told him 540 for quicker reving and I was RIGHT. Bout time I made a right decision! It has Edelbrock RPM heads and air intake and Comp roller cam with MSD ignition and Comp headers. I was stupid for spending that much money, but ya gotta splurge once in a while, right? JB

go big or go home.... right? i had a 496 in it for a while but i needed to be over 500ci (everyone else was.... why not). i have not run it at the track yet. not in a real big hurry, i raced the car for years prior to this last build. im going to be seriously traction limited to get a real fast et. i built it to drive it and it is stupid fast on the street. still havent hit the nitrous yet should be fun when i do

Comon now...give it just a "little" squeeze! I would love to hear what your car sounds like. I've got the big block in mine, rectangle port aluminum heads all port matched going out 3" stainless pipes through Borlas. Sounds awesome. Im gonna post some avi files on here of my car as soon as it comes back out of hibernation for the season. You should post some video footage of yours too!

i wish i had a big block

love the car very well put togther looks like you dont have a heater in it