makes me miss our local track. Every memorial day weekend they had a 4spd gear jammer class that brought out 8 or 10 cars. worth every minute of them. Leaving at 7 grand on the bumper. sounded horrendous when they side stepped the clutch. I love it!!!
I took my 70 SE challenger to ADCO raceway in south jersey...i had a boat 318 2 barrel an AAR CUDA 727 Auto trans i raced a 78 GS skylark i beat him to 60 foot mark by 3 cars almost had the front wheels off the ground with a stock 2 barrel 318 truck boat motor....it was fun.....same color as ur car thanks for sharing beautifull photos of ur cuda....
Tubbed rear end is when you shorten up the rear axle in order to fit big(ger) slicks. Hurst shifter is a aftermarket manual transmission shifter. Google next time :)
That's one beautiful Mopar. You did a great job driving and maintaining control. I think you might have better success if you lower those wheelie bars. The sooner those front tires are back on the ground, the sooner you can steer again which will prevent you from getting too far off center and having to let off. It would also help minimize lifting and bouncing which means better acceleration and faster ET's. Great job and I love that B5 blue!
Doesn't get much better than this. A built Hemi cuda with a lever between the seats. In days of old they all had levers in them, but with the technology in converters and slush boxes being what it is today there becoming more and more scarce.
Me too but mine wasn't a cuda it was a barracuda gran coupe b5 blue with a white vinyl top and a 383 automatic console slap stik. I bought the car in 81' for 320 bucks. Loved that car
I loved seeing vintage muscle like this Cuda on the track back in the eighties when they were frequently still seen. Problem is now that cars like the Hemi Cuda have shot up into the stratosphere in terms of value, you are hard pressed to see one running quarter miles like this in 2018. I can't blame the owners of cars like this though, if you own one nowadays, its almost an investment or retirement fund, your talking serious cash so you want to be careful with it.
I still see tons of them in Ga. A lot of those cars are clones or cars that had 318’s and such but are now modified with money. It’s their toy and they have fun with it. I built a 67 gear jammer and I have tons of fun with it. Now an original hemi Cuda….those are rare to see racing but you’ll see tons of non factory hemi cars still blasting down the strip.
My ideal racecar: b5 blue....or any stock color, really. And thank God- not covered with stickers. A mopar big block. A 4-speed. And it runs in the 9's. Amazing! Sounds and looks great.
when i first saw the wheelie bars i said what?,then i noticed it was a stick car climbing that ring gear,all the greats had trouble racing the stick hemi's,the hemi made so much power and torque under 8000rpm it was frightening,the DANA even had trouble holding them,about 60 runs and and its ring gear time,mopar or nothing
I swear this is a car I use to watch in Cicero NY at ESTA drag strip called "The Blue Angel" It was the exact same color Cuda, with a Hemi, and he was pulling wheelies too!!
That's a badass machine right there and looks soooo much better than any ricer and will still be admired and around in 100yrs, unlike the plastic toy carz. They will be a recycled coke cans and someone's laptop or toilet seat for all of its plastic which is about 90 %, so it will be good for lots of shitters hahaha. Most importantly that good old Detroit iron has so much incredible personality and a continuous long lasting history with many generations that absolutely love these cars, and I am one of them and had my son around these rides since he was a little guy. It goes pretty deep and when he was just a toddler, his mom would put him in the front seat of the 70 Plymouth Roadrunner that I was restoring so that he could play as he watched me work. So we have a lot of memories that are priceless and were centered around these rides, so there's much more to their story that the ricer guys will never possibly comprehend or understand. The others have no soul or personality and pretty much all basically look the same, but these awesome V8 powered machines are true drag cars with American spirit and represent the greatest generation to ever live as far as ingenuity, strength and productivity goes anyways...its the way it is and just sayin
your instant center is too low .. move your top bars on the 4 link up one hole and then go from there .. this car look great in a wheelie but your loosing et everytime it goes up
Ass end is jacked up too high as well. Needs to have the tubs reworked and get the ass down lower. Maybe he didn't want to do so much cutting to the body. But when he one day hits a wall he'll wish he had. If you watch close when the ass squats there is a spring board action that lifts the front. Better shocks and lower stance will solve that. Moving the bars up one hole is a good start. Get racing bump stops for it to sit down on at full squat. WHeelies are fun and look cool but eventually they lead to breaking shit or hitting walls.
If he owns a Hemi Cuda and knows how to shift like that I'm pretty sure he knows about 4 link setup but doesn't care about e.t. as much as running it like an old school superstock car . Which is exactly how it launches . Awesome car ! and props to him for knowing how to shift that beast .
Pretty car....u know i miss the quality...i had 6 cudas an challengers..all bought in 1982 era for 1200 to 1500 dollars everything worked nothing on the car used was broke...except AC because it didnt have AC all the windows locks worked door handles etc...not like todays junk....i bought a 71 b5 blue 383 cuda rust free AT trans but lost my storage 800 dollars i d wish i d held on to that one but i loved my challengers more i was driving a 73 340 RT challenger at the time....i didnt know big blocks were more valuble then.....peace nice sunday driving hah hah
you said it brother,ive had a 55 chev,2 68 impalas,4 camaros,a 72 chevelle and any cuda would make me an instant mopar guy.A.A.R ,440,hemi,340 whatever
I could watch this video all day long low 9´s hahahaha holy shit ... and the ´Cuda is NATURALLY ASPIRED and looks still like a daily driver :D that´s what I call a BAD FISH
Gotta love a gnarly hemi! And to all the keyboard racers who reckon they could do better, let us see your nine second passes with a four speed manual then!
@MotorsbyShooter No, he"s all over the place because the wheelie bars are set so high there of little use, drop those bars down about 8" and that thing would go forward in stead of sky word.
+Jim E God invented and sustains our universe ; he gave man the capacity to work engineering details out on a very small scale compared to what he knows. How would you like to meet the creator of our universe incl your personal creator ? He made you like no other...unlike wheely bars !?
god created absolutely nothing. N O T H I N G, period.......................you are rhyming things off that some supposed mythological comic book character created without any basis in reality,time to grow up kid. man created god in his likeness and it shows every time some jackass tries to say what god is,was,has done or will do.you and no one else on this planet know of a single detail regarding our "supposed" creator. if you say you do know anything about GOD,then truthfully we all know you are a liar with 100% certainty. IF there actually was a god (and we are 99.9% sure there is not BUT if by that slim 0.01% chance there was actually a higher entity,)then you ,the pope,all the other pedophiles,oops i mean priests and all these other lying sons of whores wouldn't know a single detail regarding his existence. how do you or anyone else including the brilliant visionaries who created all the fictitious characters in the bible document the life's work of a being that has never actually been witnessed by anyone in existence now or ever???here Is how it happened,THEY started writing whatever came to mind,there was no list of past tasks for these writers to go by,they pulled all the details from the last 10 religions prior to Christianity with the same premise adding their own spin to this new (but actually very old) story.
trillriff-axegrinder Are you just being stupid for no apparent reason? OR do you have so much time on your hands to type out little treatises like that one? Geez dude get some sort of life
trillriff-axegrinder you should seek help. Try to take a deep honest look inside yourself so that someday you'll finally learn understanding who you really are within in order to be able to comprehend the how and why of your behavior in life. If you don't even know "YOU" then what makes you think you can understand what's surrounding "YOU". Get some help...
He really ought to adjust them wheelie bars so as to minimize that wheel stand. That is unless he is trying to get some insurance money or something out of wrecking that car.
Yeah she definately got some work done to it 9 .45 at 145 mph that a nice number for a 4050 pound car ....probably could tighten the shocks or tortion bars a little an it would carry the front more an lift it slower an hold it longer....guy said ur driving a 4 speed nice driving too...do they make adjustable compression an rebound shocks front shocks for ur 70 cuda...i race bikes.....
Gotta admit, I prefer stock sized wheels on muscle cars. Drag slicks are definitely better than gangster wheels though, so I've always hated what Foose does to cars. I also like that he manages to get respectable power out of it without having an ugly ass blower sticking out of the hood.
nope he would not go faster if he lowered the bars... he shifts to second during the lift which means he gains momentum whilst the car is on its way down, rocketing him of even more. thats a tactic they use in alot of classes
You will never get your best time with that front end in the air. This car is not set up correctly. This car should rise up evenly level out and be gone..
thanks,im sure theres thousands of guys hanging on your every word that have over $60,000 in their car and no idea what they are doing.seriously,go teach sunday school or something equally unnecessary
lol, the joke is you think 60grand is a lot of money, shows you don't make a lot of money...........and as for sunday school I never miss, It's the most necessary part of making real money..........
didn't say it was a lot of money,at the time of the video that's what he had in the car.still think you are a dumb-ass who doesn't understand the point of the video,he wasn't posting it to get tips from internet "professionals" LOL .enjoy the vid and keep the "helpful tips" in the peanut gallery im 100% certain this guy could out setup and out drive everyone of these "pros" in the comments section,nuff said .peace.....
