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"There are too many stories to list but anywhere we went we qualified very well with stock engine parts that we twisted to 10,000 rpm on a regular basis......stock chevy crank and block and trw pistons. We ran stock crane roller gold rockers on studs with iron chevy turbo heads. 1.550 springs and a roller cam of course. A cast tunnel ram with two holly 660's.most everybody ran the same stuff. We just had a very good car ahead of its time with a 4 link suspension that had the right instant center built into and figured out the right weight distribution. Plenty of weight on the nose. It was a single rag disc and a doug nash 5 speed with some 102" rollout slicks. We ran Mickey Thompson tires even back then.....they were in the early years of slicks. We did not even have a shift light and shifted by the seat of the pants and no two step rev limiter either. This was drag racing at its best. Why we even had a movie star following Heather Thomas from the "Fall Guy" TV series! "