Small block 59 Chevy ...WOW

[polara71]

That's a lot of power Ina a beautiful car.

 

[75LandYacht]

The torque that it must’ve took to lift a 5000+ pound car like that is impressive.

 

[69PHOENIX]

As Don Garlits Discovered Many Years Ago.
You Only Need the Wrong Gear Ratio and the Pinion Will Climb the Crown.
I Think he Still Holds the Record for the Highest Speed Going Through the Traps Upside Down & Backwards. LOL
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Tony.M

 

[57fury440]

I know we are all Mopar people on here but that's a 1960 Chevy.

 

[413]

Why do you think that car weighs 5000 pounds?

 

[saforwardlook]

I know we are all Mopar people on here but that's a 1960 Chevy.

That was my first reaction to the video too - that car isn't half as ugly as an actual 1959 Bel Air.

 

[polara71]

I know we are all Mopar people on here but that's a 1960 Chevy.

That's right! I thought of that for a brief second, then thought, they said 59, I'm wrong.

 

[BigblueC]

Why do you think that car weighs 5000 pounds?

A little less, especially being a race car. If I remember correctly the hardtops (Impala) are on the books at ~4200 lbs. Convertibles added about 500 lbs. Post cars (Biscayne & Bel Air) are ~200 lbs lighter than hardtops.

Are my Chevy roots showing yet?

 

[polara71]

Yeah, that car is definitely lightened .

 

[tallhair]

Wow

 

[Big_John]

X frame GM cars tend to launch like that. That's over the top though.

Used to watch Charlene Woods launch her stock class Poncho wagon 40 years ago. I remember standing behind this car on the line at Utica Rome and seeing the spare tire well touch the track on launch. 9" tires with a stock engine.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

X frame GM cars tend to launch like that. That's over the top though.

That what happens when the treat the track with all that sticky stuff.
Someone in the Fury World thought they needed this.

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[BigblueC]

Those X-frames will twist pretty easily, but I think that '60 is set up to go a little extreme for some reason.

Of course I don't really know how much of the X frame is left in that '60

 

[polara71]

So tell me please, I'm not a racer, how do they bite so hard?

 

[Big_John]

So tell me please, I'm not a racer, how do they bite so hard?

When a leaf spring Mopar launches, the rear raises to plant the tires. When a coil sprung GM launches, it squats, usually toward the right rear. A X frame GM (called that because the frame looks like a X) twists when it launches so it squats and twists pushing the right rear down while torque lifts the left front.

 

[Big_John]

GM X frame

 

[BigblueC]

Yep, X-frame were under all full size GM cars '58-'64, and Cadilliac '57-66 (?). Front-to-back they are strong. Side-to-side/twisting not so much. If you jack up one corner on a hardtop or convertible car the doors will not open. Actually they twist so much that the '62-64 hardtop cars are bad about ripping the top of the quarter panel where the C pillar comes down. That's after many years and miles, but it is common. All of that was in part to have a "jet-smooth" ride.

Pontiac or Olds had a better, modified version with side rails.

 

[Snotty]

Having never owned one, I've always wondered how you remove the driveshaft in one of those?

 

[BigblueC]

Having never owned one, I've always wondered how you remove the driveshaft in one of those?

Straight out the back (axle side). It's a two piece shaft supported by a carrier bearing inside of the tunnel.

 

[Snotty]

Straight out the back (axle side). It's a two piece shaft supported by a carrier bearing inside of the tunnel.

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Oh.. So you need to uncouple two u-joins instead of one? Thanks. I was thinking they were a solid shaft.