Showing posts with label Dyno Don Nicholson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dyno Don Nicholson. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Wally Booth, raced a '69 Super Bee for Detroit Dodge dealers, built engines for Edelbrock alongside Grumpy Jenkins, and pulled 900 Hp out of a 360 at 9k by sectioning heads, using 4 heads to make 2 with bigger ports and improved flow

 

there's a good article at Motor Trend, reprinted from a 2015 article from Elapsed Times magazine, and it chronicles Booth's racing history, and AMC's efforts to remain competitive (Super Stock Hurst AMX's for example, Shirley Shahan driving, trying to get Dyno Don to move over from Ford, etc) 


Booths incredible drive to excel at drag racing resulted in his Hornet, of all things, beating Jack ROUSH of all drivers, in the Pro Stock final at the NHRA Gatornationals, 8.97 to 9.01 in March of 74

Booth won 5 national events, the 74 Gatornats, and in 1976, the US Nats, Sping Fall and WinterNats, 

Saturday, January 02, 2021

Dyno Don, 1961 Super Stock Impala

Of the 491,000 Chevy Impalas built for 1961, only 142 were fitted with the 409 cubic inch engine.

 These engines were rated at 360 HP and had a single four-barrel carburetor. Some racers purchased the engines seperately and installed them in 2-door Biscayne sedans. (when's the last time you heard of a Biscayne?)

 This was permitted in 1961, factory installations were not required.

 Two racers that went to this trouble in 1961 were established drag racers Frank Saunders out of Phoenix, Arizona and Dave Strickler from York, PA.

 Frank Saunders won the S/S class at the 1961 NHRA Winternationals while Don Nicholson took the win in the Stock Eliminator category at the same event.




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