History What was your 1st piece of Speed Equipmet

Hedman Headers for a 440 @ 1991.
They're still on the car too.....

 

I'll let my brother's reflection from one of his essays on my website speak for me (my nickname was once Krash).

 

098 duntov cam, 300hp heads/intake still in the motor (57 model 283)still in the car. ( 56 chevy 2dht)still mine

 

A Cains 3# coffee can and 5 foot of copper tubing, made that 55 ford with a 272 2 speed run like a BAT OUT OF HELL????????????????

 

The fastest girl in high school with Dual Quads!!

 

10 to 1 Wiseco piston, White Brothers exhaust rocker pressure tube, and Supertrap for my '76 Yamaha XT500 thumper. I rebuilt the engine myself at 16 years old. Dad was kinda scared of me riding that big of a bike the way I did.

 

A 1960s Bell helmet with win and track stickers on it, that My dad used to wear drag racing..

 

When I was in high school the closest speed shop was 25 miles down the road. So my buddy and I made a shopping trip after school one day. It was like Christmas came early.

Holley 650 double pumper - mechanical secondaries
Holley aluminum intake - I forget what one
Competition Cams - they called it an economaster cam - nice lope
Headman headers
Accel coil
A whole bunch of Moroso shiny stuff

It all went on my 68 Camaro 327. Later additions included 202 heads, Muncie M-21, Hurst shifter, new paint, SS badges, chrome and Cragars. All the typical stuff for a late 70's long haired freak.

 

Would of been 1965, I ordered a 2 barrel adapter from J.C.Witney to replace a 1 barrel on my 1951 flathead 6 cylinder Plymouth. I think it cost $1.50 plus shipping. You could just feel the POWER!!!!!
I still have my Beeline Dragway trophy from the first time i ever raced it at 15 and no licence. 22.47 E.T @ 51.73 John

 

Used 2 pot Edelbrock intake for my Chevy 6 banger in 61. Made 2nd gear feel good!

 

my dads Simpson fire mask he wore driving Custom Body Enterprises fuel funny car...

or an Offy six deuce intake for early model Oldsmobile...still hangin on the wall...DOH..

T. Hilton

 

I bought a set of used headers for my 65 mustang-

 

had to sandblast em to see anything other than rust- boy they sounded great- I ran em for a few days without mufflers, I loved it but couldnt hear my stereo.

 

The first "new" Speed part I bought was a Hurst "Mystery" shifter (3 speed) for my 55 Chevy. It was a mystery why it was so ugly!! My first used parts were a set of Cragar mags for the same car.

 

a Duntov .012/.018 solid lifter cam for my first small block rebuild. ignorance is bliss and I was the happiest person in the world

 

600 holley with a manual choke and a used aluminum intake on my 76 chevy pick up and a set of thrush mufflers bought from Western Auto.

Unfortunately I listened to my buddy to plug the exhaust cross over on the intake because it would "make more power".

This worked great right up till the first 32 degree day, which in Ohio happens around october. Instand carb freeze up. The truck ran like shit with ice in the air bleeds.

 

It was a mystery if my "mystery shifter" ever grabed 2nd gear without eating some syncro brass.

 

When I bought my 49 Fleetline in Highschool it had an old edelbrock dual intake with two 2gc's on it. Being a dumb kid, I could never keep the carbs in tune so I traded for a stock intake an single carb!

 

A one barrel carb to a two barrel carb adapter for my 216 chev. At the same time I eliminated the muffler and went to straight pipe(uno) all the way to the back. It wasn't pretty but woke the neighbors up when I went to work at 4 o'clock before going to school.

 

we never had that problem

Dave socal

 

How about a bottle of STP? Followed by a Cherry bomb muffler.
I dearly wanted to buy an adapter to put a 2bbl on my Rambler's flathead six, but somehow I talked myself out of it, and bought a 64 Fairlane with a fire breathing 260 in it. (more like oil leaking is a better term)

 

Blackjack headers and Mr Gasket shackle kit....

 

A "Holley Equipped" Decal when I was 13 hahaha

Rat

 

In 1964 I put a Hurst 3-speed floor shifter in my '54 Chevy sedan. I cut half of the trans tunnel with tin snips so that it folded up out of the way and I could install the shifter from inside the car. (I had no jack, jack stands, nothing.) Then I cut the "flap" for clearance around the stick and folded it back down.

But that wasn't what made the otherwise completely stock Chevy fast. It didn't get fast until I put a couple of those free STP stickers that came inside Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines in the rear quarter windows.

THEN I was fast!

 

Carter 500 AFB and a 340 intake from a swap meet to go on the 360 in my Cordoba. Got rid of the god awful Holley 2 barrel and made it a solid 12 second car, or so I thought at the age of 16.

 

A Sun tachometer for my 71 340 Duster.

 

I know you wont believe me but i bought a used Hilborn injection for a sbc for $150 in 1988 at the age 15 .With money i made mowing lawns .I polished the stacks up real nice and put it on my dresser in my room to look at.After that i bought a used set of 15x14 Mcreary slicks mounted on a 15x10 slots and had them in my room as well.My mom got pissed when she saw i had a set of Hooker chrome headers and side pipes off a Vette in my closet and put her foot down .I dont know why i bought all this stuff ,cuz the only thing i ever used were the slicks ,but i had the neatest furnished bedroom any 15 year old ever had...

 

Honest Charley stickers gave me the best perfprmance.
They even made my locker door fast

 

BlackJack headers for my Bronco!
Hell yeah....they were for a 351 M though, so...wtf was the point really?

 

K&N Filter for my 2.2L 4 banger S-10....