What would a bone stock Model A run in the 1/4?

per a conversation i was having with one of my buddies, all joking aside, what would a Model A run ? 30 seconds? what trap speed?? (i imagine it would be top speed....)

I was just imagining how cool it would be to bring a stocker up to the local track on a Sunday bracket racing day. i bet half the compe***ors would red light after sitting and waiting that long......

 

Got a calender?

 

It would run real slow.

 

slow..

 

try it and let us know.

 

Slow enough to make hotrodding an integeral part of American life.

 

not the 1/4, but the 1/8th is still fun! come on down!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1s7Oh1UKdM

 

In New Zealand they seem to run around the 25 thru 27 second mark.
They are stock standard. Light flywheel and a better carb will drop to 23 seconds.

 

it would be like watching paint dry! but slightly more fun!

 

Reminds of when the new volkswagen beetles came out a few years back. The billboards said "Zero to Sixty?....Yes."

 

There is a thread on here some where about 1 year back where one of our HAMB members, I think in the UK did an astonishing 1/4 with his model A 4 banger, but it was not stock.
Maybe somebody else will remember it and post the link.

The stock ****** gears and fly wheel are the problem with model A's plus plus remember the engine is only about 50HP.

 

...40hp...ask me how I know...and if you're gonna race it, pack a lunch.

 

Check this site out www.flatheadmeltdown.co.uk the 4 banger you mentioned was in our club he just sold the car and kept the motor

 

28-29 with 21 inch wheels or 30-31 with 19's?

 

Like Tom McCahill in the old Mechanics Illustrated said in a test of a Citroen 2CV, 0-60 was "eventually, if not optimistic!"

 

Also, 3.78 or midwest "high speed" 3.54 rear end ratio.

 

Have your buddy jog alongside with the stopwatch.

 

years ago i restored a 1956 vw bug with stock 36 hp motor. the tests from mags said 0-60 in 56 seconds at some thing like 55 mph

 

mine has 16 inch wheels and a down draft carb ran 22.75 at 51 mph at la raceway

 

A stock Model A with a 40hp banger will run 25-27 seconds, depending on how tired the engine is and which body style of Model A.
I got my old fenderless and stock height coupe down to 20.9 using a Winfield head, a 94 and a header. Adding a SU1R cam, a lightened flywheel and a Mallory got it down to 18.8 - but I also took the front and rear gl*** out for that run!
I'm doing 17.3 @ 77mph now, but that is with a '26 Touring body on the A ch***is, bigger valves, Pertronix ignition, a single 97 and (the best bit) a decent four-speed trans going through a QC.

Enbloc is the man for four-bangers on the quarter mile though. A string of 15.7s in a steel roadster...