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Old 11-12-2019, 01:30 PM   #16
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Joe - Was that with Stock compression Head and stock components? With or without a Mitchell?. I just do not understand, my late 30 comes no where close to that.
Stock everything except for the Tillotson X.

I have no positive verification of the speed so part of this may be my Dad's parental exaggeration.

But I drove the same 3.54 rear end with a VERY worn out painted red Allstate engine at 55 on the Mid-Cape Highway at Rush Hour - and have told my tale about losing a connecting rod nut - and tenderly driving it home a couple of miles off the Mid-Cape.

With the 3.54 most any engine/car should do 55mph - easily and no sense of imminent dissolution.

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