4 door sleeper

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  1. olerodder

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    Russ,
    What support equipment do you carry.
    Back in the day........some 40+ years ago I had a fairly fast 48 Chevy with full boogy 327/4spd/straight axle car and used to street race in Portland out at Firestone.............before they gated their 1/2 mile track..............and I carried slicks, wrenches to unhook the headers and timming light.............but all of that was in the trunk. The car wasn't exactly a sleeper but it surprised quite a few GTO's, BBC Chevelle's and Nova's.
     
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    I ran a '75 4dr Mav back in the '90s. Had a b303 cammed roller 302, c4 w/ 3500 stall and 3.55 gears. And a 150 NOS shot. It had headers and Dynomax turbos, but wasn't very loud. It ran low 14s on motor and mid 12s on spray. I never street raced it (not fond of jail) but had a blast with it on test/tune nights at our local track. I kept the 14" tires & dogpan caps, had my nitrous switch on the horn button and the tach was mounted low where it wasn't easily seen by a casual walkaround. The motor was painted blue, stock metal valve covers. I painted the Stealth intake blue and put a stock type air cleaner over the Holley 700. I did run M&H cheaters at the track, but they were on black steels and I put my dogpans back on them when I raced.
     
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    When you roll out on wide race tires with a fuel pump that sounds like a super blender and a 4" pipe sticking out infront of the tire its pretty easy to figure out lol i really wish i could put my dog dishes back on lol
     
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    I was looking at this 4 door but it has a few spots of hidden rust that scared me away.
     
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    Well, it's certainly not your "Fathers Sleeper", and I guess the days of faking everyone out are mostly gone. Still....having a sleeper with very few clues to the performance is hard to do, back then and now..............the engineering is the hard part......................................IMHO
     
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    Have a friend with a 1979 Malibu wagon blue,blue rims and dog dishes 15x6 front wheels 15x7 rears with bfg radials,very quiet duals,stock interior no tach (shift light in dash vent),no visable gauges also in the dash vents,vortec headed 350 all painted black, stock breather on top of a Q-Jet.Car has run 12.10 on radials and 11.70's on slicks.
    Here's a vid of the car on slicks on the street messing around.
     
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    Thats true, ive built alot of sleepy cars in the past but once you get past a certain point it definatly gets difficult
     

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