Gray Mare DESTROYS the Stock Short Block Record (part three)

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A little more street testing and then it’s finally time to go to the track and get this record.

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37 thoughts on “Gray Mare DESTROYS the Stock Short Block Record (part three)”

  8. Awesome video guys. Like the end of the interview talking about it being a simple combo. Doesnt need a zillion sensors and “data” like the market has trended and told us we have to have. Gettin it done old school 💪 very bad ass. Can’t wait for more on the mare.

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  11. Congrats on the record. Can hardly believe it's a stock 8.2 short block, which convinced me I'm just going to refresh my stock short block and throw a blower on it. Wanted to ask, which Trick Flow heads are you running?
    Also, WE WANT MORE LUNCHBOX! That dude had my wife and I in friggin stitches!

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  20. bad ass run however didnt ugly kid racing stock block /BOTTOM END 302 run mid5s on nos AND 518 STOCK BLOCK 347 ON NOS and also i guy with a fairmont on youtube running 490s with stock bottom end 302 who am i nobody lol just stating facts keep up the good work glad to see a fast ford thats not ls power

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  27. Years ago we used a rotary file to remove material underneath the power valve(1/2 moon radius) that improved throttle responce but that was non boosted normally aspirated chevy smallblocks running a 650 double pump.Keep up the great work. I really like the focused effort from everyone.

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  29. Most people are here because of the thumbnail and let me tell you guys… its the real deal its not edited at all!!!! Came for the wrong reason and fell in love with the content, Im impressed by her knowledge I dont even work on drum brakes! New Sub Alert

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  33. Not 3 seconds in and you took me right down memory lane Tess and Tony, and just 1 of the best moments of my 65.5 years of my life, in October of 1984 (Back long ago when The Very Large Miller Family still owned Famoso, long before NHRA purchased the facillity), in that very same right hand lane, I clinched the 1984 Division 6 Heavy "Firestone/Centerline Bracket Championship and my very first NHRA Wally (and represented and led the Famoso A team as track Champ that year, both in Heavy, Bracket 3, and after clinching, the whole thing). After the race, the Miller's took my whole family/crew of nearly 40 in attendance, out to a Basque Family style rest. for dinner downtown and that was special.

    The year was sort of special as for some unknown reason to me still today, NHRA had combined Div. 6 and 7, into a single division (Division 6), and did away with Division 7, later reestablishing div. 7…But (The NHRA, and Firestone/Centerline allowed each track in the Combined Division to send an A team of 10, and a B team of 10 cars/drivers in each of the 4 brackets back then (Super Pro, Pro, Heavy, and street), to make up the difference, to the Division Bracket Finals held at Famoso (a 5 amber, .5 tenths, flood bulb tree in those days for Heavy), and I cut 3 consecutive perfect .500 lights /2 perfect dead on packages (quarters and semis), 1 within 6 thou of a perfect package in the final to clinch in that right lane, so just seeing The Gray Mare making a pass down the same lane at 3 seconds into the video took me instantly back into my personal history and a faster ride down memory lane back 38 years ago.

    In the left lane I faced off against Pete Berkuta in his D/SSA yellow and blue 63' Savoy Super Stock Plymouth 413 Wedge, against my white 63' Dodge Polara 13:1CR 383 (Both cars were originally prepared by Pete, though mine as a 440 car)…I flat wore out the 440 over hundreds and hundreds of passes racing up to 5 days a week, and replaced it with a higher mph charging 383 that ran out the back door at 12 flat 121-123 mph (we were both dialed 12 flat, (both had .456 gears at the time), the Bracket minimum, and his car left like your Mare wheels high in the sky, though my 383 lifted the left and right front ok, it did not have the torque he had, so…when he blasted to the moon, and by the tree I had about an inch out on him and could see clear space past his steering wheel at that point I knew I was soon to be holding up a Wally, as I was going to have 3 to 4 mile an hour on him at the big end…2 blips lead by an inch, and at the line it was mine!

    The most successful racing season I ever had (Heavy track Champ at O.C.I.R. (Last year for my home track in Irvine…"The County", and I missed the last race there, as I was racing at Famoso to clinch the Heavy Championship points race to lead Bakersfield Heavy A Team), Heavy track Champ at Carlsbad, same at L.A. County, and finally Bakersfield was my choice to represent going into the season finals. That opened a lot of spots for other friends I raced with in SoCal to move up, and others who finished 11th to also join us at Famoso, and I loved the Miller Family, who treated me like another son, and a part of the family, so was proud to race for them, as that smelly old place amongst the almond and orange groves was 1 of my favorite places to race when the sun was going down.

    You 2 have no idea what you do, when you share your journey for this old man, and you bring me back in time to a very special memory…I no longer need that November 1984 National Dragster long faded Winners Circle pic, or the Wally on the shelf or Winners Jacket/hat, or the 250 car ladder (that once graced an entire wall in my garage, but has long since been lost to time and place), to relive a very special great day and moment.

    My short block for my slow sled Stocker was not done yet to make the final div. /reg. race there in November of this year, but will be in the next 2 weeks, so I will be returning to that great place (to me at least), in 2023…Last time I was there was in summer of 1996 for a div. race, then a National Event followed at Sonoma.

    TY for the memory flood, now back to your journey.

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  34. Ok, that is super impressive (and T & T Gangster), that you are out hammering stock bottom end records, and wheels up high shoot to the moon stick shift launches with gun drilled axles on just a stock 4 lug 100mm pattern, and drum brake rear, and you hand torqued the ring gear retaing cap bolts too…Chek, Chek, Chek, Chek…..gotta love it brother! (They certainly must have highly improved the Famoso top end shutdown area, as it was mainly worn out black top turned mainly to gravel in the old days!) I know it was hard to get a heavy car stopped there on drum brakes.

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  35. Congratulations on running that number. Pretty awesome knowing the story behind the build and talking about some of the parts you knew about and didn't know quite so much about lol but still set the record! And the car looks good that color only one I've seen that shade of gray

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  36. After you chucked all the teeth off the distro gear down into the middle of the block,, cam, rod and pan area on street pass 2, it cracked me up that Tess starts talking about tossing and chunking up belts…..lol, give me lost belts over those metal teeth sheared off internally any day, as long as it is a non-interference engine!

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