On this episode of
Roadkill, it's Freiburger in the
Super Bee versus Finnegan in the '67
Camaro as the guys make the trip from
Los Angeles to
Salt Lake City and back to go race at the
Midnight Drags at
Rocky Mountain Raceways in hopes of running the Bee on nitrous for the first time since the
Hemi was installed. Which car will work best over 1,
500 miles of mayem in three days?
The 700hp, blown Crusher Camaro is
HOT ROD's longest-term project car, surviving 20 years at the magazine.
David Freiburger's 675hp Hemi
1970 Dodge Super Bee is his first car, having been with him 30 years. Both cars suffer from magazine-project-car syndrome: getting brief spurts of attention followed by long periods of neglect.
For the first time in years, both cars were running and driving at the same time.
The Crusher Camaro is a '67 model that was purchased for $700 in
1994 during
California's car-crushing program; it was rescued from the parking lot of a junkyard where it was about to be handed in for crushing.
It's been through a number of engines in its time at HOT ROD magazine, and the most recent is a 489ci bi-block (4.280 bore, 4.250 stroke) with 9.
3:1 compression. It has a small, 224-at-0.050 Comp hydraulic roller cam, Holley oval-port heads, and a Weiand 8-71 supercharger with two Holley 850HP carbs. The engine makes 700 hp and
720 lb-ft on 5 psi boost, but is tame enough to drive anywhere. The transmission is a Gearstar 4L85E that's really awesome, and the
Ford 9-inch is loaded with 3
.50 gears. The car is styled with
Center Line Auto Drags and a nose-high stance to look like a street machine of the early ¹80s. It has run 10.60 at 125 in the quarter-mile in the same trim seen in this video.
Freiburger's ¹70 Dodge Super Bee is powered by a
10:0:1-compression, 484ci Hemi with ported iron cylinder heads and a Comp solid roller camshaft. It also uses a Holley
Dominator carb on a custom dual-plane intake manifold by
Dick Landy, whose shop built the long-block in
1995. It made 675 hp on the engine dyno, but in the car is has smaller headers, fairly restrictive exhaust, and a mechanical fan that pull it down to around 600. The trans is a Gearstar 727 Torqueflite backed by a
Gear Vendors under/overdrive, and the
Strange 60 rearend has 3.73 gears (a little too high for the
natuarally aspirated combo). The car weights 4,050 pounds with the driver, and has run 11.80 at
118 mph on the motor.
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- published: 23 Aug 2013
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