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PostHeaderIcon The Muscle Car and the Tyrannosaurus Rex-a Study in Similarities

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When you saw the headline you probably wondered, what is this guy smoking. Just think about it for a moment, neither one of them is still around but both are a big part of our culture. Who hasn’t heard of the T-Rex(as he’s better known as) or a GTO? I think by the end of this article you’ll agree with me,at least a little bit, that there are at least some similarities.

First of all let’s take a look at how T-Rex evolved could have evolved. I would imagine the 1st dinosaurs were fairly small, egg layers and most likely plant eaters. Suppose (you really have to use your imagination) there was a nest of newly hatched reptiles and as usually happens the most agressive got the most food and grew to be the biggest. Now suppose the mother wasn’t able to bring any more food (for whatever reason) to the babies. They would probably start fighting over what ever scraps they could find and the largest one might take a bite out of one of the others. Finding he or she liked it he would eventually eat all the rest of them. By then be he would be big enough and bad enough to take on the world. Now suppose this same scenario happened close by but with one of the opposite ***. I think you can get the picture of how T-Rex evolved. Eventually some outside forces caused the T-Rex along with all the other dinosaurs to die out, exactly how is the center of much debate about the subject.

Now then we come to the muscle car evolution. Of course we know how the muscle car died out. It took the muscle car roughly 60-70 years to evolve in comparison to the millions for T-Rex, although the life span of our subjects compared to the overall span of existence could be similar. We know the muscle car existed for approximately 9 years or about 12% of the life span of the automobile up the end of the muscle car. It’s possible the T-Rex was around for the same percentage of time.

When the automobile became more than just an idea, it was inconceivable to anyone that eventually it would become the fire-breathing monster machine called the muscle car. Let’s examine how this happened. The first machines that qualified as an automobile car had less than 20 horsepower while the advertised horsepower of the most powerful production muscle car was 450 horsepower in the 1970 Chevy 454. Of course today you’ll find modern cars with even more but we’re talking about the classic car age.

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upgrades i can do to a chevy 454 engine?

Nov 17, 2008 by travis ray | Posted in Chevrolet

my truck is a 1971 chevy stepside. i have a 454 chevy engine that is for the most part stock. it only has 45k miles on it. what upgrades can i do to the engine to increase the horsepower? i read somewhere that replacing the "headers" and the "carborator" would do some good. what others could you suggest? what do headers do? thanks

if you want to keep the engine together you need to find out if the block has 4 bolt mains if not i would start there can have splayed main caps installed for around a thousand,big blocks dont like high rpms,so you need to build the bottom end up so it will handle the higher rpm's.any thing over 5700 rpm's with 2 bolt mains the engine wont stay together,than work from there,if going with splayed mains,could also have block clearenced for a 4.250 strock crank,bore the block 60 over with a 4.1/4 strock crank and 6.385 rod,and 11:1 comp piston,go with a 630 - 650 lift roller cam,either a set of edlebrock rpm alum,heads or a set of brodix heads,and a holley intake rpm range from 2500-6500.holley 850 double pump carb,msd ignition system,should end up with a big block chevy with 496 cubic inches and 550 plus horse power..and headers will free up some hp about 10-15 depending on the size of the pipe.and they let the engine breath better..

KAM | Nov 17, 2008

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