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"Bad Judgement" 1963 526 Blown Alcohol Hemi Dodge

67Satty

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Anyone seen this thing? Says it has 3,000 hp and he runs it at no prep races and that he will take on the Street Outlaws guys with it. It would be cool to see a Mopar powered by a Mopar clean up on those guys.

[video]http://www.kilpatrickengine.com/incarlarge.mp4[/video]

[video=youtube;bfGErRR1rao]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGErRR1rao[/video]

I think this stuff is cool, all steel car that still looks like a car you can relate to and it kind of reminds me of what the match race days in the 1960s must've been like.
 
I was there, match racing in the 1960's

I have lots of great memories of Match Racing during 1967-1968 with my Nitro Burning, Hilborn Injected Altered Wheel Base "B" Body 426 Wedge powered car.
I had a Match Race about every weekend at some little drag strip through out Central and Southern Illinois,Indiana and Missouri. We generally got paid anywhere from $250 to $300 for best 2 out of 3, win or lose.
It was a blast. I was 27/28 years old at the time. start line 2.jpg
 
The Kilpatrick shop is less than 10 miles away and I have seen "Bad Judgement" a few times. It is very well known in these parts and has to be quite a wild ride.
 
Bad *** car blown hemi racecar for sure,
Budnicks Really Likey!!


I'd love to see them run Chief twin turbo Pontiac &/or any of the Street Outlaw Boys

After-all they/the Street Outlaw's are "allegedly" doing a nation-wide fastest street racer call out,
their 5 fastest or for the 10 fastest cars $5,000 buy-in per car, by region/demographics, winner take all $50,000

Lets see if anything "actually" comes of it...

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Mike, what were typical times in those days?

Blown AFX cars & some of the AFX/AWB cars,
the faster guys were getting/dipping down into the 8's IIRC
the others were mostly in the high 9's-10's, some just low 11's,
depends on what region, what sanctioning bodies etc.
Remember tires, suspension, camshafts, heads & track surfaces, etc.
weren't anywhere near what they are now...
Most were hopped up 4 speeds or altered Automatics & leaf springs
or like Clutch-Flites {Chrysler}, Clutch-Turbos {GM} or Fords C-6 with a Clutch

4 links coil overs or floater rear ends & Ladder bars suspended cars
started to come on, but it took a while to have them become the norm,
then #'s started dropping...

I remember that was "fast" for NA cars back then 1967-1968,
& FE fueler's or F/C's or Fuel Altered were barely/rarely tapping into the high 6's
lower 7's was far more the norm... At-least out west here in Calif.

3 part series Drag Racing the 60's US Nationals
here's part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zEKlnrL7gA

There's another series Drag Racing the 60's 4 part series too
here's part 4 "Gassers Fuel Altered Super Stocks" of that series,
you can go to Youtube & see the rest of either series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcMuvdz4fo

here on from the 60's in San Diego
AHRA racing no sound thou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7pDA2BOuQk

Here's one with Ronnie Sox
Big Numbers 2 part series
here's part 1 early stuff SCTA good stuff starts about 8:50 in &
part 2 Winter Nationals AHRA 1969 BeeLine raceway Az.
& Pomona NHRA Winter Nationals 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70lDDC9JhYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WarGgPgf1cs
 
Just watched the video I posted again. In the second race you can see him walk away from the red Chevy on the top end like the Chevy is tied to a tree and the Dodge is going into hyperspace. Good stuff.

Goes down the no-prep track with zero drama likes it's a pro stock or something. I really think he would have something for Big Chief's Pontiac.
 
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Mike, what were typical times in those days?

When I ran a load of Nitromethane (about 80%) the car ran 9.90's. But we just did not have the technology we have today. My torque converter had only an 1800RPM Flash and I ran only 426" cubic inches...500"+ strokers just did not exist back then. I was running a 426" Max-Wedge 12.5-1 C.R. and a Crane Roller Cam, (stock) Max Wedge Heads, Vertex Magneto, Hilborn Direct Port Mechanical Fuel Injection and home-made 4 tube headers. Transmission was a reverse vavle body Torqueflite, 4.56 Positraction rear end. 6" wide American Racing Rear Wheels and 10" slicks with Leaf Springs and Air shocks, Front end was a CAE Tube axles with leaf springs, 1940 Ford Spindles. Engine was moved rearward 26" and the Rear Wheel Base was altered 15" forward and the front axle was moved 10" forward for a 104" wheel base (with engine set back 26" that was a total setback of 25%. Full Cage Rollbar. Homemade Plexiglass front windshield, Fiberglass front fenders, hood, bumpers and doors. Plexiglass side windows. Car weighed around 2800lbs.
I build the entire car (and motor) myself when I was 25 years old the the back room of my speed Shop during the winter of 1967. That was a mere 48 years ago.
 
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Just watched the video I posted again. In the second race you can see him walk away from the red Chevy on the top end like the Chevy is tied to a tree and the Dodge is going into hyperspace. Good stuff.

Goes down the no-prep track with zero drama likes it's a pro stock or something. I really think he would have something for Big Chief's Pontiac.


sorry I didn't mean to Hi-jack your thread, well kind of anyway...LOL
I wanted to post an answer to a question asked & got a little carried away too...


Yeah me too 67Satty, I don't dislike "Chief's GTO" it's fast as hell,
I've heard it had "allegedly" runs 4.30's in the 1/8 {that equates to 6.75-ish in the 1/4},
I'm not sure that he runs that kind of ET "actually" {especially 1/4 mile} for real or not,
that's still damn respectable "freakishly fast" thou,
even if he's in the 4.50's-4.70's range that's a 7.0's-7.30's car, that's fast
from what I've heard, he's not set up to run 1/4 mile really thou...


I would like to just see some Mopars with "actual" Mopar engines on that show too
very little Mopar representation

Neither is in anyway a "street car" either, I'd love to see the race thou....

In car pass against Tin Indian & Kilpatrick "Bad Judgement"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIWHNmR1-Bg

on the dyno, I think I vaguely heard them say 4200hp {I assume}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QuJYqUnwg
 
Big Chief has beaten the Murder Nova and the Murder Nova has gone 4.40s @ 177 mph in the 1/8 miles on 275 drag radials recently. So yeah, freakishly fast is a good way to put it.

At my local 1/8 mile track, if someone rips off a pass in the 5 second range, the crowd is gasping and in awe. And most of the stuff in that range has trouble making a clean, full pass. I don't think something that could run 177 mph in the 1/8 would even be able to run at my track, I don't think there is enough shut down room. We have a sand trap and then a net and if you make it past those two things you have a cliff to sail off.
 
Big Chief has beaten the Murder Nova and the Murder Nova has gone 4.40s @ 177 mph in the 1/8 miles on 275 drag radials recently. So yeah, freakishly fast is a good way to put it.

At my local 1/8 mile track, if someone rips off a pass in the 5 second range, the crowd is gasping and in awe. And most of the stuff in that range has trouble making a clean, full pass. I don't think something that could run 177 mph in the 1/8 would even be able to run at my track, I don't think there is enough shut down room. We have a sand trap and then a net and if you make it past those two things you have a cliff to sail off.


That's what dual chutes & big disc brakes are for....LOL
I don't doubt they are fast either, I just don't know for a fact,
it's all just hearsay, you know the someone that know someone else or friends of friends....
 
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