If you found one of these race cars today how would your restore it?

[big gear head]

Tin Soldier Race Cars is in business here in KY building chassis components. I believe it's Ron's grandson who runs the business. Excellent TIG welding skills. Their shop car is a 4 door Malibu called Charlie Brown. Very fast.

[69LM1]

Yep, that's his son Jason Terrell. Jason had never seen TS until the Camaro Nats, what was cool is that even though you usually cannot drive the cars once they are in (except to leave) they allowed Mr. Ron and Jason to drive TS once around the show that year.

Great that Jason has continued the legacy.....

/R

[turbo69bird]

So if it’s been proven over and over in polls on forums that race cars are preferred 4-1 why don’t they bring More than the stock counterparts at auctions seems that would make sense and it’s that way in other forms of auctions and other types of cars only really in the muscle car world it doesn’t seem to be that way.

Especially in the realm of the early stock eliminator cars because they were pretty stock w just ringers with some blueprinting (stock but better) and some bolt ons.

Wouldn’t it make Sense if you gonna spend big money on a car to show you’d prefer to pay for one that 4 times as many people actually want to see at that show? Sometimes these pills go 10-1.

[tjs44]

Same cam same CR same CI I dont think any diff in sound on a RA III engine and a RA V engine.Been there done that.JMHO,Tom

[turbo69bird]

Originally Posted by tjs44

Same cam same CR same CI I dont think any diff in sound on a RA III engine and a RA V engine.Been there done that.JMHO,Tom

Tom we were talking about the difference in compression ratio in the sound not necessarily the d port Vs V port . I only used the V and D port because that’s what I had for comparison in my garage in different compressions, and wanted to explain the difference . That the RAV was a higher performance version and higher compression. Yet the D port lower performance engine w low compression sounded the same . In fact most people who hear both side by side idling feel the Turbo car sounds nastier and snottier even though it’s far lower compression , smaller cam , and blows through the turbo which knocks down some decibels. . RAV is a roller cam 650 lift range about a 112 LSA and the d port turbo car is a solid flat tappet in the 550 range 114 LSA.

I’ve built RAIV both ways stroker w low compression and original w high compression and I dint feel there was any dicernable difference in the way they sounded. We are really only taking about 1 point to 1.5 points of compression between the two on those engines if the original is built to 1969 NHRA specs even For a stock eliminator to a drivable on pump gas stroker RAIV.

[tjs44]

Compression DOES make a diff,sometime BIG.Tom