A kid at work tells me his stock 323 would hand my truck it's backside in a 1/4 mile, I laughed at him, his car is all stock, no spray, should I line up, or do I have something to worry about?

 

I'd be careful, those 90's 323's are a lot faster than you think. Good friend of mine had his 90's V-6 Mustang get its butt handed to him by one. They don't weigh much. Only way you might win is you have a 5 sp with 4.10 rear otherwise, I don't think you'd do it, you do have more power, but you also weigh roughly 2-3 times more.

It's all about the power to weight ratio. For example, I used to have a 68 vw bug with about a 125 hp motor in it, I blew the doors off my brother-in-laws 70 chevy pick-up w/350, it pissed him off big time , all I could do was just laugh especially seeing how he asked me over and over with a dumb look on his face how much of a head start I needed, and I kept telling him I didn't need it.

 

Yeah, I'd put my money on the 323...

Jason

 

I could beat him with my any of my trucks through MY 1/4 mile!
He would be lucky to make it through the first "pothole"

 

Tell him to stop talking about racing and get back to work.

 

if only you had a mustang

 

I told him I'll bring my '90 Lincoln Town Car, it's had a transplant: 5.4L interceptor from an '05 Crown Vic...........
His eyes bugged when I popped the hood........
(The Vic got smashed in the rear pretty hard, about 70mph, cop lived, ain't a cop no more though!!)

 

if you had a 5.8 id say youll beet him... becuase i just did notmore than 10 mins agoo .. a stock mazda 323 cam revving and the driver betting money that he could beat my old Ford F250 wich in his eyes is slow .. sso i beat him about 2 car lenghts and won 35 bucks$ lol!! and my truck is heavier than yours soo maybe youll have a chance.. what mods do you have?

i have timing advanced 14BTDC
Dual K&N filters
Exhuast and MSD

 

No mods on the old girl, I spent all my money on my Lincoln (see my last post).....
I do plan on supercharging the F150 after I catch up on some bills................

 

offer to race him up the hill, in the snow....

thats how I used to make all the racers at work shut up...

 

Whatever you do-don't race him to the nearest gas station on empty tanks!