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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I was driving a friends SS 396 Chevelle that he called the light switch as it was either idling or WOT with a very high compression cammed up engine. It was a pain to keep at a steady speed and the slightest throttle made it take off. All of a sudden it started raining. I was terrified as I drove across a bridge. It was spinning the tires with the lightest of touches to the throttle, and with full positraction, the rear was flopping around like a fish. As soon as I got off the bridge, I pulled over and said you drive this thing back.
He sold it soon after.
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Before I put modern bigger wheels and tires on it a couple years ago, our '69 SS396 Chevelle could at times even chirp the tires when shifting to fourth gear. Not a good car for cruising high speeds the way it is geared and with it's big block engine have to run at very high rpm at 70 mph, but my god when effing around at lower speeds that thing was squirrely with it's period correct 14" old hard tires. Now with these new wider stickier modern tires it barely chirps when shifting to second.
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Last edited by Tim Hancock; 11-08-2023 at 06:58 AM..
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