[FWDLK] another mention of drag results in Motor Trend
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[FWDLK] another mention of drag results in Motor Trend



   I'm not even close to wanting to participate in the current performance discussion, but the owner of the '56 Belvedere that we are restoring just sent me this, and it was easy enough to forward to the list. 
 
Take it all with a grain of salt, I guess.  Just another instance of published results.  The normally aspirated quarter mile results  were......... slow?
 
Maybe somebody has a copy of the magazine in their personal archives?
 
Tim
 
 

Motor Trend, April 1956 ? Supercharged ?56 Plymouth

With performance to surpass that of Plymouth?s own Fury and a sound to match that of a screaming banshee, this blown Plymouth supplied to me recently by McCulloch Motors is an impressive package indeed. It smashed acceleration times set by the 4-barrel-carbureted ?56 Plymouth as easily as a mallet splatters an egg. Take a look at the comparative figures:
Speed/Distance                 200-hp ?56 Plymouth             McC. Supercharged Plymouth
0-60mph                                 11.9                                        8.2
¼ mile                                     18.9 (76 mph)                       16.7 (89.8 mph)
30-50 mph                             4.4                                           2.8
50-80 mph                             13.4                                        8.9
These figures put the blown Plymouth in the hopped-up Corvette and T-Bird class. And by ?hopped-up? I mean one such as the ?54 Corvette with ?54 Caddy engine that I drove back in?54. The 0-60 runs were made using LOW range of PowerFlite only, while the ¼ mile runs were made using LOW, and shifting to DRIVE at around 60. The 30-50 runs were all made in LOW, while the 50-80 ones were a combination of the 2 gears. Any time you downshift below 60 mph with this setup, you get not only a surge when the transmission drops down a gear, but another one when the blower cuts in. The blower takes hold between 3000-3500 rpm.

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