Pictured below is the motorvation for the '79, I built it in 1992, drove it for 6 years, parked it when buying a home ate up all my money. It has a Mondello-dressed steel crank 425 from a '66 Toronado, 'B' heads, fluidampr, Mondello spec'd Engle cam (.512/.523), roller rockers, the nice Mallory dist. & ign. box, Torker single plane intake, modified Holley spreadbore 800 cfm mech secondaries (#6213), 4 core radiator, Hooker Super Comp Headers w/ 1&7/8ths inch primaries & 3.5 inch collectors (it's so big/tight that one tube wraps outside the frame & back in, 3 inch dual exh, w/Flowmasters, deep pan column shifted Turbo400 built by a magician from MD, 10 inch A1 racing converter, Torque Specialties trans crossmember w/provision for the dual exh, 1965 12bolt out of a Chevelle w/3.73 Richmond Gear & Moroso Brute Strength Posi, Southside Machine 4 link lift bars, airbags, driveshaft safety loop, battery in the trunk & geez, the list keeps goin on....

This car did wheelstands on pump gas & p285 street radials, tires are off the ground in that one pic. Never took it to the track but it was doing 0-60 in 3.0 consistantly, spinning tires in a wheelstand. Almost nobody knows it, but these early Salons (78-80) were factory lightweights. I've removed the ac off the firewall & elsewhere (see pic) & removed the windshield wiper motor, transmission & wipers (after that car show pic), no jack, no spare & the car weighed 2800 lbs w/ a quarter tank & noone in it (full frame car, big block, thm400 & 12bolt). Very light for a full interior / doorslammer. Manual steering gear, full poly everywhere, engine plates plus a chain (it was snapping motor mounts like matchsticks). A buddy w/a nice stock Viper couldn't beat it out of the hole & to 100mph, & we tried this a bunch of times.

I'm going to go alum heads, fuel injection & roller cam w/the new build & Mondello says it'll make 600-750 at the wheels, depending on how crazy I get w/the bottom end & compression. I'll dyno it this time.

(Oct 1 2006) I'm also considering port injected twin turbo bigblock (425) making around 1000 hp/tq, I think it's doable