Thread: anybody ever use a tunnel ram?

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Originally Posted by Joliet Jake

They friggin ROCK! Don't buy into that Urban Legend crap about them not working on the street, that's a bunch of hooie. I'm far from being a NASCAR mechanic and if I can make them work anyone can. I ran one back in the 70's and that's what I have on both cars now. Two 600 Eddies on the 32 and two 500s on the 62.

i had two of them on bbc s on the street they work fine one had a inline autolite on the top of a modified holley tunnel ram .and the other was a weiand with two carter AFBs

Sorry for venting a little, but my dander gets up every time someone says a derogatory comment about tunnel rams on the street.

I looked at some old National Dragsters and the record was in the higher 9s, not mid nines back then--- 283+.030, knife edged crank, the then new iron angle plug heads, edelbrock t-ram, sideways mounted carbs, MSD 7 ignition(before al) shifts around 11000, doug nash 5 speed

i aint worried about street use haha. my buddy hasone on a camaro been ont here since the late 80's works great.

jerry- pm sent

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I had a black '67 Camero that had a 283 4bl, 4spd, posi, with 131k. I got spring fever and changed the cam, headers, 2x4 tunnel ram. It was fun, till I hit a 4" round patch of ice on the on-ramp on to the freeway, and the peddle was to the metal, and I was pulling gears, then the tac pegged and bang! my brother was be hind me in his '69 Camero, and said the flames touched my rear spoiler. we never did find most of one cyl, a piston with half the rod, and another rod with wrist pin only bent 90 degree, but we knew where it left the block/pan. It only made it to 132k. So I put my 454 in.
That was back in about '75.

Pat

how hard were those 132k miles?