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Originally Posted by bulletpruf

Sounds like a great build -- EFI, overdrive, A/C. Glad you didn't put an LS motor in it.

Cool back story on the car, too.

Let me know how the body bushings work out -- curious to hear if you notice a harsher ride with these.

On the rear gear, certainly seems like 3.73 would be fine with an overdrive and 18" (or was it 17") tires. I'm thinking about an overdrive for my 68, which has 3.90 gears now.

No heartburn on the cloning, either. Most Judges are a bit too valuable to use as daily drivers.

Scott

Thank you Scott, and yes, the car does have a history. As a matter of fact, with the local 'enforcement' folks too, which was a driving factor of changing the look and color! No pun intended!

Drove the car like 90k miles with this combo, 461, 373s, 4L80e, and IMO, the gears are perfect. No sacrifice on the bottom end, and better gas mileage than most new trucks and SUVs.

The 442 is a small block, and it will get some hand me down parts for an OD, it's getting a 4L80e too, and am doing 411s in it. The 342s it has now is too much of a compromise on the bottom end, for a small block, and it suffers IMO.

In the 422, prior to the Holley Terminator TBI setup, it did around an uncorrected 13.66 as I recall, hot day, idling with AC on the staging lanes. It laid down some on the top end due to the 670 cfm carb, so pretty sure once it's dialed, it will be in the high 12s. With 411s, maybe mid 12s. Will see, but it's going to be like next year I do the trans, I need to finish this car first.

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