340 Duster, can he beat me?

[GTSteed89]

I have a few things to say here. I grew up around mopars until my Dad got an 87LX 5.0 then I started on stangs. But if there is one thing I do know, its that 340 dusters are quick. What year is it? 70 and 71's were the quickest by far.

If its stock i think it might be close, those cars never came with 5 Speeds, but the 340 is not really known for being a real power house, but anyway if you can launch you should be able to beat him.

All I have to say about this is that my Uncle raced a 71 Duster for years, with little more than a good cam, 360 heads and a victor jr. and 650 holley and ran high 11's. Granted this was a race car, but 340 non-theless. My Uncle also has a 70 340 with an automatic with exhaust and gears went 14.1's with a bone stock motor and stock manifolds. My Dad had a 71 Duster 4 speed on bias ply's ran a 13.47. And that car had very mild head work and a small cam with 3.91's. So before you agree to a race find out what all is there. He might be out just to pick on people with mildly modified mustangs. May I suggest skipping the GT-40 intake. $500 can go somewhere else very easily. Get yourself a good mass air meter and definately get the gears. If you can get traction and he isn;t modified too much, you can beat him.