1966 Plymouth Barracuda Startup, 273 V8

The first fire-up of Mike's new 66 Barracuda after getting it home. Just took a fresh battery and a little shot of ether, and it's running pretty nice. 273 V8, 2bbl, automatic.

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• 1966
• 66
• plymouth
• barracuda
• cuda
• muscle
• car
• classic
• v8
• 273
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[KISSARMYHQ]

my first car, but mine was a pale yellow and had a straight six . Car looks to have a lot of potential, what happened to it ?

[loungecruz]

nice ride

[MisterWatWatWat]

My dad had a 'Cuda just like that. Beautiful cars.

[MoPar7055]

I you say it makes 180 HP at 1600 RPM I can tell you the torque at 1600 RPM but I can't tell you the torque at 3000 RPM. Make sense?

[MoPar7055]

I explained that already. I can say defacto that it needs 591 torque at 1600 rpm to make 180 hp but if you give me a HP and RPM value at X RPM I can't tell you the torque value at Y RPM.

[markbotv3]

lol then how can you say defacto that it needs 591 torque to make 180 hp at 1600. that other engine was makeing far less peak torque and when it passed the 180 mark it had to be less than 3000 rpm...prolly less than 2000

[MoPar7055]

Actually it would be possible to estimate that by assuming the horsepower gradually rose and then interpolating. Ofcourse it would just be an estimate though.

[MoPar7055]

That would be 79 HP.

[MoPar7055]

This may be hard for you to comprehend but that can't be calculated with the information you have given me. If engines had a linear horsepower increase with the RPMs it could theoretically be calculated but for all I know the Horsepower may spike up at a certain RPM then slowly rise or even begin falling again before it reaches 4700RPM.

[markbotv3]

or assuming again the factory figure of 260 torque at 1600 what is the hp at 1600?