I don't know what a Fuelie head is or a Chevy 396 except that it is also in this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGgqnXytwY
I don't know what a Fuelie head is or a Chevy 396 except that it is also in this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGgqnXytwY
A fuelie head was a cylinder head designed for a fuel injected Chevy engine, I'm not sure if they are meant from the mid-50's cars that had it or the later('60's) Corvettes that utilized fuel injection. Either way, those engines were small blocks versus the 396 big block that Messrs. Earle and Springsteen are singing about. Here 396 refers to the cubic inch displacement of the engine. Now we often talk in liters of displacement(approximately 61 cubic inches in a liter). A 396 placed in a relatively lightweight Nova body could be a pretty fierce contender on the drag strip particularly if some work were done to the components of said engine. It would still be a stout task for it taking on some of the more notable cars of the day, the Hemi 'cudas, LS-6 Chevelles, the Ram Air II Firebirds (http://youtu.be/t4u9llY1h-4) and of course the true King of the Strip, the L-88 Corvettes.
As can be seen in my posts in the LTE, I am a GM guy(grandfather and I both worked for them) but am also a double ABC(Anything but Chevy and Anybody but Carolina).
PS It should be noted that Bruce sings about a '32 Ford in some versions of this song. No idea when the Fords had fuel injection available.
"Because The Night" was in the last show...
http://brucespringsteen.net/2014?cat=8#setList
He's in Hershey PA tomorrow, only about an hour and a half from the Turk roost... But it's a school night and I don''t bounce back from these adventures the way I used to...
If it was Duke hoops, no brainer. Hmmm...
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Well I'm not a car guy but I do like songs about cars. Steve Earle is definitely a Chevy guy. Almost all of his car references are Chevrolet with the exception of a "big block Dodge" in Copperhead Road and a couple of Coupe DeVille references in his early Rockabilly songs.
related to "king richard", so i was Mopar….
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