That is the correct answer for what the 442 stood for as far as I remember. I tuned a Z16 for a friend weekly, it would eat up the plugs. The hp was grossly under rated for insurance purposes, a common practice. I have several books on stock and modified muscle cars of the 60's and early 70's. They are slow by todays standards, every one but a competition, aluminum bodied Shelby Cobra. It was fast then and fast by todays standards. I never saw one, never read about one back in the day. O-60 3.5 seconds. There are a dozen cars that will match that today and a few that are faster. All high dollar cars. Now I'm not talking about stripped down 60 muscle cars fitted with wide slicks, changes in transmissions, rear diff ratios, bump up in compression requiring high octane mix fuel. I'm talking stock or some of the factory options. The cars are heavy, have poor suspension, transmissions and tires. None of the ones I have the specs on are as fast as any number of new cars....so, all you hot rodders of yesterday, choices have never been better. Yeah, Americans like big torque engines of big displacement. Some of these cars today are fast.

BTW, we changed the cam and put the dual manifold on the Z16 for two double barrel carbs. That kicked it up to the factory rate of 425 hp. Stock with the 4 bbl they were rated in 375 hp. The car would peg the 160 mph speedometer....but launching the car was always a problem with those red line Tiger Paws or whatever the car came with. I find memory just the opposite.....things were bigger, better, faster back in the 60's

1970 Plymouth hemi cuda 0-60 5.8 sec 1/4 mile 13.95 sec at 105 mph
1969 Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1 427 COPO 0-60 5.2 sec 1/4 mile 13.6 @ 119.06 mph
1969 Chevelle Yenko 427 0-60 5.5 sec 1/4 mi 11.94 at 117.95 mph
1970 Olds 442, 455 cu. in. 0-60 6.8 sec 1/4mi 14.2 at 102.14 mph
1964 426 hemi Dodge ramcharger, acid dipped body ( rare ) no 0-60 listed 12.5 sec 1/4 at 110 mph.....none of the above really slow....but not by todays standards for some of the faster cars. These cars were expensive in the day also. American Muscle, Randy Leffingwell author

AWD just puts you at a huge advantage with todays stock car...lighter, better transmission, better tires and suspensions, maximized engine performance due to a computer and numerous sensors. Those old cars were and are still beautiful.

We have run through about every aspect of the BG in search of what is causing these light strikes. I have made a lot of measurements and a lot of very close up pictures of parts. Surprised no one is interested in this analysis for the other light strike thread. M1911