"There's no replacement for displacement!" Anything a 250 can do, 42 extra cubic inches can do better, plus the longer stroke of a 292 puts that engine miles ahead of the 250 in the torque department. Back when the 292 was relatively new, a couple of guys put one into an "altered" drag car with a tubular frame and a fiberglass T model roadster body. They routinely beat most of the V8 powered cars at the local 1,000 foot drag strip, sometimes by embarrassingly long distances. That car had a hole shot off the line that was amazing. It was rumored they were running a flywheel in the 60+ pound range.
Jerry
