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you can barely hear someone say the Pontiac fire-bird went 10.94 and the hellcat was running mid 11 second times!
yeah that trans-am looked darn impressive.
and yes your finding a video of a Pontiac fire-bird trans-am, that obviously has both the power and correct suspension set-up , to launch like that with-out any wasted gymnastics and theatrics , like silly time wasting wheel stands is even more impressive!
got any info on that trans-am engine build config?...turbo?, nitrous? or just well thought through N/A built 428-455-505 Pontiac engine??
yeah that trans-am looked darn impressive.
and yes your finding a video of a Pontiac fire-bird trans-am, that obviously has both the power and correct suspension set-up , to launch like that with-out any wasted gymnastics and theatrics , like silly time wasting wheel stands is even more impressive!
got any info on that trans-am engine build config?...turbo?, nitrous? or just well thought through N/A built 428-455-505 Pontiac engine??
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87vette81big
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Lol.
Grumpy.
I don't understand why you Floridans don't like Wheelstands.
It must just be an Illinois thing.
Ed has a Picture of his Silver 5.0 Fox body doing a Wheelstand in his garage.
Carried the front wheels off the ground for 200 feet. About 2-1/2 -3 feet high.
Still ran low 9's.
We are Men. Republicans. Showing off A Must Do.
Kill those Democrats Lubrals.
Grumpy.
I don't understand why you Floridans don't like Wheelstands.
It must just be an Illinois thing.
Ed has a Picture of his Silver 5.0 Fox body doing a Wheelstand in his garage.
Carried the front wheels off the ground for 200 feet. About 2-1/2 -3 feet high.
Still ran low 9's.
We are Men. Republicans. Showing off A Must Do.
Kill those Democrats Lubrals.
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87vette81big
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No details really.
Guys posted on Max Pontiac .
The Way the Trans Am Runs I would say its a Pontiac 455 bored out to a 462 ci.
Nothing exotic .
No Nitrous. All motor.
Runs & pulls like my 1970-1/2 RAIV T/A.
Guys posted on Max Pontiac .
The Way the Trans Am Runs I would say its a Pontiac 455 bored out to a 462 ci.
Nothing exotic .
No Nitrous. All motor.
Runs & pulls like my 1970-1/2 RAIV T/A.
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87vette81big
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when I met my wife in college I owned and was driving
a formula 400 firebird it looked amazingly similar to this picture I found on the internet, down to the camaro rear spoiler like this picture shows, except I had twin factory hood scoops,
and a 4 speed muncie transmission, and Id replaced the broken 400 with a 428 Pontiac out of a late wreck,a cloyes roller timing set, crane solid lifter cam, (the part number was different in 1968 but the specs were similar)
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/crn-280921 , I upgraded the cam and added headers and added a edelbrock dual quad intake with dual 500 cfm carter carbs, and lakewood traction bars,mildly ported heads, and a lakewood blow proof bell housing and 35 lb billet flywheel and 3800 lb webber clutch, it had 3.36:1 rear gears, the result was not as fast as I wanted or expected as the car ran mid 12s, but it was quick enough to run faster than 90% of the cars I played with on the street! I replaced it with a 1965 lemans with a 496 BBC engine after a couple years.
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-resulting-from-an-engine-swap.898/#post-3239
a formula 400 firebird it looked amazingly similar to this picture I found on the internet, down to the camaro rear spoiler like this picture shows, except I had twin factory hood scoops,
and a 4 speed muncie transmission, and Id replaced the broken 400 with a 428 Pontiac out of a late wreck,a cloyes roller timing set, crane solid lifter cam, (the part number was different in 1968 but the specs were similar)
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/crn-280921 , I upgraded the cam and added headers and added a edelbrock dual quad intake with dual 500 cfm carter carbs, and lakewood traction bars,mildly ported heads, and a lakewood blow proof bell housing and 35 lb billet flywheel and 3800 lb webber clutch, it had 3.36:1 rear gears, the result was not as fast as I wanted or expected as the car ran mid 12s, but it was quick enough to run faster than 90% of the cars I played with on the street! I replaced it with a 1965 lemans with a 496 BBC engine after a couple years.
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-resulting-from-an-engine-swap.898/#post-3239
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87vette81big
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Its really about Building a car for $60,000 cash or less to beat a Hellcat.
Buying price.
Doing all your own work.
Build the engine yourself .
Build the Trans yourself .
Build the resr diff yourself .
Drive it and race a Hellcat & Win.
No Pro Built engines.
Excludes near all now.
But not me here.
Buying price.
Doing all your own work.
Build the engine yourself .
Build the Trans yourself .
Build the resr diff yourself .
Drive it and race a Hellcat & Win.
No Pro Built engines.
Excludes near all now.
But not me here.
yeah! I'm far more impressed when a guy personally builds a car , up from a muscle car or does an engine swap, that results in a car that runs mid 11 seconds by himself, than when some guy with a fat wallet buys a factory hellcat that might run similar times
something like this perhaps
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ean-old-school-sbc-406-vega.12114/#post-58457
or
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/my-69-vette-project.2109/#post-5678
something like this perhaps
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ean-old-school-sbc-406-vega.12114/#post-58457
or
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/my-69-vette-project.2109/#post-5678
