That is what I lusted after in High School… GNX Grand National… what a car!!!!
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Unless you've dyno'd I bet your well over 425hp. I don't know how you'd not be well over 500lb/ft.
It was tuned on a Dyno. The carb is a 600 CFM and the cam is pretty mild for the motor and running through the factory exhaust manifolds. They are the high flow used back in the day. Being an Olds with the steering behind the cross member, starter and other crap all on the driver's side there's no headers for it.
Here's a picture of the unique driver side manifold.
It's the wife's car and she's happy with it. If she decides she wants more power I will swap out the cam and carb.
Here's a picture of the unique driver side manifold.
It's the wife's car and she's happy with it. If she decides she wants more power I will swap out the cam and carb.
Spark plugs are gay
And an exploded view
And an exploded view
I gotta Civic VTEC with bi-plane wing, NOS decals and chrome exhaust tip. Never had it on the track, but I'm sure it's a sub-10 car.
Sure at 1.6 Liters @ 15.000 RPM pushing 900+ HP
Had a twin turbo 335 that was making north of 500hp around 505tq. Was a really fun car. All wheel drive to
My 2022 gay ass Camry is actually pretty fun to drive with it’s 4 cylinder.
The 2022 Camaro SS is pretty boring to drive, but I love driving it because it pisses people off so bad when they get stuck behind me doing the speed limit. Only mod I’m doing to it is putting new exhaust on it so it’s dead quiet.
4Runner is like running pulling a sled filled with fat women.
Titan is actually pretty damn fun, but at 8 years old I drive it pretty conservatively.
The 2022 Camaro SS is pretty boring to drive, but I love driving it because it pisses people off so bad when they get stuck behind me doing the speed limit. Only mod I’m doing to it is putting new exhaust on it so it’s dead quiet.
4Runner is like running pulling a sled filled with fat women.
Titan is actually pretty damn fun, but at 8 years old I drive it pretty conservatively.
Pic of another oil burner. This is one of my dream cars. With a tune and intercooler upgrade it makes 400hp and 700lb/ft of torque
I put a programmer on my 7.3 F250 for a little while. It was expensive keeping tires on it so I took it off. The other upgrades on it are enough without it.
There is still no replacment for displacement.
In a straight line anyway.
In a straight line anyway.
Those Germans are so neat and tidy…. Even their blown, exploded engines are all in order!
Sirhr
Clean ze mess. Naow!
I was very briefly in the market for a V10 TDI Touareg. The maintenance horror stories scared me off though and I went for the 3.0 TDI and got a Malone tune. Somewhere around 500lb-ft. It's not what I'd call fast but it pulls hard.
Also known as, the least rewarding type of driving.
I’d love to have a v10 tdi but I’d need a fully equipped shop at home to justify it
I’m desperately waiting until I can import some bonkers diesel from Europe. BMW I-6 quad turbo, vag v8 or v12, or Benz v8. I sort of don’t care, I just want one
Beautiful in its simplicity.. I love big inch Oldsmobiles!
I need to see if I can dig up some pics of my car, still have it. I did the SCCA thing for a while. From the early 90's up to about 2004-ish when my first back surgery happened.
That is where my name comes from, I raced F-Production, in an opel GT, my number was 72.
I was one of two idiots that ran the cars at that level in the US. And it was expensive. Everything was custom in that motor, Rods, pistons, crank, the crank alone was $7000 in mid 90's money. They don't call them $15,000 hand grenades for nothing. And they are good for roughly two race weekends.
I never did any other kind of so called "racing" after my back went out. Tried to get back in the car, but it took two guys to get me out. I still have the car and a rear end gear set that would be perfect for open road racing, like Sand Hills or Big Bend as the car has all the safety gear for the "go fast" class. Just need another seat, and that would be easy.
I tried to do track days and it was a total bore, that is not racing. Auto-X is even worse, I think it is one of those things after you do the real deal things like track days are really tame, you don't get the same feeling, it is not the same.
I hoped I had something on my phone, thought the wife was in the trailer looking for something and thought I took a snip of the car sitting in there, but no.
It is painted in Gulf colors from the 60's, really a good looking little car.
Story time:
I did a car show World of Wheels many years ago with the car. SCCA asked if I would do it as my car does get some looks. It was really fun, so many people came up asking questions about the car, or telling stories how they had one, or their girlfriend in high school had one. It was a really good time. I actually won second for best production based race car. I lost to a real SC cobra, you are not going to win against that.
Anyhoo the show is packing up, and we need to move the car out of the way so the cars can make their way out, if you are waiting for your trailer you pull over to the side. I fire that thing up and I do mean EVERYONE turned and looked. These are hard core car people looking at the deep rumble this little thing made. It was not overly loud, in SCCA you do have to past a sound test and if you are too loud you get the black flag, so not stupid loud like open pipes or something. I just moved it out of the way and shut it down. I think that was the best part of the show.
The engine in the Opel is a bit different, it is a cam in head and the cam pushes on rockers that push on the valves. It is a bit different. The engine size war roughly 2L, stock it was 1.9. The pistons are basically the same size as 265 chevy pistons.
It was a good time and I am glad I got to do it.
That is where my name comes from, I raced F-Production, in an opel GT, my number was 72.
I was one of two idiots that ran the cars at that level in the US. And it was expensive. Everything was custom in that motor, Rods, pistons, crank, the crank alone was $7000 in mid 90's money. They don't call them $15,000 hand grenades for nothing. And they are good for roughly two race weekends.
I never did any other kind of so called "racing" after my back went out. Tried to get back in the car, but it took two guys to get me out. I still have the car and a rear end gear set that would be perfect for open road racing, like Sand Hills or Big Bend as the car has all the safety gear for the "go fast" class. Just need another seat, and that would be easy.
I tried to do track days and it was a total bore, that is not racing. Auto-X is even worse, I think it is one of those things after you do the real deal things like track days are really tame, you don't get the same feeling, it is not the same.
I hoped I had something on my phone, thought the wife was in the trailer looking for something and thought I took a snip of the car sitting in there, but no.
It is painted in Gulf colors from the 60's, really a good looking little car.
Story time:
I did a car show World of Wheels many years ago with the car. SCCA asked if I would do it as my car does get some looks. It was really fun, so many people came up asking questions about the car, or telling stories how they had one, or their girlfriend in high school had one. It was a really good time. I actually won second for best production based race car. I lost to a real SC cobra, you are not going to win against that.
Anyhoo the show is packing up, and we need to move the car out of the way so the cars can make their way out, if you are waiting for your trailer you pull over to the side. I fire that thing up and I do mean EVERYONE turned and looked. These are hard core car people looking at the deep rumble this little thing made. It was not overly loud, in SCCA you do have to past a sound test and if you are too loud you get the black flag, so not stupid loud like open pipes or something. I just moved it out of the way and shut it down. I think that was the best part of the show.
The engine in the Opel is a bit different, it is a cam in head and the cam pushes on rockers that push on the valves. It is a bit different. The engine size war roughly 2L, stock it was 1.9. The pistons are basically the same size as 265 chevy pistons.
It was a good time and I am glad I got to do it.
That’s awesome. I’ve had cars disassembled about half that much
Back a few years ago. was pretty fast for a heavy bastard.
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Decided to try a corvette this time. Bought it with cam and headers already done. Really needs a 2800-3200 stall, it wants to pull through the brakes at an idle. I need to buy a mid rise scissor lift before I get the converter. I'd like to install a supercharger next summer even though its fun to drive the way it is. 
427 small block 1300 RWHP in my 2015 1500 Denali, not the fastest vehicle runs 9s and I like it.
I see you are in Texas. If you haven't gone out with NASA Texas region I suggest you link up with them. The HPDE that they run will make you faster the the other HPDEs in Texas. Main reason is they are always trying to get people to move up and race. Also, because of insurance most HPDEs have to have point bys were NASA being a race organization you can just pass in HPDE 4, not in 1-3. That's to get you ready for Time Trails or Road Racing.
Time Trial in the wet, oof
At least he's a good sport about being out of a job.
The replacement for displacement.
Power adder >N/A. Sorry, its just facts.
Power adder >N/A. Sorry, its just facts.
I've always wanted to buy a Denali and change a couple letters around to make it Denial.
Seems fitting for yours if you like to race the stoplights.
Sonofabitch, look at that. So, the v12 was used in the earlier R10. The v10 was used in the next generation race car, the R15
I’m gonna generally agree but it depends on what you’re asking of each engine. Obvious, if you want power you add some sort of forced induction. But if you just want an amazing sounding sports car it’s hard to go wrong with n/a
Another replacement for displacement.
I don’t know man nothing gives me a hard on like a spooling compressor
Me too. But I also get a chubby blasting through the mountains in a healthy n/a engined car