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Damn, that Southern Rock Racing looks like fun; ...."hey guys, can you just roll me over". :D
That green buggy sounds good!

To be honest, this looks a lot like the roads here in Michigan! :crackup:
 
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I know it's an expensive hobby, but dam it looks like fun.


Here's that guy at the Hoonigan lot with his race truck.


This SC Camaro sounds great, action starts at 16:30


And here he is getting no traction at the strip, needs a bigger tire ??


2000hp @ 28psi running 7's I did see a guy running high 5's in a steel body stang recently, this used to be nitro methane territory, not anymore.


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Remember the early days of Turbo lag of the start:whistle:
Yup, got to love the Chevy old school 502 and 572 just drop in and go crate engines. Torque is king:can:
Red when you get a chance, look at some Buick sights. TA Performance is making AL blocks capable of 732ci. All the inherited factory block issue's are gone. Not that the original blocks were bad, but the engineers had wanted the 455 Big block as light as possible and designed it with thinner webbing, and used the big 3.25" mains in the crank for strength. A bunch of Experimental 4 bolt main's with very thick castings did come out for there Stage 2 program with the special heads. Unfortunately it became an over the counter offer due to the 1971 government low compression laws, and came ever so close to just order this motor on a production car..
TA performance is making just about plug and play AL Buick heads that can do 440cfm+ intake and 300cfm+ exhaust.
Plans for for Prostock canted valve heads are close to production with over 550cfm and a few others have built some Billet heads with massive breathing.
I like to root for the underdog at times..:)
 
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Chevy LS blocks are great and AFR heads can actually flow too much, but the big engines are the keith Black and Reher Morrison customs, although forced induction has LS engines doing 2500hp with 2 gas tanks, one for driving around town and the 2nd is octane on demand to prevent pre ignition under 30 pounds of boost, but you can daily drive these beasts.

Have you seen any of the Nelson Racing Engines videos, they are fun. Check out some of his street test videos, you can actually daily drive these monsters.

 
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Damn Red, that last video is something else, it makes you want to go out and do something crazy in a "stupid fast" car. :cool:

@GSS - Do you think I ought to drop one of those 540ci BB twin turbo beasts into the old nova? :eek:
 
I've never had a bug to race, but I do like to have the ability to move in traffic if the need arises. One of my best cars for doing that was a 1998 Lincoln Continental which had a V8 with fuel injection. My Elantra I drive now is a manual 5 speed with fuel injection that does quite well for its size. I am getting too old to drive at 95 MPH like I did when I lived in Montana which had no speed limit back then on the Interstate highways.
 
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Damn Red, that last video is something else, it makes you want to go out and do something crazy in a "stupid fast" car. :cool:

@GSS - Do you think I ought to drop one of those 540ci BB twin turbo beasts into the old nova? :eek:
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It would end up looking like one of those Hot Wheel cars we got as kids:eek:

Red, no doubt those LS motors are amazingly brutal and so so street friendly, "with AC":):eg:
I'm so behind the times though, but you have to admit the sweet sound and feel of a older school NA BB..
 
Oh yes, that's what most of those rock buggies are running, naturally aspirated, both the LSX454 and old school 502/572. The 572 has a rod to stroke ratio of less than 1.5 to 1 which I don't like but they seem to do well regardless.

I say NA but it's typically fuel injected NA for off road, carbs would not run upside down and as well at steep angles and under severe bouncing, fuel injection just works, no more vapor lock ever, and with emissions friendly gasoline formulations boiling at lower temps injection is all you see as for new cars/trucks not to mention fuel economy which is behind everything factory so new cars operate with pressurized cooling systems and at higher temps which would be a vapor lock nightmare for a carburetor.

With forced induction the big enemy is pre ignition, so it's the computer controlled fuel injection, timing, and boost that lets these turbo charged engines purr like a cammed out kitten and roar like a dragster on demand, granted the bottom end has to be built to take it, rods, pistons and crank, but the LS comes with awesome 6 bolt main setup, larger cam dia. cathedral heads that flow like a race head and one piece seals, o-ring seals all around, no more leaks and the corvette gest titanium rods and a steel crank from the factory, but even the stock 5.3 can make big power on a factory bottom end and with factory heads because GM really upgraded everything.

LS engine video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu_nm0OjTwM&t=348s
 
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Oh yeah this MyVintageiron guy is great. I watch his Utube vids alot and I know he's not just a Chevy guy.
I'm guessing in 10 years the LS will be just as cheap as the first small blocks?
Computer generated cam profiles are so much better now for old motors. Not just because the use of roller lifter or rockers. It's getting crazy isn't it.
Running 11 to 1 compression with forced induction was unheard of back in the days!
 
Yep and you save gas and weight, a lot of new cars come with an integrated turbo to increase fuel efficiency, they get by with a smaller engine that can increase it's volumetric efficiency on demand as well as it's output.

I prefer a bigger slower engine that will last a long time, but with federal mandates our choices are limited in many car classes, we will see a lot more zero emissions and hybrid vehicles in the next decade.

As for performance it's pretty well here, we don't see true infinitely variable valve lift/duration but there are many variable arrangements in use that are computer controlled and that makes it all work so well.

Even the new GT40 uses a twin turbo 3.5 liter v-6 making 647hp and 550tq and it won Le Mans again.

 
I didn't know about the new GT40. I had thought they stopped producing them:)
Remember how they put it to Enzo and his Ferrari's in the 60's:eg: They were able to replace all the brakes and rotors in like 20 minutes in the pits:)
I never thought we would get out of the dark gloomy day's in the early early 80's when the even the Vette had like 140 hp.
 
Yes the mid 80's were awful, heck the late 70's were not all that great, not that I was driving then but I drove 70's cars when I was in school, I have owned a lot of cars, I had a small towing company for a while so I always had access to buy cars cheap and fix them, I miss it.

I take it your a Buick Grand Sport fan " GSS " ??

Have you seen the old car memories videos, I like them.

 
Yup, I like his video's. His voice gets to me a bit, I don't know why as its gruff like it suppose to but I just don't know why:o
I got the Buick bug as all kids do because my dad drove into the driveway when I was 4 with a brand new 66 Wildcat.
Yup that why it's "GSS".. I have a 70 GS Stage1 thats down in the Cape at my sisters house. Its up on stands with the gas tank out and needs a trunk a left front fender but other wise decently solid. It's been there since 91 or 92 and I just don't have the energy to get it done due to some issue's.
The motor had spun a main which is an issue with the BB Buicks oiling but easily fixed with the proper mods. It was rebuilt and is all stock, I don't know who did the rebuild though and just couldn't find out who as these 455 Buick motor's really need someone experienced with them. You can't run the bearing loose like a Chevy, they have to be tight around .0015 to .002
It does run strong though. I took it to the New England Dragway after it sat for a year with just starting it up and managed a 13.9 with these little 185 X 14 tires. Traction was impossible..
I had a 66 GS I daily drove for 8 years starting in highschool. This one had the early Buick 401 Nailhead. Tons of low end torque but they didn't breath to well to make great horsepower. Like you mentioned they were big loaded with cubes and torque and barely needed to work to get the car moving. This one I lost to the frame rotting out:( Alot had to do because they used the convertable frames that were boxed for stiffness..

Oh I can imagine how cool that towing company was!!!
 
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I had a 74 grand am in high school, it was a boat with a 400, then a 69 Chevelle after high school with a 402 transplant, was a Malibu 2 door but I put on a cowl hood and 12 bolt rear, it was a fun tire burner, so was my 1990 fox body 5.0 LX, 5 speed with just some bolt on mods, I made from Atlanta to Biloxi in 4 hours once including stopping for gas, I was deep in the triple digits between towns for some pretty long stretches, also had a thunder chicken turbo coupe and a Taurus SHO, a 1978 silver anniversary corvette, nothing super expensive, I had a bunch of super bikes, they are the best bang for the buck, but I gave it all up to stay legal, I had my fun and got away with it and now I remember and watch videos, I'm afraid to let myself have anything stout as I will use it, so I just abstain, that and life issues/money, I'm a shadow of what I once was really, but I digress, now I just want to get around...well I want a lot more but I know better, technology is getting to the Orwellian nightmare stage, soon the black box in your car will be instantly accessible via RF by any government personnel/cop and removing modifying it will be illegal....maybe not right now but it's coming, that and if the control mongers get their way we will be told that we don't need such fast cars, such big houses, so much freedom, but again I digress

I bet this was an expensive repair.

 
Wow that takes some hardcore big rig mechanics:can:
74 GrandAm is one of the last nice bad boys. Decent money these days. Just about the same 400 used on earlier GTO's minus some compression and milder cam:) 396 did sound cooler than the 402 it grew too..I heard the Cowl Induction was good for 3mph at the 1/4mile. My Buick GS Ram air scoops look good but don't do a thing other than maby letting some heat out of the engine bay. They are in the worse location possible.
We really did some stupid stuff when young and cringe to this day thinking.:undecided::can:
Never was into bikes though, my Father would off never let me anyways.
 
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