Author Topic: Headers on my 383 'vette! (Read 972 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 12, 2005, 02:11:39 PM »

why would anyone laugh at a falcon wagon... just like a mustang but with better weight distribution.

I agree that an auto is probly a little faster in the quarter everything else being the same and... for sure more consistent... they just aren't any fun and... A vette should be fun... for me anyhow.

lazs

Steve · « **Reply #46 on:** July 12, 2005, 04:07:59 PM »

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What kind of rear rubber you running?

For the road I have 315/35/17 Eagle F1 GS D3's on 17X11" rims on the back. For the track I spose I'll get those DOT drag radials, probably on smaller rims. I'll not race very often, unless I really enjoy it.

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People made fun of me when I dropped in a 9500rpm 289 in my 68 Falcon station wagon (High School ride), with a cross-boss manifold, 8 single-throated Webers on top, 4 speed top loader, a rear end from a Boss 302, front sway bar from a 67 Shelby.

I always get a kick out of seeing someone take their favorite non F body car and turn it into a hot rod. Often see some real creative stuff in these "other" cars. I wouldn't have laughed, I would have "oooed and ahhhed".
It's why I like hearing about cars like Lazs's Elky and Healey

Lazs, I'm hoping to get the car into the 11's. It may be an auto, but an 11 sec car that can pull a 1.0 on the skid pad sounds like fun to me.

lazs2 · « **Reply #47 on:** July 13, 2005, 08:50:29 AM »

steve... I am sure that I would enjoy it myself. I just want a stick in the car I drive around. We have mountains and curves and stuff and back roads... I enjoy controling the selection of gears.

I guess I am too old to really get behind a sports car... a car that can carve corners at anything like 1 g... at one of those cars having a slush box in it.

Every modified car that I have ever had that had an auto in it... I at one time or another wished it had a stick. I never wished a stick car had an auto in it.

lazs

SarinGas · « **Reply #48 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:42:44 AM »

I wish I still have my 91 GMC Sonoma with LT1. I loved smoking the local rice burners.
Couldnt agree with you more on the comments about the IRS suspension and tourque steer skuzzy. My brother had a juiced vette and he would get bent out of shape everytime he hit the button. Sure was fun to watch but a bizzle to drive.