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Farmington Hills, MI
Quoted from KeithinMI:My not-so-pin-hauler.
1978, W72 4speed, 14,000 original miles, completely unmolested and untouched.
100% Original survivor car.
Martinique Blue with premium interior.
and the underside still has the original factory red oxide primer on it too....
Quoted from hardware:Nice car!
My Dad had the same year in gold. His was auto, he said there was a Turbo and if he remembers correctly there was a hookup for NOS.
He bought it used around 1980.
My first trans am was a 1978 solar gold y88 special edition with the w72 400, 4 speed, ws6. I promptly built the shit out the engine, including balance and blue printing, bored 30 over, 10.75
compression and a 3/4 race cam, port matched and polished heads, forged titanium connecting rods, sodium filled valves. It dyno'd at 600 plus hp at the wheels and ran 10.55 in the standing 1/4 on race slicks at Milan raceway. I used to race people light to light on Woodward on fridays and saturdays long long before the Woodward cruise ever existed.
For fuel I used to buy 55 gallon drums of jet 1a (or was it ll100?) and mix it with premium.
That car replaced my first car - my '66 gto convertible with 389 factory tri power, 4 speed. Did a frame off restore on that.
Quoted from hardware:10 second pass is MOVING! I'd probably be scared in a RWD car going that fast to be honest, lol. I built a car once. A little over 400WHP on a mustang dyno which I'm told would be around 480 on a Dynojet. AWD so street tires weren't a problem at that power level. Probably be mid 11's on a perfect pass. Pretty impressive for 2.0 liter 4 cylinder. 28psi, single turbo, 93 octane.
Those Trans Ams in 78 didn't have a NOS hookup from the factory did they?
No NOS hookup from the factory. The Pontiac 400 had an emissions-proper intake with a bypass that let exhaust gasses flow under the carb from one head to the other (to warm the carb up faster), and a standard-issue Quadra-junk, errr Jet 4bbl carb, jetted for emissions, with these stupid plastic caps which limited the adjustment to the needle mix.
Although you could get the whole NOS kit from H-O Performance for relatively inexpensive, including the replacement Hurst T-Handle which had a line-lock button on one side and the NOS on the other. HOP also made a ludicrous turbo for the Pontiac 400, although it was extremely expensive for the time.
My car was obscene with horsepower. I wound up having to put frame stiffeners in to keep that silly F-body from twisting with all the torque as well as a bulletproof clutch bell housing cover on just in case the clutch/flywheel decided to explode because the placement was perfect to amputate your legs right below your knees. That and traction bars to keep the rear wheels from hopping like mad.
I even completely shredded a Dana 4.11 12-bolt posi axle one night. Opened up the cover and 'stuff' just fell out. Went back to the factory l/s axle after that. Frankly I'm surprised that Borg-Warner Super-T10 didn't explode too.
Quoted from rotordave:In other exciting news, I put a car into my garage for the first time ever the other night
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Wait, a garage is for putting *cars* in? ??
1 month later
Quoted from AstonEnthusiast:Latest addition. Aston Martin Vantage S Roadster.
nice taste in cars! Here's what I just added to my collection, since I bought an old one, figured I should get a new(er) one.
2014 Lamborghini Aventador , 903 miles. Hitching a ride up to me now, and funny enough on the same company's carrier that brought me my other car.
I meant to snap pictures myself but was a little taken by it that I didn't, so until she's here, your rampant imaginations will have to suffice.
Giallo Orion Pearl Effect Yellow
3 months later
Quoted from TheLaw:Finally the missing Skit B monies have been located
Lol. Not quite. More like: "Thank G-d I am finally done paying my kids' college tuition".
Quoted from Darcy:It is All Wheel Drive, right! And BTW that photo wasn't taken yesterday, I would be very surprised if Michigan looks like that in the Winter.
Yes, all wheel drive, and definitely not drivable in the winter in Michigan.
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