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Originally Posted by mgarblik (Post 5718145)

History is just repeating itself!!! Pontiac's always ran strong on the street. Their reputation was earned there after 1963. One street race at a time. With the availability of an aluminum block for traditional Pontiac, I can't think of a single legitimate, reason to do an LS swap. Unless you just feel you have to ruin a cool old car.

Where is that darned "Like" button ;)

Due to the internet I already knew who won the SO/GMG race, so the outcome was no surprise. Chief is a fierce competitor when it comes to drag racing, and is quite savvy on applying as much power as possible to a given racing surface. He has beaten more powerful cars regularly on the show by hooking his car better than the competition. He also has a great deal if finesse driving on an unprepped track surface.

It amazed me that the Farmbird came within .02 of the BMW on the autocross course, especially with all the tire smoking they did. On another Youtube video I watched, the original 455 in the bird dynoed at 430 HP before they freshened it, 507 HP after. Pretty healthy iron headed engine.

The guy that does the engine in Farmtruck is the one that worked on the 455 so he's probably is a pretty good engine guy. "Mark, out of Kansas City" was as much information as I could find on him. Anyone know who that might be? I found it, Advanced Racing Engines Salina KS.....http://advancedracingengines.com/ Looks like he can build most anything, ford, chevy, mopar and now a Pontiac. Some imports mentioned too.

The Bio says Marc, drives dirt late model cars, guy can't be all bad if he's a dirt track racer......LOL

On the drag race they killed the BMW.

The tug of war was really funny. I told my wife that they had it won as soon as they hooked the cord up. If anyone noticed Sean (Farmtruck) hooked the cord to the top bar on the rollcage. I would assume he maybe grew up on a farm because where you hook to the vehicle vehicle doing the towing has a great deal to do with how much downforce is exerted on the wheels. The higher the hook point on the towing vehicle and the lower the hook point on what your towing transfer the weight from one vehicle to the other because of the lifting action. Granted that the Farmbird weighed more to start with, however the hook point tipped the scales in favor of the Farmbird further.

I have actually seen a 1/2 ton ford win a tug of war against a 3/4 ton ford even though the 3/4 ton outweighed the 1/2 ton. There's more to it than which vehicle weighs more.

A great night for Pontiac Stratostreak power plants, 2 for 2.

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Originally Posted by Craig Hendrickson (Post 5718130)

Also, this March 1977 Car Craft cover and article where H-O Racing's 1968 Firebird 455HO (pretending to be a 1968 RAII--but everyone else was cheating too) beat the 454 Chevelle, Hemi Cuda and 289 Cobra in a "run what ya brung, but street legal drag race at the old Irwindale Strip.

http://originalho.com/HORacing/image...03CarCraft.jpg

Very cool Craig - remember reading that article - good stuff :)

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Originally Posted by GTOGEORGE (Post 5718128)

FUNNY!

GTO George

GTO G: I can't take credit for that; it was a kind of loose paraphrase of my brother's quote. The good thing is, he's a Poncho Power guy through and through. He had a '65 tri-power 4-speed GTO long before I bought my first Pontiac...and he's 5 years my junior. He actually loaned me the money when I was in college for the car I own now. He was in high school at the time. You should see his current muscle car collection; it would make some professional collectors blush. Proud of him? Hell yeah.