My 92 Grand Am with a Redneck converter would 60 ft 1.21/ 1.22 with a 406 sbc and run 6.20 / 6.23 in the 1/8 with a 5.67 gear. With the same engine and trans in my sons car with a Freakshow it 60 fts 1.36/ 1.37 leaving @ 4000. The 96 bird is heavier than the GA was and my son goes 150 lb more than I. Our car ran between 6.61 and 6.65 every pass all season long regardless the weather. If it runs a 6.61 1st pass it usually runs that number all day long, nedless to say we are very happy with our junk converter. When we had our 406 Pontiac with a th350 it did the same thing just a bit slower. Complete different set up though.
I gave the 406 Pontiac to my son-in-law and it'll be going in his 78 T/A. I'm sure a high dollar converter is better, but we aren't looking for every ounce of power out of our stuff, just enough to go rounds and have some fun. As long as our car will run the number all day long, we don't care if it's 6.60 or 6.40, well we do, we don't want to run faster than 6.40.
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