my answer to that is you can't compare the two ones an Pontiac and ones not, ones a 41 year old butt kicker with a history and track reccord and ones not , ones computer designed and ones not . But for a Pontiac motor that started the muscel car revolution and was in the dark ages as you guys make it seem . put one of your new ones up against ol man taylors 64 is it stock ? no but it shows what could have been done to the old iron and I'm sure he didn't even start to put the investment in that GM put in the SB ls8 that was originally designed for Corvette ah I think that wears a chevy badge. I guess if you relly want to compair apples for apples your going to have to take some of the old motors that have been built to todays standards and then line them up .
On the second run, Jim cut a quick 10.80 @ 129.31 mph. Further racing was suspended as a roll bar was clearly required. (Today a full roll cage would be needed.) The car was fast enough for Jim and he decided to call it quits
So if Pontiac hadn't been shut down by corporate and forced to run the standard GM motor where would it have been today it was killing chevys back then and it most likely still would have been killing them but Pontica put the dear flag ship line in 2nd place so corporate killed PMD that's history and a fact the guys that worked there are still alive ask them I have a taped interview of J D and he said that on tape
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