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Old 12-25-2013, 07:19 PM
Craig Hendrickson Craig Hendrickson is offline
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Originally Posted by 78Macho View Post
(snip) Joe called me up on a Sunday afternoon and said, hey Jim, you better come over! He had been out terrorizing his neighborhood with #202! There were tire marks on the street! His description was that it was "wicked fast"! (snip)
The drag strip numbers H-O Racing got on TurboForce equipped Trans Ams back in the day (1978) were:

Stock everything including the original tires and no traction aids: low 13s (13-teenish) at about 104MPH with about 6-7PSI boost through stock exhaust including cats.

Stock engine (W72), but open turbo downpipe, slicks, slide-a-links, stock posi-rear (3.23?), shift kit: high 11s (11.9X) at 115MPH at 15psi boost. No other "high performance" car of the era could touch it. As a matter of fact, most muscle cars from the late 1960s couldn't touch it, even with comparable traction aids and open headers.

Wicked fast for sure.

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