More progress
Nick decided no more drag and drives for now and we went about turning the car into a full time race machine. So, out with the heavy ass 4L80e and I built up a pretty stout TH400 for the car with aluminum forward and direct drums, 36 element pro mod sprag and 300M input and intermediate shafts. We ordered a new QA1 Carbon Fiber driveshaft also. While running the 4L80 we had problems starving the trans during hard acceleration (2.2g's) so Nick fabbed up a rear sump oil pickup for the TH400. We were going to do this for the 4L80e also.
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1964 GTO
501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs.
9.76 @ 137mph
1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115
1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112
1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159
2009 G8 GT
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