[poison heart]

That's awesome!

[goatless]

Came across these on the SuperCarRaces site.

[Wareagle]

Cool pics .

[Wareagle]

Heres a clip of Jim's Bird running a 12.47 @ 109 mph - the Quickest run at
this event ( 1987 ) - eventually he got it down to low 12's during the next couple of racing seasons . Stock 400 - exhaust manifolds etc. - Awesome .
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hBNS8Q4moHQ

[poison heart]

Those are great!

[Wareagle]

Originally Posted by poison heart

Those are great!

Thanks - got a few more to put in yet ie. Jim's Bird vs a Buick 455 Stage 1-
87 Grand National etc. . Also put these on the Trailer too - no problem .

[poison heart]

He killed that cougar

[sdbob]

One last trick he told me.Take one true leather belt and kerosene.Place the crank on a wooden support and start polishing.The trick is(I'm not sure maybe someone here knows)the direction to polish. As the metal journal has certain way the microscopic metal 'lays'.You want to laay this down not 'stand it up'.

[Wareagle]

Jim's Bird vs a 70 Buick 455 Stage 1 - I like how he reel's in the
competition while trying not to Redlight .
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zndq8iHnBhU

[poison heart]

Damn! Stomped that GS! I'm surprised he killed that GS. Those GSs are FAST, not fast enough I guess

[Wareagle]

Originally Posted by sdbob

The one race he told me some of the other racer(s) posted money to tear his engine down(heads if i remember),that could have been the race.I beleive they were looking for grinding of the ports.'If I'm cheating and you beat me then you gotta be cheating'.Jim was very meticulous about his head work.the ports I saw were not touched.he showed me his grinding equip.I think it was an Soiux grinder for the seats.He usually flat towed with his Grand Am as tow car.Now he has a trailer.

Yes - some people just don't like being beat by a Pontiac -must be all that hype.
If you go back through Pontiacs Racing History ( ie. Dominating NASCAR in the early 60's )
the Pontiac V8 was truly a Winner .

[Jerry H.]

Originally Posted by poison heart

Damn! Stomped that GS! I'm surprised he killed that GS. Those GSs are FAST, not fast enough I guess

I know Mino's Bird was quick and would have probably won anyway, but it looked like to me that the GS let off because he redlighted.

[poison heart]

Yeah, that GS definitely let off

[Wareagle]

Originally Posted by poison heart

Damn! Stomped that GS! I'm surprised he killed that GS. Those GSs are FAST, not fast enough I guess

There were several but the Quickest was a Buick GSX 455 Stage 1 that ran a 13.13 @ 101.92 mph .
Fairly Quick but not enough to run down Jim's 12 sec. Runs .

[poison heart]

Damn, That's fast, That buick has to weigh a lot more than that Bird though

[Brian Baker]

Aerial shot of my car from the 2008 Funny Car Reunion at E-town.

[Wareagle]

Also there was one other Pontiac that went farther than the GS 455's
and that was Dan Jensen's 71 T-37 455HO running a best of 13.24 -he was one
of the Final four . Jim defeated a 440 6 Pack Road Runner and Dan could'nt get by a
Hemi Road Runner . The Final had the 400 RAM AIR II Firebird defeating the
Hemi Road Runner - Would'nt have that been Cool - a All Pontiac Final .

[Wareagle]

Cool pic Brian .

[poison heart]

That's pretty bad ass. I bet that would really piss off the Mopar guys.

[Wareagle]

Heres the clip of the Semi-Finals .
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4408oyrkpFA