[wheelspin]

Originally Posted by Alvin

Cool Les. Surely you do not run into many other 68 GP’s at the strip or shows do you?

Sooo…Is this your 66 Post @ Pomona Drag Race Museum Twilight Cruise meet?
http://www.tachrev.com/NHRA_Museumpg9.htm

Yeah, that's my GTO, before I restored it and added the KRE heads.

I have run into a few 68 Cats with the GP front bumper and grill. When I was @ Norwalk in 08, I met the original owner of the 4-speed, 4:11 geared, Verdoro Green 68GP that was featured in HPP a couple of years ago. The blacked out grille is interesting and memorable. After all those years of driving his GP with the 4:11s he had recently re geared it to the mid threes in order to save a little fuel. There was also a 68GP 10 sec race car in the pits that I never saw run, and two 68 GP projects for sale.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by wheelspin

Yeah, that's my GTO, before I restored it and added the KRE heads.

I have run into a few 68 Cats with the GP front bumper and grill. When I was @ Norwalk in 08, I met the original owner of the 4-speed, 4:11 geared, Verdoro Green 68GP that was featured in HPP a couple of years ago. The blacked out grille is interesting and memorable. After all those years of driving his GP with the 4:11s he had recently re geared it to the mid threes in order to save a little fuel. There was also a 68GP 10 sec race car in the pits that I never saw run, and two 68 GP projects for sale.

Thanks for posting these pics too. Do you have any more of your GP you can post here for VWmailman? Obviously don't see many '68 GP's posted or at shows.

Running in the '10's must be an utter blast - what a ride! LOL

[wheelspin]

68 GP pics...

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by wheelspin

68 GP pics...

wheelspin, what kind of seat-of-the-pants feel do you get out of such a big car with 2.93s and a 2200 stall?
I know you're not looking for best quarter mile with it but I'm curious since my GTO is geared similarly and I've not had a chance to drive it.

[wheelspin]

Hi Greg,
My driving experience may not mirror yours since the GP's motor is mildly modified with 240 cfm heads, 224* @ .050 sp ft cam that provides around .550 lift with 1:65 Comp roller lifters, Doug's headers & a 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust system, and a Cliff's Q-jet carb on the RA 4 ported stock iron intake. It moves out strongly from any speed and it chirps the 225 Cooper Trendsetters on both up shifts @ full throttle. When I race it, I have to soft pedal it out of the hole until the narrow tires get traction and then lay into it. Where it shines is in the grand touring mode where it has plenty of torque to flatten the Rockies when we take our cross country trips. I had dual quads on it for a few years which gave me two more mph in the quarter mile, but lowered the mpg.

I raced my 3960# 66 GTO with 3:08 final gearing down to 12.6 in the quarter mile, but it does have a 700R4 trans with the 3:06 low gear. I think that Pontiacs' significant torque advantage allows using tall rear end gears for improved mpg and still delivering impressive performance.

My 4100# 72 Trans Am clone has 2:73 rear gears, a 500hp 462 engine, T-400, and it knocks down 15 mpg @ 75 mph .

[Lightfoot]

This is just wrong....

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by wheelspin

Hi Greg,
My driving experience may not mirror yours since the GP's motor is mildly modified with 240 cfm heads, 224* @ .050 sp ft cam that provides around .550 lift with 1:65 Comp roller lifters, Doug's headers & a 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust system, and a Cliff's Q-jet carb on the RA 4 ported stock iron intake. It moves out strongly from any speed and it chirps the 225 Cooper Trendsetters on both up shifts @ full throttle. When I race it, I have to soft pedal it out of the hole until the narrow tires get traction and then lay into it. Where it shines is in the grand touring mode where it has plenty of torque to flatten the Rockies when we take our cross country trips. I had dual quads on it for a few years which gave me two more mph in the quarter mile, but lowered the mpg.

I raced my 3960# 66 GTO with 3:08 final gearing down to 12.6 in the quarter mile, but it does have a 700R4 trans with the 3:06 low gear. I think that Pontiacs' significant torque advantage allows using tall rear end gears for improved mpg and still delivering impressive performance.

My 4100# 72 Trans Am clone has 2:73 rear gears, a 500hp 462 engine, T-400, and it knocks down 15 mpg @ 75 mph .

Thanks for the info Les. My car is not purely stock either. Setup is fairly close to your's except I'm using flat tappet cam with 1.5 rockers....pushrod guides are elongated for future upgrades if wanted. I'm also using stock iron #16 heads and intake. Looking forward to finally driving it some distance beyond the end of the driveway, hopefully this summer sometime.
Impressive numbers on the '66 with that gearing!