[ta man]

My combo is similar to Cliffs,very docile car,I tell most people its like driving a stock 301 powered 80 Trans Am,just stay light on the throttle,never runs hot,idles at 850 to 900 rpms,pretty decent on gas.When I go to the dragstrip there are usually many louder,rowdy street cars...Think I've been beat three times in the last four years by a street car,my buddy Andy's 78 Trans Am,a 600hp twin turbo s65 Benz,and a supercharged Mustang....the loud cars get left at the line and I never see them..
Cliff you got me beat to the 1/8th by quite a bit...heres my best time with a bit of slippage at the line...note the mph at the 1/8th!My time is on the right..not bad for a 3900lb car with 3.08 gearing!

[i82much]

Originally Posted by ta man

My combo is similar to Cliffs,very docile car,I tell most people its like driving a stock 301 powered 80 Trans Am,just stay light on the throttle,never runs hot,idles at 850 to 900 rpms,pretty decent on gas.When I go to the dragstrip there are usually many louder,rowdy street cars...Think I've been beat three times in the last four years by a street car,my buddy Andy's 78 Trans Am,a 600hp twin turbo s65 Benz,and a supercharged Mustang....the loud cars get left at the line and I never see them..
Cliff you got me beat to the 1/8th by quite a bit...heres my best time with a bit of slippage at the line...note the mph at the 1/8th!My time is on the right..not bad for a 3900lb car with 3.08 gearing!

ok bud, with a slip like that let's have a link to your build thread!

[ta man]

Originally Posted by i82much

ok bud, with a slip like that let's have a link to your build thread!

Its around...check out the new best with 3.08 gearing thread..think its there.

[Steve C.]

Mine drives fine on the street in traffic. But the idle is rowdy, I enjoy it that way and I purposly keep the idle speed at about 900 rpm. I have manual brakes with larger Wilwood Disc rotors front and rear so vacumm is not an issue. It never acts like it runs hot in traffic with the aluminium radiator. It gets crappy 10-11 mpg at a steady state highway speed even with the overdrive transmission with 600+ hp. But the big thing to point out and possibly one of the best bangs for the buck dollar wise is similar to Cliff....as he states, " Since I have a good converter, not some "loose as a goose" generic POS, you'd never even know it's in there till you head to the track and find good traction." The answer is a Continental Torque Converter in my opinion. I had one for my previous TH400 set up and Cliff helped me with the Continental converter selection now in my 200-4R transmission. Both were custom based on the torque curve off the dyno results and flash as necessary for good acceleration performance, about 3400 rpm or so, yet remain well coupled out on the open highway. My current non lock up converter has only about a 200 rpm slip at a steady state 60-70 mph highway cruise speed. Transmission fluid temp is fine with the trans cooler installed.

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[i82much]

Originally Posted by ta man

Its around...check out the new best with 3.08 gearing thread..think its there.

Nice ride. I was really curious what intake and cam you were running. I have a Torker II and am considering trying an RPM intake and/or widening my lobe sep to a 112 or 114. Also considering a hydraulic roller or staying with a solid roller.

My car absolutely screams once it gets some RPM, but it is a little doggy just off-idle. I have a stick and you can kind of feel it want to pull the engine down when you pull out in traffic. Swapping from an open to a four hole spacer on the T2 helped but not as much as I'd like.

[ta man]

Originally Posted by i82much

Nice ride. I was really curious what intake and cam you were running. I have a Torker II and am considering trying an RPM intake and/or widening my lobe sep to a 112 or 114. Also considering a hydraulic roller or staying with a solid roller.

My car absolutely screams once it gets some RPM, but it is a little doggy just off-idle. I have a stick and you can kind of feel it want to pull the engine down when you pull out in traffic. Swapping from an open to a four hole spacer on the T2 helped but not as much as I'd like.

I'm actually doing an intake swap from a untouched Torker 2 to a portmatched Performer Rpm...results will be coming.I've ran the Torker 2 for a few years,last year added a Wilson four hole tapered spacer.It picked up a half a tenth or so versus an open spacer.A normal four hole spacer was the slowest.It will be interesting how the Rpm performs overall..may take a bit to figure out what spacer it likes.I also opening up the Torker 2 intake then reinstalling and running it against the rpm on the same day.

Oh and its great seeing Dave Bisschop posting.....Dave ,Marcel and my wife are the reason why my car runs like it does!A set of surprise heads under the Christmas tree does wonders for performance!