from '91:
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From: North Salt Lake
Car: '86 Camaro, '94 Camaro, 3 others
Engine: LG4 ->L29, L32->LR4, L36, LG4, L31
Transmission: 700R-4, T5WC, 4L80E, SM465, 4L60E
Axle/Gears: 3.42, 3.23, WTB/WTT 2.93
from '91:
https://thirdgenfbody.wordpress.com/...r-driver-1991/
https://thirdgenfbody.wordpress.com/...december-1991/
There's a lot more there, but I figure 2 similar examples might help.
Anyone have anything on the red '88 that became Chevy's Angry Poodle, then HRM got it, then Gale Banks got it, I want to see the lit & pix from before HRM got it.
There was a red '91-'92 Z28 that got a 502 or 509. Had black louvers on the back window. Wanting to see that lit / pix also.
Can't find the original C&D feature on the Big Doggie 'vette, nor the feature of the then-new ZR1, red, with the matching Baja 223 Bandit sport boat, on matching red trailer with ZR1 wheels & tires on the trailer. The 223 had an LT5 in it. Anyone have this?
And if anyone has any of that, then how about the white square-body 2WD S-10 on '91-'92 Z28 wheels, red interior, and TBI 454 looking assembly-line installed by Cal Nicholson of Apple Chevrolet, in New York, as I recall?
TGO's own magazine articles library is missing another old one, a blue IROC, IIRC, given high praise against imports.
https://thirdgenfbody.wordpress.com/...december-1991/
There's a lot more there, but I figure 2 similar examples might help.
Anyone have anything on the red '88 that became Chevy's Angry Poodle, then HRM got it, then Gale Banks got it, I want to see the lit & pix from before HRM got it.
There was a red '91-'92 Z28 that got a 502 or 509. Had black louvers on the back window. Wanting to see that lit / pix also.
Can't find the original C&D feature on the Big Doggie 'vette, nor the feature of the then-new ZR1, red, with the matching Baja 223 Bandit sport boat, on matching red trailer with ZR1 wheels & tires on the trailer. The 223 had an LT5 in it. Anyone have this?
And if anyone has any of that, then how about the white square-body 2WD S-10 on '91-'92 Z28 wheels, red interior, and TBI 454 looking assembly-line installed by Cal Nicholson of Apple Chevrolet, in New York, as I recall?
TGO's own magazine articles library is missing another old one, a blue IROC, IIRC, given high praise against imports.
Last edited by cosmick; May 16, 2015 at 06:17 PM.
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From: Il
Car: 1989-92 FORMULA350 305 92 Hawkclone
Engine: 4++,350 & 305 CIs
Transmission: 700R4 4800 vig 18th700R4 t56 ZF6 T5
Axle/Gears: 3.70 9"ford alum chunk,dana44,9bolt
Re: from '91:
I have a car from California that has that exact same flowmaster exhaust on it up to the dual cats but has edlebrock headers & Y pipe.
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Car: 1987 IROC Original Owner
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Transmission: M39 MM5
Axle/Gears: G80 G92 J65
Re: from '91:
Great stuff cosmick!
Back in the late 80's there was a 454 LS-6 powered IROC out at the Mesa AZ proving grounds. At the time I knew a guy who worked out there who I would speak with often, (he had a 68 RA Firebird) & he said it was a real handful when you got on it. He tried to buy it when they were done beating on it unfortunately it was dismantled and crushed.
Back in the late 80's there was a 454 LS-6 powered IROC out at the Mesa AZ proving grounds. At the time I knew a guy who worked out there who I would speak with often, (he had a 68 RA Firebird) & he said it was a real handful when you got on it. He tried to buy it when they were done beating on it unfortunately it was dismantled and crushed.
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From: North Salt Lake
Car: '86 Camaro, '94 Camaro, 3 others
Engine: LG4 ->L29, L32->LR4, L36, LG4, L31
Transmission: 700R-4, T5WC, 4L80E, SM465, 4L60E
Axle/Gears: 3.42, 3.23, WTB/WTT 2.93
Re: from '91:
The thanks goes to Paul Huryk, whom I greatly dislike, but who created something worth linking to. There's much more there, but not the ones I'm hoping someone else has.
I remember the hoopla about the last of the crase LS6s and LS5s, then the new Gen V marine 454 filling the gap.
The red '88 I'm referencing was a hardtop with silver ground effects, the '85-'87-style IROC-Z wheels, and a 700R-4. When HRM had it, it has a chrome 14" open air cleaner, and the '91 aluminum valve covers with the red 454 stickers, not the production 454 truck valve covers which were similar but lacking a place for the stickers. It's been so long that I can't even recall now if the 454SS sport model got the stickers & covers or not.
I remember the hoopla about the last of the crase LS6s and LS5s, then the new Gen V marine 454 filling the gap.
The red '88 I'm referencing was a hardtop with silver ground effects, the '85-'87-style IROC-Z wheels, and a 700R-4. When HRM had it, it has a chrome 14" open air cleaner, and the '91 aluminum valve covers with the red 454 stickers, not the production 454 truck valve covers which were similar but lacking a place for the stickers. It's been so long that I can't even recall now if the 454SS sport model got the stickers & covers or not.
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From: Doghouse ······································ Car: 1989 Formula 350 Vert Engine: 350 L98 Transmission: 700R4 Axle/Gears: B&W 3.27
Car: 87 Formula T-Top, 87 Formula HT
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Axle/Gears: Sag 3.73, B&W 3.45
Re: from '91:
I stumbled upon the article on taking an 87 LG4 from 16.x 1/4 mile time to 14.85 seconds... And that was basically changing the intake, air cleaner and the exhaust... I converted from an LG4 to TPI and accomplished the same thing, but I added a cam, and rear axle ratio is now 3.73... I am wondering if I would have been better off sticking with the LG4 now...
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