Redballboy

Hey anyone live near poughkeepsie new york??

2.8 '85Bird Boy

i live in poughkeepsie

1987gt

i lived in poughkeepsie all my life just moved up to Cairo about a hour away but i still drive my GTA down their all the time my name is rick.

Redballboy

Hey rick im Viper3885's friend remember when we were going to meet up and race to see if ur car was running what it was supposed to be back in march??

1987gt

yes viper i remember whats goin on how you doin? i didnt remember your screenname and i lost your number i wish we could have raced.anyway i havent driven my car in 3 weeks i lost my only ignition key im so pissed right now i miss my ride.hows your car doin did you ever do any of the mods i was tellin you about on the TBI?

viper3885

hey rick, redballboy is my friend. i never did the tbi mods. i ended up selling my camaro and getting a 4th gen trans am. check it out i just decided that i wanted to get something that came fast out of the box. how's the t/a running, we should still meet up sometime, a couple of my friends including redballboy got thirdgen's and i'd like to see how a 350 tpi stacks up against my modded t/a

1987gt

no **** you went and baught a 4th gen T/A i will guess it is a 350? i dont think my car can mess with that thing but im gonna get my engine done this winter you better watch out then lol.yeah we will have to get together in the spring i lost my only key and its a vats key its been 3 weeks since i drove my car im so pissed cant figure out what to do dont have 225.00 bucs yet thats what the locksmith otherwise my car is running great.

viper3885

yea... not being able to drive your car really sucks. i gotta start saving up money for incase something happens to the car, i got a flat a couple weeks ago but luckily my parents lended me the money for new tires which i needed anyways (burnouts are fun ) hopefully we can all meet up sometime and shoot the sh*t

1987gt

yeah we'll have to get together sometime maybe you can let me drive that transam lol. 1995 has the LT1 ? yeah it does suck not being able to drive my car. ask around to see if anyone has a 1989 ignition cylinder with vats.

viper3885

yea 93-97 has the lt1 engine in it, and i got lucky cuz 95 was the first year that 3.42's were standard with the t-56. i've got a nice kill record going for me right now

1987gt

yes i bet you do lol i like your car and fourth gens but im sticking with my good old GTA. im gonna hook my engine up this winter did you ever see that article in chevy high performance whare they put the 355 in an iroc with 9:8:1 copm and G1 trickflow heads and they got 12.0 in the 1/4,330 rwhp and 396 rwtq.thats the engine im doing cant wait.thats sweet that you got the 3:42s and 6 speed awsome combo.whare did you get the car in wappingers? what a diffrence that must be from a throttle body 305 to that beast you have now lol wow.

viper3885

Yea i saw that article, that's a nice engine. I'm sure you won't be dissapointed. I bought my car from a salesman that worked at the nissan dealership, and I think that I got a pretty good deal on it. And hell yea this is a big jump going from a 16-17 second car to a mid 13 second car. As for looks, I liked 3rd gens better but the 4th gen look grew on me after awhile, so now i love 4th gen t/a's but i still love 3rd gens too.

1987gt

was his name rick or bret i know a couple of guys that work their i dont know if they are still their.but anyway your car looks very nice man i would have to say you are probably low 14s more like than 13s but that still kickin.

viper3885

No, his name was chris. I definitely know i'm in the mid to high 13's b/c I raced a mustang that ran a 14.1 and i blew my launch and he got 3 cars on me and as soon as i got traction i pulled even with him in 2nd, and when we ran from a 15 mph roll I pulled a few cars on him. That and I've raced a few other fast cars like a modded wrx and pulled on it. Plus come tax returns i'm getting nitto 555r drag radials

BTW: stock lt1's run high 13's/low 14's. I'm not stock . I have hooker headers, a hooker cat-back, underdrive pullies, slp level 1 suspension, a 160 degree thermostat, hurst short throw shifter, ram air intake, and a stage 2 clutch

1987gt

dude i dont want to burst your bubble but i was at the track like 4 times this year most modded mustangs cant even run 14.1 i saw maybe 4 out of 20 run those times and LT1s never ran low 13s unless they had alot of work done to them i even saw some LT1 corvettes and they only ran 14.7 most LT1 run mid to high 14s fromn what i have seen.its weird the times at the track are so different then they tell us in the mags.

1987gt

i did some investigating i guess you are right i didnt know they where that fast low to mid 14s stock yours must be high 13s thats awsome dude didnt mean to critisize your car man.

viper3885

lol it's alright, i'm just pretty damn sure that i'm in the 13's seeing how much i beat close to stock mustang's by. i pulled 2 cars on my friend's 95 gt by the beginning of 2nd gear and he's got a 5 speed.

1987gt

yeah the stock 95 gt only has like 210 hp my friend has a 95 convetable up here auto though and any stock mustang 86-93 those cars only run high 14s everyone tries to say that their stangs run high 13 low 14s stock let me tell you thats untrue i have owned 3 of them and they all ran low 15s high 14s and at the tracktheir was a guy their with a 92 lx gt40 intake,3:73 gears,headers,h-pipe,flowmasters,and many other mods and he was running 14.7 in the 1/4 so dont believe the hype hen it comes to those mustangs.

viper3885

...yea that just came and bit me in the ***... i burnt up most of my clutch last night b/c it didn't fully engage, so the clutch was spinning partially engaged at 5k rpms for a good 4 seconds or so. just my luck right

viper3885

oh well, i guess i'll go from a stage II clutch to a stage III... now all i have to do is find a place to get this done at.

1987gt

o man sorry to here that that sucks dont go to heavy duty on the clutch or it will be to stiff.

viper3885

well i was thinking about getting a spec stage 3 clutch, i've heard that those are good for street driven cars. do you know any places that will do this work for a decent price?

1987gt

take it to lee myles whare my friend scott works i dont know if they are cheap but i know they will do it right thats whats importent.

viper3885

alright thanks, i'll try going there on monday. btw where is it located? and will they install the clutch if i buy it seperately and bring it to them? or can they order the clutch i want?

1987gt

hey i just spoke with my friend scott and he said just bring it in they will install the clutch you bring in the location is as you are going north on rt.9 juat past 7-11 theirs a little left hand turn that brings you to a back RD paralel to rt.9 you can see lee myles from the road if you are goin south on 9 its the first right before 7-11 hope that helps good luck man tell me how you make out.

viper3885

do you know how much it's gonna cost to have them install it? thanks again for the help.

1987gt

sorry man i dont have a clue on the price inkow clutch jobs can run anywhare from 200-300 bucs generally.

viper3885

arlight well thanks, i'm gonna call there today to find out the price.

viper3885

wow i called today and they want like 430 just to install the clutch, i don't have that much money... i guess i'm just gonna go to al's auto and have them install the same high performance clutch that they installed last time. they only charged me 700 for parts and labor.

1987gt

wow they wanted that much even 700.00 sounds lik a lot i has my mustang clutch done for like 450.00 why so much? how much is your clutch? i can have scott do it at his house for like 200.00 email me.

1987gt

i just spoke with my friend scott he sadi he can do it at his house for 200.00 hes good he works at the tranny place and he just installed a supercharger in my firends stang if you want him to cut the flywheel its 40.00 bucs or you can have it done and bring it to him just get all the parts you need and he can do it.just call him and tell him you know rick .845-463-1649 scotts #

viper3885

the clutch i want is a spec stage 3, and it costs about $530 and it's in my house. thanks for your help rick, i really appreciate it, but i'm not sure what i'm going to be doing now. i might just go to al's auto and have the other high performance clutch done for $700, they want $500 for a stock replacement. but as of right now, i don't think i can wait to have a clutch shipped to my house. it's getting pretty bad. so i'll have to find out what's going on, but thanks a Sh*t load for the offer. that's really generous of you bro.

1987gt

ok dude no problem i allways like to help a trans am fan if you change your mind just email me and good luck and remind me never to buy a fourth gen with a 6 speed im not paying 700.00 for a clutch ouch later bro.

viper3885

lol yea, every place i called wants at least $400 just to install a clutch... al's want's $500 for a stock replacement, but i think that i'd rather pay the extra $200 for the high performance clutch. it grabs a hell of alot better than the stock clutch. thanks again though for your help.