I was out driving around last night because the weather has been nice and the car is freshly waxed. I'm cruising Ritchie Hwy - a local strip 3 lanes wide, straight and level with lots of late night racing. I came up upon a coworker in his 77 or 78 Trans Am. Its got a 400, and its an auto. He just recently added a Holley 750 on top of an Edelbrock Performer manifold, Crane Energizer cam with .480" lift and 228* @ .050 single pattern on a 112 LSA . It's also got a custom 2.5" dual exhaust with Flows. Stock unknown gears and converter.

I started pacing him about 50MPH when he looks over and realizes who it is. I look over, and he jumps me. I nail it and caught up within a second and left him. At least 5 cars by 90. I slow and he catches up and we go again from around 50. But this time I yell over "On three!". He nods and on my 3rd honk we both hit it at the same time and again, no contest, at least 5 lengths by 90. We just pace each other for another few miles and catch a light. I stall it up and watch the other light. Light goes green and unlike with my Nitto DR which I DID NOT have on, my Kuhmos just spun all through 1st, meanwhile he gains about a car length on me. I chirp into second and whoosh! I get the lead back by about 1 car. Into 3rd and I'm steadily gaining, he lets off about 3 cars back, but I stay in it. I took it up to about 120 and he was WAAYY back. He eventually caught back up and another couple of miles down the road we caught antoher light. This time I was NOT going to lose off the line. I did not stall it, and took off about 1/2 throttle and nailed it around 15MPH. I got a little wheelhop but had him by 2 lengths when I hit 2nd. Halfway through second I let off ahead by 3 cars or so. Realizing I had went way past my turn, I gave a quick thumbs up and made a U-turn.

I saw him first thing this morning and the first words out of his mouth were "What do you run in the quarter?"

awesome, i am going to race you and beat you !! lol just kidding you would tear me up... great win..

what color is that trans am? is it white by any chance..

nice going...
i raced one of those... 79 t/a
back when i had only exhaust and my 2.8...
i lost... it was fun tho...

i got dibbs on Marc first..... if i can ever get him to go down to Cecil that is

Yes it is. With blue lettering. It sits really low in back and REAL high in front

tpivette89 - I'll be there this spring, I guarantee you that. Whether its as it is now or after the heads/cam swap, I don't know. It should be obvious when I run it though! In the meantime I'll see if I can tape a TPI Vette getting humbled by the Z :

o man i have him on tape also i better add that video, we didnt race even though he most likely would killed me..

When did you record him. He just finished the cam/intake/carb swap less than a week ago. I KNOW he has been out cruising all weekend.

friday night i am making the video now and put it on my yahoo thing

what heads are on your car?
cam?
power adder?
sounds like a couple of nice cars

Heads, World Products S/R 76cc - just a stock replacement head made by WP that Jasper uses on 350 due to cost effectiveness. Barely better than a stock smogger head.

Cam, unknown. It's a Class 1 engine, so it's supposed to have a slightly hotter cam, but judging by the sound, powerband, and from what little I could get from the Jasper engineers, its around .420" lift and 210* duration.

No power adder - none needed or wanted. Just a ton of midrange

Dude, your car looks incredible. That color combination with those rims looks outstanding

good kill, he needs a bigger cam in that 400 and get rid of those smogger heads and it would be a better race.

Thank you. It would look even better if I had a digital camera. I'm currently using some cheapie and scanning them in, and then reducing the resolution via Photoshop. It works, but picture quality suffers Since the picture, the windows have been tinted 20% and the car has been lowered 1".

25THRSS - the cam is too big now! He's is still running stock converter and gears. It sounds REAL nice though, much better than mine.

My brother has a 77 Trans Am SE and it has 2.56 rear gears from the factory so if this guy has the same it is no wonder you won. I dont think his cam should be to big for a 400, although I would have used a split pattern cam. If he gets some gears and a torq converter it should really liven his car up.

Ben

Yeah, the late 70's T/A's had awful gears. Didn't some even have 2.41's?? My '79 TA has 3.42's, which I love!

According to his RPOs he's got 3.08 gears, but he's never actually inspected the gears or counted rotations.

Good run. Modded second gens are cool as hell. I would know. I wish I could find races like that, no one wants to race me. Oh well, good kill in any case.

nice kill im looking for someone two race i raced one person before he had a 81z28 all stock just like mine i had my 81 z28 it has a edelbrock performaner maniflod and headers two and a half in" exhaust and flexfan and a 650cfm holley and a th350 tranny that died on me today and a 3.23:1 gears we raced from one ligth to the other ligth thats 4 blocks away i had him beat by waybe 3cars and i had it half way to the floor and he was fat and in his 50s waybe thats why i won and sorry about the spelling
aarons loved but long gone 83 berlinetta
and aarons fast 81z28 with t tops