I drive a Blazer and as we all know, our daily drivers get more races than our thirdgens.
So I'm on the entrance ramp to merge onto I-95 N from Philly to get back to NJ. A little while back I was behind a black '86 (outside 3rd brake light) 2.8 MPFI Camaro but he was behind me now. So as I'm looking left to see if I can merge onto the highway the Camaro pulls to the right of me to pass me. I'm going 30 mph and see that the merge lane is quickly ending so I throw the shifter into 1st and punch it. The nose jumps up and I quickly pull on the Camaro. Once I'm in front at about 50 mph I merge onto the highway and he pulls all the way back from behind me to two lanes on my left. So at this point I was just coasting but I hear his engine revving up and I punch it again from about 55mph. It was pretty late at night so there was no one in between us or directly in front of us (otherwise I would have let him go). So we proceed to hit about 95 mph and I let off about 2 cars ahead. I guess I just wanted to see how the 4.3L would do. What do stock 2.8L sport coupes run in the 1/4? I'm pretty sure if we went from a stop I would have done even better since the Blazer is like a brick at high speeds. He of course did a fly-by but it was fun. I guess the 4.3 had enough power to overcome the weight factor.

~Matt

 

good ol 95 in philly


i think they are like high 17 18 sec car

 

I seen one run a 19.8 here

 

I've seen a convertible GT Fox body run a 19.00 flat a few times in a row before.

 

I think if I ran that in my Stang v8, not once but a few time's. I'd not be racing it at all till i got it into the shop to make sure what ever was wrong wasnt gunna cause any more serious damage. That just embarising

 

I'm sure it was an auto, and it was in Colorado, so by rights, it should have been at least an 18.00 flat at sea level.

 

I always seem to forget about the altidudes. Still sounds really really bad though, eh

 

must have lost a cyl. even a auto v8 stang conv. should still roll off a 16 1/4s at sea level

 

Yeah an AOD V8 fox body is a 15 sec car...a conv. should be high 15 or so...but like the thirdgen f-body,foxbodys are getting pretty "ragged out" too..so performance is falling over the years.

Some of the those blazers run decent for their size/weight...a 4000lb vehicle blowing by you will give quite a reality check

 

i only seen one stock Lx stang before. rest of those fox bodies are modded and that worries me.

 

The 2.8L doesn't pull past 2nd gear (or 3000 rpm, lol). I'm not surprised he got left.

 

Haha. Send that Mustang my way Stu so I can claim I beat it. There must be something really wrong with it. My friend from high school had a 92 RS 305 TBI that ran an 18 flat, but he found out later that he was only running on 7 cylinders. Sounds like that Mustang may have only been on 6.

~Matt

 

To think I just perchased a 95 Blazer with the 4.3 vortech.

 

Nice! You won't regret it. How much and what color/type/etc?

~Matt

 

I've got the 4.3 vortec in my '01 blazer. It's rated at 190hp.

 

thats when you stick your fingers in the middle of some aftermarket calipers and push the brake pedal... right?

 

My 96' Olds Bravada w/ 4.3 will kick the crap out of my 90' 3.1 firebird, and the Olds has twice as many miles and a hell of a lot heavier. Those 4.3s are nice. I wonder how it would hold up to a Honda Pilot, they have like 225hp.

 

thanks alot man now my side is hurting...LMAO

 

Hahaha. I've never heard of that before. I know of it because whenever we pull up to someone to race, my friend yells it out my window at the other driver. Like that one time against a C5 vette haha. He was like, "Yea ok... I got 8!" Lets just say I lost hahahaha.

~Matt