History making LS1
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History making LS1 Another great reason for LS1 owners everywhere to be proud. Al Corda just made the first ever 9 sec. pass in Stock Eliminator at a national event with his 2002 Firebird. The car went 9.974 @ 132 MPH in the first round of qualifying at the Winternationals at Pomona in the new fuel injected class - A/FIA. This is the fastest actual run ever recorded by a stock eliminator car of any kind.
Congratulations Al
<small>[ February 06, 2003, 06:41 PM: Message edited by: HTMtrSprt ]</small>
Congratulations Al
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Re: History making LS1 Please fill us stupid people in. What does the stock eliminator class consist of? 9.9@132 is great, but there are people here who've smashed that. I'm guessing that class is very limiting maybe?
<small>[ February 06, 2003, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: camaro_ls1 ]</small>
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Re: History making LS1 Als car has a stock bottom end. The only change is rod bolts and replaced the pistons with legal stock units. The car has a Holley Commander engine management unit on it. He has been faster in testing but he finally got the record. He and his car is the primary reason NHRA made all the new classes just for fuel injected cars.
Re: History making LS1 Stock "lift" cam <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Either way...awesome <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
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Re: History making LS1 He runs stock. His car can fit from A/efi to F/efi which is the electronic versions of A/s to F/s
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Re: History making LS1 </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Reckless:
<strong> Stock "lift" cam <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Either way...awesome <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">and a **** LOAD of duration <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" />
<strong> Stock "lift" cam <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Either way...awesome <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">and a **** LOAD of duration <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" />
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Re: History making LS1 That's awesome! The LS1 certainly is an incredible powerplant.
Now, please don't shoot me, however, this was not the first 9 second pass in Stock Eliminator. In April of 2001, Robert Pond went 9.90 @ 135.77 in an A/S 67 Fairlane. I believe he made the first 9 second pass some time earlier than that, but I cannot confirm, so I'll only pass along that which I can verify: http://www.nhra.com/stats/stk_record.html
Now, please don't shoot me, however, this was not the first 9 second pass in Stock Eliminator. In April of 2001, Robert Pond went 9.90 @ 135.77 in an A/S 67 Fairlane. I believe he made the first 9 second pass some time earlier than that, but I cannot confirm, so I'll only pass along that which I can verify: http://www.nhra.com/stats/stk_record.html
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Re: History making LS1 </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by PhatT/A:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Reckless:
<strong> Stock "lift" cam <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Either way...awesome <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">and a **** LOAD of duration <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, no..... you can't notch the pistons for valve clearance so you have to keep the duration somewhat conservative.
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Reckless:
<strong> Stock "lift" cam <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> Either way...awesome <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">and a **** LOAD of duration <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Actually, no..... you can't notch the pistons for valve clearance so you have to keep the duration somewhat conservative.
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Re: History making LS1 That's awesome! The LS1 certainly is an incredible powerplant.
Now, please don't shoot me, however, this was not the first 9 second pass in Stock Eliminator. In April of 2001, Robert Pond went 9.90 @ 135.77 in an A/S 67 Fairlane. I believe he made the first 9 second pass some time earlier than that, but I cannot confirm, so I'll only pass along that which I can verify.
Also, on the same day, Joe Aluise went 9.93 133.69 in a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere.
Source: http://www.nhra.com/stats/stk_record.html
Again, not trying to take anything away from such an awesome feat...certainly a 9.9x in S/Eliminator with a SMALL BLOCK is extraordinary.
<small>[ February 06, 2003, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: Bob Cosby ]</small>
Now, please don't shoot me, however, this was not the first 9 second pass in Stock Eliminator. In April of 2001, Robert Pond went 9.90 @ 135.77 in an A/S 67 Fairlane. I believe he made the first 9 second pass some time earlier than that, but I cannot confirm, so I'll only pass along that which I can verify.
Also, on the same day, Joe Aluise went 9.93 133.69 in a 1963 Plymouth Belvedere.
Source: http://www.nhra.com/stats/stk_record.html
Again, not trying to take anything away from such an awesome feat...certainly a 9.9x in S/Eliminator with a SMALL BLOCK is extraordinary.
<small>[ February 06, 2003, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: Bob Cosby ]</small>
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Re: History making LS1 Both of those records were altitude corrected numbers from Boise, Idaho. They never actually ran 9's... closer to 10.20's. To my knowledge, the only other car to actually record a 9 sec. pass was Bobby DeArmond's 427 Camaro which went 9.99 about a year and a half ago at a divisional event.
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Re: History making LS1 Oops. I sit corrected. I don't care much for "corrected records", and never realized those were. My mistake, and thanks for the clarifying. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Re: History making LS1 Those are fantastic numbers, but I think we can all agree that the heads aren't exactly stock on most stock eliminator cars. Sure, they look stock. They have the right CC's but lets be real that they get worked by Wilson or Brezenski or one of the "undercover" porting places...
Fantastic numbers though...
Fantastic numbers though...
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Re: History making LS1 </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by J-Rod:
<strong> Those are fantastic numbers, but I think we can all agree that the heads aren't exactly stock on most stock eliminator cars. Sure, they look stock. They have the right CC's but lets be real that they get worked by Wilson or Brezenski or one of the "undercover" porting places... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can get as many to agree as you like, but his heads have not been 'messed with'.... at least not yet. Since the combination started out with a soft hp factor, there has not been a need to go there yet. That may change in the future (2-5 yrs.) but right now, it just isn't necessary.
* disclaimer * - that's not to say that some others aren't messing with their heads. But for Al's motor, they are definitely untouched.
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<strong> Those are fantastic numbers, but I think we can all agree that the heads aren't exactly stock on most stock eliminator cars. Sure, they look stock. They have the right CC's but lets be real that they get worked by Wilson or Brezenski or one of the "undercover" porting places... </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can get as many to agree as you like, but his heads have not been 'messed with'.... at least not yet. Since the combination started out with a soft hp factor, there has not been a need to go there yet. That may change in the future (2-5 yrs.) but right now, it just isn't necessary.
* disclaimer * - that's not to say that some others aren't messing with their heads. But for Al's motor, they are definitely untouched.
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