.real nice...bitta TULL also. I notice you run 2 different hatches..which do you think is better.??? 
Bored, so I made a video ;)
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Thanks guys, coolest thing is I bolt the prostars with DOT QTPs rears and 8 ply sportsman fronts on, bolt the passenger seat in and I was driving around for 3 hours today in 85 degree weather with the t-tops off. Used up almost a full tank of gas but this car is fun to drive around town so its hard to put it away 
I'm getting bored though so maybe for sale or get parted out soon..
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4L80E might help Ive got a 1995 S10 355 carbed / th350 stall 4.10 I can watch the needle fall from stoplight to stoplight 
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great vids man.. .real nice...bitta TULL also. I notice you run 2 different hatches..which do you think is better.???
That car is wayyy too nice and complete to part out....someone needs to buy it and enjoy all the effort that was put into it. I've seen it up close....pics don't do it justice....super nice ride!
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Unfotunately Tom its worth more in pieces 
I would probably keep the motor and do a tube chassied early nova with the procharger and powerglide. I think it would make a fun and reliable 8 second bracket car..
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Hard to even say Kyle, I wont get what I want so I may as well use it this summer and see what happens. I may just do the cage, BS3, lighten the car up a bunch over the summer and see if I can get it in the 8s in the fall. If the cage ever shows up
1/2 the vids were a crummy Cannon 8mm camera I got from amex rewards and the last one was shot with a newer panasonic digital - way nicer then the analog.. Used windows movie maker 2 to capture and make the video - low buck as you can get
1/2 the vids were a crummy Cannon 8mm camera I got from amex rewards and the last one was shot with a newer panasonic digital - way nicer then the analog.. Used windows movie maker 2 to capture and make the video - low buck as you can get
Car looks good, looks like its been running pretty nicely this year too. I would keep the car and just make some changes at the end of the year, that car and you seem to make a good combo, like a good luck car. 
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Car looks good, looks like its been running pretty nicely this year too. I would keep the car and just make some changes at the end of the year, that car and you seem to make a good combo, like a good luck car.
Its a choice between a fairly useless street/strip car and and a fully useless race only car - dont know if its worth half a click of a second hand on a clock to me anymore
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Hard to even say Kyle, I wont get what I want so I may as well use it this summer and see what happens. I may just do the cage, BS3, lighten the car up a bunch over the summer and see if I can get it in the 8s in the fall. If the cage ever shows up
1/2 the vids were a crummy Cannon 8mm camera I got from amex rewards and the last one was shot with a newer panasonic digital - way nicer then the analog.. Used windows movie maker 2 to capture and make the video - low buck as you can get
1/2 the vids were a crummy Cannon 8mm camera I got from amex rewards and the last one was shot with a newer panasonic digital - way nicer then the analog.. Used windows movie maker 2 to capture and make the video - low buck as you can get
i hear ya..... id never get $30K+ for this thing either......
We both have the same goal..... 8's.... sooner or later i want to be there....
Maybe after the move to VA ill have the time to hit up the track.
As of right now its looking pretty slim
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i hear ya..... id never get $30K+ for this thing either......
We both have the same goal..... 8's.... sooner or later i want to be there....
Maybe after the move to VA ill have the time to hit up the track.
As of right now its looking pretty slim
Kyle
We both have the same goal..... 8's.... sooner or later i want to be there....
Maybe after the move to VA ill have the time to hit up the track.
As of right now its looking pretty slim
Kyle
My goal isnt 8s really, my goal is to get the car to run the best it can with the parts that are on there. Whatever it runs it runs, I have had a couple 8 second cars but none of them drove around as nice as this one or were even capable of being driven on the street at all. For me putting a 10pt cage in the car makes it unstreeatable so thats where my line is drawn. 15 years ago I would have just gutted this thing, put the bigger pulley on and been in the 8s with no roll bar at all. But for now I'll just keep it low 10s with the occasional 9 second blast to get thrown out of the track
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Unfotunately Tom its worth more in pieces I would probably keep the motor and do a tube chassied early nova with the procharger and powerglide. I think it would make a fun and reliable 8 second bracket car..
I would probably keep the motor and do a tube chassied early nova with the procharger and powerglide. I think it would make a fun and reliable 8 second bracket car..Like this?
If I had the money, I'd either put a big single, or a Twin 67 LSx setup in this car, with a 4l80e behind it and drive the car everyday
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I'd sell mine for 20 but no would pay that, last year with the old motor I would have sold it for 15 at the end of the year and I maybe could have got that.
My goal isnt 8s really, my goal is to get the car to run the best it can with the parts that are on there. Whatever it runs it runs, I have had a couple 8 second cars but none of them drove around as nice as this one or were even capable of being driven on the street at all. For me putting a 10pt cage in the car makes it unstreeatable so thats where my line is drawn. 15 years ago I would have just gutted this thing, put the bigger pulley on and been in the 8s with no roll bar at all. But for now I'll just keep it low 10s with the occasional 9 second blast to get thrown out of the track
My goal isnt 8s really, my goal is to get the car to run the best it can with the parts that are on there. Whatever it runs it runs, I have had a couple 8 second cars but none of them drove around as nice as this one or were even capable of being driven on the street at all. For me putting a 10pt cage in the car makes it unstreeatable so thats where my line is drawn. 15 years ago I would have just gutted this thing, put the bigger pulley on and been in the 8s with no roll bar at all. But for now I'll just keep it low 10s with the occasional 9 second blast to get thrown out of the track
The right buyer should pay $20k for your car. Couldn't build one that nice or fast for $20k........that's actually a good price.
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The right buyer should pay $20k for your car. Couldn't build one that nice or fast for $20k........that's actually a good price.