Gave 2 kids in a 3rd gen a history lesson in the big black buick
07-03-2006, 02:03 AM
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Gave 2 kids in a 3rd gen a history lesson in the big black buick After finally getting the GN running right (had to upgrade fuel pump then TPS took a dump) i headed to Pumpers and filled up with some 110 to clean her out a little. 
So im cruising around after a couple stops to adjust the boost level and all of a sudden i hear a healthy sounding motor and a good hard tire bark....then coming up behind me i see a late 3rd gen camaro with daytona hood,nice clean car. After a couple redlights i realize the kid driving was doing his best to chirp the tires everytime he got next to another car so i slow a little and wait for him to get beside me...neither of the kids are even looking at my car and as we leave from a light he takes off pretty good like he has all along so i slowly press down on the gas just enough to make it really squall them on the 1-2 shift. At this point i have all of their attention when the passenger yells at me if my Monte Carlo has a 350 
so i tell him its a Buick and its just a V6 and he says they have a 350 so i figured id have a little fun with them. He tellsme its a new motor and they were out looking for some fun so i tell him ill run him and try to keep up with my 6 banger so he's like ok. We're rolling along about 25 and im in 2nd and slowly press down on brakes and gas to build a little boost...as the turbo spools and gets noticable i start getting some strange looks...then the guy launches so i floored it, i immidiately made up the 1/2 car he jumped me then by the time i hit 17psi i had abut 2 cars on him...middle of 3rd they were about 6 back. They hollered for me to pull over and i had to let them count the plug wires for them to believe it was a V6. Cool kids just couldnt believe they didnt know what a GN was.....they should teach this stuff in school. 
So im cruising around after a couple stops to adjust the boost level and all of a sudden i hear a healthy sounding motor and a good hard tire bark....then coming up behind me i see a late 3rd gen camaro with daytona hood,nice clean car. After a couple redlights i realize the kid driving was doing his best to chirp the tires everytime he got next to another car so i slow a little and wait for him to get beside me...neither of the kids are even looking at my car and as we leave from a light he takes off pretty good like he has all along so i slowly press down on the gas just enough to make it really squall them on the 1-2 shift. At this point i have all of their attention when the passenger yells at me if my Monte Carlo has a 350 so i tell him its a Buick and its just a V6 and he says they have a 350 so i figured id have a little fun with them. He tellsme its a new motor and they were out looking for some fun so i tell him ill run him and try to keep up with my 6 banger so he's like ok. We're rolling along about 25 and im in 2nd and slowly press down on brakes and gas to build a little boost...as the turbo spools and gets noticable i start getting some strange looks...then the guy launches so i floored it, i immidiately made up the 1/2 car he jumped me then by the time i hit 17psi i had abut 2 cars on him...middle of 3rd they were about 6 back. They hollered for me to pull over and i had to let them count the plug wires for them to believe it was a V6. Cool kids just couldnt believe they didnt know what a GN was.....they should teach this stuff in school. 
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07-03-2006, 04:46 AM
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I learned of a Grand National before I even heard of f-bodys. Thats all the old man talked about, GNs and Vettes, GNs and vettes... Some just dont know about the turbo-powered american sedans of yesteryear 
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07-03-2006, 05:57 AM
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After finally getting the GN running right (had to upgrade fuel pump then TPS took a dump) i headed to Pumpers and filled up with some 110 to clean her out a little. So im cruising around after a couple stops to adjust the boost level and all of a sudden i hear a healthy sounding motor and a good hard tire bark....then coming up behind me i see a late 3rd gen camaro with daytona hood,nice clean car. After a couple redlights i realize the kid driving was doing his best to chirp the tires everytime he got next to another car so i slow a little and wait for him to get beside me...neither of the kids are even looking at my car and as we leave from a light he takes off pretty good like he has all along so i slowly press down on the gas just enough to make it really squall them on the 1-2 shift. At this point i have all of their attention when the passenger yells at me if my Monte Carlo has a 350 so i tell him its a Buick and its just a V6 and he says they have a 350 so i figured id have a little fun with them. He tellsme its a new motor and they were out looking for some fun so i tell him ill run him and try to keep up with my 6 banger so he's like ok. We're rolling along about 25 and im in 2nd and slowly press down on brakes and gas to build a little boost...as the turbo spools and gets noticable i start getting some strange looks...then the guy launches so i floored it, i immidiately made up the 1/2 car he jumped me then by the time i hit 17psi i had abut 2 cars on him...middle of 3rd they were about 6 back. They hollered for me to pull over and i had to let them count the plug wires for them to believe it was a V6. Cool kids just couldnt believe they didnt know what a GN was.....they should teach this stuff in school.
So im cruising around after a couple stops to adjust the boost level and all of a sudden i hear a healthy sounding motor and a good hard tire bark....then coming up behind me i see a late 3rd gen camaro with daytona hood,nice clean car. After a couple redlights i realize the kid driving was doing his best to chirp the tires everytime he got next to another car so i slow a little and wait for him to get beside me...neither of the kids are even looking at my car and as we leave from a light he takes off pretty good like he has all along so i slowly press down on the gas just enough to make it really squall them on the 1-2 shift. At this point i have all of their attention when the passenger yells at me if my Monte Carlo has a 350 so i tell him its a Buick and its just a V6 and he says they have a 350 so i figured id have a little fun with them. He tellsme its a new motor and they were out looking for some fun so i tell him ill run him and try to keep up with my 6 banger so he's like ok. We're rolling along about 25 and im in 2nd and slowly press down on brakes and gas to build a little boost...as the turbo spools and gets noticable i start getting some strange looks...then the guy launches so i floored it, i immidiately made up the 1/2 car he jumped me then by the time i hit 17psi i had abut 2 cars on him...middle of 3rd they were about 6 back. They hollered for me to pull over and i had to let them count the plug wires for them to believe it was a V6. Cool kids just couldnt believe they didnt know what a GN was.....they should teach this stuff in school. I'm curious about the new motor...Did you ever find out what was under it?
07-03-2006, 06:12 AM
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Yeah, it was an old school 350 with performer intake,holley carb, they said it had an Xtreme energy cam. Said it was just built but i dont know anymore about it than that. The car was very clean inside and out...was originally an LT but they had a T-5 in it.
07-03-2006, 08:24 AM
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those cars were definitely ahead of their time. i know a guy that had a grey t-type that had stock bottom end but everything else was,uh, not.he had 30 psi and left the line on 15 but could never hook,even on 29.5 x 10.5.i think it weighed 3850 with him and ran 6.90s at 104 with a 1.6X 60'.one time we ran an experiment with me driving it since he weighed 150-200 more than me.hosed down the intercooler with a full 10 lb nitrous bottle and i hit the starting line=results were me almost s#%#$in my pants after spinning past the 60' and on the top end the driver side window popping out of place at the end of the 1/4.it finally blew but i think it was because injectors went static.
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They may have been cool kids, but, even if they could not tell by the sounds, when they peered under the hood they were busy counting plug wires/coil packs instead of noticing that big ol' hairdryer sitting right in front of them??! 
Either they were blind or just completely missed a whole era of performance!! Oh well, at least they were cool enough to be in domestic muscle instead of some rice-a-roni P.O.S. 
BTW; nice eye-opening, educational (for them) kill! We all know about Turbo Bufords, someday I'll own a built one.
Either they were blind or just completely missed a whole era of performance!! Oh well, at least they were cool enough to be in domestic muscle instead of some rice-a-roni P.O.S. BTW; nice eye-opening, educational (for them) kill! We all know about Turbo Bufords, someday I'll own a built one.
07-03-2006, 02:12 PM
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Great kill story!! There's alot of guys in my part of PA, that have no clue of the power of the DARKSIDE. i should keep some kind of scrapbook, to write down all the times my 86 T-type was called a Monte.
Keep up with the education.
Keep up with the education.
07-03-2006, 03:05 PM
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ah ha ha ah that was awsome good job. I remember when I was 16 back in '96 someone in my town had a GN and I thought it was just a POS with a 3.8v6. I learned the hard way too.
07-03-2006, 04:25 PM
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my bro taught me about GN's and ive always respected them for being bad rides that can beat most cars when modified.
i remeber him showing me a vid of two racing a viper and have the viper get raped
i remeber him showing me a vid of two racing a viper and have the viper get raped
