Just because I have to be different

[fweasel]

Crap, damn kids and their nagging. The build schedule has taken a hit with this new hobby.

Those things are fast. What catches them at the other end of the track?

[kfxguy]

Crap, damn kids and their nagging. The build schedule has taken a hit with this new hobby.

Those things are fast. What catches them at the other end of the track?

Lol

They have sticky glue after the finish line then they have cushions in case it don’t stop. And they have a break in the braid (that’s what sends power to the car) and then the brain past the finish line, both braids are tied together to ground out the motor. That caused a braking effect. Does not work on my Brushless. Because of they I had to get the owner to lay some more glue. I got it stopping now but I have bigger tires coming (bigger tires, more drag in the glue plus better traction).

It only takes a couple hours to build one of those things. I don’t think it’ll interfere much with my boat building. Besides, because my 18 year old is really interested in this, I was able to teach him a new skill, how to solder (you silver solder the chassis together). He’s been hanging out with me in the shop lately and built his first chassis the other night and just finished the car on his own today. Turned out very nice. Plus bonding time spent together is priceless.

[fweasel]

Plus bonding time spent together is priceless.

No doubt.

Can you post a picture of the bottom with the electrical pick-ups? Curious how that works.

[Rumpelhardt]

Real drag strips use a sort of "tire glue" so that's actually pretty accurate. Track prep at an full size drag strip is quite a job If done well.

[kfxguy]

No doubt.

Can you post a picture of the bottom with the electrical pick-ups? Curious how that works.

[kfxguy]

Real drag strips use a sort of "tire glue" so that's actually pretty accurate. Track prep at an full size drag strip is quite a job If done well.

Yea.....there’s different thickness too. Right now I’m using the least tacky. I’m gonna try some more tacky soon. I came up here to the track tonight and everyone heard I had a Brushless car, in the intermission they wanted to see it run. I’m from of a crowd of people I pulled off my fastest pass ever, being faster than most of their dragsters. It wentba .565 which my best last night was a .610. They were all pretty impressed.

[srislash]

That model GTO is the only GM built car I've seriously considered buying in the last 35 years. I'd still buy one if the right opportunity came along.

And dang, I just had one of these at a light beside me and it had a 6.0liter badge on it!!! WTH??? That is a 355/360ci motor in one of these little cars? Man now I want one.

[kfxguy]

Check this quick video on mine. I ported the heads, put a cam, intake, tune, drag radials, bout the trans and put a yank stall in it. It runs better than this now. It’s does not hook up. Lol

[fweasel]

And dang, I just had one of these at a light beside me and it had a 6.0liter badge on it!!! WTH??? That is a 355/360ci motor in one of these little cars? Man now I want one.

even better, LS2 in a 4-door with kid car seats in the back! But, it all depends on where you're at in life's timeline I suppose. I do enjoy lots of displacement in my daily driver though.

[kfxguy]

even better, LS2 in a 4-door with kid car seats in the back! But, it all depends on where you're at in life's timeline I suppose. I do enjoy lots of displacement in my daily driver though.

Well I haven’t been much of a fan of the g8 and the price on those are a little higher than my gto was. I didn’t want a note and I got this car for $8700 cash and it was clean and 84k miles. I would have paid $14k+ for a clean comparable g8. Next mod is a turbo.

[Rumpelhardt]

I've owned two GTOs. A 1970 Judge and a 69. I lost interest in Pontiac's when GM started putting small block Chevy's in them instead of real Pontiac engines. I really despise the original small block Chevy with a passion usually reserved for child molesters and animal abusers. When the LS engines started showing up in Pontiac's I was interested again. G.M. discontinued the only brands they had worth owning. Too bad.

[fweasel]

Well I haven’t been much of a fan of the g8 and the price on those are a little higher than my gto was.

Those cars always had an inflated price tag because of the limited supply. I was actually eluding to my old gen1 CTS-V. One of my best sleeper daily drivers.



All this talk of GM... the GTO was a Holden, which is why it didn't totally suck.

[kfxguy]

Those cars always had an inflated price tag because of the limited supply. I was actually eluding to my old gen1 CTS-V. One of my best sleeper daily drivers.



All this talk of GM... the GTO was a Holden, which is why it didn't totally suck.

Yea this car rides like a higher end car and does not rattle.

[Beaux]

Cool car Travis, I feel the same way about small block chevy's Rumpelhardt. Mopar or no car!!

[kfxguy]

Cool car Travis, I feel the same way about small block chevy's Rumpelhardt. Mopar or no car!!

I can’t say that I agree but I’m the odd man out. In my black 92 camaro pictures above, I had a sbc in it that made 447rwhp and 479rwtq. I prefer an ls3 but the tq made from those old school motors is much greater. I built the motor myself and ported the heads and intake. Plus I tuned the haltech ecm that was in it. That was about 20 years ago (Dang I’m getting old and starting to sound like an old man lol). My ls1 in my gto probably makes close to the same hp but not near the tq. I’m not gonna lie, if I knew then what I know now, that engine probably would have made over 500rwhp.