I bought the car 2 years ago from a Kid who worked at teh Cadilac Dealer that i worked at. He said it didnt get great gas milage and there was some others tuff. like the powers teering pump was blown, leaky t-tops etc. But it was almost the exact car that i had before but this one had T Tops and the wing that i wanted (i hate the aero wing cause they all crack and break the plastic tabs)
SO heres where the fun begins.
Car was Originally a 305 TPI- 5 speed car. with the Performance sound and the G80 option (3.45:1 ratio 9 bolt Limited Slip rear end). All the nifty power options except for Power Mirrors which was a nice thing to not have to worry about.
This is a few weeks after i bought it.
a few more weeks after that i brought it out to worcester to rip the 305 out of it to replace it with this.
My "Cursed" 355
Specs are as follows.
Block: 1974 2 bolt main from a Caprice Police car (nothin better then beatin modern cops with their own tech from 34 years ago). Bored .030 over.
Lower end: TRW forged Pistons with a .100 Dome to them, forged rods, Eagle crank. Clevite 77 bearings all throughout.
Valve train:Crane Cams 1.6 Full Roller rockers, Crane Cams standard Length 4130 Chromoly Pushrods,
Cam: Comp Cams Xtreme Energy XE284H Hyrdraulic Flat Tappet Cam
Duration advertised 284/296
Duration @ .050 lift 240/246
Lift with 1.5 Rockers .507/.510 (with the 1.6s its considrerably more but i dont rememeber the specific numbers off the top of my head right now)
LSA 110 degrees.
Intake and Carb: Weind X-celerator single plane intake and a rebuilt and rejetted Holley 650 Double pumper carb.
Other stuff: Gm performance parts Harmonic Balancer, standard Serpentine setup from the 88 car with the Air pump Deleted but the AC STILL INTACT. Some Ball Milled Aluminum Tall Valve covers, K&n 3x 12 air cleaner.
Suspension: Bilstein Shocks, Spohn Tubular Rear lower Control arms and Tubular Panhard Rod, Stock ws-6 springs. Energy suspension sway bar end links, stock ws-6 sway bars, 36mm front, 24 mm rear.
Wheels and tires. GTA wheels 16x8 black with polished lip. Fronts are Yokohama AVid v4 245 50 R16 Rears are Nitto 555R Drag Radials 245 50 R16.
Thats about it, Heres some more pics for ya to drool over.
Summer Nationals 06
Mines the one on the left
My car and what i think is Erics Caprice lol See it wasnt always beat on!
Summer nationals Meet up before we cruised to the park.
at a VW Meet up in NH
At the Camaro/Firebird show at the museum of Transportation in brookline.
Back from teh body shop after i got hit by some asshole in a Toyota Land cruiser.
Cape Run 05
well thats about it. It will be back ont he road thsi year after its year break.
