pictures

pictures

turbo 70 gto

These are pics from the original build back in 2001. I am now working on making it better and it's great to be back working on my Poncho.

Original 400 4-speed 355 N 10-bolt car. Code 76 Daytona yellow, black deluxe interior, manual steering & power brakes. I bought this car in Shelton Washington in 1987 ($1500). The first thing I did to the car back then was removal of the chevy 283 engine that was installed. I stripped the paint, and hand finished the bodywork before spraying it with DuPont Centari acrylic enamel. I drove this car on the street with #64 heads (232/238 HFT cam) on a 455/462 Muncie transmission and 410 gears until 2003, when the racing bug bit me. I swapped the Muncie for a Larry Maxwell T-400 and ran low twelves off the trailer. After running the street engine for about a year I built a new 455 with self ported #62 heads, Comp Cams XE284H cam and a 3400 converter. This race engine (TX1) ran eleven teens @ 120. It only lasted about eighty passes because I installed an inadequate oil pump drive shaft with the 80 lb pump. It twisted the shaft and ate a piston & cracked the block. I used the same crank, pistons & rods in a different 455 block, replacing the damaged piston and suspect Rod. I stepped up to a solid lifter 262/268 Crower cam as well. I raced this new engine (TX2) for seven years, upgrading to E-heads along the way, making over a thousand passes. Current engine is a 455/468 (TX3) It has run 1.38 6.32 @ 108 at Northeast Dragway (5/23/2015 9th pass) and 1.38 6.32 @ 108 at VMP (11/14/2015 61st pass) both @ 3400. After taking about 50lbs of weight from the car in the 2015/2016 offseason I could tell it was running quicker through the year (2016), but didn't get to make passes in good air until November 2016 at Richmond Dragway. My new best pass is a 9.86 @ 136 MPH.

Pictures from the fall of 2014