Two Great Kills

GrandDragon · February 11, 2004

Heres a coupla fun "extra legal" activities me and one of my buddies took part in.

#1 My friend has a 68 Nova SS with a 350 bored out, Headers, Full Cam, 4.56 gears in a Positrac rear end,and a powerglide 3 speed with slap shift. It runs low 14s in the 1/4. Anyway he drove this car when we were seniors in high school. So one day we're leaving school when this douche bag in a pastel purple prelude pulls up next to us at a light. we don't pay him much attention, but then he starts revin up his car and his muffler is letting out these gigantic farts and he has his neon and system going like he's a badass or something. So I look at my friend and tell him to smoke the guy. The light hits green and we take off and get the Novas front end about 5" off the ground. I hear the fart bomb trying to catch us but we beat him by at least 3 car lengths.

#2 Same friend decided to garage the nova and get a truck for a daily driver. Well being the speed freak he is he gets a 93 454 SS. One night we're out trying to pick up ladies in the thing and a guy in a Dodge R/T asks if we want to run, so we tell him hell yeah since we were kinda bored. We get to a light and line up. The moron in the dodge starts doing a burn out at the redlight. when the light hits green my friend stomped the pedal and we left the dude spinning his tires at the red light. He didn't catch up to us untill the next red light. He said we cheated and he wanted to go again so we ran again and beat him by about a 2 truck lengths. Some people just have to learn the hard way I guess

SnakeEyeSS · February 12, 2004

yes, some do have to learn the hard way

TROYROBO · February 12, 2004

canadianchevy33 · February 20, 2004

I kinda figure all powerglides to be 2 speeds. So either you just got mixed up and really hes running a TH350 or TH400 or a 2 speed powerglide. Also why would a person bother with 4.56 rear end gears to only run 14's?

GrandDragon · February 20, 2004

I included reverse on the powerglide, it only has to forward then one reverse so it was a "3" speed. Anyway I was mixed up the 454 would run 14s the Nova ranj low 13s high 12s depending on fuel and tires.

Lance Link · February 22, 2004

So the Nova pulls a 5" wheelie and then goes on to run low 13s and beats a Prelude by 3 car lenghts?

GrandDragon · February 23, 2004

yeah the prelude was stock, and he never did the wheelie thing when actually drag racing on a strip, he would just rev it up then trow it in gear and it would get a wheelie but it did beat that prelude by 2 or 3 car lengths, but sadly about a month after that he blew up the motor, it had a slow oil leak and he forgot to add oil to it for like 2 weeks and one night he was racing this guy and the thing just locked up, so He got a new crate 350, threw a rod in it, got another one, ed the block some how, then he garaged the car and got the 454 truck, but he has since sold it because of cop harrasment where he lives and has a Formula Firebird with a 6 speed

Lance Link · February 29, 2004

So he revved it up and threw his 2 speed Powerglide into gear and pulled a 5" wheelie, eh? Can't imagine why the cops would harass him.

Messenjah26 · March 3, 2004

wonder if it was a full on wheelie launch, or just what you can do with a four wheeler by reving it up and throwing it into gear. And what a moron if you want cops to leave you alone get something not so noticable!

BLK6.0HD · March 20, 2004

On the motor my nova runs 11.70 and wont pull the front off the ground. On the bottle it runs low 10,s at 130 with a 1.3 60 ft and only pulls the front end off about 5-8''.