How do I make my 454 chevy look fast even though its slow

[Shaft]

This thread is hilarious.

I can't wait to find out where most of you learned so much about motors.

[SGTKennedy]

they learned it from the elves?

[obsolete898]

My dad's a motor head from back in the day. He had a mustang mach 1 with the cobra jet drag pack. He also had a plymouth GTX 440 w/ a 6pac. Plus my sister's been seeing here boyfriend since I was in 9th grade, and he drag racers up at the NE dragway. All that kinda just got me into cars, so I started working on them and talking about them. I just need more money and time to actually get down on a full resto.

[ronron2112]

err... you can put about 12 foglights on it.. and you could put fake "v-tec" stickers on it.. oh yea.. and I almost forgot the Type R stickers!


this is purely joke..

[Zumina]

Yah, same story Obso. Pops had a 74' DeLorean GTO. Limited production to say the least....6 were built; all pushed 480+hp out of the proverbial "box" [Pontiac 400 cui V8]. He had to sell it when gas prices went from $0.58 a gallon, to a staggering $0.88+.

[Hemlock86]

http://listings.ebay.com/aw/plistings/list/category16045/index.html

[Shaft]

480hp 400 from '74....

Not to mention this being in a GTO... (in 74).

How? What'd they do?

I'd expect that from a built 455.

[Shaft]

Originally posted by Zumina
Yah, same story Obso. Pops had a 74' DeLorean GTO. Limited production to say the least....6 were built; all pushed 480+hp out of the proverbial "box" [Pontiac 400 cui V8].

The consensus is either your dad was confused or he was driving a special dealer tuner. None the less, there seems to be no known dealer tuner working on 74 Goats. No 400 was available in '74. And a couple of folks - myself included - thought DeLorean was at Chevy by then.

Bummer. A 480hp 400 for the street would be something worth looking into. Specially since armchair dynoing my 400 is predicted to only be about 350hp. I used 6X-4 heads, which flow nicely but compression will be low.

Apparently these rare special GTO rumors are quite common. But the cars are not. Unicorn Goats.

I've been documenting my rebuild process on the POS T/A at www.acidrick.com/POS/POS.html
The pictures of the fresh painted motor against the rusted hull of the Bird are sort of surreal.

Is good! Drink Malort.

[Zumina]

They existed, just in small numbers. Almost all of them were crashed or allowed to rust into the ground. I don't know what DeLorean's performance angle was; something to do with expiremental heads, 12:1 comp, and a few other goodies. I'm talk to me dad and get back to you; perhaps scan a few pics of it as well...if you don't mind looking at a my much-younger-than-now mom modeling i

[Shaft]

Yeah, I'd like to see pics.
It doesn't fit. DeLorean was five years out of Pontiac. The GTO was no longer a real GTO and was only available with a 350.
It was right at the beginning of smogger motors.

They used a 400 instead of a 455.

HP numbers were no longer quoted as gross - thus HP numbers dropped for this reason as well as being the heyday of the smogger motor.

Royal Bobcat wasn't producing tuners and the owner sold the dealership that year.

I'm stymied. The Pontiac list is stymied.

You sure it wasn't older?