Same scoop. No difference. The emblem on the side is made up probably because he has TA Stage 3 heads on it.
stg2 car Jim- thanks for the nice comments. yes, original script is going back on. Reynold- yes these heads sre in bad shape...the port work is nice but they need a lot of welding in the combustion area. seats are all bad, talked to Greg Gessler and said the best way would be to weld in new seats and recut. Mike at ta also said Indy did a head for him that needed the whole bottom surface built up with weld and remachined...said no one would ever have known it was done. i would say Indy would be the place. also all the guides need to be replaced. like i said these are in tuff shape. Thanks, Guy
Hey, that's a very neat car you have. It's one of the biggest parts of buick history and always will be. You know if you take that stage II car to a car show and enter you will probably win tropghys with it. You have one of my favorite cars. Nice car.:3gears: thanks
Re: air cleaner Guy, If you want some more pics posted, send them to the address in my signature and I'll post them for you....:TU:
I'm not the greatest, not by any stretch... I'm just suffering from an addiction! I think it's great that you'll be able to keep us posted on this RARE piece of Buick history via the board...keep the pics and progress going!! :TU: Here's a shot of the frame before it was detailed....
Anytime Guy I like the way the you are setting this car up. I love that color of white too. I can't wait till the restoration is over to see what it looks like. by the way, are you going to put street tires on or keep the slicks on? Just curious. Very nice car. thanks, Cody.
Hey, what kind of factory installed performance options was thereo No: I am interested in what kind of performance options that the stage II came with. Thanks
Cody- the only time this car had street tires on in was when it was delivered to Reynolds....so drag tires the rest of it's life! Reynolds- good choice of beer (my favorite) live only two & half hours away from Miller brewing:beer
That thing will be a speed demon when you get done:3gears: :3gears: I think buick should have put more production numbers out:grin: That would have been nice, but that's what makes the stage 2 what it is today. Rare and unnormally super-fast--------which is why the stage 2 is a favorite:TU: :3gears: Nice car. thanks
Old Race Car Nice car, great story, needs to be published in the GSCA or BPG, if not both!!!!! I'm glad you are restoring it......with slicks!!!! I think I remeber seeing this car at the 92/93 GSCA Nationals. It was painted all white and under a tent next to anothern stage 2 car that was red. Back when I was young they were just stories about these so called Stage2 cars but made more sense seeing the cars in person. I'll have to look for old pics from that GSCA nationals. Anyway, does this car have the the standard GS "non-waffle" interior with the single dome light in the roof headliner? This interrior came with most manual 4-spd bench GS cars. This was a nice car back then in 92/93, if i remember right, they ran it and it pulled like 10.4s...... Lon
interior Lon- Thanks! yep standard interior, bench seat but this was/is an auto car. and no options, radio delete. this was a very early production model which makes sense...they wanted these cars to get to the racers and at the race tracks. and yes that was the year Dave had the car at the nats. and that was Tom Rix's red GS. Dave told me the best run was a 10.28 so 10.40's sound about right. Thanks, Guy
Stage2 Scoop and pan I still have the 1970 Stage2 GS that was purchased from Doug Jones and Dave Benisek in 1991. From what I've been told there were only 2 or 3 Factory hood scoops ever built by Buick. I was told by Dave that the one on my car came off the white GSX that was destroyed in a testing "accident" in Arizona. When we did a frame off restoration back in 1993 and removed the paint from the hood it was white under the edges where it had been painted over! J&B had left the GSX stripes on the car and also put the GSX hand fabricated emblem in the grill. They later gave the emblem to Brad Conley for his prototype. The hood was a 1970 Skylark with the BUICK letters on the front nose and a GS hood trim piece. The hood scoop was metal and had Stage2 decals on it. (When we restored the car we masked off these decals so they are still original although somewhat faded. These were used as the design of the repro Stage2 metal emblems.) Under the hood is an round black aluminum piece with spacers that mounts to the hood to seal off the bottom side of the hood flush to the carb airpan. The hood scoop was attached to the hood with 8 short metal screws from the underside. The hole in the hood matches the 5 sided cutout in the underneath of the hood, no bigger or smaller. It was also finished with a smooth lip. All underhood bracing is still intact.The car pan was a W30 or regular GS bottom that had the holes for the 2 snorkels nicely closed off. On top of it was a round flat pan (pressed fit) that mated perfectly to the round piece under the hood. Foam was necessary to fully enclose the system. I'll try to post some pics of the setup. Fortunately I can tune a car, but I sure can't figure out my new camera. Tom Rix
Thanks for replying, Tom!! I've been intrigued and have admired these two cars for a very long time now!:jd: It would be awesome to see some pics of your car Tom, especially the Factory Stage 2 Ram Air!:shock: If you need any help with the camera or the posting of pics, just ask!
