So this happened about 12 years ago, but it's one of my favorite street stories ever. Always brings a smile to my face when I remember it. At the time my 72 Skylark with the 350 was running 14.50's at the track. It had a manifold cam and headers. The converter was stock with a 3.36 posi (out of a 67 GS). I had recently installed a 150 HP nitrous kit on the car. Had not had it out to the track yet, but was looking to find someone to test it on. So me and two of my friends (all sitting in the front on the factory bench seat) head out and run into this guy in his mustang (early 1990's). It sounded like it had some flowmasters on it, and we all know that a mustang with flowmasters can beat anything :3gears: (just kidding). So I realize that we looked pretty silly all three of us sitting in the front seat of a 1972 Buick Skylark. So I'm sure this guy is thinking he is going to have some fun with us. Which is ironic because we were thinking the same thing about him. So we get to a red light on a nice stretch of road and I give this guy a short rev of the engine, he revs back with a smirk on his face,and we are ready to go. The light turns green and we both accelerate. I was always told that you should not use nitrous below 3000 RPM because of increased chances of backfire (really bad with nitrous). So I'm doing everything that I can to keep my thumb off of the button untill the engine reaches 3000 RPM (this is not easy in a street race). Up to this point the race has been fairly even, the mustang was about a 1/2 a car length in front of me (his front bumper was 1/2 the lenght of a car in front of my front bumper). So it was pretty close. Well the tach hits 3000 RPM, time for the fun. I hit the button, the tires break loose (street tires), I go by this guy in the mustang sideways blowing the tires off of the rims. After I'm about 4 car lenghts in front of this guy, he gives up (pretty smart for a mustang guy). At the next light we all have a nice chuckle at the guy with the mustang. He just sits at the light with his jaw in his lap tring to figure out what in wide wide world of sports just happened. Anyway, those were the good old days.
Haha, I'm curious--How'd that go? I only ask because I just yanked a 350/TH350 that ran 12.50's on the bottle with a 3.36 gear for a BBB on the same bottle... Motor's not in yet, of course :laugh: Good Kill BTW... reminds me of a good story to start a new thread by :TU:
I put a 71 455 short block, 67 heads also with a 3.36 gear out of a 67 GS. The car went 12.05 on the motor and 11.01 with 150 shot of nitrous. I was getting 1.48 60' times and 118 MPH in the quarter. I was shifting at 5400 RPM and going through the traps at 5500. It was alot of fun.
