I think you'll find the V8Buick.com site to be one of the best forums out there - of ANY make. The information sharing here is pretty much unparalled and the overall attitude is very welcoming!! Hope you stick around!:TU: Now you're talking!!! :TU: :bglasses:
Well hopefully I can get some answers there... I will make sure to stick around, you guys are the ones I need to talk to about everything else... interior, suspension, wanted parts...
Robbing a GN/T-Type of its drive train isn't that bad (imagine, a wreck?) I knew a guy that got run over (or close to it) by an Escalade in his 24,000 mile GN... There was no way he was gonna let the engine go down with the car! on another note, a while back one of the car mags had a "12's and 20" talking about et and mpg... one of the cars was a shoebox Nova with a Turbo Buick engine and a Ford transmission... Chevy people must've been turning over in their graves.
You haven't said what year or what sort of skylark you have yet. That would be interesting to know. The 200-4R runs great in the 87GN, bone stock that car is about 14 sec at 100mph. I also have a 200-4R hardened tranny from Jim Burek in my 72GS455 (+.030 & Stg 1 heads, etc.) with 3.73 gears. That makes it launch better at take off and also cruise at highway speeds. There's a lot you can do. Think it through and have fun. That's the main thing. A mild T6 with a 200-4R in a skylark road car will be reliable, fuel efficient and fast. You'd be the envy of many with that combo. Show cars like the pics are nice, but frankly I prefer to drive them around. That's the fun.
Mine is a 1969 Buick Skylark, not a GS or anything. I plan on driving it... a lot. Personally I cannot see putting a bunch of money into a car that you don't drive. I guess the hunt for a drivetrain commences... motor swap may have to be put on hold, the $4000 I am dropping into a paintjob should be plenty hard enough to handle.
what the hell is with car craft's sucky photos? i could've sworn that car was black. a couple months ago they have a fastback 'stang that was black in the far-away photos, but showed purple during engine closeups and such. the article called it blue.:moonu:
