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Old Jan 30, 2004 | 10:11 PM
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and how do you know this wasn't just a little v6 pr 305 HO model firebird? What told you, "hey, this is a 5.7L Trans Am"? I'm really wondering how you knew that.

" Its a GT mustang a early 90's model it sounds very nice, "

put an off-road h-pipe and some 2 chamber flows on a 5.0 stang and it sounds mean.. Doesn't mean it's fast though. Early '90's eh...? how do you know it wasn't a late '80's with speed density and not MAF? Just wondering where all the damn ricers come up with the years to the cars that they race.
You know, I was going to comment on how little bashing I saw on this board and i was impressed with that.

Then I saw the quoted comments above. Oh well, there are a few on every board, and on ever side of the fence.

As for your camaro race, the problem with 82-92 (3rd generation) F-bodies is that there are so many engine options for them! Inline-4(Yes! The 82 firebirds had 2.5L I4's!!!), v6's(in 2.8L and 3.1L flavors, and special 3.8L turbo charged flavor only in 1989!), then onto the v8's.

Now the v8's could fill a book entirely. There were 7 different v8 combos from 82-92. The ONLY ones to really be concerned with are the 1985 TPI 305's, 1986+ 305TPI M5's, and 1987 and up 350 TPI's.

TPI's are BEASTS off the line. I dyno'd 315lb/ft to the WHEELS at 3,250rpm!!! Thats like 390lb/ft at the crank! However, the HP was far short. Only 225hp at the wheels. Basically a low 14 second car. I'm doing heads/cam/upgraded TPI soon and the DD2000 simulations are showing 400hp and 490lb/ft at the crank. TPI is that strong. Switching to a tunnel ram made a huge difference in the simulation. Went from 400/490 to 440/470. Course its all simulations till I buy the parts and put them in my car. ^_^