Buick stuff
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The guy I used to stay with in Indiana moved form building and tuning Turbo Regals, to modifying FWD 3800 supercharged Buick Regal GS's and Pontiac Grand Prix GTP's. We used to head over to the dragstrip in Muncie, Indiana to test and tune there because Kokomo's local track (Bunker Hill) is only an eigth mile strip. We used to travel over there with a US Navy guy who brackert raced his mid 15 second Mazda MX-6, and who, every single time we went with him, won, and left with the $200. He was amazingly consistent in the Mazda, whereas, we were all over the place in the GS as Tom used to reprogram the PCM after every run, trying different combos. These photos were taken after we went out Muncie to work out why, at the GS Nats in Columbus, I lost the final in the fwd class when the car lost boost because the wastegate opened. The wastegate on the supercharger's is a failsafe device, and the only reason Tom could work out why it had opened was if the torque sensing in the gearbox detects over 1000ft-lbs of torque !! I doubt it somehow, but we did win $750 for runner-up. Annoying because at high 12s, we had by far the fastest fwd car at the event. That's racing.
I used to go to Kokomo a lot (three or four times a year) to visit and work on cars, but that was when I had money. I nearly took a job with Delphi in Kokomo back in 2000, but now pretty glad I didn't.
They had three big shows in Kokomo, one in the park, another right in the town centre when they shut off town centre streets, and the third at the Johanning centre where there is a car museum and it has Haynes Number One, the first American car ever, buit in Kokomo.
Always got a good selection of cars as Kokomo is/was a big GM town, and still is a big Daimler-Chrysler town.
They had three big shows in Kokomo, one in the park, another right in the town centre when they shut off town centre streets, and the third at the Johanning centre where there is a car museum and it has Haynes Number One, the first American car ever, buit in Kokomo.
Always got a good selection of cars as Kokomo is/was a big GM town, and still is a big Daimler-Chrysler town.