A friend of mine has a 75 firebird, we've been wanting to race each other forever. We've raced on the highway before but that was when i had a 2.8L v6 and he had a smogged out pontiac 350.

I have:
2750lbs
85 5.0HO-maybe 250hp at the crank
bored .30
stock cam
Edelbrock Torker 289 intake
Edelbrock 600 carb
long tube headers
85 T-5
3.55 gears
13" wheels (when we race i'm going to use a set of foxbody ten holes with some bigger tires)

he has:
est. 3900lbs
Pontiac 400 (out of an old lemans, supposed to be putting out 350 at the crank)
all stock except long tubes and a Q-jet
2.73 gears

who would win in the 1/4mile? i can get anymore information if it's needed.

 

13" wheels??? You sure you don't mean 15"? Anyway, what year 400? Later years no way it's 350hp but even if it is, I'd say you've got him plenty covered, also I'd lay odds you're putting out more than 250 to the crank, I'd say closer to 275.

Run him and have fun!

 

You should beat him. He has too much weight and crappy gearing.

 

DEAR GOD YES



i ****ing LOVE 2 old musclecars racing each other


you both win

 

Yep 13" wheels, they're stock and it sucks cause they only make like 3 tire sizes for it anymore, my favorite size, the 205/70/r13 got discontinued.[:@]now i have 185/70/r13. It really sucks, but sometimes it's fun[sm=gears.gif].I'm not sure what year400 it is but i justknow it's out of anold LeMans.also,another friendhas a 90's firebird,and she likes to race a little bit. what chances do i have against her?

 

i forgot this before but both the 75 and the 95(?) firebird are both automatic

 

lets just say that the 75 350 was making 192hp, according to my Monte Carlo owners manual, and was barely more for the shtbird. I say you win, he has **** gears and will have problems grabbing.
if the 95 shtbird is a v6, dont waste your time.

 

its kinda sad that in those days an engine of that size put out as much as a 4 banger now [:'(]

the nice thing is they are soooooooooooo modable

 

The 75 has a 60's 400 in it. and the 95 is a v8. She's played before on the highway but i had a car in front of me so couldn't really play back too long.

 

Well if his motor is out of a lemans.. they only put those in the early 70's models from what I can find and they were only putting out roughly 270hp at the motor.With long-tubes and a quadrajunkthere is no wayhe's packing 350 at the motor,so you can rest easy about that. More or less, you'll smoke him since you're a lot lighter and you have a lot better gearing.

As for the firebird...if its a V6don't even worry about it. If it by some chance has a 350 under the hood and is modded you might want to worry, if it's bone stock don't waste your gas because it's gunna be toast.