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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by simpsonfan13
how do yo know the cobra was blown?
just curious.
didnt some GTA;s come with the GN's turbo sixer?
I don't know for sure if it was sc, my bad there. It had dealer plates on it. Layer on today I saw it parked at an auto repair shop that is a 3 minute walk from my house. I may walk up there to check it out.

It was an anniversary model Trans Am that had the Buick tv V6.
Old Aug 18, 2010 | 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 98LS1
Was only wondering because I thought those cars trapped around 100mph stock. Maybe that's the manuals.
They should trap right around what a stock 3v traps.

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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by simpsonfan13
how do yo know the cobra was blown?
just curious.
didnt some GTA;s come with the GN's turbo sixer?
you're thinking of the TTA. 1550 produced, almost all were pace cars. they were detuned to 250bhp because GM knew that they would haul off and rape the Vette like it was nothing at the power levels they ran in the GN.
Old Aug 18, 2010 | 10:53 PM
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Here's a little thing on the 20th Anniversary Trans Ams with the Buick GN motor, with acceleration numbers. I'd love to have one of those.
http://www.gtasourcepage.com/8920thTACDReview.html
Old Aug 18, 2010 | 11:33 PM
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Here's some various Trans Am GTA times, I guess there was a TTA GTA with the turbo V6. The GTA I went up against tody certainly wasn't one of those.
http://www.gtasourcepage.com/perfdata.html

I do have some negative news to report though. I just made an egg sandwich. I buttered two pieces of bread on both sides, cut the middles out, and put the slices of bread into the frying pan on the stove. Then I cracked 2 eggs and dropped them into the holes in the bread. As I did this, I grilled a big boneless chicken breast. After all the cooking was done, I made a big-*** sandwich out of all those components. Oh man, it was good, but too hot to handle. So I went back to the kitchen to get a fork and knife.

This is the horrible part, those that are feint of heart may want to stop reading........................................... .................................................. ...................................I came back with the fork and knife, and I was shocked to see my sandwich (on a paper plate) was on the floor and my ****tard dog Rusty ate ALL of the chicken and just about everything else in just a few seconds...............the horror....................I can't go on...................
Old Aug 19, 2010 | 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by bluebeastsrt
Those are extremely rare birds right there.
They were only made for one year in '89 and were the 20th Anny Turbo Trans Am not a GTA. Faster than the 'Vette and damn near anything on the road at the time.

*SORRY* didn't notice this info was already posted. My bad...

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Old Aug 19, 2010 | 05:23 AM
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Old Aug 19, 2010 | 05:51 AM
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Yeah I can remember a buddy of mine raced one in his 90 Iroc Z. Lets just say in that race V6-1, V8-0. Like someone said it's a reason why GM tuned those cars down (would have killed corvette sales). They were most def vette killers and sad to say mustang killers back in the day...
Old Aug 19, 2010 | 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Soldier GT
Yeah I can remember a buddy of mine raced one in his 90 Iroc Z. Lets just say in that race V6-1, V8-0. Like someone said it's a reason why GM tuned those cars down (would have killed corvette sales). They were most def vette killers and sad to say mustang killers back in the day...
up until the 4v New Edge's came out they were still stang killers
Old Aug 21, 2010 | 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Soldier GT
Yeah I can remember a buddy of mine raced one in his 90 Iroc Z. Lets just say in that race V6-1, V8-0. Like someone said it's a reason why GM tuned those cars down (would have killed corvette sales). They were most def vette killers and sad to say mustang killers back in the day...
The absolute biggest problem with the L98 based Camaros is the gearing. 2.77's in the IROC just don't cut it. That and the insanely short first gear, followed by the insanely long second gear in the 700R4. My mom has a bone stock 89 Iroc and it's a tire smoking demon out of 1st, but second completely drops off.



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