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95bossf
my 94 use to run a best of 14.7 the car had its miles and rung out good from the previous owner bit it had simple mods. pulley, k/n filter, jet icm, flowmastermuffler, i put msd wires, msd coil, plugs and vortech elbow. car run a best of 14.7 ran it about 5 diffrent times 14.7 was the best on street tires.
put a new timing chain, push rods, a new a/c delco distributor, deleted the air pump, cut off all unessesary hoses, and the only real performance mods was the cam, edelbrock headers and ypipe running open ypipe and i ran the car last night first run a 14.9 at 100mph can you say traction issues. my wife asked me how many times i was gonna run it and i say till it gives me the times i want or till the engine blow. second run was a 13.80 at 103, so there still is tractions issue but there also was .9 second change the cam was the right match with the headers. still got the stock 2.73.
the problem i was having last night is since i was running open headers my low end torque wast all there. at idle its still got that lt1 off idle snap but you can feel the low end torque not there. but at 3200rpms the cam starts to scream. so with the low end torque not there feathereing it off the line was out of the question. going full throttle of the line would cause the tires to break loose as soon once the cams operation rpm range would hit. but last night i ws just seeing how the new cam and headers would respond. and i got rewarded with a .9 drop.
Doug
nice drop. Do you think deleting the air pump and cutting of all the hoses made a difference or not? I bet it is the cam and internal work.

There is probobly more in the car also.

Doug
95bossf
oh yeah the big drop was the combine of a new t-chain, cam, opti, and headers. all the other small stuff is just my prefrence cleans up the engine bay alot. 2 water hoses i got ride of were the tb bypass i just capped them off at the source. the heater core (since i dont have a heater) runs from the water pump to the heater and back to the hose where the bleeder valve is well i cut it of and ran it from the water pump just to the bleeder valve hose about 3 inches of hose. i dont know if it had an affect on the cooling but know the temp needle get to the second line if im stuck in trafic it struggles to get to about 200 and if i turn the fans on it drops right back down. the hose that goes from the air intake to the airpump, instead of caping off the intake i left the hose there and put a small breather filter there and ran it to inside the airbox just for shits and gigles. drilld some 2 inch hole on the filter air box. did a bunch of small stuff
95bossf
but i know the car still has more. on that best run of the night of 13.8 my sixty foot was 2.1 and the mph was 103 thats good for more of a 13.5 or .4 run
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