Low temp thermostat

[David Cooley]

At 10:53 AM 10/27/1999 -0500, you wrote:



>Oh Dave, I wouldn't be so sure... remember, he said an lt5, that's the zr1
>motor.  Those puppies put 405hp out (actually, 396 at the rear wheels) in 
>their
>last (95) incarnation.  There's a yellow zr1 called the Pineapple Express in
>hawaii, which Mario Andretti drove for a publicity shoot a couple of weeks 
>ago...
>the car can do over 200mph, it has a stroker lt5 motor (415cid), and is 
>rated at
>close to 700hp, all naturally aspirated and completely street 
>legal.  Those are
>awesome motors, it pains me that whenever GM finally does a motor right 
>they cut
>production.  The motors were designed by lotus and built by Arizona Speed and
>Marine.

In stock form, The Buick GN/GNX ate their lunch... Conley's performance 
plus sells license plate frames that say "ZR-What?".  A mildly massaged 
(Chip and few minor external bolt ons) pushed the GN to 400 HP... 12.0's 
are VERY common with a chip, K&N cone filter, exhaust and some sticky 
tires...  Get into porting heads/intake, headers, larger turbo etc and on 
the *stock* shortblock thay would make 550-600 HP with no problems.  Dump 
in a Stage II 4.1L motor and go extreme with turbo's, hand made intake 
manifolds etc and 1000 HP is a fairly attainable goal.  Lawrence Conley was 
dyno'd in Tweaked back in the early 90's at 1200 HP (Pegged Kenney 
Duttweillers Dyno) with a 4.1, M&A heads, sheet metal intake and *single* 
mitsubishi turbo running 117 octane VP fuel.  Tweaked weighed in right at 
3200 LBS and ran a best of 7.84 at 178 MPH in the 1/4 mile.  I helped build 
the car when they first got it and were working out the bugs... Pretty 
awesome machine!

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