[Shotimes] Re: Fiero (was Cooling Issues???????)

[Timothy Wright]

Now we are going to have a fight, (j/k),

If you have enough displacement you don't need a turbo. The two valve covers
were not evn in the same county.

I know, I would not have to look far to find a big block hidden in your
garage, and you would never trade that for a 301 CID turbo in your Tin
Injun.

The thing I liked about the 400 HO was the low end,  With simple mods the
225/70 -15 tires could not manage the torque.  0-60 was a hoot. You had to
have the front tires dead straight when you opened the secondaries or the
rear end would break lose and come around. Thus the large % of T/A that died
upside down in neighbors yards.

With a weak top end it had the same ET's a as SHO, with a 700 # engine it
weighed 3800 wet and had better weight distribution 50/50 than a SHO.

If only the huge doors and windows did not shake, rattle and whistle. Boy
did that car ever attract police, even parked, stealth effect zero.  But
penile envy 100%.

I wish I had a clean original 455 SD.

Tim



> Back in 1989, at the Pontiac national convention, the top
> Pontiac historian was asked which Pontiacs of modern vintage
> (to that point of course) he would save for history/value/fun.
>
> He chose the Turbo Trans-Am, the one with the high HP Buick
> turbo, not the earlier POS.
>
>
> Don Mallinson