Back to $4 gas and our g-bodys. Great platform for an affordable performance car but after we build them up to go fast can we still afford to drive them? If not as a daily driver at least as a regular driver. I don't know about you but I don't plan to show anybody pictures of mine from my wallet. I plan to rumble up in it. I am not talking about a drag car or a concors type restoration show car neither of which will likely see a comma in their miles per year driven column. And no haveing some anemic setup trying squeese out more mileage won't cut it either. I'm talking a car that will leap off the line at a stoplight pass with authority or deny a pass if you choose to. While I have an older fwd 4 cylinder economy commuter that lowers my commuting and insurance costs I still plan to put say 6,000+ miles a year on my hotrods. Be it going to the track, the cruise in, car shows, to take my girl out to eat, whatever. I know affordable has a different definition to different people but lets define it for this as being able to put at least 6,000 miles a year for anything other than cheap hard core transportation.
Whats your idea plan build setup combination vision whatever. I used an overdrive transmissions in both cars, a lock up converter in both cars, fuel injection on one a Q-jet in the other, a reasonable cam in both cars, reasonable gears in both cars. I installed a methanol/water injection setup that kicks in at about 10 pounds of boost in my GN which enables me to drive around set on kill without race fuel or Xylene in the tank saveing me lots on fuel costs. Paid for itself in one summer. I know some work toward retaining the CCC which definately helps as well as useing a distributor with adjustable vacume advance instead of locked or mechanical. More better computer controlled fuel injection is slowly becomeing more available affordable and cost effective. The third gen LS1 and newer engines are powerful more fuel efficient and becomeing a more viable option as more hit the road and hot rodder/businessmen make available more solutions to make this easier & cheaper. So I don't know give me your take on how you plan to do this parts or affordability wise or how you hope to do it in the future as a little more money / technology becomes available to you.
What should be a minimum highway mileage goal for this vehicle?
Whats your idea plan build setup combination vision whatever. I used an overdrive transmissions in both cars, a lock up converter in both cars, fuel injection on one a Q-jet in the other, a reasonable cam in both cars, reasonable gears in both cars. I installed a methanol/water injection setup that kicks in at about 10 pounds of boost in my GN which enables me to drive around set on kill without race fuel or Xylene in the tank saveing me lots on fuel costs. Paid for itself in one summer. I know some work toward retaining the CCC which definately helps as well as useing a distributor with adjustable vacume advance instead of locked or mechanical. More better computer controlled fuel injection is slowly becomeing more available affordable and cost effective. The third gen LS1 and newer engines are powerful more fuel efficient and becomeing a more viable option as more hit the road and hot rodder/businessmen make available more solutions to make this easier & cheaper. So I don't know give me your take on how you plan to do this parts or affordability wise or how you hope to do it in the future as a little more money / technology becomes available to you.
What should be a minimum highway mileage goal for this vehicle?
