Finall, my 442 pics.

[Randy_W]

Finally got some pics up. (I know you all were just dying to see it! )Car is not jacked up in the rear, it's where I parked. 😳

 

[pontiacgp]

nice...real nice...no wonder you won a couple of trophies without even trying..

 

[Randy_W]

Thanks, just as it sits + some clean up and detail and new tires, I bought the car this way, fresh .030 307, ported polished, shaved heads with 2.00 intake and big exhaust valves, forgot the size, Comp cam, roller rockers, Performer intake, etc... Two owners before me, a son and father, in that order, 59k miles, new quality paint, well several years ago but kept inside and not driven, new complete interior and weather seals already installed. I paid $4500 last October 30th. Did I do O.K.? 😀

 

[papabearxl]

I never fail to be awestruck when seeing a beautiful gbody......even after all these years. Beautiful car.

 

[mrlee]

Beautiful car. Congrats

I think you got a heck of a deal at 4500.

 

[pontiacgp]

Thanks, just as it sits + some clean up and detail and new tires, I bought the car this way, fresh .030 307, ported polished, shaved heads with 2.00 intake and big exhaust valves, forgot the size, Comp cam, roller rockers, Performer intake, etc... Two owners before me, a son and father, in that order, 59k miles, new quality paint, well several years ago but kept inside and not driven, new complete interior and weather seals already installed. I paid $4500 last October 30th. Did I do O.K.? 😀

you can't replace original so it's worth every penny you paid for it...and more.

 

[dogsht]

Sharp car & worth what you paid easy. I sold mine for $7,000 a year ago & it was going to need floor pans. Never seen anybody put the door ding strip on a 442. Although its possible the dealership did it. I would take it down to the test n tune one night & see if it breaks a 14. 307 still won't be fast but should do ok.

 

[Randy_W]

From an earlier post, the engine is also balanced and blueprinted;

Previous owner ran a 14.57 low 90's pass but he had the stock exhaust and the timing lazy, basically wasting all the cam and head work and it wasn't a posi so the 3.73's were just smoking one tire and killing the 60'. I hope to get a couple of passes later this month, I'll re-post then. Judging from the 20-60 times I believe this little .030 over 307 with 10:1 cr will go in the 13's. :wink:



Spill the beans on your 307 build.


I bought it this way engine wise, +.030 I don't have the cam sheet in front of me but something like 218/222 @.050" with .473 lift, not sure, I'll get the specs and post it, little lumpy idle but far from radical. Heads are 5A shaved .010", ported and matched to heads and intake, polished with 2.00" intake valves, roller rockers and Performer intake. Still running computer controlled Q-jet and HEI. I'm still running stock exhaust manifolds with 2.5" pipes to a high flow y-pipe to 3"single into a high flow Magnaflow cat 3" in/out to high flow y-pipe using 2.5" pipes into Magnaflow straight throughs with 2.25" tail pipes. When I did the exhaust, the butt dyno felt like 20-30 h.p., but the clocks will tell.

Since then I've installed the posi unit and a 2200 rpm convertor, with a lot of tire spin, I ran a 14.25/96.55, I'm satisfied that without sacrificing driveability, that's about it unless I spray it and I have no intent of making a race car of it. It has a mild shift kit as well. The times still only calculate to around 250 h.p. depending on exactly what it weighs, which I suspect is well north of 3600.

 

[ElCaminoGRAN/SPORT]

Real clean,I like...and that price was sweet i would have paid that allday....

 

[redboy504]

Beautiful car.