In 90 - 95 LT1s were not as fast as 5.0 Foxes. When you look at parts available for both NOW the same is still very true. 1000s of Fox body recipes are readily available for street hero; 1/4 or 1/8 mile; HPDE; and full out road racing. eg.-
Roller chassis available ALLDAY on craigslist or Corral for <$2k or even cheaper if you wanna do bodywork.
$1k on tires, control arms, and shocks
$1k for cam, GT40 heads & intake, and exhaust
Run high 12s with seat time.
$500 for a 100 shot get into the high 11s if you can drive
-or- Flipped shorties, powermaster T70, ebay intercooler & charge pipes, injectors, Quarterhorse, misc oil fittings…
~500whp / 500wtq for ~$1300, high 10s with suspension & driver, and you’re at the generally accepted limit of a stock (forged/roller) 302 block.
A bone-stock fox would run around a 9.3-9.5 if it was a 5-speed with a good driver. If it was an auto it would run a low 10, period. The Flanigans would run 9.1-9.2 all day long with their showroom LT1 cars auto or T56. All of the parts were different back then. We modded my friends 5.0 with a plastic Hartman intake, Compucar nitrous, 3.55’s and lakewood traction bars. On a 100 shot his best ET was 8.63, and that was flying back then.
no one was really “doing” dsms til like 97-98, i think thats when the first 12 second pass was made in a dsm lol
hondas were nothing until they came out with the editable chipping for obd1 ecu’s which was in the 2000s i think. unless you ran a shitty standalone system
I don’t know the times, but I know that in the philly area people were well into modding DSMs by the mid 90s. lots of street racing stuff happened in the town I went to highschool. i remember this maroon GST on full slicks with a big turbo that used to rape all the mustangs
Well back then 14s and 15s were quick lol, a lot of the history is on buschur’s website
i meant as far as people dumping heavy amounts of money into their setup to run 10s/11s
In '95 I wasn’t old enough to drive yet but I remember my neighbors and cousins having 5.0’s and LT1 Camaros. I remember my cousin explaining to me about his nitrous kit and be like “wha?”.
how many 335s with upgraded turbos do you know in WNY? I don’t know of any, but thinking about it there are probably a few chipped + exhaust ones getting 11s.
Hmmm… in 95 I’d say an early 90’s Mustang GT, or even LX 5.0. Basically the style before the redesign in 94 because street heroes rarely have the funds to heavily mod a brand new car.
1995 S6: Power: 169 kW , 227 HP @ 5,900 rpm; 258 ft lb @ 1,950 rpm
At the time I had a '91 Z28 that had 245hp and 345 ft/lbs, plus a bunch of goodies. It ran high 8’s.
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