Question for LT1 Firebird racers

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by Bobby Lundholm

When Woodro got his Firebird it was an H/SA to start out.

I had a '69 Chevy II at that time.....G-H/SA

My car was Karl Geist's at one time and I bought it from Lloyd MacKay.
It was pretty slow even compared to other good running 350/255's

I saw the new Firebirds and what they were running and quickly sold that car......

Years later I bought an LT-1 car as a roller and sold a couple years later to ....Lloyd Mackay after the combining of the FI with the regular classes and the HP hits the LT-1 got hit with.

Great cars to drive and race....but a lot of them kind of disappeared as the HP went up.....

[Bobby Lundholm]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

I had a '69 Chevy II at that time.....G-H/SA

My car was Karl Geist's at one time and I bought it from Lloyd MacKay.
It was pretty slow even compared to other good running 350/255's

I saw the new Firebirds and what they were running and quickly sold that car......

Years later I bought an LT-1 car as a roller and sold a couple years later to ....Lloyd Mackay after the combining of the FI with the regular classes and the HP hits the LT-1 got hit with.

Great cars to drive and race....but a lot of them kind of disappeared as the HP went up.....

My dad ran Woodro heads up at Reynolds the first year Woodro had the car. My dad covered him to the 1/8th and after that it was lights out for us.

[Rich Biebel]

I was bored with S/C and bracket racing my dragster. That was around 2004-2005
I Really liked those LT-1's after they were out there a few years and were in their own separate classes.
I Was at Maple Grove and sat down with Bud Rowe and struck up a conversation.
I knew him a little from my early days in Stock
Bud was running his LT-1 at that Maple Grove race and it was faster than most....We had a real good time talking about the old days and what he said about the FI cars made me want to buy one.....
I found a real good roller and built my own engine. Bought a lot of parts and got some advice from Woodro....
My car was never very fast and I stubbornly tried to tune it myself with zero knowledge of what I was doing....
10.50's 125 was the best I ran and did drive it for the current owner at 2 races .....It ran the same but was much better tuned and was about 100lbs heavier....maybe a little more...

I ran Bud on a time shot at one race when I had the car and mostly what I saw was his car running away from me.....LOL

Fun cars to drive but tough to work on at home in a small garage......

I went back to an easy to work on and race Dragster.....