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Originally Posted by GUMP
Bone stock 1979 Trans Am 403 automatic sometime in the late eighties at Moroso. Memory says it ran mid 15's.
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I remember racing against stock 1979 Trans Ams with the RPO L80 Oldsmobile 403 engine and the required automatic transmission. They weighed about 3,700 pounds, and with the 175hp small block engine wheezing through a single pellet converter, a 3-speed automatic, and 3.23 rear gears, it should come as no surprise that they were no quicker than mid-17s.
Car & Driver tested the more powerful 200hp Pontiac 400 "T/A 6.6" Trans Am 2 years earlier, and it ran a best of 16.9 at 82 mph.
I think all of our cars her faster in our memory, if we don't keep the time slips.