Question for LT1 Firebird racers

[Angelo DiTocco]

Originally Posted by Painter

A/SA is pretty easy to get to the top of the class. The harder you want to work the close you can get to the class minimum.

and the more $ you're willing to spend.....

[Rich Biebel]

My ‘97 Firebird that I raced in A/FIA back around 2006 weighed 3050 with me in it. I did get some weight out if it to get that light. Wilwood Front disc brakes saved 45lbs.

It was a well built car and pretty light. I’m sure I could have gotten it to be lighter. It had stock seats and a weight box. Aftermarket seats, no weight box would save some weight. It had a full cage. Full carpeting. One 30-40lb battery.

I weigh around 150

The LT-1 HP rating is pretty high and your at a disadvantage in any class to some other cars.

They were way underrated when new but got hammered over the years.

Not many out there that run with the class competition

[Bobby Lundholm]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

My ‘97 Firebird that I raced in A/FIA back around 2006 weighed 3050 with me in it. I did get some weight out if it to get that light. Wilwood Front disc brakes saved 45lbs.

It was a well built car and pretty light. I’m sure I could have gotten it to be lighter. It had stock seats and a weight box. Aftermarket seats, no weight box would save some weight. It had a full cage. Full carpeting. One 30-40lb battery.

I weigh around 150

The LT-1 HP rating is pretty high and your at a disadvantage in any class to some other cars.

They were way underrated when new but got hammered over the years.

Not many out there that run with the class competition

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

[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.....