I've seen this in person, he drives it everywhere! These Minnesota folks are pretty hard-core about their cars!
Me? When the Firebird is done it will be doing way more than 200 mile runs! Not for competition, for pleasure!

/\/\/\/\/\/\ That is awesome!

I roadtest all of my projects at least 200-300 miles before they leave for drive tuning and shakedown. These cars like hiding surprises and you never know what is going to loosen up when they first hit the road. Lots of torqueing and retorqueing!

After finishing the Chevelle build the owner flew out to DFW and we road tripped it back down to Miami Beach. Between driving around here, the road trip, a 2 hour backtrack because he left his wallet at a gas station, and driving around there we put 2200 miles on it in a week.

462ci blown, intercooled, EFI with 820 rwhp. Quick math put the mph at about 14 for the road trip with a glitchy TPS for 3/4 of the drive causing accel fuel to squirt everytime there was a light accel so I my guess is that it could get 16-18 highway now that the TPS is fixed.

IMHO that is what pro-touring is about... the driving!

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We finished our trip, left Friday 2:00 pm. got back Saturday at 11:00 pm
I had a steel brake line crack. Found the issue on our first gas stop. Luckly car quest was open, and had a 30" brake line. 15 minutes later we were back on the road.
Other than that, 650 miles + 5-25 minute ROVAL track sessions, all good.

Of course, Toms car... never an issue

2 weeks we will be at Spring Mountain

At the moment no. It won't move under its own power since the engine out & waiting on a clutch. Be another few months in the build then I'll have it back. I think it's about 150km to the shop that's doing it (I'm in aus so it's metric).

Once it's on the road it'll def be racking up the km's!
Here's a link if anyone's interested. I can only post pics with tapatalk & it doesn't work on this forum so I haven't started one..

http://www.usmuscle.com.au/Forum/showthread.php?t=12534

Cheers

You asked this question just as I was getting an 11 year build on the road.

Not ready for 200 miles yet, but give me a month or so to get familiar with the car and get some of the minor issues resolved. LS376/480 '68 Camaro with all aftermarket suspension. She's a beast.