New guy in CA with a 69 Firebird

[anguilla1980]

Will do! A good friend of mine is the local track photographer (Famoso Raceway) so I'm sure he will get it, I usually never bother with things like that. This summer will be the suspension (Hotchkis Stage 2 TVS, etc) and over next winter will be the final head/cam and other small upgrades to complete everything. I just now have about 4,000 miles on my new 461 since Oct.

Fortunately where I live driving around town is a piece of cake, compared to like LA or other major cities. Plus keep in mind I won't be much if any faster N/A compared to many factory cars like a Hellcat, ZL1, ZO6, etc. I'll be depending on the spray to get me to the 9.99, at which point I will be banned from my local track haha! I do some street racing tho, but for that I won't spray and I'll just run drag radials. I don't plan on ever spraying again after getting to my goal, just to save my engine, so I'll just be running a cheater wet plate system.

I also haven't settled on which rear to go with yet, I still need to investigate if the various IRS setups offered can support that kind of drag strip abuse or if I need to stick with a GM 12 bolt. Which would suck because I want the ride and handing of IRS for auto-x. So if an aftermarket IRS won't take the punishment of 9s, then I'll forget about my 1/4 goal and just go for handling since that is more important to me.

When my trans guy went thru my TH400 and made some changes to my re-calibration kit recently, he wasn't happy with how loose my converter was and now that he points it out, I'm not either. But I planned on getting another one made to better match my new heads and cam anyway.

Alex