OH man, olde Ponchos.....
my last Poncho was a '70 Lemans sport convertible I made a defacto GTO out of, and so 462 inches with #96 heads and RA3 exhaust t400 with Trans Go of course....12 bolt 323 posi and a 26 gallon fuel tank from a '79 caddy.....
the DPFI came from a '79 Sedan Deville 425 and got the car published in '95 Feb HPP magazine....Injected madness...it's a project I did myself in my garage over 92-93 winter in Maryland outside DC.....I upped the MPG from about 10 even to like 14+ on the highway....UNLESS I was towing my boat out to the Md/W.Va upper Potomac river, with me, 2-3 young teens, g/friend up front, me and the boat at 2900 lbs....I went into south mountain on I70 just past Fredrick Md, about a 10% grade for a 4 mile pull.....
I"d open that SOB up and the MOAN coming under that hood told of the `1000 CFM Tbody being WIDE OPEN and ZERO manifold vacuum....the duals roared and I would pull some 7500+ lbs of gear up that hill going in at 80 mph and topping out at the crest at 100 mph....I had the tires for it on both the car and boat, not THAT crazy.....when I saw the golden arches of the Appalachian Trail, I"d lift and be doing only 60-70 downhill.....
I had Global West suspension and large disc brakes, and tall '80 caddy spindles on it.....the sympathetic machinist mentioned in the article was not Bob Harris, who did just the short block to my specs...but a hippy type machine shop operator who did a lot of NASA satellite welding out of Goddard Space Flight just off US1 in Beltsville Md.....freeking guy has every tool known to man, and I shit you not....EVERY ONE.....
well, you know, except a Phillips screwdriver......
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