Don't waste your time, it's not pretty. It might look good later but the video has it with no front clip at all and body lift kit or something that reminds me of the Audi All Trac wagon.

Actually, it is if you jump through all their hoops. You have to retain the original emmissions equipment in the original locations, which means you have to go through several gyrations to get the EGR, AIR, EVAP system, Fuel tank pressure system, etc. to function as they would in an f-body. The cats have to be in the original place, and you have to run a transmission that was available as an option for your drivetrain, so no vette motors.

At least one person passed with flying colors

http://www.torquecentral.com/showthr...alifornia+smog

He posts his review sheet in Post #24

Ummm...it won't. :D

It doesn't need to handle at this point. He's running a powerglide tranny, so it's not exactly suited to running out to fetch a carton of eggs for the missus. It's pretty much useless for anything other than going quickly in a straight line.

The car they showed pictures of made 540rwhp/608rwtq, not 650rwhp.
http://www.torquecentral.com/showthread.php?t=24750

Its on May 13th, I have to goto this bachelor party in New orleans that weekend. Let me see if I could get out of it.

more info:
http://hotrod.com/upcomingevents/113_0401_pump/

Hinson was chosen over several other cars and is one of two imports to be in the event which includes a field of 50 cars.

Congrats Brian!!

Another video of Hinson TT LS1

https://home.comcast.net/%7EFerociou...S1-TT-RX-7.mov

Sorry for the misinformation. Those numbers are from a Superflow dyno which I was told reads lower than a Dynojet. That info is also in that thread on torquecentral.

I would guess that the dyno numbers are about bang on. The trap time for a 2950# car (2800# car, 150# driver) suggests around 530 rwhp. I'm not knocking it at all, it's just nowhere near the neighborhood of 650rwhp is all.

I'm sure you just confused the estimated dynojet number of 650rwtq. Easy mistake.

Dynos lie, time slips don't.

Possibly, but 346+ CID > "80" CID.

The more air and fuel you burn, the more power you make. Pretty simple.

The car has the same steering setup that wingsfan has on his car, and both Jeff and Damon have commented on how well the car drives. As for "all that extra weight", the car is likely no heavier than a automatic Touring, so let's not start babbling about needing "big block springs" and happy horseshit like that just yet, shall we? :D

Of course it won't weigh the same; however, someone asked why not just modify a Corvette if you want to use the LS1/6. The turbos, piping, IC, etc. will all have to be added to both cars, so the weight advantage will still be at least 300 lbs.

I definitely agree there, just too many people use that base 2800 lbs weigh in for all LS1 swaps forced indution or not. We wouldn't want people to say all big single turbo 13B's weigh in at 2300lbs on a truck scale.

the "rotary fans" just have to make those comments to try and make v8 rexs not look as good, because that's not what they got and its better than what they got. End of discussion.

Well, I posted pictures of my 2800# car on a truck scale. I don't remember seeing pictures of Eric's 2300# beast on any sort of scale. :D

At any rate, I don't think anyone is arguing that Hinson's setup is your garden variety swap. I'd guess there aren't too many people that are going to do anything even remotely resembling what he's built.

Link is now fixed. Sorry about that.

I'll take a stab at being the amazing Kreskin here and make a few predictions. His 10.6 run was already faster than my best stock 13BREW run 8 years ago, so no matter what, he has my previous stuff already beat so this isn't some ego thing. On to the predictions.

1. He will get absolutely hammered at the Hot Rod pump gas drags and not even be close to winning. (Last minute rush jobs never work, things always break etc.)

2. He will never produce 1200hp on that block and turbo setup which can be demonstrated by an appropriate MPH in the 1/4. Anyone can futz a dyno pull result.

3. He will never run an 8.xx 1/4 mile with that car in even close to the trim it's in now. It will be back halved at the minimum with transbrake etc. More than likely a lot more.

It'll be fun to see if I have a future in predictions : )

With my experience with Kevin, 99% of his predictions have been spot on... except for how long his first rebuild has lasted ;) ... that and how much hp my car made...

Brad

:thumbsup:

I'd like to check out your car next time I'm up in the Austin area. :)

So Jim is a rotary fan?! Last time I checked, he's pretty much saying the same as all of the "rotary fans" also! :p:

-Alex

It'll be a little better. The extra weight will keep the front wheels closer to the ground. :) I bet it will handle great turning on and off of the drag strip.

I'm not sure as to how he will do.. but I hope he wins the PGD's.

I don't see his car as garden variety, but a proof-of-concept advertisement.

However, last time I checked, there was some STIFF competition with people running SBC-SBF-SBM's running ~10's on pump. we'll see...

When I looked at the link to the PGD they showed last year people running 9.0x and 9.1 in the 1/4. Given a full year people will get faster. I'd expect to see 8 second pump gas cars unless of course those types got bored with it already or there was a big rule change.

I have to admit that I misunderstood this car being discussed. I thought it was supposed to be some all around good performer, not just drag only car. Was it drag only when it ran the 10.6?

Just shoot me a PM before you come up. Hopefully it'll be running again around June.

This is what I can determine by reading on Hinson's site and Torquecentral.com:

1. Hinson's personal car may have run a 10.6 at one time; however, the link to the 10.6 was a customer's car with one 62-1 turbo. 10.60 @ 132 w/ 1.38 60'

2. The fastest time for Hinson's car with the powerglide that I've seen is 6.0 @ 112 in the 1/8th mile. Using the standard calculator, that would be good for 9.5 @ 138.8. However, that time was not achieved with the current TT setup since they just got it running last week. As far as I can tell, that time was probably done with the setup described on hinsonsupercars.com as: "two stage nitrous kit spraying 300 horsepower on a stock displacement LS6 engine. The taped dyno run was 691rwhp and 732lb-ft at the rear tires."

If anyone knows otherwise, please chime in.

The 10.6 run was a customer car.

I've seen video of a low 10 (~10.2 IIRC) second pass by Hinson's car on lots of spray. Once they threw the powerglide in there it's safe to say it's a drag only car.

the 138mph trap speed sounds low for 691rwhp 2800lb car.

also, 10.60 @ 132 w/ 1.38 60' doesn't quite calculate out right imo. I'd like to see the entire time sleep.