'59 putting a beating on some fart pipe cars.

 

Love that 1959! I'd like to know more about the drivetrain. Where are they racing at? Thanks for posting

 

I thought this was cool enough for its own thread.

 

LOL he was racing slow cars in the first vid and he red lighted. Second vid he race a maro and it beat him LOL.

 

Looks like a well built 455 on nitrous in the underhood shot .
Sounds like it's backed up by a turbo 400 .
He needs LOTS of horsepower to move that two ton behemoth that fast .

 

Not by much. If I had a Camaro and a 4400 lb behemoth like that 59 wore me out that close, I would not brag.

Wonder what it could do w a prepped B&M Hydro? The way it went *** up on launch, it may have one. A 62-64 Pontiac HMT bellhousing could accomplish that...

 

The car i doubt weighed that much!Look at the wheels on that olds. Do you think he left all that weight in it! I doubt it. It has a cowl hood. It is set up to race. I basing my opinion from a racers point of view. I also checked curb weight on a 59 olds 88 close to 4000. My guess is car in race form light weight wheels 3750. Plus he has NOS.JMO

 

 

last video it’s a full interior car , bet it’s not much off factory weight

 

In that last video he ran an 8.12 @ 86.49 in the 1/8 mile. That equates to about a 12.70 1./4 mile according to the online calculators.

 

Hi Mike,

Terrific find on the cars but like a lot of these guys said, likely huge projects but maybe the right people are out there for them.

i sent you a pm.

Thanks,

Nate

 

Thanks for the vid, that chassis takes a lot of work to run that nice...straight!

 

Factory weight for a 59 Super 88 Holiday coupe is listed as 4246 # .
That 455 with aluminum heads is lighter than a 394 .
My guess would be about 4100 # .
A 455 on laughing gas should make between 500 to 600 HP maybe more .
That equates to about seven and a half pounds per HP . A pretty good ratio for a "street" car .

 

I think working with the transmission could knock easily a couple tenths off his ET's - You really need to bang those shifts at his ET and speed potential. 2-3 especially seems soggy, a shift kit alone won't hit hard enough with a T-400. No apparent traction problems at speed so I want to hear the tires bark hard. Wouldn't hurt street manners really.