Back in the day

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:10:47 GMT, "496RatBird" puked:

And back in the day you would have to have a dedicated drag car to make the HP that minor modifications make to modern cars. Ya have to take the good with the bad...

-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

Maybe I outta shoot some of that funny gas into the 496BBC in my 81 Bird. Then again maybe not. It already cracked the windshield. But dam that would be fun.

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I just had to replace the windshield on my 78 firebird. It cracked from the bottom corner towards the middle. Is it engine power that did it ? or bumpy roads ?

Rich

Both. My '78 camaro used to twist under heavy load. As the screen is used to stiffen the body it will crack eventually as many have, here in the UK. I had a set of cut down big block springs on the front which were too stiff for the rest of the structure to cope. A Set of SFC's or cage structure would have made an enoumous difference.

HTH

I think my crack may have been caused by engine torque. It sounds like yours cracked in the same place. I added a set of frame connectors and it seemed to slow down the crack. If I had these installed sooner the crack might not have started in the first place. My original idea was to use this 81 Firebird body to debug my 496 then switch the engine and tranny into a Malibu. Once I drove it, I knew I had to keep it, even though it isn't in the best shape. Eventually I'll add a rollbar and clean up the paint. With 15" 60 series BFG TA tires and 3.73 gears, 1st and 2nd gears in the auto tranny are almost worthless. All it wants to do is fry the tires. She's a keeper. Remove spam to email.

You are full of s*it.

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