Over the last several years I have brought my 96 Firebird to Bonneville and Maxton (have not been to Wilmington yet) to see what I could do. It ran over 190 at Maxton and 195 on the salt with a small block LT1 and little nitrous, but that just was not good enough. I decided that I would make big leap and drop in a twin turbo big block and see if I could hit 300 at Speedweek 2015.
I ended up buying the 555 BBC and turbos that I built for Shannon Carnathan's 73 Nova we drove on Drag Week a couple years ago, and brought the car to Coffey Fabrication in Nashville, TN to have my friend Chris Coffey completely rebuild the chassis to handle the new setup. Coffey, btw, holds an SCTA record of 219mph in the little S10 he worked with Dave Kixmiller and Kris Henderson to build.
Below are some of the build pics to date, starting with how the car looked at Bonneville 2010.
I ended up buying the 555 BBC and turbos that I built for Shannon Carnathan's 73 Nova we drove on Drag Week a couple years ago, and brought the car to Coffey Fabrication in Nashville, TN to have my friend Chris Coffey completely rebuild the chassis to handle the new setup. Coffey, btw, holds an SCTA record of 219mph in the little S10 he worked with Dave Kixmiller and Kris Henderson to build.
Below are some of the build pics to date, starting with how the car looked at Bonneville 2010.
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