Limited w/4.1
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Do you feel better now that you have told us all how awesome you are?
Great that you have an idea on how much is spent. You are so smart.
All further proof you are internet brilliant and have never touched a car or built one.
Assholes such as youself need to be banned from this site.
Piss off.
Jerry86Ttype
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Car is coming to California
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Congrats!!!!!
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The California buyer backed out of a deal.
I installed a 3" cat to match the 3" dual exhaust, but have not had it to an emission test.
Arizona allows vehicles with collector insurance to NOT be required for any state emission testing!
I installed a 3" cat to match the 3" dual exhaust, but have not had it to an emission test.
Arizona allows vehicles with collector insurance to NOT be required for any state emission testing!
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How's she running, Nick?
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I think you and I will be neck-and-neck when I am doing better and your car is doing "better"!
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Thanks Joe, at this point I plan to sell the blue Limited and get my 1987 9k mile T-Type out of storage, and have fun with that.
The past 30+ years with turbo Buicks and their owners has been fruitful and fun, but I plan on less time working on them, and more of enjoyable outings with my toy!
The past 30+ years with turbo Buicks and their owners has been fruitful and fun, but I plan on less time working on them, and more of enjoyable outings with my toy!
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That will be fun!
Now, we just need to light a fire under Mike's butt and get my heads finished up. Li'l help?
You earned it, you should enjoy it! When you want to sell that Low mile T, let me know! Looking for something low mile now.
Gary Durden
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Nick, do you have a picture of your low mileage Turbo T that we could all see and dream about.
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Thank you Joe, I plan to enjoy it like you said!
I vowed to never sell my original T, and put my son on the title with me so I know who will be the next driver for sure.
I vowed to never sell my original T, and put my son on the title with me so I know who will be the next driver for sure.
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When the car arrived at the dealer, the paint was crap, and they had to repaint the car.
I wanted something different, so I had a Crystalite trim package installed on it.
After 25 years, it needed to be painted again, and I had the shop remove the package. This was before the Spoolfool one piece rear filler, so I had them make me one!
Chrome wheels were out of date, so I went with GNX style wheels, original wheels and tires are in my attic.
In 1987 I drove the car to ATR for some mods like dual exhaust and other item, but the best change was the stock converter was replaced with a 10" NLU.
It is impressive as it was then a 12 sec. ride, and the valve covers have never been off!
I wanted something different, so I had a Crystalite trim package installed on it.
After 25 years, it needed to be painted again, and I had the shop remove the package. This was before the Spoolfool one piece rear filler, so I had them make me one!
Chrome wheels were out of date, so I went with GNX style wheels, original wheels and tires are in my attic.
In 1987 I drove the car to ATR for some mods like dual exhaust and other item, but the best change was the stock converter was replaced with a 10" NLU.
It is impressive as it was then a 12 sec. ride, and the valve covers have never been off!
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Gary Durden
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Looks great and thanks for posting a pic. That is awesome that your son will be able to enjoy Dads car later down the road.
scpls19398
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Available?
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Of all the performance built street cars I have built over the years, this car this car has the most outstanding response fastest spooling of all others!
The headers are custom built with 1-5/8" primary tubes, the converter is a perfect match, and the turbo orientation is optimized as it is in a fore-and-aft position which allows a downpipe with a shallow bend, not at 90 degrees. A Pypes 3" dual exhaust provides minimum exhaust restriction.
The 295/15 ET street tires with 10" wheels provide an outstanding performance when leaving a stop light, and will surprise most all you would encounter on the street.
I chose the smallest housing of the Borg-Warner EFR series to provide 650 RWHP and excellent response. With 270 cu.in. and race-ported TA alum heads, it should be an easy 10 sec. ride and high 9 sec. trips at the track.
My research when planning this build, I did not see the need for a twin scroll exhaust housing as the 4.1 has enormous low and mid-range torque. Of course the B-W turbo exhaust wheel is the latest billet, light unit available.
A Turbo-Smart boost controller on the dash allows in-car adjustment and provides a digital boost readout.
The H-R rear anti-roll bar provides excellent traction, and the rear has an Auburn Pro unit w/30 spine axles. H-R upper and lower control arms a attached the re-inforced frame brackets.
Even though this was intended to be a killer street car, it has lots of parts and technology from the race car which included a complete fuel system w/-6/-8 AN lines and a billet sender with the DW400 pump, and 140# injectors on e-85, which is controlled by a FAST XFI 2.0.
Ignition is a TR6 and just received my modified cam sensor which help provide proper spark at 7000 RPM when wanted!
When I decided to build a killer street car, John Norton from Borg-Warner have been friends for years, and he was instrumental in helping me with this concept.
The only reason I decided to part with this car is a health condition, I am doing better, but after 30+ years of turbo Buick work, time for me to downsize.
It is difficult for me to part with my Limited, but someone will end up with a piece of turbo Buick history which will be very difficult to duplicate, and would take at least $30K for the parts, and a few hundred hours of labor, maybe more with the Vintage Air conversion.
The headers are custom built with 1-5/8" primary tubes, the converter is a perfect match, and the turbo orientation is optimized as it is in a fore-and-aft position which allows a downpipe with a shallow bend, not at 90 degrees. A Pypes 3" dual exhaust provides minimum exhaust restriction.
The 295/15 ET street tires with 10" wheels provide an outstanding performance when leaving a stop light, and will surprise most all you would encounter on the street.
I chose the smallest housing of the Borg-Warner EFR series to provide 650 RWHP and excellent response. With 270 cu.in. and race-ported TA alum heads, it should be an easy 10 sec. ride and high 9 sec. trips at the track.
My research when planning this build, I did not see the need for a twin scroll exhaust housing as the 4.1 has enormous low and mid-range torque. Of course the B-W turbo exhaust wheel is the latest billet, light unit available.
A Turbo-Smart boost controller on the dash allows in-car adjustment and provides a digital boost readout.
The H-R rear anti-roll bar provides excellent traction, and the rear has an Auburn Pro unit w/30 spine axles. H-R upper and lower control arms a attached the re-inforced frame brackets.
Even though this was intended to be a killer street car, it has lots of parts and technology from the race car which included a complete fuel system w/-6/-8 AN lines and a billet sender with the DW400 pump, and 140# injectors on e-85, which is controlled by a FAST XFI 2.0.
Ignition is a TR6 and just received my modified cam sensor which help provide proper spark at 7000 RPM when wanted!
When I decided to build a killer street car, John Norton from Borg-Warner have been friends for years, and he was instrumental in helping me with this concept.
The only reason I decided to part with this car is a health condition, I am doing better, but after 30+ years of turbo Buick work, time for me to downsize.
It is difficult for me to part with my Limited, but someone will end up with a piece of turbo Buick history which will be very difficult to duplicate, and would take at least $30K for the parts, and a few hundred hours of labor, maybe more with the Vintage Air conversion.
