1995 Impala SS

Mr. Fahey,

I'm shocked it took you until post #8 to jump in on this one. You must have had too much turkey for Christmas and your reaction times are slower. Although I'm sure when you saw 1995 Impala SS as a post title you thought someone was giving you a late present!

Yes, they make a great combination for both Stock and Pure Stock depending on what your desire is as well as your location and which HRA your track runs. They're easy to work on, parts are relatively inexpensive, it doesn't take much to get one to run under the index, they'll hook in a car wash and always my favorite they're different!

We sold our first one to Corbitt and Colby many moons and three states ago. It was basically a bolt-on car Dan (not a 383) and did have a set of Woodro heads on it. IIRC that was the first set of iron LT1 heads that he had worked on a I remember him being intrigued with them. I do recall him saying that they would flow comparable to the aluminum F-body versions and had the potential to make more hp because of them being iron and being able to hold heat or keep compression up. Don't remember. We did run mid 12s NA and drove the car on the street. When I sold it there was a nitrous system on it IIRC but it wasn't completely installed and had never been used.

The next one we bought was from north of Dallas. It had aftermarket heads and a cam and went 10.90s on a 150 shot and was also completely street legal and driven. It had a Turbo 400 with the factory 10 bolt and weighed 4200 lbs.

Both were very cool cars and if we had unlimited funds and space I'd build another one. We have since moved on too and lost 1,000 lbs. and now run a LS1.

Scott Kaufman