1986 Buick GX1
GX1 #001 [The One and Only]
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- Apr 24, 2015
What is this weird looking thing and what was the advertised HP gains?
Anybody know?
Anybody know?
Yes, fan shroud for the intercooler fan.
Another old school item I got recently. It is an atr fuel drain setup to pump the pump gas out so you can put race gas in at the track. In The original packaging. I thought it pretty cool.
I haven’t seen one of these mentioned in the last 5 or 6 years so I thought I’d post it up.
At least the fuel drain is helpful. The intercooler fan shroud won’t work with larger intercoolers so for most it’s obsolete, not that it helped anyway.
I have that part still installed on my GN.
I also have the fiberglass Ram Air/Intercooler scoop that directs the air into the Intercooler opening up front.
Not sure that it added 10HP !!!
They are both being removed for my Resto/Update.
Yes... this is especially true about the ram air system where the air filter was enclosed in a round case with a flexible tube attached to the side of the case sneaked behind the headlights and down below, under the bumper to a small scoop installed in the driver's side air dam. I was at the Englishtown NJ track with Fred Vetter and he suggested that I remove the case around the filter so I did, and on the next run the car did run faster! Needless to say that I never put it back again!The old Ken Bell catalogs always had these crazy hp claims, like the ram air system, most went slower when they bolted it on.
But a lot of the other parts did work, like the plenum ,it even'd out the air flow pretty well like a power plate, and i still run the blue fuel pressure reg till this day.
that is on my when I bought it... still isI ran the Ultimate chip for about 15 years, it worked well with 94 Suncoco, the fueling kinda sucked for winter driving though, but then again they were located in sunny Rancho Cockaroacha California.
Everyone needs one of these...
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