Notice the GN's in those videos are pushing between 700-1500 HP and are shredding the 1/4 mile in 8-10 seconds too.I've been bored at work so i watched some youtube vids of the Buick Grand National. Those v6 motors sounded sick! What is it gonna take to get our cars to sound that nasty?
They may have split at the rear, I don't recall, but they were single exhaust from the turbo through the converter.I thought they were dual exhaust.
Those Grand Nationals were a beast till about 80,000 to 100,000 miles, then that blown motor was completly toast and it was time to start all over again...
Man I completely agree. Why is it the present Camero V6 gets Twin turbo's and the after market looks at us and turns a blind Eye? I mean really we can only get a procharger system? Theirs a dude on youtube rollin 600+rwhp on a twin turbo'd 2010 V6 Camero. We need the support the 5.0 is getting Ford did it right with our 3.7's when will the aftermarket catch up?Really awesome cars.Just wish we could get our cars to rumble like some of those I saw on youtube.
Its funny to see this post as I just had a long going argument with a young man on my job about the Grand National and the T Type. He came to work and was so excited to tell everyone he had just bought a Grand National. So he shows me a picture of it and plain as day on the side in red it says T Type. He looked at me and said "no man, its a grand national" So I ask himdoes it say GN anywhere else on the car or does it say T Type. He walked off so angry. Two weeks later he comes storming into my area at work waving an article discussing the T Type and the GN. He says "See, they are the same car I have a GN T Type". I look at the article and while it did express they were running (that year and subsequent from there) the same engine, it still expressed they were different models with the GN being more collectible. To this day he still tells others that he is pissed off with me because I will not admit it was a grand national. Guys I would have just said yes, IF he would not have shown me the pic that said T Type.Drove them for 18 yrs, one was the T Type, kind of a sleeper. CT state police used the T Types for several years for highway patrolling.
Yup the T type is not as collectable as the GN. Funny thing- 86-87 It was the same engine and drive train. Far more less T types for 86 and Regal T's for 87 made than the GN and the T's had aluminum bumper supports and wheels so technically they would have been very minutely faster. But human nature and the desire for prestige flaunts us toward the GN as it is the one recognized by most. Also depending on what package the Regal T Type or T had, most had chrome which made the GN a better looking car.Its funny to see this post as I just had a long going argument with a young man on my job about the Grand National and the T Type. He came to work and was so excited to tell everyone he had just bought a Grand National. So he shows me a picture of it and plain as day on the side in red it says T Type. He looked at me and said "no man, its a grand national" So I ask himdoes it say GN anywhere else on the car or does it say T Type. He walked off so angry. Two weeks later he comes storming into my area at work waving an article discussing the T Type and the GN. He says "See, they are the same car I have a GN T Type". I look at the article and while it did express they were running (that year and subsequent from there) the same engine, it still expressed they were different models with the GN being more collectible. To this day he still tells others that he is pissed off with me because I will not admit it was a grand national. Guys I would have just said yes, IF he would not have shown me the pic that said T Type.
Its funny to see this post as I just had a long going argument with a young man on my job about the Grand National and the T Type. He came to work and was so excited to tell everyone he had just bought a Grand National. So he shows me a picture of it and plain as day on the side in red it says T Type. He looked at me and said "no man, its a grand national" So I ask himdoes it say GN anywhere else on the car or does it say T Type. He walked off so angry. Two weeks later he comes storming into my area at work waving an article discussing the T Type and the GN. He says "See, they are the same car I have a GN T Type". I look at the article and while it did express they were running (that year and subsequent from there) the same engine, it still expressed they were different models with the GN being more collectible. To this day he still tells others that he is pissed off with me because I will not admit it was a grand national. Guys I would have just said yes, IF he would not have shown me the pic that said T Type.
There's one on ebay right now and through the ad in several places it says "Grand National T-Type" and it is clearly a T-type that they have put GN wheels on.Yup the T type is not as collectable as the GN. Funny thing- 86-87 It was the same engine and drive train. Far more less T types for 86 and Regal T's for 87 made than the GN and the T's had aluminum bumper supports and wheels so technically they would have been very minutely faster. But human nature and the desire for prestige flaunts us toward the GN as it is the one recognized by most. Also depending on what package the Regal T Type or T had, most had chrome which made the GN a better looking car.
Because that GM motor has been around longer.Man I completely agree. Why is it the present Camero V6 gets Twin turbo's and the after market looks at us and turns a blind Eye? I mean really we can only get a procharger system? Theirs a dude on youtube rollin 600+rwhp on a twin turbo'd 2010 V6 Camero. We need the support the 5.0 is getting Ford did it right with our 3.7's when will the aftermarket catch up?