My kind of sleeper

[AdRock]

I'd pimp this as a daily.


1977 Buick LeSabre

[Trip McNeely]

That is bad ass. I always wanted a Dodge Diplomat as a sleeper, but that's pretty cool too.

[helosailor]

A friend of mine used to have a brown 4-door LeSabre that year model. He locked up the 350 Buick motor in it after 2 freeze plugs rusted out.
He had a naaasty 383 small block that he had built for something else and said "fuck it" and dropped it in the LeSabre. With that, and the 2.41:1 rear gears, it would run mid to low 8s at Kennedale...in first gear. He had it up to about 140 once on the highway, but chickened out.
That car freaked a lot of people out.

[4EyedTurd]

385" LT1 based, I just threw up, a little....in my mouth. But damn it's fast and ugly

[Z06killinsbf]

One of my buddies has an early 70's Grand Prix with a nasty alcohol fed 455+ motor. Car is fully restored and with quiet exhaust would be a sleeper. It's gold on black, I love it

[UserX]

I knew it wouldn't take long for the LT1 haters to come out. Dicks.

[JC316]

I knew it wouldn't take long for the LT1 haters to come out. Dicks.

I've never understood the hate that comes with the Gen II engines. They were beasts in their day, sure the LS1 is stronger, but the LT1 isn't exactly a slouch. The Opti can be a bastard, but otherwise it's solid.

[SS Junk]

I've never understood the hate that comes with the Gen II engines. They were beasts in their day, sure the LS1 is stronger, but the LT1 isn't exactly a slouch. The Opti can be a bastard, but otherwise it's solid.

Mostly came from those who didn't know what they were doing, making bad decisions on bad combinations as well as general problems with the opti and loose rotor screws, which was easily resolved with loc-tite. Many good optis were dismissed and thrown away as trash from those who didn't know any better. The 10-bolt being another issue, however the 4th gen. was nothing more than a parts bin car. At the time there was no way you could get the same power out of any other car for the price of a base model Z28. Broke dicks wanted to spend as little money as possible to go fast and would complain if something broke.

[UserX]

Mostly came from those who didn't know what they were doing, making bad decisions on bad combinations as well as general problems with the opti and loose rotor screws, which was easily resolved with loc-tite. Many good optis were dismissed and thrown away as trash from those who didn't know any better. The 10-bolt being another issue, however the 4th gen. was nothing more than a parts bin car. At the time there was no way you could get the same power out of any other car for the price of a base model Z28. Broke dicks wanted to spend as little money as possible to go fast and would complain if something broke.

I completely agree. My 4200# Impala ran 10.80's with a stock short block, ported stock heads and some juice. 1.5x 60's too.

Heads matched to the cam and a good suspension setup they ran real strong. No doubt the LS1 was superior, but I smoked sooo many cars in my Impala, a lot of times with 4 passengers.

I sold it with over 80,000 miles with the original Opti, never had a single issue with it.

I really don't understand the hate towards them.

[SS Junk]

lulz @ this:

[helosailor]

I bet ole Charlie Gipe is a fucking party animal.

[Sleeper]

A cammed lt1 with open long tubes sounded mean as hell.

[UserX]

I bet ole Charlie Gipe is a fucking party animal.

I bet he asks his barber for a Lloyd Christmas haircut.

[UserX]

A cammed lt1 with open long tubes sounded mean as hell.

That's no bullshit. LS1s sound like farm trucks.