Ruined a perfectly good grand national. They could have done the same V8 swap with an 87 Buick Regal and it would basically be the same thing but without ruining a rare classic.
I agree. If anything i would've taken a vortech 4.3 and built for a massive amount of boost and ran it like that. A 4.3 swap would've been more respectable.
Bsaint...so true- maybe a 1963 or 64 Wildcat...they were badass with the 455 big old fuckin block...hahaha! They truly were badass n the day. But agree 100% that the Grand National was the best/beautifulest Buick made. Was it 1986...fastest production car?? A v6 turbo?? Beautiful & bad fuckin ass!! Loved those cars...just can't find them n good enough shape to restore anymore.
Cliff Lee...I'm not familiar with old Buicks. I just know a childhood buddy- his dad owned what I remember to b a Buick "Wildcat"& not even sure of the yr model. Almost positive it had a 455, high performance of some sort & it would haul ass. As I said, I'm not very familiar with old Buicks...but it was nice. I only got to ride n it 2 different times& one was driven by my buddy who really opened it up to show me the poeer it had. Awesome car that eventually let sit n yard until the value was low & the mom of my friend sold it for next to nothing.
Oh Pulse nah... He probably has the engine tucked away.. To go with it ..if selling.. Plus.. It IS a mid 7sec car.. $$.. So there's plenty of value there
Love the Gn so much but if it's a real Gn it's a shame that the it was built this way and had a motor swap. I mean if your gonna do that line as well just buy a base model regal. Cheaper to buy and won't ruin a nice car. Either way sick car love the Gn.
haha that's so funny I was thinking the same thing. badass ride just sucks that he lost!! I like that Fastback Mustang those things are making a comeback any info on that one I don't think it's Helenor is it?
It's not a Buick Grand National anymore. It's a Buick Regal. People need to get this straight. You could put any badging you want on it. But once you get rid of the V6 turbo it's a Regal
@@mewrongwayKOCXF That's what he gets for using an aluminum V8(just guessing). Lighter is good, but not if it makes you turn down the boost. Cast iron blocks can handle way more power and I'm assuming they help mitigate shit like this.
The GNX proved to america that there is replacement for displacement, by having a turbo V6. Swapping it with V8 would make its exploits and legacy pointless.
To be fair, 3.8 liters is pretty damn big for a 6 Cylinder. Practically every other 6 cylinder I can think of is a 3.0 or 3.5 at most. It's only 0.8 liters smaller than 4.6 liter Mustang GT. Throw 20 pounds of boost on top and it's not that hard to see why it's so fast. It has almost an entire liter advantage over the Supra and we all know how insane that car is. Buick did something right since the FBI discretely bought a shit ton of GNs and GNXs. As a rule of thumb, if the FBI wants it, I do too. Their R&D team is on point lol.
Something went horribly right with this car and I don't know how. It's like Buick knew the exact amount of power and weight to get amazing acceleration and traction. You can have all the power in the world but if you're just spinning tires you aren't winning shit. A turbo V8 is almost like an 8" dick - so excessive that it actually starts to hinder your performance. Once you're making that kind of power you have to run super sticky tires that are useless for anything except hot as fuck and dry as fuck. Thanks but no thanks. I don't know how tires still suck so much all these years later. They're obviously better but the amount of progress made in 30 years is sad. People are too complacent and it isn't a big money maker for companies so I guess tires for car enthusiasts are put on the back burner. Sad.
Ruined the fucking beauty of that 3.6 turbo that made that gave meat to that body.yes the v8 is "more power" but it's not the power that made the gn what it was. To each there own,but damn man. It hurts to see.
@@mewrongwayKOCXF This is 2018 - American kids will be without jobs no matter what. Buy an "American" car and it's made with Chinese parts and assembled by Mexicans. I'd rather support Asian kids that don't sell drugs in my country and actually take great pride in the work they're doing. The '80s ended a job time ago, unfortunately.
R my status wrong Real gnx was 0 to 60 in3.9 sec stock from factory can u help me on this I had Buick true gnx not Bolt on after market faster than the corvette that year???
If memory serves me well, the 1987 GNx only lost, in 1988 was, to a Ferrari Testarosa or something like that. Beside that, it killed everything else for a couple of years in-a-row.
@@mewrongwayKOCXF How can you say anything about intelligent responses when you say shit like this. First of all, most of the cars in the video are old as fuck. It's not like someone just bought that, so immediately this is an asinine comment. If an American job was lost, it was lost a long fucking time ago. If you truly care about American jobs you must be pro Trump and very against illegal immigration? If not you're a delusional hypocrite.
gut wrenching to see a GN with a v8 swap. I'm all about v8 american muscle but some things you just don't do v8 swaps to.
Ruined a perfectly good grand national. They could have done the same V8 swap with an 87 Buick Regal and it would basically be the same thing but without ruining a rare classic.
I agree. If anything i would've taken a vortech 4.3 and built for a massive amount of boost and ran it like that. A 4.3 swap would've been more respectable.
Freeman/duttweiler went faster with the stock 3.8l
Agreed. Just use any old car. Why destroy/mod a perfectly fine car as is.
Can any one of you even afford a regal?
I don’t care how many he lost or won, the Buick has style.
Darth Vader
And class
There are basicly thousands of not-any-value G-bodies there and they went and destroeyd a GN. Nice job.
Love myself some GNX only Buick I would ever own.
Bsaint...so true- maybe a 1963 or 64 Wildcat...they were badass with the 455 big old fuckin block...hahaha! They truly were badass n the day. But agree 100% that the Grand National was the best/beautifulest Buick made. Was it 1986...fastest production car?? A v6 turbo?? Beautiful & bad fuckin ass!! Loved those cars...just can't find them n good enough shape to restore anymore.
Charles Loveday you mean By not wildcat, it was Royal Pointiac that produced the Royal Bobcats
Cliff Lee...I'm not familiar with old Buicks. I just know a childhood buddy- his dad owned what I remember to b a Buick "Wildcat"& not even sure of the yr model. Almost positive it had a 455, high performance of some sort & it would haul ass. As I said, I'm not very familiar with old Buicks...but it was nice. I only got to ride n it 2 different times& one was driven by my buddy who really opened it up to show me the poeer it had. Awesome car that eventually let sit n yard until the value was low & the mom of my friend sold it for next to nothing.
It's nice to have a grand national but to rip out the stock motor and make it a drag car is dumb. If it's a real Gn.
What about a '70 GSX
rip the value of that GN
Oh Pulse
nah... He probably has the engine tucked away.. To go with it ..if selling.. Plus.. It IS a mid 7sec car.. $$.. So there's plenty of value there
Craig Cundiff he better still have that engine that's a historical engine right there that thing is what brought back GM
Yeah I couldn't ever see anyone just toss out a real GNX engine
Craig Cundiff people do oh v8s are so much better that's why back in the 80s they were getting smoked by this little turbo v6 xD
Yeah they were ...and still are pretty badass!
WOW!! IT ALMOST WON A ROUND!!!
Love the Gn so much but if it's a real Gn it's a shame that the it was built this way and had a motor swap. I mean if your gonna do that line as well just buy a base model regal. Cheaper to buy and won't ruin a nice car. Either way sick car love the Gn.
My thoughts exactly - he spent 30 grand on that car to fuck it up when he could have just spend 10 all in and had the boring as fuck V8 G body.
You want a GN? I'll trade you for a Regal
Why would you put in a v8? The car has been destroyed
That wheelie thoooo
@@BigKleib34 Cool for Instagram, not so cool if you're actually trying to win. That ain't a Dodge Charger and he ain't Vin Diesel.
@@BigKleib34 right LoL
dude lost every dang race. love the car and the fact that he swapped in 2 extra cylinders.. wierd to see a video full of losses
William Neff he won his first race
William Neff exactly the guy loose every race im like whats going on with the swap engine and stuff?
haha that's so funny I was thinking the same thing. badass ride just sucks that he lost!! I like that Fastback Mustang those things are making a comeback any info on that one I don't think it's Helenor is it?
Me thinks he was running in the wrong class! lol
The fact that he V8 swapped it makes me cringe
It's not a Buick Grand National anymore. It's a Buick Regal. People need to get this straight. You could put any badging you want on it. But once you get rid of the V6 turbo it's a Regal
Not very impressive. Lawrence Conley was running 7's in the late 90's with a V6 single turbo Regal. Wtf...
How fast is your car?
BigKleib34 Relevance?
Exactly!!!
He has a point, if the V6 is just as fast, why bother?
231mac correction.. EARLY 90s
Wheelie Bars NEEDED..If he had those he could turn it up properly keeping the front down and go quicker
@@mewrongwayKOCXF That's what he gets for using an aluminum V8(just guessing). Lighter is good, but not if it makes you turn down the boost. Cast iron blocks can handle way more power and I'm assuming they help mitigate shit like this.
Everyone hating on the grand national can’t even afford a regal 😂
I own a 78 regal I just don’t see the point of using a classic rare g body for this...
trap martin I have a 84 t type and I’m getting ready for a twin turbo LS swap
His reaction time is shit...what a waste
What a waste of a car. Just use a regular Regal you are converting the entire drivetrain anyway. What's the point of using a GN?
The GNX proved to america that there is replacement for displacement, by having a turbo V6.
Swapping it with V8 would make its exploits and legacy pointless.
3.8 buick whoops a lsx's ass. fuck off.
To be fair, 3.8 liters is pretty damn big for a 6 Cylinder. Practically every other 6 cylinder I can think of is a 3.0 or 3.5 at most. It's only 0.8 liters smaller than 4.6 liter Mustang GT. Throw 20 pounds of boost on top and it's not that hard to see why it's so fast. It has almost an entire liter advantage over the Supra and we all know how insane that car is. Buick did something right since the FBI discretely bought a shit ton of GNs and GNXs. As a rule of thumb, if the FBI wants it, I do too. Their R&D team is on point lol.
@@mewrongwayKOCXF not in my dreams. it happens. so many blown up ls engines compared to 3.8 buicks.
GN with a v8 is a Monte carlo
Street legal ? It has a Quebec license plate.
That grand national getting pick on 😆
if they remove the turbo V6 it's just a Regal in my opinion
Its like ripping the soul out of it the hole mustek of owning a GN is the fact you can say it's just a 6.
Just ruined that car ya damn right . I wouldnt even bother putting a v8 in a t type either . One of the few cars I wouldnt v8 swap
Boricuas rotarys are the law !
Something went horribly right with this car and I don't know how. It's like Buick knew the exact amount of power and weight to get amazing acceleration and traction. You can have all the power in the world but if you're just spinning tires you aren't winning shit. A turbo V8 is almost like an 8" dick - so excessive that it actually starts to hinder your performance. Once you're making that kind of power you have to run super sticky tires that are useless for anything except hot as fuck and dry as fuck. Thanks but no thanks. I don't know how tires still suck so much all these years later. They're obviously better but the amount of progress made in 30 years is sad. People are too complacent and it isn't a big money maker for companies so I guess tires for car enthusiasts are put on the back burner. Sad.
I don’t think so
GN is no joke even in 2017!!
Looks to me like everything is whipping its ass on the drag strip lol!
Why would you do that to a grand national? Disgrace!
Smdh.. Some things are more important than winning a race. and he didn't even win!!! So he has a V8 REGAL.. its NOT A GN ANYMORE. wow impressive 😒
yea 7 seconds isnt impressive considering those imports are in the 6's.
Ruined the fucking beauty of that 3.6 turbo that made that gave meat to that body.yes the v8 is "more power" but it's not the power that made the gn what it was. To each there own,but damn man. It hurts to see.
He keeps losing??
did I just see a 200 mph corolla?!?!?!?!?
@@mewrongwayKOCXF This is 2018 - American kids will be without jobs no matter what. Buy an "American" car and it's made with Chinese parts and assembled by Mexicans. I'd rather support Asian kids that don't sell drugs in my country and actually take great pride in the work they're doing. The '80s ended a job time ago, unfortunately.
Didn't win any of those races but your car Is super quick
What a waste of a GN 😔
Thise some fast ass cars
That V8 doesn't belong there
RIP mustang mike
love that GN - from the Great White North
Dam that's my first time to ever see a grand national get its ass whipped...
Is he ever gonna win a race. RIP to ya career bruh
Yeahhh baby GN🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇺🇸🏁🚦☠👍🏻👍🏼👍🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
Would have been nice to see the other times on paper also (60ft time, etc).
R my status wrong Real gnx was 0 to 60 in3.9 sec stock from factory can u help me on this I had Buick true gnx not Bolt on after market faster than the corvette that year???
If memory serves me well, the 1987 GNx only lost, in 1988 was, to a Ferrari Testarosa or something like that. Beside that, it killed everything else for a couple of years in-a-row.
@@rverro8478 Buick challenged Ferrari to a race and Ferrari declined!
@@omarescamilla6223 I'm not surprised.
anyone know anything about that celica at 1:25?
@@mewrongwayKOCXF How can you say anything about intelligent responses when you say shit like this. First of all, most of the cars in the video are old as fuck. It's not like someone just bought that, so immediately this is an asinine comment. If an American job was lost, it was lost a long fucking time ago. If you truly care about American jobs you must be pro Trump and very against illegal immigration? If not you're a delusional hypocrite.
Total stupidity. Build a Buick 274 stage 2 motor with 88 or 94 mm turbo. 1400 hp and a lighter motor
What about the car from mech tec collage!🤔
*Those built rotary engines are no joke.*
Nice car, but u kinda ruined the point
Does anybody know if this dude has a Facebook?
that Green ONE
Why...
Damn!
V6 or nothing......
FUCKING AWESOME.
If it’s a V8, just supercharge it for goodness sakes
Dang he lost every race
Boylston as nun
Facken hell
why couldnt he just use a t type and make a clone
Wesley Ronne t type is worth money too. they should have just use a plain Jane Regal
Drew513Ryder yeah that would be the best option
All those Ls
Lol it only took Ls.
turbo 3.8 gn was running 7s in the early 90s. you played yourself.
I hope this is one thing about America that never dies