hgerhardt
06-18-2009, 08:52 PM
Hi all, I'm Heinrich Gerhardt, and I have a '66 GTO. It's motivated by a Pontiac 428 with Edelbrock heads, a solid roller, a homemade carbon-fiber EFI intake connected to a Motec (if you want to inject a Pontiac, how are ya gonna do it?), with a Cadillac Northstar crank trigger whose 550 HP (+150 N2O) is transmitted to the 12-bolt posi via a 200-4R and an aluminum driveshaft. It's steered by a YA-code MonteSS box with a '70's Cadillac steering cooler connected to a pre-airbag 80's Firebird wheel and it used to be stopped by 70's F-body front brakes and '78 K-body rears (Seville) and boosted by a B-body Powermaster master cylinder. I'm now converting it to C5 front with B-body spindles and GW upper arms and LS1 rears. Wheels are ROH ZR6 with 255-45ZR17 tires.
10 years ago this month, Hot Rod magazine saw fit to publish a nice story on the car and even put it on the cover. Which, I found out years later, motivated my friend Joe Whiles to go to engineering school (congrats, Joe). Three years after that, some woman decided stop signs didn't apply to her and plowed her Volvo into me (as I was going around 40 mph) and basically wiped out the entire RH side of the car. Needless to say, I was heartbroken. And pissed. :machine: It took about 5 years for the body shop to repair the body damage, (and fortunately I had the foresight to remove the driveline and interior before I gave them the car), but just about every single piece of hardware they installed is wrong--either cross-threaded, metric bolt into standard hole, wrong size, wrong torque, you name it, they did it. Unbelievable. Well, I got the car back 2-1/2 years ago, but I had other things to finish first, like my homebuilt airplane (google N10HJ or go here (http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=01416339&size=large)). Now that it's been flying for 2 years, I finally got back to the car. Engine+trans, new Doug's headers, new brakes and hyd lines, and most of the wrong hardware is fixed and I think I'll have it back on the road a few months.
10 years ago this month, Hot Rod magazine saw fit to publish a nice story on the car and even put it on the cover. Which, I found out years later, motivated my friend Joe Whiles to go to engineering school (congrats, Joe). Three years after that, some woman decided stop signs didn't apply to her and plowed her Volvo into me (as I was going around 40 mph) and basically wiped out the entire RH side of the car. Needless to say, I was heartbroken. And pissed. :machine: It took about 5 years for the body shop to repair the body damage, (and fortunately I had the foresight to remove the driveline and interior before I gave them the car), but just about every single piece of hardware they installed is wrong--either cross-threaded, metric bolt into standard hole, wrong size, wrong torque, you name it, they did it. Unbelievable. Well, I got the car back 2-1/2 years ago, but I had other things to finish first, like my homebuilt airplane (google N10HJ or go here (http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=01416339&size=large)). Now that it's been flying for 2 years, I finally got back to the car. Engine+trans, new Doug's headers, new brakes and hyd lines, and most of the wrong hardware is fixed and I think I'll have it back on the road a few months.