I have to disagree. The Buick 455 is THE lightest of all GM big blocks. It is only 25lbs heavier than a small block Chevy, thanks to the non-skirted block and high nickel content that allowed thin-wall casting. I drove a Buick GS Stage 1 (455) in the early 80s winters and with snow tires and a posi, it did just fine. The big block Buick handled better than the similar big block Chevelle due to the Chevy's much heavier front end. ... View more

Very cool video. I understand how a carb works and have looked down on several in my years but seeing the highspeed video was priceless! ... View more

It would outpull whatever was in it from the factory.  ... View more

Nice save.   I once got home on an actual shoe string. My throttle cable popped the lead end off and pulled out. I took a shoe string out of my shoe and tied it to the carb throttle arm and routed it through the old throttle cable hole. I couldn't connect it to the pedal but I could pull it with my hand and managed to drive it home with a "hand" throttle. ... View more

I'd have pulled a blinker module and let it self-cycle every few seconds. ... View more

A Buick 455 in anything is a good time. ... View more

As a local and a Buick guy, I am blessed to have this event in my backyard! ... View more

Buick had a 401 as did AMC. Buick also had a 340 as did Mopar. ... View more

When race cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have race cars. What is WRONG with people that you can't enjoy your hobbies in parts, pieces and tire-smoking noise? They keep coming after anything I derive pleasure in, be it cars, guns or travel without government issued vaccination papers. ... View more

I've seen most of these but need to track down "The Last Run" to complete the list. ... View more

My two Buicks sit in a heated, cooled and dehumidified garage when not being driven. From late November to early March, they sit on battery tenders and are not started. I won't start one if I'm not going to drive it. I figure the start and lack of full heat cycle is harder than letting them sit. I check the oil regularly for smell of fuel and usually change it every 1,000 miles or 5 years, whichever comes first. It always looks good. I place a magnet on the oil filter and cut them apart to see how the parts are wearing. My long term storage spare engine gets 1/4 turn of the crank every few months. I should pop the rocker arms loose instead but I keep thinking I'll used it any time. ... View more

Very cool. Lots of imitators. ... View more

When actually driving in a spirited manner, I like to listen to Foreigner's "Tramontane" while shifting gears. If you listen to it, you can get the gist of starting it up, driving out of town and onto the back roads where you can open it up, wind it out and grab another gear. Then you have to brake and downshift and do it all again. If I ever get to drive on the Nürburgring, this will be playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V_qwXGnkUc ... View more

That was my favorite song when I was a kid. I was going to post it but see you beat me to it. Very cool song. ... View more

That's what I've argued for years. Batteries are convenient for small things that are efficient and the losses are marginally valuable. With something as big and power hungry as a car, you have a lot of conversion losses that really eat up your efficiency. My money is on Hydrogen Fuel Cells, lower conversion costs and greater range than gas in a smaller package. ... View more

Rush's Red Barchetta is going become a prophetic warning tale. I'm so tired of all of our tax money being used to pick winners and losers without any input from me. Battery-powered cars are going to be the laserdisc of the automobile world. They are inefficient and terrible at conversion of power to distance. H2 fuel cells are the future. You can fill up nearly as quick as gasoline and the range for capacity is better than gasoline. ... View more

As far as I can tell, I'm guilty of hating one group: The coal-rollers. That obnoxious bunch did it to me on a motorcycle more than a few times and I'd like to see those nasty things detonated with a lump of C4 on the oil pan. While I'm not a fan of the huge, multilevel wings on the rear for FWD cars, I don't tell the owner that. ... View more

The problem with the disc brake advice is that drums lock so much easier than discs due to the self energizing nature of the leading shoe. Discs are much more difficult to lock up and much quicker to respond. If you need drums to be original, that's fine but discs are safer and will repeatably stop every time after the first time. Drums get hot and experience more fade as well. Don't get me started on driving a drum brake car through axle-deep water. You have no brakes the first time you hit them after they are wet. ... View more

As an IT guy, this is complete BS. They have the data, they don't want to share it. Security concerns aside, there is no reason they couldn't. As for security, if they didn't bake it into the system from the get-go, it is already insecure and vulnerable to hacks/cracks and malicious actors. Adding security after the fact is nearly impossible. Look at Windows XP. They finally gave up and abandoned it. ... View more

I'm going with the Buick GN. It more than backed up the black-out treatment. ... View more

Interesting piece of kit there. However, pulling the steering wheel off and moving one spline is a lot harder on my cars. Instead, I adjust the tie rod ends. If it is showing left when straight ahead, you move the left side out in small increments, say 1/4 turn, and move the right in 1/4 turn. That way the wheels match the steering wheel.   I've been using two 4-foot levels with notches filed to hook the end of a tape measure into and to pass the tape from one side under the car. I set them 6-8" off the ground where they clear the undercarriage and take readings on both tapes. The difference is rough toe at the wheel. When I bought the tape measures, I made sure they were both the same scale side by side at 6 feet. It isn't exactly the mid point of the tire but it still gets it dialed in after changing any front end parts.   On your rear toe, couldn't you use something like a long straight edge or a laser pointer to see the angle per side that the tires are angled in or out? If it were crabbing, one would point out past the front tire and one inside the front tire, right?  Both toed in would hit the front tires and both toed out would clear the front tires. ... View more

Very interesting. Is it a one-for-one swap with a late model 26-spline input Muncie? No special clutch, throw-out bearing or pilot bushing and uses the same tail shaft mounting position? It looks like speedo is on the driver side and the reverse lockout would be lost. ... View more

I have had the dash out of my 70 and 71 Buick GS's more than a few times. Wiring is usually not the problem. Broken tabs on the dash plastic housing and the lack of good grounds cause most of the issues on these cars.   I've had the dash out of my 13 Lexus GS (Yeah, I like GS cars) to replace the clock. It is dead center of the dash and looks easy but it is pinned behind several other pieces that have to come out all the way down to the radio and the main driver cluster cover.  I almost stuck a $12 clock in its place.   Before that, I had to replace nearly every light bulb in a 99 Tahoe and the fan/heater controls that had melted. The dash was so brittle that all the snap-tabs that held various things in place were breaking off. The 4x4 lights kept flickering after that even though I cleaned all the contacts (in the dash and at the transfer case) and straightened the pins.   A late-model Chevy 3/4 ton truck of a buddy's dad had a horrible smell inside. We started stripping stuff and finally narrowed it down to a dead mouse in the vents. The evaporator was full of nuts, seeds and fluff. ... View more

I'm the guy with the Buick. The car has 92,000 miles and gets driven regularly though not far. It is in good shape overall but needs more work I've owned it 6 years and I'm working on it as I go. It is very original but I'm not overly concerned other than cutting it up beyond returning to original appearances.    I've considered the aluminum head option. It is appealing now that TA Performance makes a really nice set.  ... View more

MacGyver would be proud. ... View more

I'm wondering if they will work in the valve cover breather hole to find an oil leak? ... View more

I would prefer brake by wire with the pedal still attached to the master than throttle by wire where you might have difficulty convincing the computer to actually go to WOT. As for the understeer, it is safer for the uninitiated and easily balanced with a simple alignment with negative camber up front. ... View more

A group of Buick Skylarks (and GSs by extension) is called an exultation.   A group of GSXs then would be an GSeXultation? ... View more

Are we going to have to go all Molon Labe about our cars too? Geez! ... View more

The Buick Skylark was the basis for the GS and GSX muscle cars. When equipped with the Stage 1 455, they were the fastest car tested by Muscle Car Review with a backseat, coming in third behind the 427 Cobra and 427 Corvette. ... View more