1977 Trans-Am Vs. My Car

Well, if its stock, you wont have a problem. Its probably an automatic Pontiac 400. Stock trim for '77 was 180hp@3600 and 325tq@1600.


If it's modded, its hard to say.

A buddy of mine has a 79 T/A that he swapped in a B.O.P 400 from his old catalina and put some ram air III ported heads and an ultradyne roller cam on it with a Demon (dont remember the number) carb. With the stock 350 turbo, and 4.11 gears he runs 12.8 @109ish (on hwy rolles from 1st gear he has beat 12.1 cars). He just got a diff. reworked Demon and added a 165-170 shot of n2o and is looking for 10's if it will hook. Freakish power for the 2-3k in the whole motor including the rebuild he had done by the mech. shop that did the mach. work to the shortblock before he put it into the T/A.

Bone stock they sucked but if the guy has added any kind of head/or headwork and a decent cam/intake you could be in for some trouble if it was a motor bigger than the 301. 98% are total hoosier rides though.

1977, wait a second. That's the Bandit's car. Your name ain't Cletus is it? Cause if it is (or if you are Buford T. Justice), well sir, then you don't stand a chance.

from what i remember those cars had good torque, but couldnt do anything with it to make HP... even though people dog us with our sn-95 verts... i think you'll walk all over him(he just thinks he's fast with all that TQ...)

Is it an olds 403" engine or a pontiac 400? I'd say its a drivers race if its a pontiac 400 and if its the olds 403, those are slower. The 400/4spd cars were the 'ones to get' back then.