stprorolla49
Active Member
The SN-95 Killercanary descibed in the previous posts belonged to me in the late 90's/early 2000. I purchased the 5-Liter with a scant 18,xxx miles. Timing was set at 10 degrees when checked on day of purchase. Air horn was also intact. The 8.8 contained a 3.08 cog from the factory. This was verified by me by spinning the rear tire one rotation vs. driveshaft rotation. The fox-4 was Vibrant red with a black cloth interior. This car had some weird options/deleted options. It had factory fog lights, pwr. windows/locks, AM/FM cassette, tilt, and a pwr. driver seat. The options missing were speed control, rear window defogger, A/C (factory non-A/C delete) and the Mach Audio.
As far as mods go, they were very limited. Adv. base timing, removed air horn and deleted serpentine belt. Stock sway bars, front and rear remained on the car and the end links were connected in the front as well. The car was raced with a 1/4 tank of Sunoco 93 at that time. No weight was dumped from the car. From the inception of trying to break into the 13 sec. zone I wanted a full weight (as delivered from the factory) car. Spare tire, jack, factory 16" waffles were all on the car. Pep Boys Futura GTX radial tires were the choice for rubber.
The best 60' was a 1.97 in the aformentioned trim. 1/4 mile e.t. was a [email protected] mph. It did crack 97 mph once (97.03) albeit with a slower e.t. Launch rpm was a conservative 4,000 -4,500 rpm
I would have loved to be able to run that car at a faster track and discover how much mph would have been gained.
Those three mods were the only mods done to the vehicle. Everything else was OEM factory stock.
That, my friend is IMPRESSIVE! I thought my 14.2 with just exhaust, CAI, and Nitto drags was impressive. Way to go man!
