i raced a trans am with nos

gears and stickys will do it!

Well I noticed you have the nitto's 555 which will help you hook up nice. But you definently need 4:10's not 3:73's with the 3:73's and the power you have you will be dissapointed. You car has nice numbers on hp but remember mustangs hook up nicely and with gears it makes a world of difference. So I believe with gears yes you can beat the TA if you are hitting your gears right. Launch at about 4 grand and if u r at a 30mph roll u can launch nice in second with 4:10's. Horse power is not everything!

no, I don't. Unless he was running a small 50 shot, which I highly doubt. Most will hook up a 100 shot.

LS1, headers, 100 shot, thats pretty close to a 120 trapping vehicle. No way a gear change alone would have helped you that much from a roll.

in my previous car, a 1990 5.0 GT I went from 14.8 to 13.9 with only 3.73 and nothing else. maybe it wouldn't make such a huge diff with a much faster car but it did help me quite a bit. I am guessing that you have a manual but if u have an auto I would suggest 4.10's

What 1993 formula firebirds hp rate at?

The 1993 Trans Am is at 275 hp bone stock. Right around 98 or so it went up to 300 and only changed I believe around 2002 to 310. I could be wrong but 1993 is definently at 275 hp.

Your low on power by about 10-20 HP too

I'd give the LT1 another 10-15 hp over rated, those engines were underrated also. I wouldn't say most or even many LS1s are dynoing over 300hp at the wheels. 280-295 isn't uncommon but over 300 I haven't seen more than a couple times on bone stock vehicles in person. I'm talking corrected number here because I've probably never seen a stock LS1 dyno over 300 uncorrected in this crappy altitude/weather.

Gears would have helped but I imagine he still may have edged you out depending on what size shot he was using and how he was using it, button, WOT switch, whatever.