This happened around '87 and the engine was not stock. If you remember when the 283 came out it was one of the first V-8's from GM to produce 1HP per cubic inch. So, basically in stock form mine would have had around 283 HP. Take that and add a hipo, sollid the cam out of a Vette (around .519 lift from what I remember), a set of ported and polished power pac heads, a high performance intake and exhaust, electric fan, etc and it was probably pushing 300HP or more. Like I said I never had it dynoed, I just knew what it would do. As far as the aerodynamics your right, like the saying goes, it was a shoe box Chevy, so it did take alot of power to push it through the air. Even so I was actually turning more RPM on the tach than I figured the speed for so taking that into account along with aerodynamics I was still pushing really close to 150 if not there....
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