Before I begin I want to thank everyone who has helped me and shared with me their experiences with these cars. This never would have been possible without the close help of Terry Ryan.

My car is street driven as well as being driven to and from the track (on the slicks :) It is an all steel car with factory glass T-Tops, working AC, PS, PW, full interior, etc. The car currently only sports a 6 point roll bar, this will need to be upgraded to be 9 second legal. It weighs 3540 pounds.

Everybody across the country has a different combination, but we all have the same goal. My combination uses the power of high boost (over 30 pounds)

The picture at the right shows Ryan as he takes off against a heavily nitroused tunnel rammed big block Nova. The Nova saw a lot of bumper, and never caught Ryan even when the other stages of nitrous were activated

Starting from the back of the car, here are the specs:

Rearend:

• All Stock gears, axles, control arms, and bushings (all were factory installed 98,000 miles ago.
• Big wheel cylinders were added along with air bags, and aluminum drums.
  

Transmission:

• Factory 200 trans, and driveline.
• Shift kit installed and governor re-worked
• 9" Art Carr Non-Lockup converter

Engine:

• Factory block, crank, and rods, .030 over TRW pistons, two steel caps in the center mains.
• Factory Heads, original valves, some porting,
• Factory style GM Gaskets
• 218 Comp Cam
• Factory Intake, Upper Plenum, and Throttle body, some porting.
• Factory Headers (Welded 7 times :)
• Factory Ignition and ECM
• 76 turbo
• PT&E Front Mount
• 1 Waste Gate on Crossover / ATR Tangential down pipe
• 8 Injectors (6-55# plus another 55# and 83# in up pipe)
• 2 Bosch Pumps fed into stock fuel line

Other:

• Line Lock
• Volt Booster
• Gauges & Shift Light
• 90/10 Shocks, and front swaybar removed
• Weld Wheels 28X10.5 M/T's rear with 29 X 4.5 Goodyear fronts

Tuning:

• I rough tune the car on the street with a passenger (late at night) and fine tune the car at the track.
• Slowly turn it up and dump in the fuel (and watch out for Johnny Law) I use only an OTC 4000 and Knock warning light.
  

How much more will the GN take? There is no stopping the performance of these cars. One thing is for sure....10's are great but 9's are better!

I would like to add the fact that Ryan has at least 4 seasons worth of drag racing on his long block. He has slowly upped the turbo sizes, and injector capacity. He deserves a lot of credit for slowly and methodically rubbing on that car to get every last bit of performance out of it. He is the kind of guy that is constantly thinking about ways to make the car go faster. The bottom line is, there are no "tricks" to the car other than the amount of boost used, and the somewhat un-conventional use of big injectors in the up-pipe. I would also add that we all think he has been very lucky...yes LUCKY! that his motor has held together for so long. It's not because he's been easy on it...that thing get's wrung out whenever he visits the track. As he said, Terry Ryan was a huge contributor to the cars performance. Terry is our local "Turbo Regal Guru"

This picture shows a match between Ryan and Dave. Dave saw nothing but GN bumper from half track on. That's none other than Terry Ryan in the background with arms folded.