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thanks, I bought a set from him

That's awesome, I can't wait to hear what it runs!

Wow thats about 2 seconds and 9 MPH faster than a stocker, at least according to h-body.org Can you tell me the month of the magazine issue, I'd love to try to find find a copy

That is awesome! I want to know what kind of quarter mile times that car ran. Congratulations on obtaining that little piece of automotive history

Thanks for everyone's comments. Wow, I would love to know more about the Gold Rush Vega, (I haven't been able to find anything anywhere on the internet about that car.) bob762231, I believe you are right about my horsepower numbers. I'm pretty sure my car has aftermarket cams in it by the way it idles. (You can hear it running on you tube if you type in 502turbos and click on that site) However by the seat of the pants feel I believe it is probably 170 or so HP. The ambient air temp really makes a difference, I'm sure it could use an intercooler. Hopefully in the coming year we can get a list of ET numbers going. Merry Christmas to you all.

Thanks for your input and I hope your mods work out well for you. I had a CV back in 1982 when I was 21 years old and I hated that car because it was so slow and hardly anyone knew anything about EFI. Now I'm 57 and have a little more knowledge under my belt. I came across #1915 2 years ago (it's a CV that was professionally turbocharged in California many years ago). When I bought the car It hadn't run for about 30 years and I had to do a lot of work to it, mainly to the underside of the car because of rust. Of course there was a complete rebuild of the fuel system and a little tuning and I found out that this little car will scoot. I'm only running 5 lbs. of boost for now but you know it's not going to stay there. I am however afraid of the fragility of these blocks and I want to be careful not to split it in two. I believe that Scott Baumgarner ran a high 12 sec.in his vega and I heard that there were A few other turbo CV's that were running crazy boost numbers. I would love to see a dyno number or a time slip from these cars, I'm sort of looking for a number to shoot for. Anyway thanks again I hope You run 11's, keep us posted.