Here’s the Deal: We are offering a group purchase discount on any of our CNC ported Buick heads. Even if you purchased the heads somewhere else! We will take orders on the heads from now until midnight March 6. Enter”group” for the discount code and recieve $150 discount off of the purchase price. Your credit card will be charged 75% of the total order as down payment, and the remaining 25% will be charged at shipment. We will start porting the heads the first week in march with delivery shortly thereafter. If you are sending us your heads we need to recieve them by the first of March. This discount is valid on any of our CNC ported Buick heads and is valid from 2/14/2011-2/28/2011. CNC Ported Buick Heads. PleaseCONTACT USwith any questions
Competition Components has added the entire Flatout Gasket line to our online store. Flatout makes exceptional quality gaskets, from their Rubber Coated Copper (RCC) Head gaskets, RCC Header gaskets. Their MLS gaskets are second to none! Check them out here: Flatout Gaskets.
We have added the entire FAST product line to our website. F.A.S.T, is part of the Comp Performance Group and is considered by many to be the leader in Fuel Injection development. XFI Fuel Injection kits, the EZ-EFI retrofit kits, and all of the associated components are available for order here at Competition Components. Check them out here.
Competition Components has all of our SRP Pistons on sale this week (12/5/2010-12/11/2010). No coupon code needed. Check them out here: JE/SRP Pistons . Looking for a specific set and don’t see it listed? Contract us for great pricing and availability.
With our continued success with our CNC ported Buick heads, Edelbrock will be featuring them in their trade show display. Quite an honor! If you are at the PRI Show, stop by and check them out. You can check them out here.
Lot’s of cars have interesting stories, and Doug and Nancy’s Skylark bracket car is no exception. In Doug’s words:
“I found this car on a used car lot around 1997. It was rust free Texas car with a totally shot interior and a 350 with a rod knock. I let my friend know and he went to look hoping to make a full race car out of it. When he went the car was still there but he was told it was sold. The next month I drive by and it’s still sitting there. I call my friend who goes back and finds out someone put money down but never came back so he bought it for $800. We drove it home with a rod knock about 5 miles expecting it to grenade. We gutted the motor/trans/interior and let it sit. A short time later a local machine shop gave us a rebuilt 73 455. Someone dropped it off to be rebuilt many years ago and never picked it up. Having a car and a motor sitting there we decided to build a “fun car”. A local junk yard gave us a TH400, we built a 4.10 12 bolt chevy from a spare housing, used some old MT headers from the rafters, bought a performer intake, found an old 3310 Holley and threw it all together. The best the car ran was 12.80’s with a total investment of about $1500. I drove the car off and on for about 10 years, usually taking it to Buick races to have fun with. 3 years ago I bought the car from my friend and shortly afterwards I bought a 12-1 stage 1 engine and ran 11.70’s.”
Looking for better ET’s, Doug built the engine in the car now. It’s budget minded, but still uses good quality parts: The Block was machined by Bobb and Geof at Finishline, and assembled by Doug. Wiseco Pistons were used, and swing on 6.635 BBC H beam rods. The cam is a custom flat tappet from Competition Components, 260 @ .050 on the intake side, and .600 lift with Comp Cams 1.6 Gold series rocker arms. Heads are CNC Ported Edelbrock RPM’s with an upgrade to 7/16 rocker studs. The intake is an SP1 single plane with an adapter to run a 9375 Dominator (1050). Improved oiling comes from a Finishline scavenger unit. Doug used some innovation and some spare parts for the ignition, using a stock buick distributor and converted it to electronics using a Mopar pickup and corresponding orange control box. Neat idea Doug. The converter is a 4000 RPM Coan unit, and the 12 Bolt houses 4.10 gears. Exhaust consists of 2″ Headers and 3 1/2″ pipes and Dynomax bullet mufflers. Best ET so far is 10.60 @ 127+ mph. The skylark weighs in at 3500lbs. Oh, and the other cool thing? Nancy is Doug’s sister in law and shares the driving duties on the blue Buick! Here’s a video of the car in action
We have added our entire line of Buick Cams to the site, both in hydraulics as well as solids. One of our flat tappet cams was # 1 Qualifier at the Norwalk Buick day both in 2009, and 2010. Nearly half the field both years had custom cams from us. Put our hard work to use in your Buick. Complete Listing here. These cams work great with Iron heads, Edelbrock heads both stock and ported as well as TA’s stage 2 heads. In addition, custom cam orders are encouraged. Also available through Finishline Motorsports. We do cams for v6’s, nailheads and 350’s too!
We always like to see something a little different. Bruce Wilson’s Buick 455 Powered Jaguar is definitely different and exceptionally well done. The Jag was rescued out of Smitty’s Junkyard in Pasadena, MD. The body and interior look pretty much as you see here, surprising with the 200,000+ miles. Someone had gutted the driveline and left the shell. The car still has the original leather seats, real wood dash and power windows. Now that’s different for a 9 second racecar! When Bruce picked it up, they put it on the trailer with a forklift and gave him a weary “good luck”.
The body was shipped of to Clark’s Racing Chassis, to get the cage and Ladder bar rear suspension put in it. The front suspension is stock Jag, with custom drag shocks fitted by Bruce. Peters Sheetmetal fabrication handled the hood mods, and Dave Wilson at Southern Automatics handled the transmission.
Tom and Bubb at Burtonsville Performance Machine were put in charge of machining and assembly. The Engine is a basic 464 CID combination, with a stock crank, 4.350 Bore CP flat top pistons, and TA Performance Stage 1 heads that have been fully ported. The Cam is a custom flat tappet from Scott Brown @ Competition Components. A Dominator is perched atop a KB Wildcat intake (Now the SPX) and sealed to the custom hood.
The Jag really hauls the mail, running a best of 9.71@ 137 best with a 1.32 sixty foot time. Not bad for a 3300lb car running a 3.50 gear. No, we aren’t kidding! Usually though, Bruce takes some timing out and short shifts to run 10.00 Index races. This past weekend, Bruce was runner up in the naturally aspirated shootout series in Maple Grove, where he is currently the Points Leader. Congrats Bruce!
