Anyone ever drive one down the 1/4 mile? Do they go?

- 2qik4u

They go like hell, that is what GLH stands for.

Boyd has about a million laps on that little Omni at Irwindale. Sure is fun to watch him pick on the Mustang guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e9XjOCL-cE

How about in stock form? I have an opportunity to pick one up, always though it would be a fun ride, don't expect it to hang with my roadrunner, but would like to be able to hang with stock 5.0's, new challengers & Camaros in stock form, etc...

Not sure it will keep up w/ a new 5.0 Mustang, but should w/ the old fox body unless the Fox body is modified. But you can do some upgrades yourself.

They are very fun cars to drive and handle very well, but don't expect them to be able to hang with any 'performance' car of the last several years when it comes to straight line stuff.

When stock, probably be lucky to hit the 15's. (I am speaking of a stock turbo GLH, not a GLHS.)

Well worth having, they are quite rare.

R.

If you are not familiar with the term "torque steer" you need to drive a Omni GLH, Shelby charger, or a srt4.

It is fun, but you have to learn what to expect. They are different to drive hard.

Is it a turbo? I had 2. One was a HP/carb engine (first year) and the next was a efi turbo. I had shelby chargers also, not as fast as the 4drs. Never had a glhs though.
The cars feel faster than they are because of the tq steer. I would get it if I were you.

We use to put a air bleed on the line for the waste
gate to kick it up some.. the O2 can drive the fuel
up about 12% to stay with the added boost

It seems to me either Road and Track or Car and Driver did an article when that car first came out. They were at a bigtime road course with the Shelby GLH and a 350 GT R Mustang.

There were editors from all the major mags laughing it up about what a joke is was running this 4 door tape striped econobox against a "real" Shelby car.

They weren't laughing when the econbox beat the "real" one into turn 1 and proceeded to put a lap on it...

They did it again only this time at a 30 MPH rolling start so as not to beat on a $$$$ Mustang with the drag race standing start. GLH caught the 350 before the end of the second lap and proceeded to put a lap on it again.

I have been a big fan ever since.

Kevin

How hard to put a turbo glh into to 14's? How about 13's? If it's fairly simple to go low 14's or high 13's this could be a riot around town!

I think turbododge.com is where you might want to look for these cars. I was looking too buy a turbo FWD car and they are a lot for sale on there. Parts also! Someone has a 33,000 mile glhs on the site for $17,500

I had problems with the trans, in two of them I split second gear and it went through the case. One turbo I and one turbo II.

There was lots of stuff for the 2.2's, a twin cam head, bigger turbo, different cams, bigger injectors. Real easy to make over 300 horses with them. Weak link was the manual trans and the half shafts.

I have an '89 CSX and shelved my '65 Dart project to play around with the CSX instead. You will enjoy it and I would give serious thought to picking it up if I were you. I really enjoy mine and am looking forward to getting it back on the road to take the kid for a quick ice cream runs .