I heard a story many moons ago that it was not uncommon for Pontiac guys on the assembly line to slip in the oddball camshaft or a pair of thinner shim head gaskets to boost the compression on the random GTO passing by, your Triple-Gold Goat might have been one of those, they were all terrific cars!
My ‘66 Catalina had a pretty ‘box stock’ 389, but I goosed it up with the usual Edelbrock intake, Holley 780, 4-tube headers, etc. I tried running 4.10 gears on the street bu it was too much, so had to opt for a 3.55:1 gearset, even with that, the TH400 didn’t appreciate it, lol
“I heard a story many moons ago that it was not uncommon for Pontiac guys on the assembly line to slip in the oddball camshaft or a pair of thinner shim head gaskets to boost the compression on the random GTO passing by, your Triple-Gold Goat might have been one of those, they were all terrific cars!”
Very possible. It was entirely stock. I never played with it like you did with the Catalina. I do know that it kept climbing after the needle was buried ;-)
Y'know guys, in the day weren't those unusually fast but stock cars called, "freaks"? That's what the old man's Dart was, at least it was regarded so by the BB 396s, 350s, 383s etc I creamed. LOL
Ask "Dem Guard 'bout that Dart, he'd tell you.
No one could ever figure out why the thing was so damned fast, especially considering we were running it on regular pump gas. (~the old man...) LOL
"My ‘66 Catalina had a pretty ‘box stock’ 389, but I goosed it up with the usual Edelbrock intake, Holley 780, 4-tube headers, etc. I tried running 4.10 gears on the street bu it was too much, so had to opt for a 3.55:1 gearset, even with that, the TH400 didn’t appreciate it,"
I should've read ahead, would've answered my own question. Oy vey.
You had to have posted to me just as I signed off to go soak in the hot tub this AM, stephen. Now I gotta go lug in a load of firewood since the in-laws burned through nearly a rick yesterday, before absconding with my vegetables.
Liberals. LOL!!!