I believe Gene has done some tweaks and upped the boost to his car since I made this video. I've heard that he has been running 58lbs of boost and has hit 195 mph @ 7.01 seconds. Inching ever closer to that 200 mph/6 second goal with his Buick v6 :)

@@NilesProductions Well Gene, get it to the GS Nats. and let's see it run in front of thousands of fellow Buick lovers. That's where all cars are on the same level playing field. Match Race Fever! Line it up against Richard Clark's GN and the best of luck to you both!

Agreed love the ls but also love the 3.8

Ls swaps are for people that can’t bullseye tuning/building old hot rods

@@stevenrodriguez7668 or people that can't afford stage 2 engines.

Boost baby!

@@NilesProductions Hell yeah. I love the 3.8 v6. I have an 89 oldsmobile Trofeo with it. No turbo or anything, but it's a great platform

@@issintf925 Back in the 90's I had a 1981 Toyota 4x4 pickup that had a 3.8 Buick V6 Swap. That thing could climb a tree lol

V8's are becoming a thing of the past! The are 4 cylinders destroying V8's nowadays!

This is why it's a bulletproof engine

I’m always a bit sad when I see a T-Type or Grand National with a V8

@@NilesProductions, same here! It's not a true Turbo Regal/GN without the Turbo V6.

​@@NilesProductions V8 regals/T types are cooler imo, no accounting for taste

sounds exactly like it too

Welcome aboard Mael-Strom :)

I built a tough lil 4lt stoker with twin turbos for my 1993 VR Commodore over 10 years ago. Great little motor, best i did was a 10.07 on the 1/4. Definitely had more in it

@@maxrockatanksyOG The VR Commodore is a cool sleeper, you don't see much of them in the states

Oh man, totally! lol

Gene has made one mean machine for sure :)

That would be epic!

Is this Lawrence Connelly's car Tweaked?

@@05EVORS It's Gene Fleury's car from GN Northwest in Washington.

​@@05EVORS Heck no. Along with Lawrence, that car's been gone "where-ever" for a LONG time. Nice guy Lawrence was a T-R force at the GS Nationals and a T-R guru until the other more experienced racers got into the act with these cars. Then it was "bye, bye" Lawrence.

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words :)

Needs a little Attenborough or perhaps Werner Herzog? LOL

YES!!!!!

It's a beast for sure

Some serious G force at work

I need to get back out there and shoot it again now that he is running more boost and on the cusp of high 6's.

Thank you! Cheers!

Was a fun car to shoot for sure :)

Thanks! It was fun to shoot 🤙

Because you don't like and subscribe to my channel :)

It’s a beast for sure

I'm in the same boat, love the T Type and Grand Nationals.

That and when the g-force make the hat sitting in the passenger seat stand on end 🤙

Thanks! Breavo Fox

Yeah, it’s a sick ride for sure

I think the GN G-body is the best looking car GM built. The nose is cleaner than the Monte, and they got the rear and taillights perfect. My 87 GN is my favorite car by a long shot, and I have a true 68 SS Camaro.

I don't know what that means but I love it LOL

Thanks dude :)

I don’t know if Gene has reached his 200mph goal yet. Last I heard he ran a 7:01 and 195mph. Inching ever closer… if he hits 200 or gets into the sixes I’ll make a new video for sure. 😉

I don't really know but I think Gene was making over 1000 when I shot this video... I wouldn't say this Buick is daily drivable though it is registered and "street legal" lol

You've come to the right place for your odd question lol. While yellow Good Year lettering on their race tires is pretty common it looks like the Yellow lettered Good Year Eagle #1 street tires where made for a couple different Limited edition Monte Carlos from 2000-2004. A couple examples that came with them that you can google are the Limited Edition 2001 Monte Carlo SS Brickyard 400 Pace Car or the 2003 Jeff Gordon Monte Carlo SS. Probably more examples out there but those are two that I know that came with them as original equipment. They have them for sale at Jegs but they are a little pricey if you are looking for a set :) www.jegs.com/i/Kelsey+Tire/618/P3NL6/10002/-1?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvO2IBhCzARIsALw3ASr-M9qTjN5JFSMDdIA4q1hVsDImPAUGd3AkD-NzMOu696qxOHNE0sEaAkrNEALw_wcB

@@NilesProductions i just saw a dale earnhardt monte carlo ss yesturday at dollar generral..it was black

It's crazy to watch it run. It's very quiet compared to everything else on the track. It doesn't look or sound like it's going to be as fast as it is. It's not a sleeper by any means but compared to other cars at the drag strip in it's class it blows minds.

@@NilesProductions For sure!..... 🍻

That’s a pretty cool fun fact 🤙

Gene has ran a 7:01 at 195mph after I made this video. He was running 58lbs of boost at the time. Inching ever closer to the 6 second 200mph barrier 🤙

Not much left stock on this one I’m afraid 😜

@@NilesProductions My knowledge ended years back with the Stage 2 Buick block being 4.3L. Is it still a Buick block you possibly bored a bit over? I remember Dutweiller dipping into the 7s but no where near where you are :)

I know the feeling. Currently selling 35 years of GN racing spare/race parts, mine and my father’s since 1994 when I was a jr in high school. It’s surprisingly emotional selling this stuff I expected to pass down. The memories of the 90s when my 10.90 “stock” GN dominated anything resembling a street car around here before the V8 guys stopped calling turbos a bandaid and began using them on everything like today. My father had some amazing runs in his show car GN with the 109 at the absolute limit of the “stock” bottom end winning some races with cars featured in well known national mags and going to the 276” Stage II as the competition got faster. The Stage II and trans/rear/fuel/supporting mods were running by 2002 and without a single run and under 50 miles he went to Iraq and the car has sat till a month ago when it was loaded onto an enclosed truck as my parents moved away back to the gulf coast. The move was abrupt and they wanted to sell the car instead of transporting it 2,000 miles. The local legend that left even the biggest trash talkers silent with a confused look on their face, an oddball with a Duttweiler M&A headed 4.5L former show car, no bar or cage or cutting on the low mileage car, too nice to cut but too fast to not cut (told him to put the stage motor in the T with 150,xxx miles) left for good but at least it’s still on the family. I may literally fly out to see it one more time once it’s sold. My highschool GN is getting parted out because I don’t have the money to keep it. Luckily I’m keeping my T and will try to take it to the grave. These cars are special to me. Owning one in the late 90s was an amazing experience. A 12 second car was an extremely quick car. Following the recipes $1,500’would bring a healthy stock GN into the 11s. They were incredibly cheap to go high 10s, sometimes mid 10s. But to go mid 10s and quicker reliably meant a stage motor and the bang for the buck factor diminished. In its time it wasn’t super expensive compared to others but nowadays with a factory stock LS or Coyote with a large turbo and E85 on a good tune capable of 9s the stage II is a bit expensive. Still, I would stay where I am or bite the bullet and go Stage II. If nothing else it was worth it for the looks in my fathers car the couple tunes it was driven with that engine. Idle sounds like a big cam large V8. But when the rpms come up and it cleans up, right back to sounding like a 6. it even surprised me with how mean and choppy the idle is and then the V6 sound. Go a little more and the whistle tells you it’s a turbo 6, 4.5l of it. Sorry for the wall of text, can’t space right now. And for rambling too. Awesome video. Going to look for details now.

@@mattramsay6931 Good story bro! I bought mine in 2019 drove it stock with 74k miles for awhile. Finally September 2019 sent it to Steve V to update the car. Stock rotating assembly, valve job, TE60 turbo, 3inch down pipe, pypes 2.5 exhaust, hotwire fuel pump kit, bigger lock up tourqe converter, added the missing bushings that came on the gnx, methonal injection, power master crapped on me soon as I got it back so I had the vacuum brake conversion done. Mid 11 second car. I love that car man. So much I bought a gmc typhoon! That ran good for awhile but I'm gonna need the holley efi conversion to keep it dependable.

Vision of Air by Stefano Bonacina

@@NilesProductions Thank you. It was interesting.

It was part of one of those royalty free music libraries

Never owned one myself but did a Buick 3.8 engine swap into my 81 Toyota 4x4 back in the day. Always liked the styling of the 80's Regal :)

Love it! lol

What you say is all true, though when i first met Gene he had a license plate on the car and the parachute and wheelie bars removed. He had driven it to a local car show I was at. It is registered for street use but is it street legal? 🤷‍♂️ With that said I don’t think he’s running to get groceries anytime soon.

His best run to date (though not in this video) is 195 mph @ 7.01 seconds. He is getting close but it may be unattainable? Was running 58lbs of boost on the 195 run...

@@NilesProductions with some aero work i can see it though. to push that barn door thu that air robs so much HP

It is that for sure 🤙

An absolute beast!