In this video we will compare the 87 Grand National to the 89 Turbo TA pace car. We will discuss specification, why they are the same, but different, as well as do walk arounds and test drives.
Back in the early 2000's my father bought this 1989 pontiac pace car and absolutely loved it, we would always go to car shows together and it would be the only one there. He ended up selling it and buying a 1987 buick grand national that had a built engine. I got to experience both of these cars as a kid and i will never forget them.
If you did a race between both the GN and TRANS AM I will guarantee you the views will be so high in numbers. That's what people want to see expecially since there both stock.
I own #466 TTA and I have of bone stock cars being put on the dyno and having 300 HP. I've had my car pull a 4.4 0-60 and run low 12's in the 1/4 mile.
Lovely cars! The GN should be making 15lbs of boost. The GN’s always shifted harder than the TTA’s. They softened up the trans in the TTA and called it a garage feature or something like that. It would give you less of a clunk when placed in gear when cold. On a GN when cold, sometimes the tires will actually spin when placed in reverse.
I love the second gear scratch from the automatics, i had an 85 Trans Am, lots of parts, heads, cam, intake, roller rockers, exhaust, and of course a shift kit, used to love barking second
No they were both the 3.8L LC2 engine. Because of the narrower engine bay due to the strut towers they did use the narrower FWD cylinder heads in the TTA which gave the necessary clearance & ended up flowing slightly better.
Let’s give credit to Buick and Pontiac, as opposed to GM as a whole. If they had their way neither of these 2 cars would have existed and the best the 80’s would have had going for it would have been the boring ol Chevy L98.
Wow that Grand National chirped on second so it actually looked and sounded better than the TA but only you know the truth as you were driving them, and congrats on having both of the cars of my dream, well the Grand National i'm getting one already modified with at least 700hp that's all i need and the TA those are so hard to find.