Michael Michaud's Fast Chevy's

 

 

 Michael Michaud

 

 

 

Michael Michaud was born in 1962, during the beginning of the muscle car revolution. His father had some of the coolest cars of the 1960s. He had a 1966 350 H.P. 327 cubic-inch Nova Super Sport, Two 1967 GTOs, a 1968 Z/28 and a 1969 Corvette. The 1968 Z/28 was Michael's favorite. Michael said he's been a gear-head ever since the 60s.

 

Michael states that's he's been racing since 2002 and he runs at WIR in Wisconsin. My first trip to the drag strip with my dad was in 1967. I been hooked on racing my entire life, I have raced snowmobiles in the 1980s and 90s, I got into motorcycle racing in 2000 and built my first drag car in 2014 . 

 My first actual professional race car was a 1971 Nova called the Patriot.

 

Michael's last drag car was a Suncoast tube chassis Camaro with a 582 big-block that he built, it ran 8.04's at 172mph. Mike traded that car for the 68' Camaro he currently has . 

 

   

 

 

 

 

The 68' Camaro has a 489 C.I. big-Block Chevrolet that he originally built for his 71' Nova. Then it sat for 8 years before it was freshened it up with a bigger cam and new heads ported by Chad Speier of SRH. 

 

The engine was dyno'd at 673hp in 2013. Mike said he estimates that it has about 70 more H.P. now on pump gas. 

 

The power flows through a G-force g101a  4- speed transmission, out back a ladder bar rear suspension supports a Ford 9-inch rear end. 

 

 Mike said the Nova ran 9.78 through the mufflers but he would be happy to run 9.90s with the Camaro. He usually races at WIR in Wisconsin, and used to belong to the Blacklist Outlaws exhibition group, they would do the fast street-car grudge racing when he had his Nova . 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                       Mike checking out the big-block on the Dyno!