You may have seen video of a brand-new black G8 GT running mid-12s at Atco-still wearing its temp tag! That Pontiac belongs to Matt Hauffe of Tune Time Performance in Toms River, New Jersey. Tune Time is a full-service facility that opened in 2006. F-bodies, TrailBlazer SSs, full-size trucks, SSRs, Cobalts, blown W-bodies-even foreign hot rods. You name it, Matt and his four techs will mod and tune it.
"We got our G8-No. 236 of the first 888-in late March 2008, it was one of the first ones to hit the showroom floor. After a 270-horse/283 torque stock pull (which I think our dyno is reading these cars low), I spent a couple hours on the rollers and it made 298 horse/303 torque. Soon after, we fabbed up a couple of pipes to remove the intake tract resonator to allow for the Zex LS1/LS6 nitrous kit. With the only other mods being a K&N drop-in filter and an SLP 160-degree thermostat, it made 375 hp and 401 lb-ft on a 100-shot."
Matt brought his G8 to Englishtown in early April wearing 245/40/18 BFG drag radials, and we witnessed it running 12 flat at 115! As you might guess, more mods are in the works. (Tune Time Performance, 931 Rt. 166, Dept. GMHTP, Toms River, NJ 08753; 732/349-7800 www.tunetimeperformance.com)