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Congratulations to Cookie Monster for being featured as July's FBody of the Month on Detroit Auto Examiner's website! Since we did not have a RotM for the month of July, I hand picked Cookie Monster to hold the torch for Auto Examiner's FBody of the Month!
Be sure and check the article and slideshow here:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8...y-of-the-Month
The steady stream of big automotive news combined with peoples’ travel schedule has caused me to get this month’s F-Body of the month out a little late, but this car is well worth the wait. I have featured several awesome General Motors F-Bodies over the course of this year but this month’s feature Firebird is like nothing I’ve offered before as Matt Avedian’s 2001 Firebird Trans Am WS6 “Cookie Monster” is one of the nastiest F-Bodies I’ve seen, courtesy of the folks at MIFBody.com.
Matt is from Rochester Michigan but he is currently stationed at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina, serving in the Marine Corp. When he is back in Michigan, he still cruises Woodward Avenue and attends the Woodward Dream Cruise annually. None of that is unusual for a Metro Detroit native but Matt does all of this in his 1000+ rear wheel horsepower 2001 Firebird. The odds are good that some people are questioning the claims of a street driven 1000+ rwhp Firebird but after you read the information below provided by Matt, check out the gallery below for the pictures of his unreal 2001 Trans Am.
I bought the car (2001 WS6 6 speed with 100K) after my 3rd deployment to Fallujah, Iraq, in July 2007. I purchased a Heads, Cam, Intake package, along with a Midwest Fabbed 9" rearend, and Strange suspension with a NX dual stage kit. I managed an 11.60 @ 121 on Motor and 10.34 @ 132 on a 200 shot. I soon deployed again to Iraq and Afghanistan for almost 2 more years. During that time, I got with Chris Crawford at National Speed Inc which is based in Wilmington, NC, to put together a mid to low 8 second street car. Chris Contacted Shawn at Virginia Speed to build a 370ci Long Block, which is being boosted by a GT 4788 with a custom-fabbed 1-off turbo kit with A2W. National Speed got the Transmission (TH400) built for 2000hp and a fuel system for 1500hp from Nasty Performance for street/strip use. Shawn at VS upgraded my Midwest 9" with a heavier spool and 40-spline Strange axles.
The car has already made well over 1000rwhp SAE on a conservative tune by National Speed on their dyno and has gone 8.84 (missing the gt4788/lsx world record by .300, without CO2, conservative timing, boost, and ramps with a 3.00 gear on one of the first passes. We can expect to see at least an 8.40 out of the car with this setup. Future plans include a bigger turbo, and a 7.50 cage upgrade, and a lot of weight reduction.
This is a truly remarkable car and I hope to get a look at this nasty ’01 Trans Am when the car is back in the Detroit area as this is one of those modern muscle cars that turns heads everywhere it goes – from the drag strip to Woodward Ave.
Thanks as always to the folks at MIFBody.com for the help with the F-Body of the Month and congratulations to Matt Avedian for putting together one of the baddest street-driven Firebirds in the country. Check out the gallery below for a look at Matt’s 2001 WS6 and stay tuned to your Detroit Autos Examiner for all of your breaking news and local car reviews!
Matt is from Rochester Michigan but he is currently stationed at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina, serving in the Marine Corp. When he is back in Michigan, he still cruises Woodward Avenue and attends the Woodward Dream Cruise annually. None of that is unusual for a Metro Detroit native but Matt does all of this in his 1000+ rear wheel horsepower 2001 Firebird. The odds are good that some people are questioning the claims of a street driven 1000+ rwhp Firebird but after you read the information below provided by Matt, check out the gallery below for the pictures of his unreal 2001 Trans Am.
I bought the car (2001 WS6 6 speed with 100K) after my 3rd deployment to Fallujah, Iraq, in July 2007. I purchased a Heads, Cam, Intake package, along with a Midwest Fabbed 9" rearend, and Strange suspension with a NX dual stage kit. I managed an 11.60 @ 121 on Motor and 10.34 @ 132 on a 200 shot. I soon deployed again to Iraq and Afghanistan for almost 2 more years. During that time, I got with Chris Crawford at National Speed Inc which is based in Wilmington, NC, to put together a mid to low 8 second street car. Chris Contacted Shawn at Virginia Speed to build a 370ci Long Block, which is being boosted by a GT 4788 with a custom-fabbed 1-off turbo kit with A2W. National Speed got the Transmission (TH400) built for 2000hp and a fuel system for 1500hp from Nasty Performance for street/strip use. Shawn at VS upgraded my Midwest 9" with a heavier spool and 40-spline Strange axles.
The car has already made well over 1000rwhp SAE on a conservative tune by National Speed on their dyno and has gone 8.84 (missing the gt4788/lsx world record by .300, without CO2, conservative timing, boost, and ramps with a 3.00 gear on one of the first passes. We can expect to see at least an 8.40 out of the car with this setup. Future plans include a bigger turbo, and a 7.50 cage upgrade, and a lot of weight reduction.
This is a truly remarkable car and I hope to get a look at this nasty ’01 Trans Am when the car is back in the Detroit area as this is one of those modern muscle cars that turns heads everywhere it goes – from the drag strip to Woodward Ave.
Thanks as always to the folks at MIFBody.com for the help with the F-Body of the Month and congratulations to Matt Avedian for putting together one of the baddest street-driven Firebirds in the country. Check out the gallery below for a look at Matt’s 2001 WS6 and stay tuned to your Detroit Autos Examiner for all of your breaking news and local car reviews!
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8...y-of-the-Month
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
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