OKC Street Outlaws: Andrade and Baron
We admit it, we love G-bodies here at CC, and these are prime examples of the potential hiding within GM’s midsize platform from the 1980s. John Andrade Jr. appeared on the show with a small-block and nitrous, and marched his way up the list until a crash sidelined him until he could get his car back together. Well, here it is in these exclusive pictures. With a fresh 6.0-based LS-engine swap, a 94mm Forced Inductions turbocharger, and a surprisingly small hydraulic roller cam from Texas Speed, Andrade drove The Cutty to our photo shoot. “I could drive this car anywhere,” he told us. With 10.5:1 compression, he launches the car on 10 psi of boost and ramps the boost up to 23 within a couple seconds off the starting line. He has no e.t.’s to report, because he’s run in clocks-off, no-time events so far.
John “Baron” Gentry crashed our photo shoot with his 1984 Cutlass, a build more than two years in the making. A 572 Chevy is under the hood, backed by a Rossler TH400 and a 9-inch built by Don Dial’s Race Shop. Far less streetable than The Cutty, Baron’s big-block sports 13.5:1 compression and runs a huge kit of nitrous from Nitrous Express tuned by Big Chief at Midwest Street Cars. Chief also prepped the 1,250 Dominator carburetor that looks like it could swallow small children whole. Baron will make his debut on the show in season five.
