A FuelTech FT600 wired by Michael Bunton gives the ignition and fuel its directions, while an RCD dry sump system manages the oiling, and custom stainless 2-1/4-inch headers exhale the exhaust gases.

An M&M Turbo 400 and torque converter package route the power back to a Mark Williams 11-inch full floater rearend housing. TBM brakes behind Sander 740 Series wheels are situated up front, while Mark Williams carbon-fiber brakes are paired with 15-inch Weld Alumastars out back. Menscer shocks are located on all four corners.

The one question Youmans is asked about more than any other — perhaps aside from the engine — is whether or not he and Dobson chopped the roofline. And he insists, despite the appearance, they did not.

“We were measuring off of a stock car, and once we got the nose for it and tacked everything up, the windshield looked so straight up and down…it didn’t look like a racecar. I really wanted to do something different, so we started playing with it,” Youmans explains. “Todd raked the bottom of the windshield out, and when he did that, it dropped the leading edge of the roofline down a little bit. With everything we did with the hood to make it cover the intake, it made the look of the car just unbelievable, to me. Everyone swears up and down we chopped it, but we didn’t. To me, it just made the car look a lot better.”

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The windshield is, he confirms, stock in dimension, from corner to corner.
That may be true but the windshield is tilted back and the window profile is not the same as the earlier stock bodied Pontiac.
He can BS all he wants to, and call it something other than "chopping the top", but see for yourself.......the window profile is not the same as the earlier stock bodied Pontiac.