Photography by: the author and Jerrid Wood
We bring our W-body Regal GS back from the grave with a built bottom-end from ZZ Performance
Welcome to Ground Zero V2.0 for Project Sleeper Status, our 2000 Buick Regal GS project that has been anything but easy. Astute readers will remember our goal from day-one was to build a sleeper W-body that could run in the 11s and effortlessly commute to work, all while flying under the radar.
While an 11.99 or faster in a gutted car would have been much easier, instead, as you might recall, we wanted to build a velvet hammer; a car that is civilized yet lethal…so unsuspecting Mustang owners can get their feelings hurt. To achieve this, we were prepared to walk a fine line between track results and daily civility, which meant some weight reduction was inevitable, but not so much as to take away from the street manners. In keeping with the realistic goals, we were also prepared to spend money wherever needed, but our budget was far from endless.