84 black trans am in middle TN starts but would not drive it - Firebirds for Sale - Third Generation F-Body Message Boards

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:20 PM

have an 84 black t/a with t-tops i'm asking $1000. it has the original engine with 113,000 miles. the car got a coolant leak into the oil and was fixed. here's compression check. no.1-125, no.3- 80 add oil its 110, no.5- 140, no.7- 30 addoil its 40, no.2- 125, no.4- 120, no. 6- 60, no. 8- 122 the other five are fine. it starts but is very rough until it warms up then seems great but i would not take it down the road it will have to be towed. when it's warmed up it sounds great as if there is no problem.we drove it twice before testing the compression and after 15 minutes when the car slowed down to turn or stop it died and took a while to start back. you can rev it when it warms up and sounds great but again can't be trusted. the 700r4 transmission was rebuilt last summer and only has had about 100-200 miles put on it until now. it has a new alternator, new a/c a few other odds and ends.the dash has some cracks, overall the interior is good. a few spots on one back seat and the front seats have covers. the car has the upgrade suspension package i think was the ws6 at the time. 4 wheels discs, body is very straight and in good condition.only problem is the hood and front fender. the fender on the driver side didn't come with the car that's why its all beat up. same with the hood when we bought the car last year the guy said he forgot to latch the hood and it flew back and destroyed it. it also came with an 85 front bumper cover you can have. i only move it now when i mow. I moved it up and down the driveway and took video of the car running when warmed up to hear and see the engine running. i have an 82 i'm working on fixing up and have decided to sell this one to get some money for it. any questions please ask i'll try to put up as much pics as possible.

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:25 PM

also pop up headlights still work power windows power door locks and cruise

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:26 PM

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:27 PM

pic of car and driver side fender. again this is not the original fender. This is from another car. The body isn't damaged just the fender.

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:30 PM

99transamgirl · 06-28-2007, 10:40 PM

power radio antenna works but car has no speakers. also has power driver seat. originally had the areo package on the car put has since been taken off and sold. the fan was wired to run all the time when the red switch on the top is pushed.it was like that when we got it and most a/c components were ripped out for more power but we spent about $300 to have it put back in and recharged. paint is still shiny for it's age except for the fender that didn't come with the car and the hood. we drove the car to KY after the transmission was done and it was great. has overdrive. that was about all we drove it until it got it's problem. we work about a mile from home so it never went much and we drove my 99 t/a to work most of the time.

99transamgirl · 06-29-2007, 11:02 AM

i have more pics of the car cleaned and the exterior cleaned to put up. i'm going to try to post a link soon

99transamgirl · 06-29-2007, 11:20 AM

i'm going to try to put up video i took of the car running but not sure how to put it up.here's linkhttp://homepage.mac.com/robertapplegate/PhotoAlbum16.html

99transamgirl · 06-29-2007, 12:16 PM

99transamgirl · 06-29-2007, 12:34 PM

99transamgirl · 06-29-2007, 02:42 PM

here's link to download the movie file of the engine running. http://homepage.mac.com/robertappleg...Sharing17.html

99transamgirl · 07-01-2007, 07:29 AM

also has new ECM, alternator,starter, fuel pump, oil sending unit, heater coil. oil still looks good.

billyjack · 07-26-2007, 10:38 AM

Hi. I was wondering if you still have this car? I would give you the $1000 you are asking but I need to find out how much it will cost to ship it to taylor michigan. You can e mail me at bjsmokey@comcat.net I hope we can make a deal I really like the car and would like to turn it into a K.I.T.T. replaca. Thanks for your time. B.J.

99transamgirl · 07-26-2007, 11:06 AM

email sent

IROCmenace · 02-11-2008, 01:00 AM

Did you sell this car?

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 09:09 PM

no, we still have it. we put the turbo cast rims and caps on it, I think were going to just try and get the engine rebuilt since the transmission is already done.

IROCmenace · 02-11-2008, 09:54 PM

I am 99% sure this is my buddies old car. I can tell from the nose clip comment, the hood comment and the switches on the overhead console (they came out of my 2nd 83Z28).
I had test drove this car when it was still bone stock. An older lady had owned it and I wanted it bad but the ex-wife was not so keen to me being happy in any capacity. My buddy ended up buying it from her later.
What we were told about the engine is that it is actually a Jasper rebuild bored .30 over. Still an L69 HO motor though and we confirmed that.
He traded this car to aother guy we know in M'boro for an 87 5 speed TPI T/A or else he would have kept this one. We put alot of work into the car. I am acutally the one that forgot to push the hood all the way down. Luckily it only damaged the hood. The tranny always had shift flare as well. I think that is from the lady we bought it from. When I rode with her, she treated it like a manual. Probably took it's toll on the car. We are pretty sure the ladies son (who installed the engine) put the dizzy in wrong as well as the timing marks never matched TDC, but my buddy traded it off before we could correct it. It was his daily driver for awhile and he lived in an apartment so time to work on the car was few and far between. I wish I had the money. I would buy it from you. From what I remember it had silver ground effects when he traded it. I can't remember if we repainted them black.
It is a WS6, had the center caps that said it and the RPO sticker did as well.
I still have the factory wheels for the car in my garage. Good luck. Even though it had problems, it was a fun/cool/great car.

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 10:14 PM

Thanks, it drove great when we bought it except the trans had taken a toll and we rebuilt it over a year ago. after a year the engine got coolant in it and we fixed the leak. it hasn't had antifreeze in the oil since but three cylinders have very low comp. it will still start but sounds a lot rougher now. i'm hoping to have money to rebuilt it by this summer. my only problem is where I'm at it's hard to find a good mechanic that will work on it. one guy seems really good but only offers a 30 warranty. he builds a lot of race engines. it is a ws6 that had trim painted black around it. we bought it in murfreesboro and the guy told us that the person who had it before forgot to latch the hood so it flew back. That's neat meeting someone who know about the car. I knew the engine seemed a lot stronger to be just a 305. i have a 99 ls1 trans am. it was fun keeping up with that car on the interstate. what did the original rims look like on it? what color were they?

IROCmenace · 02-11-2008, 10:24 PM

They were the typical 15" turbo style concave rims like the ones that were on it when you bought it. They were gold. The ground effects started gold. then he painted them and the wheels gunmetal.
That's right he ended up painting them black later because of the nose clip and the 91-92 RS scoops on both fenders. The nose clip was just a thing he wanted to do. Nothing wrong with the original. I had the 85 clip for a car I was gonna build then decided not to so I gave it to him.
The car still had the gold stripes at the bottom as well as the induction hood that said 5.0 HO on it when he got the car.
My 83 HO 5 speed and my 89 TBI formula would always lose on top end against that car. It took me getting TPI cars to just barely edge it out. Ü
The cooling issues are probably because it got overheated really bad once. It seemed to have issues after that but he drove it for a year or two I think afterward without major incident. I guess the coolant leak explains some of the small instances of mysterious coolant loss though.

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 10:48 PM

thanks for the info about the car. that's really exciting to hear about the car before i got it. I got the 84 clip from him when we bought it and put it back on. I'm going to do a KITT conversion and turn my 82 trans am into KARR. yes the coolant problem was from the intake gasket. we knew it leaked some but never seemed to be bad enough to worry about it. I kept a check on the oil and it always looked good until the one day. thanks for the info. the car is in great hands. I love trans ams since I have three of them and have really cleaned the interior, panels, and polished the paint back up to shine. thanks again for telling about the car. i never thought I'd hear from someone who knew about it. it was my wedding anniversary present from my husband. I was going to get long tube headers for my LS1 but got the car instead. a lot more money in the long run for it but well worth it to me. It just sits in my yard now but slowly getting it back to shape. i can't wait to get it back on the road again. we found a hood with a scoop but it has some dents and will cost 500 to fix it even though it doesn't look bad. i'm trying to find another hood right now.

IROCmenace · 02-11-2008, 10:54 PM

No problem. Glad to tell you about it. I could tell you really polished it in and out as it never looked that good after my buddy bought it. I honestly thought you had it repainted. What did you use to get it so shiny?
The guy you got the car form is where I have gotten most of mine. Even the current one. I knew he had said the people that bought it wanted to make it a KITT. That is great. Odd how I came across this. I started out in the regional forum and saw something about an 84 and figured I would check. Small world. Good luck. Feel free to ask me anything about the car in the future. I will be glad to tell you what I can remember.
On the engine issue, it may be best to go through something like Jasper so you get the warranty.

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 10:59 PM

would I just call Jasper co. to do that? I don't know how that quite works. I bought some professional polish and buffing pads for my drill. it took a long time. I eve wet sanded my 99 and it looks like glass now after using the polish and pads. I read a lot about professional buffing and decided to take a go at it. we will eventually get the car painted a very glossy black.

IROCmenace · 02-11-2008, 11:02 PM

Cool, I need to do that to my IROC. It is black and needs some polishing. What grit did you use to wetsand?

As far as I know you can go to Jasper.com and order one/get a quote. If you can't put it in they have a dealer/installer locator.

Grooms does as well and I think they are a TN company.

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 11:07 PM

thanks, I got meguiars professional series polish, glaze, cut, and wax, with foam polishing pads for a drill at O'reilly atuo parts. hard work but worth it.

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 11:16 PM

here's the car now except we have a cowl hood on it that's not very perfet

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 11:21 PM

99transamgirl · 02-11-2008, 11:23 PM

I think I started with 1000 or 1500 and then went to 2000. I was just loking to get some of the orange peel out. I didn't do wet sanding to the 84 only the prof. polishing.

4spdbandit · 02-12-2008, 06:59 PM

go with grooms engines downtown nashville,you get better everything there,they run circles around jasper

99transamgirl · 02-12-2008, 07:04 PM

will they rebuild the engine I already have in the car? we know we won't have a lot of money and the guy we talked to said it'd be $1500 to rebuild the engine for us. I like the one that's in it. it was pretty fast as it was.