After over 1 1/2 years of work, I finally have my 84 TA on the road! It's actually been running for about 3 weeks now, but i've been too busy enjoying it to post about it. This first pic is from a few weeks ago, but not much has changed:



And here is the exterior. I took these pics at my friend's house and you can see his 15th anniversary edition '84 TA in the background. I can't wait until I get the whole car repainted, but it looks okay for now. Let me know what you all think of it so far

 

Sweet ride man! I love the '84s!

 

Congratulations on getting it back on the road.

Please tell me youll be keeping the white/gold factory scheme, it looks awesome! Especially w/ the gold crosslace wheels.

 

It's going to change to the same Platinum color that's under the hood. The white and gold is okay and it's growing on me, but I want to go for a more modern look. I do want it to still look like an 84 TA when i'm done though... just a more modern version/interpretation of it. The pictures also hide lots of imperfections with the angles and low resolution.

 

what about the rims what are you going to do with those?

 

that's going to look sweet once painted the platinum color. Paint the ground effects a charcoal gray and it will accent nicely.

Love the TPI setup. Im looking to do the same to my bird, if I ever get the chance......

 

Thats fricken sweet.Love the color combo

 

congrats man. keep the factory paint scheme, it looks great. beautiful trans am.

 

The platinum reminds me of the '84 midnight sand-grey metallic that is on my car.

Good job on the engine swap to EFI: It's so much nicer than carb, IMHO. I've been playing with mine endlessly over the last four weeks and driveability is nearly there, with hardly any flat spots now.

Oh, and BTW, the Phoenix graphics kits are really good. I put one on and restored the stripes. It really separates the outstanding from the truly good, imho, because for twenty years everyone's been painting their '84s monochromatic.

I also discovered that the grille inserts really need to remain gloss black to retain the pontiac look. Otherwise the front end gets just too ' flat' nosed.

I painted mine this year, too you see.

Great job: We hope to hear some results from the track and car show scene from ya soon!

p.s. Hey, what are you going to do for windshield wipers? Also, I notice a non-AC air box, but the compressor is still on the serpentine belt assembly. Which way are you going with AC?

 

If you're going to go Platinum, then I would seriously consider Black ZR1 rims, with Chrome lip....

Like these:

http://i2.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/1c/c1/8b_1_b.JPG

 

Thanks for the compliments everyone. The engine bay pic is a bit old and since then I've installed the wiper motor. I'm going with no A/C and already have the pulley to replace the A/C compressor, I just haven't gotten around to swapping it in yet.

For rims, I'm probably going to stay with the crosslace and repaint them platinum also. Although those ZR1 rims look very sweet as do ROH Snypers. What I like about the crosslace though is with them I don't have to spend big bucks on making my brakes look good too.

 

Looks pretty nice. I actually like how the platinum engine bay contrasts with the white car, I'd leave it

 

Do not forget that the crosslace is one of the lightest wheels out there that can hold up to road race and autocross duty. They are quite literally twenty pounds lighter on each corner than my 17 x 9.5 ROH wheels. That is performance you can feel, dude.

 

congrats man! I know exactly what it feels like... my 84 TA was down for over a year while putting the 357 in it.. first time we started it was on a thursday night with open headers... I was so excited I drove it around the neighborhood with open headers... enjoy man!!!!

 

MY CAR!!!!!!! It looks great. Was on here checking to see if you got her finished up. How does it run? If you change your mind about the color i have the factory graphics package for it. I had planned on redoing her in the same color combo. I always thought it was a beautiful car plus you do not see any like that on the roads. Drop me an email sometime. I finally picked up a new toy to replace the TA

ps the TA is not white it is a beige color