Keep us updated on that dash fiberglassing you're doing. All of our dashes will eventually get that way and alternatives to ebay are a great thing to have.

 

Yeah Ill keep everyone updated on it so far so good I bought some more fiberglass resin today so I can finish up the edges tomarrow on the dash. Ill try and get some more pics of it also. Here is also a pic of the dash before i started.

 

im a junior in highschool, and my 92 gets some attention but not that much. everyone is into rice and fart pipes around here when someone asks what i drive they usually know which car im talking about. theres really not that many 3rd gens in my area (i have the only 3rd gen in the lot out of 1900 kids.) it still pisses me off ive had about 3 kids say nice "camaro" , and one kid even said nice CorvettE!

BTW, nice job you guys its good to see other kids my age with projects they are working on and actually following through with and that are not ricers. i like the fiberglass dash pad idea that would look awesome with a custom guage cluster and guages.

 

Hey everyone I have a question. well as I'm doing some body work I came arcross the gas tank door. no big deal but I am planning on shaving the door handles and side markers and have no idea on what to do with the gas tank door. I just think it might look out of place with everything else cleaned up and the gas tank door is still stock. So does anyone have any good ideas on how to change the look of the gas door or just clean it up???

 

just wanted to let everyone know I made a myspace for my car mostly for the pics. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=149793239

I will be posting all my updated pics HERE as well but just wanted to let everyone know and if you have a myspace go ahead and add.

 

very nice find man

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/sout...=1#post3195544


congrats

 

hey guys small update here well maybe a big update finnaly got my rebuild kit ordered and in. I ended up going with a master rebuild kit with everthing minus the piston cause the pistons in the kit are the same a what was in the engine so I didn't bother buying the same thing that I already had (old pistons are fine). Also I ended up upgrading to moly rings, a upgraded timming set, and A better cam and new lifters. the cam Dur. @ .050 is INT. 204 And EXH 214. witch is pretty close to the cam in the Lg4 engine thread for better performence. So anyway thats where Im at I need to finish my heads and then Ill be getting started on putting the engine back to geather. Finnaly somthing is about to be put back to geather then torn further apart

 

WOW... its been along time sorry guys. I have a few updates well one im not in high school anymore LOL Anyway Ive done a ton to the car. the engine is rebuild in and running but I need a little better tune on it the new engine maybe has 20 miles on it. Also when rebuilding it I found out the the engine was already bored 30 over and I put that bigger cam in it. Also the carb was shot so I pulled the computer out. And I bought a non feed back qudra jet carb. and A hei distributer. Not much else done to the body or the dash. but the car runs and Drives!!!!!! Ill post up some pics of the engine bay soon.

 

Nice find for $500 i picked mine up for the same price when i was 13...5 years ago

 

awsome man i got my 86 t/a when i was in the 10th grade and everyone loved my car except my gf at the time cause it had no a/c and everyone liked it better than her honduh lol but i went to a school where everyone has 4x4s or old american v8 cars. everyone loved it then the motor went out halfway through my jounior year and i built a 305 to learn on and had it back at school near the end of my senior year and most of the girls said i drove a loud pos and adn the guys either said it was bad *** or a fast pos lol had te interior pulled apart and started on body wrk so she looked rough. but congrats on find and build have fun w/ it but warning the fbody bug doesnt go away ive had my 86 and still do a 85 t/a for parts a 98 camaro for dd and juat got a 82 t/a for $500!!

 

Good work man I always had to fight to get my car into my schools auto shop but were an ayes program so they were pretty up tight about outside projects. My first car was a 1990 RX-7 and every one thought I was crazy to sell that for my 87 t/a but my senor year I had this to show stupid ricers

 

look up edelbrock... i had some on my tbi and they were great. then i had a pair of dynomax headers on and the spark plugs wouldnt come out w/o loosening the headers

 

Come Sept. Ill be a senior in high school. Started off with a Chevy truck. Bought that oct. Of last year. Moved onto my 89 Rs about a month or two ago. Am i glad i made that choice. So far most like it even though its not a looker. Mainly because its something i paid my own money for built my self and runs better then half the peoples cars at school. My girlfriend loves the car. Except when i make her drive it. Then she goes from a smile to a scared ****less face...

Keep the third gen alive and keep on building them. Letting us all know every step of the build.

 

Thanks guys o yeah I forgot to tell you at first when the engine was done the car didnt run great and then came the end of school so I towed it home with a tow rope well I got about half the way home and the guy towing me tookoff to fast and tore the front impact bumper off and tore up the front bumper cover alittle bit where the bolts are that connect into the fender. but I need a new bumper cover before paint anyway... but still it sucks cause it popped all the plastic rivets from the impact peice to the mount that bolts onto the frame. Well good thing I just got a tig welder that welds aluminum so I can weld the two back to geather .

Also about the BUG.I recently pick up a 1993 factory yellow firebird it only has the 4.3 liter in it and the trans was shot but its being rebuilt. and the car didnt run a fuel pump fixed that though And the car is in AWSOME shape for being a 93 with 167k miles.

Ill try and get some pics up soon once I get the impact bumper back on.

 

few engine pics

 

that looks good big improvement, what happened to the hooker headers?

 

hell yea when i did my motor the first time i painted my stock intake like that too

 

The headers were just regular headers not ones for a 3rd gen . O well maybe one day ill make the $witch.

 

headers are fairly resonable im sure u can find something

 

Well ive been working on the body work hand finnaly got the car in primer!!!!!
the body is not perfect...BUT its came along ways (its my first time doing any body work). So i filled in the rear marker lights and the side molding holes and this is what i have.

P.S. this is also the first time ive ever sprayed anything.

 

Looking good, Make shrue everything is taped off good next time tho.

 

yeah i did alittle clean up today on it and the side marker looks like i painted right over it but it still has the tape on it in the pic

 

your in for a treat when u get to block down the primer......after that wet sand with 400, then 600......then spray your base.....the the hard part.....do about 3 coats of clear.....water sand out your runs with 2k grit....then buff, and believe me u gonna have runs when u clear it....

 

looking good!! im about to do this to my 82 after i drop the new motor in. im leting a pro do my 86 since it needs the rear quarter cut out and replaced. lookin good though