SWEEEEEEEEEET job bud :hail: :hail: I fell in love with those guage rings, Please tell me you can make some for us good ole boys, I would pay you a fair deal with them. Or atleast make a tech article on how you did them

 

POWERMITE, ARE YOU GOING TO SELL THOSE TRIM RINGS OR NOT?!?!?! I think like 100 people have asked for them so far, and not a peep out of you!

By the way, OMG YOUR CAR OWNS!!! I especially like that the opening in the rims is the same size as the brake rotors!

Also, someone asked what happened to his pillar gauge. Look closely in the first picture... It's under the dash pad!

 

Guys,

Sorry but I just havent the time to make loads of trim rings.Im sure you can find any local engineering shops who could do this for you.As far as the design is concerned,I just looked at a picture of some aftermarket tachos and made them a similar shape.
Cayse,I have never had pillar gauges,I think that pic was of someone elses car who happened to have the same steering wheel as me.My extra guage is a transmission temp.

cheers

PM

BTW this is my baby underneath the Dunlop Bridge at the LeMans 24 Hour circuit.

 

man thats awsome hey why dont you add aluminum kick panel on the interior door i think thats what its called like the new ferraris have but still that looks awsome

 

Awesome car. If you EVER think about making a few more sets just post here and I'm sure you'd get your fair share for them. Why do you have the older style guages though?

 

Iansane,
What do you mean by older gauges.My car is an 85 and those are the gauges it came with
PM

 

My trade is aerospace, I build airplanes for a living and I have to say this is the best application of aluminum alloy craftmanship I've seen in a car's interior... :hail: Excellent work! I hope you do try and make some kits to sell, guaranteed you'll make some money selling those...

 

Whoops. I just thought your car was a GTA. Just looked so good. Little mistake.

 

Very Impressive!

 

PM,

Have you noticed over 4,000 views on this post!! Hope to hook up with you soon, as my old lady is on Barry Island.

No 3rd gen anymore though, got a 440 Charger for playing around.

Cheers,
paul

 

Can you make a tech article for third gen to describe the proceedure of making the aluminum rings and aluminum around the reciever? Also, how did you inscribe Pontiac in the aluminum? Or did you buy it that way?

 

I will try to put some info on the site about how i made these parts.
The "PONTIAC"was machine on using a CNC milling machine.I didnt buy any of these parts,i made them myself

cheers
PM

 

Thanks a lot, powermite. Although I don't plan on tackling any major project such as this for a long while, it'd still be great guide to refer to for future ideas.

And by the way, you can add one more guy to the list of people who love your car! Great skill and work man. I :hail: to you.

How's your car doing after a little over five months, anyway? Still shimmering like new I assume.

EDIT: Also, when I said buy I meant like the buying the aluminum sheets or whatever. Sorry, I am a complete doof when it comes to stuff like this.

 

Nate,
Yes still looking good as we have just had the best summer here in the UK for years.
My plans for the winter are ZZ4 with Holley Stealth Ram EFI,so i'll clean up the engine bay to match the rest of the car
Cheers
PM

 

its good to know our friends across the atlantic have excellent taste!!! Awesome looking car, keep it up i love it.

Brandon

 

very very nice.

Clean, yet complicated..

Simple yet intriguing.

What seats are those? I knew the wheel was momo.. and the chrome rings around it look very good with your car,... never thought they'd fit with any car.. till now, lol.

Good job.

 

Strange, it seemed to post me twice. *shruggs*

 

Amazing. I though about just making a billit aluminum gauge bezel overlay sinc e know one makes one for the earlier 3rd gens but decied it was alot of work. For the 90-92 camaro guys there is this stuff on ebay to check out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2439931517

They are nice but not as nice as his aluminum work.

 

Hey those of you that want something like this done could get measurements and stuff and maybe send them to this guy. Although he charges 25 bucks an hour but maybe it would take him long to do.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=25276

 

Hey I was wondering if you would be willing to duplicate a set of everything u made. I have fallen in love with the way ur car looks with all the aluminum accents. It truely is a one of a kind and can understand if u want to keep it that way. But damn does it looks sweet. ....just gotta say it again....it looks so sweet.

 

i love your interior. I was wondering if you could possibly duplicate ur masterpiece. I love it so..... *** it is nice

 

I think you need some gauges like mine

 

They are the best ones made!!!

 

I actually sent to McEwen for silver faces.He didnt have ones for mine so i sent pictures to him,then after about 6 weeks he said they were ready but once i said i was in the UK that was it,never heard another word.
Yours look cool though!!

PM

 

NO don't go with those horrible gauges!!! look at mine. They are self-powered,backlighted and are real gauge replacements. Not to mention that I bought the euro style font,if you couldn't tell. No matter what you need some white OR silver face gauges/shift indicator. It would complete your interior!!!

 

Where did you get them?
PM

 

www.procarparts.com

 

sweet man:hail:

 

Not mine.Mine has a 85 mph speedo and 7000 redline.

PM

 

forgot the pic

 

VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!:hail:

 

I know you have a momo shifter **** on your megashifter. What type of **** from momo is it? Thanks.

 

Capt,
Im not sure what it was called.I saw it one day and thought it matched the steering wheel,so bought it.Im sure you will find it on the Momo site.It'll sure be fitted to my T56 when my conversion is complete

PM

 

got any better pics of your seats they llok pretty good.

also do you plan on making more

 

I found Momo's stuff on their website. I just thought you might know what your shifter **** was called cuz they have names for all of them. I think I can tell which one you have. Thanks.

 

when your conversion is complete...and you've still got your automatic shift console plate and the megashifter....I've got FIRST DIBS ON IT!

 

Im hoping i can modify it to siut the manual.
PM

 

yanno, if they made those for the 91 birds, id buy em..

the tach is off.

not that i can find anything on that damned site anyhow.

-JT

 

Beautiful car powermite! An eye catcher and show-stopper in every way. I, like others, would love to see what you've done under the hood too. Very tasteful and professionally done. You know, I was just watching the Barrett-Jackson auto auctions that were held last week in Arizona on Speed channel and frankly I don't think third gens are ready for that kind of show, but what you've done with your T/A I could see on the B-J block when thirdgens are becoming the hot item - very nice job. It's like a modern version of the old resto-hotrod!! Very cool!

If I might make a constructive suggestion and maybe you''ve already thought of it - a set of custom made billet pedals would really set the interior off IMO. If you made them, which it sounds like you could very easily, you could style them so that they are totally unique and it would just add more of your style and taste to the interior. What comes to mind are the Roush pedals made for Mustangs - nothing like that is made for thirdgens and if you were to CNC "Firebird" or "T/A" or something like that onto the pedals, they would truly be a one-of-a-kind.

My paint isn't exactly like yours but it is a non-tradtitonal red color that is making my wheel hunt quite difficult - until I saw your wheels on your car. Fikse makes a set similar to yours - FM5's I believe - I think I'm going to just start saving money and wait until I get what I really want. Just wanted to say that I like your philosophy on building up a car and you've sort of got me "back on track" in my frame of mind regarding my buildup - it should be unique, tasteful and with a true sense of uniqueness.

Two thumbs up - emphatically!!!
K

 

Well my under hood is looking a bit sad at the moment as you can see.Im waiting for my ZZ4/Holley Stealth Ram setup to come from Sallee Chev to go with my T56.While im waiting i thought i would bare metal the engine bay and tidy it up a bit.I'll post some more pics when its done.
I may well make some pedals as i will now have three!!

 

Here she is outside the main grandstand at the LeMans 24 hours France

 

Did the wheel manufacturer get the centers tinted or painted gold or did you have that done after purchasing the wheels? Maybe you said already - the thread is getting pretty long; sorry if it's been asked already.

I e-mailed Fikse - "wheel" see what they say about tinting and price estimates (no pun intended ;-)
K

 

I must be honest,Ive seen the Fikse FM5's in the flesh and they are superb.Very very expensive though.I bought mine from
www.imagewheels.co.uk here in the UK.You can chose more or less any colour you wish plus they are the only company i know who will do any backspacing,inset off set whatever you need.
May be a bit expensive for you to import at the moment with the exchange rate in our favour.Great for me buying the engine though
PM

 

Car looks awsome if you found time a write up would be good as i would try to make a set.

 

I read this post a while back... and just read it again too... because the car looks amazing!

I normally really don't like anything bigger than 16" rims on 3rd gens... but those really don't look that big! They seem to fit the car perfectly!

I was wondering though, why didn't you replace the gauge cluster with a higher speedo one?

 

When i get the car back on the road in a few weeks time,it will be fitted with a speed camera detector which has a speedo readout on it.This is calculated by GPS so should be very accurate.
PM

 

Nice car. Is that color the stock flame red metallic? It looks darker to me...

 

No its a Rover Cherry Pearl from the late eighties
PM

 

Would you be offended if I copied your setup? I know someone with a CNC machine that said he'd hook me up with some interior trim...

 

No you carry on.I should start producing them myself.
PM