Wondering if anyone with a firebird has made a tube front end for their car?

I know Rock Solid Motorsports makes one for a Camaro, but not a firebird.
They indicated to me that their kit will NOT work for a firebird, unless you make the flip lights not functionable.

 

Camaro and bird use the same factory sheetmetal framework.just cut and weld the aftermarket stuff to make things fit how u want?

 

Quite possibly ya.
I'd like to see some pics of someone else that has did it before I cut the front end off, and realize it's too much work

 

Make no mistake, it's a ton of work

 

Do you have any pics of your tube front end?

 

i have the rock solid one on mine. huge amount of work. well, i say that mainly because i was wanting my foglights, headlights to function and be in the correct location, and all the body panels needed to line up as good as i was able. once you get the main tubing installed, you will realize just how much work is left to do, because in my opinion you arent even half way done at that point. lol

 

i wound up shortening it a few inches, but this is the basic part that you build off of.

 

Thanks @DIGGLER
That is the answer I was looking for!

I also want to retain the functionality of the lights in the front.
I got a buddy coming over this week to see if the whole deal is worth it

 

headlight mounts

 

As much as I would love to have a tubular front end just to have more room under the hood, it's just too far out of my price range. I did the back half on my car and can easily see why just that could cost over $10k to complete. Front end would be even more. Looking at Digglers pictures, it's still not a full tubular front end. It's only been modified forward of the strut towers but still gives a huge amount of room. My BBC with Ed Quay headers would still have problems since it's still OEM behind the strut towers.

If you want to do a tubular front end and a back half on a third gen, it would be cheaper and easier to just build a tube chassis car,

Third gens are not a simple bolt in swap like first and second gens are.

 

When people talk about tubular front ends now, this is what they are normally talking about. But you are correct, if my car was done behind the strut towers it would be a full tube chassis car. lol that is the only little bit of factory frame left, is the strut towers and down to the bottom of the firewall.

 

Why don't you guys cut the frame out completely and weld up body mounts to attach to a tube chassis ?

-- Joe

 

In my case, i started out just wanting a 25.5 cage and that cascaded into a back half 4 link. and then 25.3. and then the tube front. was never intended to be a full tube chassis, and as it sits right now would be like an outlaw 10.5 car or what used to be, havent checked their rules lately. they maintained a stock front suspension at one point.

 

For me, I'm still a street car.
I'd like to do a drag and drive some day.
I'm not interested in a tube chassis.
It doesn't fit small tire classes either

 

Makes sense.

You guys are way more competitive and faster than me. I'm pretty happy with a mid / low 11 second car.

-- Joe

 

Can you post more pics of this setup.