avro206

http://www.vintagecar.com/0890.htm

Note the engine......maybe 92GTA can shed some light....did you buy your Firehawk from this dealer?

Know how much they want for this one? Looks wicked:hail:

83firebirdS/E

:hail: :hail: :hail: :hail:

92GTA

iTrader: (11)

That car is the October feature on my web site of you want more info. Notice at the end of the ad they even link to my Firehawk page

You can see my Firehawk for sale on that site too, I'd only sell it though if someone was crazy enough to pay me that much I emailed them and had them make some corrections to my cars ad but there are still a few mistakes.....

Kandied91z

iTrader: (7)

beautiful car, quite rediculous what they go for though.

there was a teal one here at slp that was for sale over a year ago for 18,000 or best; granted it wasn't a 383 either though. definately nice and i could see why some would want to pay that much. cheaper to build your own though.

Bill Speed

Big runners on the intake plenum look killer, but this is a textbook example of how the shorter, (in this case...I can't see 'em!! hehe) the better the car will perform.

TPIS is another company, besides SLP of course, that offers good induction improvements for the F-cars.

Bill

TransAm12sec

Did 92 hawks come with that intake?

avro206

"That car is the October feature on my web site of you want more info"

I'm lokin on our site but I can't see where you
mean

Can you give a direct link to the page?

How do yoyu like your Firehawk?
Please take tons of pics! There are very few good
Firehawk photos out there

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

The 383 cars didn't come with the T-ram. I was always under the impression that the only cars that got the 383 were the 2 race-only cars and not a street version like this one. I also thought that those 2 race cars had a custom intake, not a miniram. I'm no expert though.

92GTA

iTrader: (11)

http://www.transamgta.com/MembersWheels/Oct2002.html

My bad, it say September feature because I forgot to change the title

You can look here for more info too: http://www.TransAmGTA.com/Firehawk

Steve86TA

iTrader: (57)

I thought that the R cars sold for a little over 50K when they were new?Am I wrong?

Guest

For 40k, it could be cleaner and have less scratch marks and such under the hood. I also didnt realize 91's had the large cap distributor, or is that something SLP swapped?

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

AFAIK, all formulas had the large cap distributer. For whatever reason, GM never put the divorced coil distributers into them.

Never made sense to me... but that's what they did.

Black Knight

Kandied91z
That is the one SLP had for sale and yes it was a 383, and I do not think they sold it for 18k, closer to 25k if I remember correctly.

Guest

Sounds awfully fishy to me Jim...
Anyone that can verify that?

Drew

iTrader: (58)

Huh? All Formula's had the large distributor? thats a new one to me.

MDv6man

Sounds fishy to me too. I thought all of them got the "divorced" coil due to the space limitations w/TPI

CamaroFreak406

The reason it sounds fishy is because it's not true. The TPI always used the divorced coil. The TPI distributor sheild will not fit over a self contained coil distributor and Formula's do have the sheild.

Now the question is why the h*ll did SLP put a self contained coil on the Firehawk?? Or did someone else put that on the engine??????

Later, Garrett

TPIterror

I'm guessing the new intake didn't have room for the bracket that the remote coil attatches to. And since the mini ram has room for the cap-in-coil, they went with it.

Didn't GM switch all F bodies to remote coil in 87?

Awesome car...why only 375 horse though if the 350 has 360 horse?

Kandied91z

iTrader: (7)

nope it wasn't a 383.........

my buddy was up there purchasing one of their 10th anniversary's when i saw it....they were very eager to get rid of it or so they said.

i had pictures somewhere but can't seem to find them.

Drew

iTrader: (58)

Wrong answer. 1985-1986 TPI cars use the coil-in-cap distributor. The plenum extension clears the coil just fine. GM changed to the divorced coil in 87 for the Fbody.

BTW every formula should have a divorced coil, mine does as did the other 91-92's I've looked at and the 89 I almost bought.

MdFormula350

looks great! :hail:

Bill Speed

This is a comment on that Firehawk #27... the ragtop with roll cage. I saw that article from High Performance Pontiac that I was looking for already on your site! (Fair Weather Firehawk)

I still can't find the magazine and I know I bought it! How frustrating! It is one of the baddest 3rd Gens ever...no question!


Bill S.

92GTA

iTrader: (11)

#027 is a very ncie car and it has like no miles from sitting in the museum, I think it's the lowest milage first gen hawk. I wish I had more pictures of it.

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

I guess I need to do more research. I read somewhere that the formulas kept the big distributer, which I always found odd. I guess I need to find where I read that and double check it.

But as for the big cap not fitting with TPI... that's hog wash. ALL TPI corvettes, along with all 85-86 TPI f-bodies had the big cap.

palric

iTrader: (1)

The Firehawks are great cars but desperately over priced. I saw a red Firehawk auctioned in last years Barrett-Jackson it went for $18k whichis about right. The web page posted has a red one for sale at $79k wahahahahahaha one is born every day eh ?

I bought my '91 with 42,000 miles on it and all the factory goodies back in 2001 for $4000 USD. How in the world do you justify $79,000 for a Firehawk ?

my .02 cents worth,
RP.

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

Just because one moron wants $80k for his Firehawk doesn't mean it's worth that.

$18k... that it's worth. Comparing it to your 305 Formula is like comparing a 69 RS camaro to a 69 Yenko. Same car, right? Why is the Yenko worth 10x as much? Supply and demand.

$4k for your 40k mile Formula is still a hell of a deal tho.

92GTA

iTrader: (11)

Hey man, I'm the MORON that's asking $79K for his Firehawk AND my Firehawk is the SAME car that sold at Barrett-Jackson for $22K this last January.

I'm asking that much simply because I do not want to sell it but for that price, anything is for sale ****, if some moron did pay me that much I'd be able to buy 2 Firehawks, one to store and one to drive the living **** out of

Now do I believe my car is worth that much, HELL NO! I do however believe that it is worth $35K and I would NEVER take any less than that......

TPIterror

Why are you interested in selling it?

palric

iTrader: (1)

Pardon me for being rude. Hey I love the Firehawk just can't see paying that much thats all. Great car.

RP.

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

If it was worth $35k, I suspect that you wouldn't have been able to acquire it for $22k.

avro206

He said he "Believes" it is woth 35K and is entiltied to think so, right or wrong.

BTW-- why are you seling it and what is it appraised at for insurance purposes?

89transam

I think he said that hes not really interested in selling it.....just if someone wants to pay him 79 K they can have it.......be like putting a sign in front of your house for a million bucks....

TransAm12sec

I was just reading a muscle car history book, and it said firehawks were priced at 40 grand and could cost as much as $50,000.