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I agree 100%. You know what else is frustrating? Reproduction 85-90 Firebird/Formula front bumpers aren't available. Every other third gen Firebird bumper is available except the most common one! Even 91-92 bumpers are available.
Are they even worth buying? Ive heard the quality just sucks
Do you know what company they got the core from? I have a local place that might do a good job to rebuild mine if I knew where to source parts. This is one nice thing about living in an industrial town is there's a place for doing about anything.
I don't. Doubt they'd tell me anyway.
The new core was perfect and beautiful, but they bent my tanks slightly when installing them onto the new core, so the finished product wouldn't fit. I took the backer board with me when I dropped off my old core and showed them how PRECISE the fit, zero margin for error. I intended for them to keep it, but they said, no worries, we don't need it, it'll be right. Famous last words.
Anyone who can solder can probably redo their own if they can get ahold of a new core. It's just a matter of sweating the tanks off of the old core and soldering them onto a new core. I should've just kept their botched job and tried to correct it myself. They probably still have the core too. Maybe I will call them.
But Bruce should have enough sources to get it done, IF he wanted to do it. And he's got a whole yard full of 3rdgens that probably still have their OE heater cores in them. He could easily remove one and send it to someone who could make them. He'd be fulfilling a genuine NEED.
Original Air re-cores them or used to. Before I shopped locally, I emailed OA. Either they still do it, but the price was insane, or they no longer did it. But I believe their source was also in Mexico, so it's likely the same source.
Edit: A genuine, old-school radiator shop should be able to locate cores, so if people know of one in or near their towns, then that's who to contact.
Last edited by LAFireboyd; Apr 24, 2023 at 02:07 PM.
Just an update. Nothing really ever came of this conversation from 18 months ago.
I'm curious why the stopped selling those Trans Am / GTA door pull trim spacers that always crack, break and pieces fall out. I bought a set last year, one of their reproduction parts, and it looked good. They removed them from their site months ago.
I'm curious why the stopped selling those Trans Am / GTA door pull trim spacers that always crack, break and pieces fall out. I bought a set last year, one of their reproduction parts, and it looked good. They removed them from their site months ago.
No idea, JT. It'd be cool if Bruce could stop by and tell us.
I'm curious why the stopped selling those Trans Am / GTA door pull trim spacers that always crack, break and pieces fall out. I bought a set last year, one of their reproduction parts, and it looked good. They removed them from their site months ago.
I need those. It's the only part of my interior that's missing.
We also need reproduction trim pieces for the rear of the headliner. All of the originals are very brittle with broken screw holes. I had to fiberglass the backside of mine to strengthen it up.
Last edited by 80schild; Mar 28, 2024 at 07:03 AM.
I need those. It's the only part of my interior that's missing.
We also need reproduction trim pieces for the rear of the headliner. All of the originals are very brittle with broken screw holes. I had to fiberglass the backside of mine to strengthen it up.
Thought i remembered someone doing them in aluminum, guy is 3d printing them on fb
Anyone looked for GTA emblems lately? Bright red is non existent and has been for awhile.
Yeah, all mine have faded to a wonderful shade of pink. I keep looking at Hawks and eBay but they're total unobtanium. If I recall, though, Hawks didn't make those but were only reselling them....but for the life of me, I can't remember which company actually made the reproductions.
I purchased a set of flame red emblems from pontiworld.co.au for $205. I believe they had all colors. Took 3 weeks to arrive since it was shipped from Australia. Great communication from them as well.
I purchased a set of flame red emblems from pontiworld.co.au for $205. I believe they had all colors. Took 3 weeks to arrive since it was shipped from Australia. Great communication from them as well.
Nice catch! No more bright red kits but I have NOS front bumper emblem which they don’t have so I can likely piece together what I need, Thanks again.
