Hey everyone,

I bought a '92 firebird from a friend of mine back in February. Over the past 7 months I've been working on making it look and run great. I don't have any "before" pictures unfortunately, but I just got it back from the body shop and its looking good...so I decided to take some pics and post them. It got a few panels repaired, a new hood, and full paint (including the t-top and rear hatch trim.) It still needs to be wetsanded and buffed, I dont know if I'm going to attempt this myself or take it to a detailing place. Anyways, here is a list of all the things I've done to it since I bought it:
-Full tune up, replaced just about every sensor in the engine
-K&N filter
-Dynomax Superturbo exhaust
-1.6 inch drop
-Tokico Illuminas
-New sway bar links and bushings
-4th gen seats, new carpet and abs headliner
-drilled/slotted front rotors

 

sweet ride how's that exhast sound from dynomax?? I've been thinking about it for myself

Cowboy

 

the car looks good, but i cant believe you didnt put a TA/Formula wing on it

 

wow those pics are huge...... Looks nice good job

 

I actually like the base firebird spoiler much better than the t/a spoiler...I'm not sure why its just a personal preference. I think because its a nice straight clean line instead of the curve. Also, the dynomax exhaust sounds great, most people on the road think I have a V8 even though I just have the 3.1. Unfortunately it will have to go when I do my LT1/T56 swap (hopefully) in the near future...

 

nice job on saving the car. dump those snowflake wheels though. one of the ugliest rims GM ever designed IMO

 

i think the base wing was just something pontiac threw at the car just so it would have a wing. it does not flow with the body and has no personality. thats just my opinion though

 

Thats fine, and I disagree (since I have the same look on my car, powerbuldge + base wing) and I even have the Formula wing in my basement.

Looks good.

 

Who said the powerbuldge and base wing don't rock?! Car looks great bud!

 

Off topic but how did you get that many and get them that big

 

The car looks good, but are you going to add the decals back to it. I hate to see when people go out and get a new paint job, but decide to save the $ by not replacing the firebird decals.

 

Those aren't snowflakes.
They are called high tech turbos, and us Firebird owners like them just fine.

And the powerbulge and straight wing were a package deal on the early Trans Ams, and I agree, I like the nice straight lines of the wing.

By the way, those of you that have never really looked at one close, they are actually an upside down air foil, designed to create down force, just thought I'd share that before too much bashing got started.

Great looking 'bird, and that color of blue is one of my favorites!

Leon

 

Not bad man.

And I'm not sure about the wrap-around spoiler. Just last week I took mine off (GM made them out of RUBBER!?!?!). Yeah; The damn thing split down the side of the wing last winter. I took it off and puddied in the holes.

Makes the car look like the 70's birds imo.

http://a287.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...a868743446.jpg

 

Hey guys glad you like it. I think it came out great for a $1200 paint job. I cant wait to put the decals on, but the paint job still needs to be color sanded and buffed before I do that. One of my friends has a 87 formula but he put the "formula" decals on before he got it color sanded, it just came out looking kinda crappy imo.

btw the pics are linked to my own ftp server, they are not actually hosted by TGO so theres no limit to the size or quantity that I can post this way.

 

Hey, how did you get the wraparound spoiler off?? Mine split too, and I found the bolts under those little black caps. But I couldnt figure out how the front extensions are put on there, and I didnt feel like breaking anything.

Alsp, what putty did you use. How did it work?

 

Check out early 4th gen rims then...PUKE

 

looks great bro!!

 

nice car

 

Thanks everyone. I actually have a couple of updates... I did "dump" the stock rims and picked up a set of the 16inch crosslace gta rims with 245/50/16 yokahamas. INCREDIBLE improvement... I'll post some pics after this nasty weather we are having here clears up.
I also backed into someone pulling out of my driveway thankfully the damage was very minor but I will need to have the bumper cover resprayed to get it perfect again.

aaand.... SFCs are on. If you are in the Philadelphia area, I highly recommend JS Performance (jsspeedandcustom.com). As many other members of this site will tell you, Josh does excellent work.

 

I notice that your car doesn't have any ground effects, and has the nosecone without the fog lights. This is how Formulas are equipped. I thought all base birds got the GFX...did some come with none and with the same nose as the Formulas?

 

I think that car looks GREAT! The powerbulge hood and spoiler look great on the car. I'd love to see that car with some torque thrust 2's on it!

 

I've seen this debated on a thread before, and to tell you the truth I'm not really sure. My car is base base BASE. I mean, 3.1L V6, manual mirrors, doors, locks, cloth interior, hardtop (my car has C&C tops). Actually, this is good in my opinion - fewer things to break. However, When my mechanic looked up my car on his scanner, it came up as a "formula" and "rare". He told me I had what was called a "baby formula", which I had never heard of before and didnt make any sense to me. I looked it up online... no results. I figured he had no idea what he was talking about, but then neither did I. I tried to use the RPO decoder but for some reason it does not like my VIN. Geico does not like my VIN either..? What gives? Any ideas?

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xmas wish list - cammed ls1

 

I think the flat rear spoiler was to clean up airflow off the back of the car and lessen turbulance behind the car instead of making downforce.

 

Doesn't sound like your mechanic was on the right track.

Formulas all had V8 power, a different spoiler from stock, no gfx (you qualify there) and probably some other distinctions of which I am unaware.

 

Take the caps off first, undo the bolts, and then slide the wrap around spoiler forward.

 

I agree, I don't like the TA spoilers either. That is the spoiler that belongs to that car anyway.

 

nice car mister! The wing looks way better then this car i just found.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1991-...QQcmdZViewItem

 

oh my god... the horror!

 

I read an article in Car Craft some years ago that said the base Firebird spoiler has the best downforce up to 85 mph of any third gen. Beyond that, the aero wing was better. They actually wind tunnel tested it...

Nice car, just curious but what is the paint color you used?

 

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

 

$1200 paint? Damn man, looks good! Was it a single-stage paint job? Did they do any body work? If I could get all the nagging little dents out of my RS and paint it up for $1200 I'd be all over that...

 

 

looks awesome, but you still forgot the 91-92 ta/formula wing

 

not all of em. Most of em, but you have to have I think the W68 package to get the gfx

 

Wow, nice job!! The new wheels look killer

 

I love those wheels. That is the same color I painted my wheels about
6 months ago. I'm just waiting until the car gets painted to put them on.
LOOKS GREAT!!!

 

I was shocked at the quality for $1200. It still does need a wetsand/buff but I think it came out great. They did do body work as well, very minor stuff, I had a bunch of little dings, there was a dent in the hood, and a fender needed to be aligned. Thats it.
UNFORTUNATELY, I backed into a corolla pulling out of my driveway which is why there is a chunk of paint missing from my rear bumper. Just got it fixed, cost $300.
everyone for your comments.

 

firebird looks awesome! incredible looking paint, wish i could find a deal like that. wow.

...might want to edit that last page of pics, threw the format all off.

 

DUDE THE PAINT LOOKS *******

But, is it me or the picture but doesnt the hood look a little...off with the lights and bumper?

OVERALL: $1200 for that good of lookin paint....GREAT PRICE.

I had a kid AKA "***** BOI" with an Eclipse come tell me he spent $4000 on a hood repaint and fender repaint...I THINK he thought that meant his car was FASTER now....HA HA.

Great car man, looking forward to seeing mroe of it around the boards.