My 1989 Trans AM GTA, got it as a 1200 fixer upper for my 15th birthday, spend all my yard mowing money on it, and this is it today. i turn 18 and graduate next month. Shes my daily. dates on the pictures aren't correct though

 

The Trans Am GTA. She needs some more work, but it's slowly coming along.



The interior has been where most of my effort has been going. I have custom seats in there until I can get the original ones reupholstered. The original GTA seats are torn to hell.

 

BEAUTIFUL GTA!!! Awsome job!!! I say bigger tailpipes any before pics???

Colin, nice bird,, im suprised u wouldnt consider keeping the custom seats and maybe matching back seats??? Like those wheel setup too

 

Nice t/a!!! How far are you from morgantown, WV??? trying to find more 3rd gens up here

 

I have a garage haha. It just makes you appreciate a day like today even more. 77, sun, beautiful. The only reason I'm in the house is I'm waiting for the gf to get home so we can go to a cruise!

 

^lol same here

 

haha well im from northeast PA, so i think thats quite a distance

 

New summer driver

 

^always nice to see the birds sporting irocs

 

Irocs do look really good on birds.....but IDK, just knowing it's a camaro wheel turns me off of them. I LOVE the look of black GTA wheels on a bird though....the golds are nice too, but black GTA's are my fav all the way! (for stockers that is)

 

^i agree, however i was partial towards buying a 91z28 in the begining so some camaro love at first...i love the crosslaces, definately compliment thirdgen birds the best, but would like em in atleast 18's since our cars are so big...i thought after seeing aftermarket snowflakes are wheels were next in line??? ...but yes i know the feeling of maro wheels on birds

PS if i remeber correctly ur bird was a white t/a lol...ur sig shows some intense work any update?

 

Don't get me wrong, I do love the look of irocs on a bird. And you have one clean TA yourself. Your wheels def compliment it nicely. I too would LOVE to see an 18" crosslace wheel. I have upgraded brakes and unfortunately the stock crosslaces don't fit . I'd be on the waiting list is they were going to release them!

And yes, my bird was white before haha. I have a build thread on here. I'm assuming you havn't come accross it since you were asking about it. Heres the link to it, but good luck reading through it. It's getting LOOOOOONG! LOL.

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/hist...ita-86-ta.html

 

beautiful firebird pics here, heres a link to my flickr group for third gens, theres a lot of camaros and IROC's but theres also some firebirds and a few pics of my GTA are in there.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1675312@N23/

 

thanks man...ill be keepin up on ur thread but man i just feel ur pain with the ttop strip down with the first couple of pics...wasnt a pleasant time for me when i did mine lol...t/a looked great white so interesting to see what transforms

Sean, nice GTA whats the stats on it???

 

its pretty much all stock, its got a magnaflow muffler and a K&N Air filter, thats about it, 91,000 original km on it right now. its the 350 auto.

 

I love them BUT the original seats have more gadgets. All the electronic lumbar crap and such.

 

thanks! I'm actually gonna be installing my eibachs this week. Then I'm taking it to my dads exhaust guy and having him make me two new pipes that dump straight down, so there will be no visible tailpipes, i think it will look much cleaner.
And yeah, i have a lot of pictures from before. and in the process.

 

My 1988 Firebird Formula WS6 305 TPI 5 speed 134k

 

^mcneil, very cool formy!!!love the exhaust setup

Nick, springs and new stance should look awsome with the tailpipes off interesting to see final result

 

these are unedited, the sun rays are all natural, thought they were a cool shot

 

did a photoshoot with my friends old triumph yesterday

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60992342@N08/

 

90ta, SHINY

Sean, very clean GTA!!! Really not to familiar with triumphs but know there old lol so friend has a good condition one....any races

 

well i think it had about 100 HP 42 years ago, probably 40-50 HP now, so i dont think a race would be very fair, lol

 

My '87 I just got a few months ago, it looks light in the front end, cause, well, there was no motor in it when we got it. Took these pics before I changed the back hatch. It's been sitting in my garage for the past month or so, because me and my stepdad don't know jack about TPI, haha.

 

Got another update on my wheels. This is the 3rd update, first was early may, then mid june, now late july/early august. I had my brother photoshop them on my car. The front tires are smaller than normal so that's why it looks like there is so much wheels gap but the rear looks awesome. Also supposed to be a 35 series tire. They are supposed to look like 18s.

 

Recently washed.

 

what rims are those exactly?

 

XXR 526, there are pictures of them on page 15.

 

wonder what the hold up is?

 

My 12,995 original miles Trans Am. I'm trying to give us third geners a good name by going to car shows and parades. But, that **** is always rigged to give the typical cars trophies.

 

Sweet!

 

The place I purchased it from is still waiting to get them from the manufacturer. They have received some of the 17" and 20" sizes already though.

 

This is my Trans Am GTA 5.7 from Serbia, I think the only GTA 5.7 in Serbia

 

i like it

 

Shone, love your paint man. Im REALLY considering painting my TA the same color. Did you do it yourself or did you pay a shop? If so how much? MY dads truck is this color and im in love with it Lol

 

Cars looking good! Hows it running these days? I know we talked a few times but I've never seen your car. I like it though!

 

Looks like Packwood. Nice bird.

 

Everything is OK now, but I have some problem with fuel consumption, I think that problem is in injector or FPS

 

Well good luck with it. Sounds like a minor problem compared to before haha. It's a great looking car so I'd drive it and enjoy it.

 

Thanks. You don't know what's a feeling drive this car in my country, everybody is looking like it's NLO So many of them think that's Ferrari, and when I say Pontiac, they say OK, but I saw on their faces that never heard that before

 

it looks alot like a Ferrari, just wondering what are those wheels? and i love the color, your car is also very clean would love to see some interior pics

 

Those are King wheels from some BMW, 8.5J ET13 front and 10J ET20 rear, with 245/45/17 and 285/40/17 tyres, everything fit perfect without spacers.

There will be some interior pictures, but at this moment car is very dirty because of many works on the car

Next step is front brake upgrade (I have already bought all the parts for LS1 swap ) , with stock breaks I almost couldn't stop the car. Stock brakes are very bad

 

You might want to check your filler neck on your gas tank for cracks. When I swapped out my fuel pump for my LS1 swap I found that mine was cracked and I was losing gas because of it. Just a thought.

 

Graham WA. Thanks though!

 

Old pictures.. When I get back home to her, there will be more.

 

Here are mine,just took them recently
Cheers

 

Just an update: They have received my rear wheels from the manufacturer and are now waiting for the fronts.

18x10.5 with 4.25" lip.

 

i know what you mean my car has the ws6...which i thought had 4 wheel disc and anti lock, turns out neither...... the front discs lock up all the time

 

Those are gonna be sweet!

 

I hope so. Got a confirmed ship date today. Should be arriving to me by August 1st or 2nd. Been waiting since March 22nd.