Dam I miss that trans am! Think I'm going to find myself another one.

 

Hey, did you ever find that pass side lock cyl?? I'd like to keep the original keys because of the glove box and such

 

I think I threw it away cause you never asked again about it.

 

oh noes!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I will look for it again though, it might have survived the move

 

any other stuff you have left? Probably not right?

 

No, but might cruise pick a part next weekend if you need anything let me know.

 

black seat belt guides for 4th gen seats is one thing I need.

 

what year cause they changed

 

on seconds thought...I may have a set of old ones, I think they will interchange with 2000 seats...I'll have to check

 

[quote=Twin_Turbo;5002954]Fabbed a washer tank for it, just like on the camaro. no canton or similar quality welds but it'll do. It will be anodized gold too but Ill bring a whole batch in to do at once so I end up with the same color (and hopefully a better price because it cost 100$ to do 1 reservoir and 1 fuel filler cap)






Hey Marck

How are you going to make the wiper washer system work again? Can't remember but didn't the original tank have a washer pump in it? Been so long I don't remember much of the car. Also why didn't you paint the underhood gloss black instead of flat? With your LSx are you going to try and fab a air box to draw air in from the hood scoop?

It's coming along really nice though! Miss the car LOL .... You going to make me a video of it on the autobahn when it's done LOL.

 

this is turning out well. !

 

I figured flat black would be more "road fighter" that gloss black. I can't stand shiny **** I like a machined look, flat anodized, flat black wheels, gold but I hate chrome, polished and bling. A lot more on the car will be flat black, the seat will be the recaros that I intended for the camaro. They have a suede matte texture to them. Same on the dash and interior, no shiny stuff anywhere.



The washer pump is inside the wiper motor, it slides in like a cartridge.

You can see it here



LSx will be carbed, front distributor.... I may try to do an air box that hooks up to the hood.

I will have to fabricate headers for the thing also... I was about to buy an engine but I was thinking a tall deck would be nicer... I was thinking 479 w/ LS7 heads, LS7 carb intake... sounds like something that would run It's either that or a 440 LS7.

I will shoot a vid... for sure!

 

you should paint the blok gold or something. that canister looks lonely and akward being the only thing gold

 

I may have the reservoit anodized black if stands out too much. The other one will be the same color. I want to use black valve covers w/ gold pontiac sctipt so maybe a black reservoir would be better. Probably painting the rad black too. A gold block might be an idea... a little smokey yunick then again... smokey knew a thing or s2 about colors and syling LOL. Black & gold, just my kind of thing.

 

id say do both tanks gold, block or intake or something on the engine gold so you even it out between the sides and middle of the engine bay. the rad cover may stick out a tad too much gold, but gold pontiac lettering on the valve covers would work too

 

gold header wrap LOL

I had actually been looking at that gold mylar foil for heat shielding but it's a little too rich for my blood...and I suck at applying decals and stickers, it would never turn out nice

 

id say stick with painting stuff thats gold no stickers

 

No stickers, I meant this heat shielding

reflect-a-gold

 

looks like it came from a lunar module.

 

^ what he said, or like the inner lining of a lunch box

 

LOL OK OK

So, I now know what will be powering the car.. it'll be a 495 LSX w/ modified LS7 heads, RHS tall deck spacers, LS7 carb intake, front drive distributor. No dry sump, it will be a wet sump engine. IF I was goig to do a dry sump it would be a real system, external 4 or 5 stage pump...not the stock GM stuff.

 

Got the Metco arms in, they are saweeeeet!!!

Tnx arcticwhiteZ!!

 

My jaw hits the follow whenever I read this thread!!!

 

This thread keeps giving me more and more ideas.

Hopefully I'll start the suspension build on my project soon.

Great pics...keep em coming.

 

I got some stuff in, I can finalize my SFC/trans crossmember.TQ arm mount combo now. Also got some new wheels to fit on it, they're my buddies but I got to make sure they look OK on mine so I can get those wheels and paint the centers gold. (will ahve to check caliper clearance)

 

Got the inner SFCs/trans mount and otherstuff combo done. All welded up, ready for the powdercoater to redo it. These parts like the SFCs all come with junk coating, simply coated over the mill scale and everything and no primer coat. My coater blasts, primers and top coats. Much much more durable that this junk. I installed the same type of SFCs under my gray iroc and the coating is flaking off and there's surface rust under it.



My buddy bought some wheels for his silver 83 TA. Couldn't pass it fitting them. They may look good on there in gold but I fear they do not offer enough caliper clearance. Mixed feelings on them though

 

Those wheels are nice!!!

 

those are my second favorite wheels that youve taken into consideration

 

problem is, everyone and his brother has BBS or lookalikes here

Now THIS is something else... not sure it would suit the car...I have to photoshop this first to get an idea

 

They have them like this too, w/ a gold line in the rim

 

I like this look! Different wheel, but looks great!

 

perfect

 

Any updates? Jealous

 

No, still no short block...getting pretty restless here..taking too damn long

 

Here is Twin_turbo's car. This was after it was repainted and reupholstered. Very old pictures of it when I first bought it.



The N-89's were original to the car but rims were painted gold to match bottom. A few weeks after picture was taken all it's bowling ball covers were stolen and N-24 rims were put on the car. At that time the KITT guys drove prices up and didn't want to speend the bucks for more wheel covers.

 

Looks like it had a gold bird on the rear back then, there's a silver one on it now but have a nos gold replacement.

 

Always had a silver one probably just the way sunlight hitting it. Think only recaros in 82-83 had gold birds but then 84 all had gold bird. But I could be wrong to that picture is arould 10 years old maybe more and my memory only good for a week or two now.

 

not the one on the sail panel, the one on the taillight filler panel

 

Stock \/




BEASTMODE \/

 

Marck

Any new progress?

 

No man still waiting on 495LSX, the builder is stalling an stalling, should go next week then a month and a half in the container I ran out of parts for the 82 TA and the 83 stepside so I was back on my 87 IROC LOL

I was getting withdrawals and almost tore into the 88 since I still have a new retrofit T56 for it and some susp. parts that need to go on....and I want to build a new motor for it since this one has maybe 300.000 miles on it? LOL. Certainly more than 150K. Still running strong but I need more grunt in it...buuuttt... the heads and some other parts for that engine to be built are...you guessed it, in the container

I was so close to dismantling the 88 LOL

 

That's a Nice Iroc

 

Woohoo

Major step ahead! Soon I can start building the rest of this engine. Still got tons of stuff I need though and headers to fabricate

 

more stuff

 

Does anyone here have a CAD file or template for LS7 exhaust flanges?

 

A little fuel pump w/ pre and post filter. -10 fuel lines. I may end up running the pressure regulator in the back and using a dead headed line to the carb. Don't feel like running 2 -10 lines to the front. I can run 1 through my pass side SFC

 

Are you sure that's gonna deliver enough fuel... LOL

That last pic would make a cool poster!!!

 

That is a thing of beauty

 

New wheel idea, crappy photoshop. Should depict 20s, tires are a lil skinny