The Project

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Just picked this up in the hopes of getting her on the road soon. Body and floor are pretty clean and show no holes (thankfully). Only 113,000km (70,000mi) showing.

1987 WS6 Trans Am. - 9 bolt 3.27 - 700R4 - LG4 motor - PW, PM, Pdl, P-hatch, AC, Cruise, this thing is loaded!

Just picked up a Magnaflow exhaust, 4th gen front reats, NOS dashpad and repainting the rear spoiler. Some interior and door panels are at my place getting cleaned up.

Still need to redo the brakes and change out the brake lines.

What do you think?

87_Injected

Looks like a good find. I like the color.

82recarro

Absolutely! Looks like a good projectcar! Congrats

maroman88

very nice, love the color

The Project

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Thanks. Color is Med Blue Met and does stand out in the sun.

Window trim area is clean (no rust bubbles) plus the doors and lower gfx area show no rust.

Just needs a clean and tune. Runs smooth at the moment and no signs of smoke.

//<86TA>\\

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needs a bit of clean up, but its a good looking car!

bradley23150

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Looks real solid.

What kind of Headunit is that?

jaygt

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luv the colour combo. i will be watching and hope to see it out this summer.

The Project

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Non working Toyota factory head unit. Came with the car. Will be tossed real soon in place of a Pioneer P800.

Just picked up some new rear brakes and SS brake lines so the car stops!

scottishtransam

Very nice, can I ask what you paid?

karl's-92'-z28

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Beautiful car, clean project.

Stangski09

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I don't think I would have paid more than 2 grande. Especially since it's just a t/a.
Great little project for you though! I dig the two tone, ditch that gay pin stripe above the gfx though.

drknow90rs_ss@y

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Thats a nice looking car. Nice find.

itsMikey

damn..i love that color..nice find!

92RS(real slow)

love the blue with silver gfx

karl's-92'-z28

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Any progress?!?!?!?

82tarecaro

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Hey - somebody ran the exhaust through the car! Just kidding - looks like a nice, solid car.

80schild

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I really don't think GTA's are worth any more than a regular TA.

Just look on eBay, it seems like 75% of them on there are GTA's. It's actually harder to find a good clean TA.

The Project

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Spent some time putting in new rear brakes and emerg. brake cables. Found out the pass rear caliper was shot and need to get it rebuilt.

Noticed the drivers side pads looked a lot better than the pass side. Had to fight like crazy to remove the bolt that holds the lca in place so we could drop it in order to remove the bolt on the back of the caliper. Guess the last brake job was drivers pads only!!

I guess the last owner decided to paint the underside silver for some reason.






Shot of the the floor pans. Nice and clean!



Pool table taken over again with car parts! Everything will get a good cleaning before going into the Trans Am.

The Project

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Well the Trans Am is finally finished and ready for plates. Spent yesterday finishing off the little jobs; install fan relay, FREE wiper bottle and pump (thanks 6six6 ), rear spoiler and stereo (gotta have the tunes).

My mechanic had an almost new Pioneer head unit laying around and wiring harness for 87 and lower GM. I took them off his hands for a coffee and lunch. Head unit has input jack, USB ports and new remote!

Toasted the old 6x9 speakers (RIP Kicker). Picked up some new JVC ones. Good enough for now.

Realized the tail lights worked but the 4 ways and indicators didn't. checked the relay and fuse and found out the fuse was missing. Also had to rewire the fan delay relay as the last owner installed a manual switch rather than fix the problem. Now the second fan kicks on at 180 degrees.

Also replaced the rear siezed caliper that caused me no end of problems.

Door panels and rear seats cleaned and ready to be installed as well as the new dash pad. Friday will be a detail day. Might replace the 4th gen front seats with the blue racing ones I have.

Car now runs like a champ now. She'll be ready to drive next weekend.

The old factory wrap around spoiler was rotted underneath and had to be tossed (more rust than metal). Traded a used LT1 cam and spare 16" rim I had in the garage for a formula spoiler!!
New FREE spolier installed (thanks again Marcel )


Engine finished. Now just needs a cleaning.


My mechanic installing my FREE Pioneer stereo. My helper is "helping"

karl's-92'-z28

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Awsome, looks like its coming along great.

tylercamaro

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question A) why is it sitting so high in the last pic?
question B) when did you put irocs on it?

The Project

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No springs in the front (old ones were broken). Had to find a set.

Car came with no rims so I put the IROC rims on her since I had a set in the garage. My 89 IROC is now on jack stands.

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I picked up the car Thursday and brought her home. Spent yesterday cleaning and reassembling the interior. Its amazing how good the car looks considering all I did was give a clean at the coin car wash

The old cracked dash was tossed and a new one installed. Makes a big difference. The door panels vinyl and carpet inserts were cleaned and fit like a glove.

3 hours were spent just cleaning the interior. I went through an entire bottle of Mothers Protectant, scrub brush and two rolls of paper towels!! It took 30 minutes just to vacuum everything. :shock: The seats also got a stem clean

Still a few little things to do like pick up a fog light switch, install the back seats and redo the headliner. These will be done in the next month or so. Overall I'm very happy. She purrs like a tiger and pulls hard. Off to the show today to spend some time with friends and enjoy the drive to the show. Oh yea, the radio works great.

Here is how she looked when I got her home.


Interior reinstalled and cleaned






Outside washed. Looks pretty good.

ternandes

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She's definitely a keeper. You might want to treat some of those rusty spots on the floorboards with "Rust Bullet". Other than that, it's a nice clean car!

DizzTransAm

Lookin good, I think this is my favorite '85-90 paint combo.

The Project

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Time to get the interior finished off.

Took the old headliner down to New Image in Scarborough. Sinister has his interior there as well getting redone and updated.

The headliner I got with the car was in pretty bad shape. No material on a bare backing. The new headliner came REALLY nice, redone in the factory gray.



It'll get installed when I find a new interior lamp and some time.

The front speaker (yes I only have one) finally crapped out. Guess the Pioneer deck was to much power!! I picked up some Aura home drivers (3.5") and a set of Pioneer tweeters.

I fabbed up a plate, cut some wire and reconnected everything. These things really shine.

maks10

^some nice work, may motivate me to redo my POS speakers lol

The Project

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The Aura mids were $16 each from an online clearance sale. Pioneer tweets were $45 from ebay new in the box.

There are some really good home tweeters (like Vifa) for cheap if you look.

6SIX6

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Do you still have the template for the front speaker panels you made as Im looking for something different up front

The Project

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Sorry man I don't. I just made a 4x6" template with craft paper and then traced it on some fibre board.

With the craft paper I could punch the holes where i needed them make them the size I needed.

GBPhoenix88

wow looks good, i may be a lil late on post but this is exactly what my 87 ta looks like