It's probably the wheels. You should sell them to me.

 

Found the issue today, put a patch on it but may order a new tire and use this one as backup.

 

Brand new tire too, right? That's not in the sidewall for sure, but it's out in the outer row of tread blocks, which see wuite a load in hard cornering.

 

Few shots from Firebird fest 24

 

 

 

 

Damn fine car! I prefer the 91-92 Formulas over all the Thirdgen Firebirds.

 

Started the shock/strut swap. Originals are 100% dead.

 

 

Glad to see you made it to FF24 with the teal car.

We had to cancel our plans with about a week to go. Maybe next year.

 

Front struts on. Next up, idler arm

 

Purdy.

 

May as well have a brake upgrade party. Wags going with LS brakes and I'm going 1LE. Those factory paint inspection marks really warm my heart....

 

Looking good Tony, she went to a good home. Ever consider having custom brake shields made by a sheet metal fab house? Why didn't GM put any on anyway?

 

Awesome!!! let me know how the 1LE feels compared to the LS1, always been curious about this.

 

Because they reduce airflow and cooling?

 

Nice upgrades Tony. Envious of your being able to reuse the factory strut boots. Mine had some cracks and I didn't trust them. Wasted a month on some alternatives, but finally have parts to put it back together.

 

 

Also dug into the column and found a backed out pivot pin on left side. Cleaned it up, put on some locktite and put it back together

 

 

Picked up some lowering springs for the teal 92

Set of 17" formula wheels for my 89 vert or ttop350, maybe I'll just order another set so i don't have to choose which car gets them.

NOS fuel sending unit to replace the jacked up aftermarket part

 

Lowered Joes car last weekend


Installed his set of Hawks 17x9 Formula wheels


Drop came out perfect

 

Your friend's Formula looks perfect with those Vogtland 1.2" drop springs. I'm very curious about the ride quality with those springs. Has he mentioned anything yet about how it rides?

 

He still has original struts and shocks, said it rides like crap and bottoms out easy. Lol thats up next

 

I highly recommend the Koni Yellow Sport shocks and struts. We had them on a 33k mile 90 Formula hardtop with a bunch of UMI parts for lowered cars and UMI lowering springs and that car was the best riding and handling 3rd gen I ever been it. Rode amazing on the Koni shocks and struts with stock WS6 springs or the UMI lowering springs with stock 16x8 Formula wheels and Hankook Ventus V2 Concept 245/50 HR16 tires and the 17x9 Hawk's Diamond Spoke wheels and Firehawk Indy 500 275/40 ZR17 tires.

I just don't think a man can go wrong with Koni Yellow Sports.

 

garage day today

Why can't i leave anything alone?

 

Delco plugs, LT1 starter and alternator swap.
Also, have lowering springs in and still working on totl catback swap.



Strut code for 89 tta, think anyone will notice? 😆

 

The TOTL is the best sounding 3rd gen exhaust ever. IMO, of course. One of my best friends once said; "It sounds all nice and bubbly around town, but at 5500, it sounds like a winston cup NASCAR."

That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but when Mustang-owning friends of yours give that kind of unsolicited feedback...that's pretty good. I KNOW you've all seen this before, but let's just take a moment to turn up the volume and listen from 2:00 to ~2:30,

...and then from 3:45 as it accelerates away from the camera.....OH! My god that sounds delicious! Why can't 'Vettes sound that like that, too!??

 

Will we see this one at the Nationals this year?

 

Loading it up tonight

 

Excellent! I look forward to seeing it.

 

Good to see you this year! I'm always like a kid in a candy store there, running all over the place lol

 

It was great running into you, on several occasions!

Oh, same here. Fastest 3 days of the year.

 

Loaded up last min thurs night

Had Reg Harris sign this one to

Found one in ohio from a hardtop 92 formula 350 that was totaled

On the show field

Tried some new straps, liked em. A little easier to deal with on lowered cars

Sunday am right before loadup time

 

Let me know when this one goes up for sale 😂

 

What lowering springs did you wind up going with on this one?

 

Found a used set of eibach semi local and went with those again. 1- 1.5" drop.

 

 

Couple new parts to go on.

 

NOS ttop bag

NOS 1992 aluminum driveshaft

 

I agree. That shop is awesome. It's not often I am this jelous.

 

install was rough, lot of special tools and youtube vids involved.
The original bag was misplaced along the way is why this is getting a new bag.

 

Your perseverance is an inspiration to us all!

 

I'll gladly take one for the team now and then lol

 

1st test drive, back when i got the car, i noticed the lights moved funny so i ordered a couple rebuild kits from Lon @ TDS.
Finally, tonight, the motors were rebuilt. .
All my cars have Lons rebuild kits, plus i keep a couple spares, incase a new car shows up. Lol Good stuff as always.

 

Nice, that's gotta feel good!

FYI, (for future headlights) you can simply fill the ID of the "triangle" with epoxy and assemble. Costs zero, works great!

 

 

Another brutal install, will post pictures soon.

 

Did you have some Bilstein struts stashed away? One of mine sprang a little leak last year, and I discovered that Bilstein doesn't make the struts anymore, only the shocks--and only the shock for standard ride height. They also used to offer a shock for lowered cars, which is what I have, but that one's history now too.

I contacted Bilstein, but the best they could suggest was a shop that repairs them. Not sure when the struts were discontinued, but apparently a while ago, because I couldn't find any. This was last summer.

I replaced them with a pair of Ground Control's strut housings with Koni cartridges.