Just need to vent My new headers don't fit.... the k-member doesn't fit.... and if I decide to use the headers I'll have to put in an auto tranny and solid motor mounts. I'm too scared to find out if the coil overs fit.

 

Dude that sucks.. If ya need a place to rant, I'm there to listen anytime ... Hope ya get it figured out though

Jess

 

@#&$"*@#&$@*&$#!!!!!!

I'm returning my coil overs! What a piece of CRAP!!!! That is a pathetic design! No other way about it! PA Racing isn't going to like their e-mail come Monday morning. I gave them a mouthful.

[This message has been edited by QwkTrip (edited November 04, 2001).]

 

COIL OVERS!!!! EVIL SATAN!!!

but why does the k-member not fit?

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Karl Hunter
Hunter Motorsports
Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

 

The k-member doesn't clear the steering linkages that attach to the spindels. Although I'm thinking that all I have to do is turn the linkage around so that the bolt is on the back side instead of the front. But I'm not sure what that would do to my geometry. Got any input?

 

I'm a little unclear as to where the interfearance is actually happening. Is it at the point where the tie rod ends meet the center link? How would the k-member intergere way out at the spindles? I just can't picture it. If I saw it I'm sure I would understand.

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Karl Hunter
Hunter Motorsports
Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

 

Yes. The brackets used to brace the mounts for the engine are pushing up against the tie rod end.

 

Dude, man, that sucks! What did we tell you about those coil overs?
Without those headers what are you going to use....?

 

Nevermind. The holes are tapered and I can't swap the links to the other side of the bar.

The headers do fit if you slip a TH400 behind the engine. So instead of waiting for another 7 months to get another set of headers like last time I would simply put up a TH400. But at that point you gotta ask the question... why do all this to a '89 Firebird????

I seem to have 3 options:

(1) Use the big block with a TH400
(2) Go small block
(3) Dump the car off and put the big block in something else that can handle it with ease.

I'm exploring all these options. I've tried to sell the big block in the past but nobody would buy it. There are plenty of platforms out there that take big blocks just fine like old muscle cars. I've even had the thought of getting a mid '80s Monte Carlo SS. Those have a timeless style to them and they're plenty big to take the big block. In other words, I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

 

QuickTrip,

Sorry to hear about the header woes Will they make a new set for you that will work properly? Hope so!

 

I bet my old '79 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme could take that big block. plenty of engine compartment room. I still know the guy who has it and he hasn't fixed it yet as far as I know.

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1987 IROC-Z T-Tops wait... GUTTED MAF!

 

I got a refund for half the purchase price from Lemons. I will use a TH400 instead. It's easier for both them and myself.

 

So you gonna sell that sweet T5?

 

Good, the Auto is the smartest choice anyways! Also, I saw your post, dont sell it dammit!

I am sure that its been completely aggravating, but once you get done with it, it will be one of the baddest 3rdgen's ever!

-Roshambo

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-Joe
1988 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 - 305 TPI, 700R4, 3.23 Posi, Digital Dash, Leather Seats, Maui Blue with Silver GFX, T-tops, Tinted Glass, Gutted MAF, TB Coolant Bypass, K&N Cone Filter, No Cat, 3" exhaust from Y-pipe back, MSD Super Coil, Accel 8mm wires, L98 Aluminum Heads, Ported and Polished Plenum, Siamesed Intake, Aluminum Driveshaft, Edelbrock 3 point Strut Tower Brace

 

It's a Tremec TKO. I haven't made a decision yet. You want it? I've got about $3500 invested in it.

- Tremec TKO (3.27 first gear) with adaptor plate
- Pro 5.0 adjustable shifter
- Lakewood bellhousing
- Centerforce dual friction clutch
- Billet steel flywheel

[This message has been edited by QwkTrip (edited November 05, 2001).]

 

In some ways it was just a bad moment but in other ways it's something I've considered for a while. Just never said it. I've got more inspiration today since I've got a TH400 lined up to be built. It will soon be time to rock and roll!

 

And when it does, you know you will take that thing out, find a nice secluded road, open it up and have the "Perma-Smile" from ear to ear. And all those wierd crazy thoughts you had of selling it will be loooong gone

-Roshambo

 

Actually, I'll probably end up doing the same thing as happened in the Vette... I'll pop a rear tire off the rim when I hit 2nd gear and go spinning off the road into the field.

 

ya but aint it fun

put mine backwards at 120k last night

with two cops behind me
hehehe oops

 

Art Morrison Enterprises makes a coil-over for thirdgens. I don't know if it is a different design than the one you have, but it might be worth checking into.

 

Turns out they just sent me the wrong stuff. I was right... it was a crappy design for what I've got