I just bought it this morning. I think I probably have the highest mileage of any others...159,000! The first owner drove it like a daily driver (didn't take care of it) to work (200 mile round trip) every day for 9 years. Second owner bought it a couple years ago and put 7K on it. Now I have it.

What should I do first? The intercooler was flushed about 5K ago. It blew the intercooler hose off twice on the way up here. Where can I get new hoses? The two things I know it needs are a hatch motor and an intercooler shroud.

Any other TTA owners here?




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87 IROC-Z, 5.7, auto, 3.27, leather, !cat, Holley fpr, K&N'S, SLP 1-3/4" Jet-Hot coated headers, SLP cam, $uperPITAram, Edelbrock lower intake, Holley 52mm tb, Dynomax/Flowmaster catback
Coming Soon - Fasttrack/Accell DFI

SOLD ->91 Z28, 5.7, 3.23, Ported Plenum, Accel runners & lower intake, Accel distributor module, !dual cats, POS Edelbrock catback, K&N'S, ram air, tb airfoil, !tb coolant
Coming soon - Compucar N20 kit, Accel AFPR

 

Congrats. Wish I could find one for cheap.

Now get to restoring that thing.

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'91 Z28 Blue/Silver ZZ4/ZF6
335.9 rwhp 374.9 rwtorque

 

I bought it in New Orleans for $5200. It neesd a lot of work (seats, intake shroud, paint, door skins (maybe), t-top gaskets, spoiler, etc. etc....but so far the only problem has been blowing the intercooler hose off.



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87 IROC-Z, 5.7, auto, 3.27, leather, !cat, Holley fpr, K&N'S, SLP 1-3/4" Jet-Hot coated headers, SLP cam, $uperPITAram, Edelbrock lower intake, Holley 52mm tb, Dynomax/Flowmaster catback
Coming Soon - Fasttrack/Accell DFI

1989 Pontiac 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans Am - STOCK (for now)
SOLD ->91 Z28, 5.7, 3.23, Ported Plenum, Accel runners & lower intake, Accel distributor module, !dual cats, POS Edelbrock catback, K&N'S, ram air, tb airfoil, !tb coolant

 

First things first.....goto: http://www.turbotransam.com/ and visit the message board..


you can thank me later..

Mike

 

THANKS.

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87 IROC-Z, 5.7, auto, 3.27, leather, !cat, Holley fpr, K&N'S, SLP 1-3/4" Jet-Hot coated headers, SLP cam, $uperPITAram, Edelbrock lower intake, Holley 52mm tb, Dynomax/Flowmaster catback
Coming Soon - Fasttrack/Accell DFI

1989 Pontiac 20th Anniversary Turbo Trans Am - STOCK (for now)
SOLD ->91 Z28, 5.7, 3.23, Ported Plenum, Accel runners & lower intake, Accel distributor module, !dual cats, POS Edelbrock catback, K&N'S, ram air, tb airfoil, !tb coolant

 

Did you end up doing a major resto on this car or did you use it as a driver too? In the last few months I have seen a few very worked TTAs and unfortunately then have ended up being parted. I was just wondering if yours met the same fate or if it was brought back!

 

someone fed you a lot of BS if what you say is right

hmm 48 weeks or so , 5 days a week , 9 years , 200 miles a day.

48*5*9*200 = 432000 miles

+ 7000

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439000 miles

you sure they didn't roll it back by about 300grand ? lol

 

Here are a couple sites that have information you may be able to use:

http://www.turbobuick.com/

message board under turbo trans am tech

http://www.buickgnx.com/

under turbo trans am specific

http://www.gnttype.org/

general interest to turbo owners

 

Congrats!. I envy your purchase. Good luck with it.

 

Does anyone notice this post is almost 3 years old?

 

Yes.

I wanted to see what happened with the car and if he did the restoration or drove it as a daily driver etc. It would not make much sense to ask him a month after he bought it if the restoration was started/completed etc. I was just curious what the fate of this TTA was when I was reading through some of the older posts.

Is there a time limit on replying? I thought as long as it was still available to read it was ok to reply unless the thread was locked.

 

So, what ever did happen with this car? Has it been restored because if it has I would like to talk to the owner. I am thinking of restoring one myself and I heard some of the parts are hard to find.