Hey TomP, I've read a lot of your posts, and I find your knowledge impressive, and your loyalty to your 2.8 even more impressive. Have you had your car dyno-ed lately. How does it perform?

 

Tom's a stud when it comes to the 2.8...:hail:

 

I'm a bit curious myself

 

NAh, he's just a stud.

 

Wouldn't know that personally...never met him, but wouldn't doubt it either...and I notice that he is ever elusive(sp?) since this post came up...maybe he's trying to spare us the sight of his incredible time slips

 

Tom is the V-6 Guru.
He owns a car that runs smooth and believes in having mechanicaly sound vehicle. He tells us in many other posts that he has a lot of body work to do to his car. He himself never brags of having a great looking or fast car. He knows the subject, V-6 is his game, You have a problem he probably has expierenced it before.

Tom reminds me a lot of my father. My dads cars never looked the best body wise, but they always had excellent brakes, tires, exhaust, and ran smooth. I know when we see a multi-colored car drive by we laugh. But if you step back for a second I bet those multi colored parts have more material in them then our rusted away one color cars.

 

Yea, if it weren't for reading alot of TomP's and some other die-hard V-6 loyalists on these boards, I would probably be ashamed of having a V6! But I'm not, and I love my V6, and having these guys around makes it harder not to like our cars. 'Anything can go wrong, but not anything you can't fix!'

 

yeah, at first I had my heart set on getting a V8 Camaro, but once I got the sixer and started visiting this board, I love my car. Plus, without the help of TomP and many other V6 gurus, I don't think that my car would still be running right now. Thanks TomP and all the others like him...:hail:

 

TomP just doesn't have much time on his hands lately to check message boards!

Never dyno'd it, although I'm toying with giving it a run before I rebuild a 2.8 and trans to put in it. Might prove interesting to see how a 248,000 mile motor has held up to the "brand new for 1986" horsepower estimate. You can probably dig up all my timeslip information from the board; fastest time was 16.87 in the 1/4 back in 1996. Last run; I guess it was in 2000, was a 17.1; I'm assuming mileage (worn cam lobes) and steel wheels and the added weight of the newly-swapped rear disc brakes were mitigating factors.

As for being a stud, well, my fiance' thinks so!

LOL, Joe_L! Luckily my car's one color... unless you include rust! But I just got my House of Kolor paint chip charts in the mail today; I've gotta sit down and decide on a color. Already got the paint gun (Devilbiss Finishline HVLP), so it's back to regular bodywork, and then shooting the new color. Amazing; a quart of House of Kolor paint is $50. When Maaco shot my car, they charged me $380. I would love to know the price/quart of the paint they used... it must've been really cheap stuff.

Started cleaning up the basement this weekend; I have so many spare parts it's ridiculous. I could probably build another Firebird! But if I can clear up one pile, I'll have the perfect spot to put an engine on my new engine stand. Should be cool!

 

Dont worry Tom I knew your car was one color; rust does not count as a color either.

I remember you talking about your paint gun a while ago. So the plan is to prep it them get macco to finish it off for you?

 

maaco fabricates, makes their own paint.. so that's why is cheap.

 

Joe, nope, no more Maaco! That's what I did last time. This year I'm doing all the prep myself (again), but shooting the paint myself. It was a good way to get a first paint job, and it might've lasted longer had I washed and waxed it more often, but I can't complain too much for 5 years worth of paint.

Gloin, is that what they do? Ouch.

 

My 2.8 89 Firebird still has a nice body for the most part on it.. the engine does have a few problems though . i think i better start reading up the other posts in this section and see if i can find a fix to its lack of acceleration.