1973ta
02-20-2008, 09:44 PM
Hello all,
Glad to see that there are so many other pple out there that believe in DRIVING their cars, especially in the twisties! Raised on muscle cars and road racing in north georgia, P-T a natural progression. I finally got my own car to wrench on, '73 firebird. I don't have any currnt pics on my computer yet, their coming. I found it about 6 months ago in AZ and the thing has ZERO rust and is in great condition. Until i brought it to GA, it had never left Pheonix. Not a real t/a, it started as a red esprit and the guy who had it before me made it a white t/a clone. (and did a beautiful job!) He must have liked the early cars b/c it has the 70-72 graphics (blue stripe & shaker). I love the look, but it just doesn't seem right to me, I think the car needs the big bird bein a '73. or maybe no graphics, smooth & clean? (what do you guys think?) it has a 400 t/a motor out of a '74, automatic trans, blk int. My intention from the start was a pro touring car, which is why i decided on a clone (and I couldn't afford a real t/a this nice) I only drove the car a month before the tear dwn for the transformation. It is currently jacked up and torn apart in the garage with a big stack of new parts waiting on me---Moser 9'' rear w/35 spline & detroit tru trac, global west upper & lower control arms, global west L-2 leafs (1 1/4 drop), global west 1 1/8'' front sway bar, new 8'' brake booster, wilwood master cyl., global west's 13'' cat5 brake kit with some beautiful 6 piston wilwood cal.(12'' 4 pist. for rears), jegs dist. block & proportioning valve. Haven't decided on shocks to use or front springs(2'' hotchkis drop?). I will run 19s in bk & 18s in frnt when i can afford wheels. Any ideas? The suspension has to come first, once the car can handle it, then comes big power an tremec t56. Still need to make some decisions before moving forward. Thanks, nice to be a part of pro-touring, look forward to learning from you guys, and hopefully being able to give some advice along the way too.
Kyle from GA
1973ta
(here are some resto in process pics from bfre i got it, its all i got now)
Glad to see that there are so many other pple out there that believe in DRIVING their cars, especially in the twisties! Raised on muscle cars and road racing in north georgia, P-T a natural progression. I finally got my own car to wrench on, '73 firebird. I don't have any currnt pics on my computer yet, their coming. I found it about 6 months ago in AZ and the thing has ZERO rust and is in great condition. Until i brought it to GA, it had never left Pheonix. Not a real t/a, it started as a red esprit and the guy who had it before me made it a white t/a clone. (and did a beautiful job!) He must have liked the early cars b/c it has the 70-72 graphics (blue stripe & shaker). I love the look, but it just doesn't seem right to me, I think the car needs the big bird bein a '73. or maybe no graphics, smooth & clean? (what do you guys think?) it has a 400 t/a motor out of a '74, automatic trans, blk int. My intention from the start was a pro touring car, which is why i decided on a clone (and I couldn't afford a real t/a this nice) I only drove the car a month before the tear dwn for the transformation. It is currently jacked up and torn apart in the garage with a big stack of new parts waiting on me---Moser 9'' rear w/35 spline & detroit tru trac, global west upper & lower control arms, global west L-2 leafs (1 1/4 drop), global west 1 1/8'' front sway bar, new 8'' brake booster, wilwood master cyl., global west's 13'' cat5 brake kit with some beautiful 6 piston wilwood cal.(12'' 4 pist. for rears), jegs dist. block & proportioning valve. Haven't decided on shocks to use or front springs(2'' hotchkis drop?). I will run 19s in bk & 18s in frnt when i can afford wheels. Any ideas? The suspension has to come first, once the car can handle it, then comes big power an tremec t56. Still need to make some decisions before moving forward. Thanks, nice to be a part of pro-touring, look forward to learning from you guys, and hopefully being able to give some advice along the way too.
Kyle from GA
1973ta
(here are some resto in process pics from bfre i got it, its all i got now)