1968 Firebird 400

[LSXZ28]

Looks great!

[68400BIRD]

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get it back home this spring.

[E.rodz]

Congrats Rob looks like your still making progress! I love the color choice it looks great keep chipping away and we will see it at car craft ! keep up the good work!

[68400BIRD]

More progress.
Inner fenders all mounted, battery tray, lower fender extensions, and lower valance.

Drilled holes for 400 emblems and opened up the scoops.

[68400BIRD]

Another couple of hours worth of work.

[68400BIRD]

Bolted on the back bumper, gas door, tail lights, 400 emblem, and side marker lights.

Front turn signals, and headliner. The headliner did not turn out as well as I was hoping. I might have to pull it off on the sides and try re-stretching it.

[lucky13firebird]

wow, super nice, love the wheels and color. good job, way nice. I have the same wilwood adjustable prop valve and LOVE it. same c5 front brake setup too, but from cpp ( hate cpp btw). also USED to have the same rear brake hose, but it blew out when i hit a hard bump, so i switched to an inline tube piece that i prefer and have had no problems on the road with.

[Gil]

wow, super nice, love the wheels and color. good job, way nice.

X2

Your thread is a mine of good infos
Very nice work. Congratulations !
Gil

[68400BIRD]

Thanks Guys!!!
I hope to have some updates this weekend.
I have been working on the car but could not get it out of the garage for any pics.

[68400BIRD]

Cleaned it up and took some pics for insurance reasons.

Still working on getting the new trunk weather stripping to come down a little.


Re-plated front 400 bumper. New grills and powder coated front brackets.


Two front side shots.

[lucky13firebird]

wow, man oh man I wish the body on mine looked like that. good job man

[68400BIRD]

Not perfect but good enough for a combo of aftermarket and original parts.


I did get the hood to sit a little lower on the drivers side.

[Gil]

Very nice !
I want the same wheels.
Moar piiics !
Gil

[gordonr1973]

Very nice!

[E.rodz]

Rob I looked at your car at car craft it looks great! good to see it is on the road! this is alot harder then anyone without kids could comprehend! nice job keep up the great work!

[68400BIRD]

Rob I looked at your car at car craft it looks great! good to see it is on the road! this is alot harder then anyone without kids could comprehend! nice job keep up the great work!

Thanks Eric. Yes, it is hard finding time to work on the car. I spent the last three weeks working on it from 9:00-12:00ish each night just to make it safe to drive to Car Craft.
It was a great feeling having a car their instead of riding in with a friend.

[68400BIRD]

Wow, it has been a long time since I have posted anything at all. Winter came real late in 2015 at least in Minnesota. I had a chance to keep driving it into November.


I drove the car all last summer. Only had one problem. I bought a new high flow thermostat and installed it right before a car show. I noticed the car running a little hot on the way back on Friday. I checked everything as soon as I got home. Nothing was leaking or boiling over. I had a laser temp reader and nothing was to hot. The following day it stuck closed a few miles from the car show. A hose blew and covered my whole car in anti-freeze. Some one stopped in a brand new Camaro and gave me a ride to Napa. I bought everything to get it moving again but did not have enough tools to change the t-stat. I limped it for three hours to get it into the car show. Changed out the t-stat and everything was great again.

With that being said I tore the upper end off for some upgrades.


I will be adding new to me big valve #62 heads with a bit of work done to them including some nice full roller rockers, ported and matched intake along with a Holley carb and a few other small new items.

[68400BIRD]

It's been a long time but rumor has it that my heads are done. Spring came about a month early this year so my stuff got pushed to the end of the line behind real paying jobs. LOL Decked, polished,ported,gaslet matched, valve job, hardened seats, new springs, vitron seals, and full roller rockers. I also had the intake runners polished and ported to the heads. The heads were already decked a lot so we also had to mill the intake for the correct angles so the gaskets would seal.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Nice looking car!

[F-Body International]

Nice build! I'm happy to see someone else besides me doing a real Pontiac engine in their car. It seems as though everyone is hopping on the LS bandwagon these days.