Long overdue intro Firebird

[blakgoat]

Well its has been 4 years since I started my Firebird build another "Tans Am" clone. I have always gone the pure stock direction, numbers matching concours quality,I have one a concours gold award on one of my I call tropy cars, because after finishing them you can"t drive them. you guys get the picture, I got bored at just sitting around people admiring my GTO's. Then a friend of mine who is a regular here introduced me to pro-touring and have been amazed at what you guys do with your cars and can't wait to join you all with my bird.

So on with my build, I started off with what I am somewhat familiar with, Pontiac,and am somewhat bias to 69 GTO,s because I have had 5 of them and I have never had a vintage F body before, so it was obvious it was going to be a 69 Bird. I found one at some dudes place that was an Oldsmobile guy, no motor or trans perfect for my build and was reasonable, also pretty easy to pry from this guys hands. I brought it home stripped it and on the rottisery it went. First to the blasters and then to the body shop, to asses what it needs. new trunk floors and drivers floor. I started researching here on pro-touring, and decided to go with Blake from Speed-tech, what a great bunch of guys! they shipped me a new front subframe and there upper lower control arms, rack and pinion steering, ATS spindles,

[blakgoat]

I was planning on going with a twin turbo Pontiac engine, I changed my mind after looking at another firebird with the same combo, it had a 400 Pontiac with two turbos at a car show, there was no room for anything and you see where the turbos where deforming the fiberglass hood, not good! so I finally settled with an LS build. I contacted Frank at Prodigy, we talked back and forth for quite a while, that man is full of knowledge, we settled on a 418 LS3 with a Magnuson 2300 and wagner pulleys, I hope to get this engine soon, I am very excited about how this thing would look under the hood.

so will fast forward a bit, on what is finished so far.
DSE mini tubbed and DSE frame connectors
6 spd viper trans with scatter shield
Moser 9inch with 31 spline axles 3.50 gears
air ride suspension, prodigy air bar
I will try and post some pics latter today
Imran

[blakgoat]

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[LeighP]

Very cool....I'm assuming the two channels in the trunk floor are for exhaust tube clearance?
The modified rear valance panel looks good, too.
Start up a thread in the Projects area so all us F'bird guys can follow your build!

[critter]

X2. Nice work so far.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

flocks and flocks of birds lately!

love it!

[John Wright]

Sounds like a kicking motor you have coming from Frank.....make that bird scoot.

[blakgoat]

yes Leigh you are correct, I am using air ride and with there air bar there is no room to run the 3" mandrel bent exhaust I purchased from magnaflow, so I had the trunk modified. Question how do I bring this link over to the project side? copy and paste, or get a Mod to do so?
Imran

[CruizinKev]

nice project! can't wait to see more!

Question how do I bring this link over to the project side? copy and paste, or get a Mod to do so?

yeah PM a Mod or Admin and they'll move it to the project section