The specs are; Edelbrock performer RPM heads ported by butler to flow 315 cfm , Victor intake, Holley HP 850, lunati solid roller lifters, voodoo roller rockers, comp cam 597 lift 260 duration a @.50. forged crank, 4bolt forged mains , bored .073 over, hard-blocked, canton oil pan with oil cooler, Precision Industries 3800 stall torque converter, stainless Flowmaster super 40 with 3" stainless X-pipe Pypes all tig welded together, Doug's headers coated by Jet-Hot (the only way to go).
One of my friend's had a 455 4sp back in the 80's. I got a chance to run that car good! Miss those days, and it's good to see any old rides back on the road!!👍😎
Back in the early 90s I had a landscaping job for a while and saved up for a GTI. Anyways, the new guy had a 78 with a swapped 455/4 speed and was the younger bro of a friend. We had a blast swapping cars and chasing each other around this huge complex where the shop was,it had some nice torque.
As a teen in the 80's I miss the old Trans am's. I dreamed of having one, but it never panned out. Awesome looking cars. Great to see you have yours running. RPMs and wheels spinning. Never gets old :-)
Oh look high school. Seemed weird at first, then I realized there wasn't a TOPS rolling paper envelope on the gauge shelf. We were able to add several MPH back in those days by trimming our bangs really short and cutting the sleeves off our T shirts. Have fun and keep it well. Warms my heart to see these still around.
Beautiful car David, i love the trans am. I had a 78 4 speed manual. Loved that car bad sadly got wrecked when my wife went through a green light someone ran a red light and t boned it!! I miss my car so much!!
@@unclebob7937 thanks BOB was about to say the same- it wasn't a "GM" power plant, it was Divisonal. Can't even swap a timing cover between the Olds Buick and Poncho 455s let alone intakes heads, cranks...
This is totally SWEET man! Takes me back to my beater back in the day ran 9's in the quarter and lifted the front wheels down half track but that was cuz I added the roots blower off a GreyHound onto the air cooled helicopter motor in my old Tucker in the 90's... it was a screamer!
I had a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Formula for 15 years 1990-2005. I loved looking at this instrument panel while I was driving. Mine had the 403 Olds V8 with Rochester Quadrajet and THM-400 transmission. It was a good performer. With T-Tops too.
Pull the cable out of the casing from the speedo end and lube it with regular wheel bearing grease and that unwanted movement will go away. GM cables go dry and start jumping, if it's gone bad you can replace just the inner part from any parts store.
Nice. My 1st TA was a '75, then had an '80 Pace with a '73 front end. Now I have an '81 Pace. Running the factory, short-deck 301 turbo, now a 383 stroker, with KRE aluminum heads, custom single-plane intake, CC roller, bigger turbo, BME rods/pistons, nitro injection, hard-blok, 30 over, about .550 lift, 3.42 true-trac, built TH350c with 2500 stall, etc. Been in the works for a while. Not quite complete...
@@deeeeeeps It was definitely different, & required a different approach to making it run. My engine has been out about 14 months, & I'm still trying to re-engineer things into a powerful & reliable alternative Pontiac engine. But one gots to pay the Pontiac tax...lol!
We just got done building a 72 Ventura. During covid. Me and my son. It's got the same shaker hood sbc 400 .30 over port and polished heads headers turbo350 trans with two stall converter and 3:23 10 bolt posi. Your ride is sweet
Wow, that engine sounds and runs like hell! Mines is original (455HO and #197 heads)and has way less power, but enough for me😉 Great car! Cheers from France
I remember a time when I didnt have to sift through endless 'reaction videos' and 'review videos' in order to find a decent muscle car video. Videos like this and porn are what makes the internet wholesome.
Yes that's one heck of a car, one of the best looking cars ever, I remember the first ones in the 60s they were mostly white with blue accents, they were on the firebird line, but the style you have is the by far my fav, I used to street race a 70 firebird formula , 4.88 ring gear, with a old Corvette 327 350 hp, manual shift, open headers, it would be wound out in 1 quick hurry top end was a little more than 105 , that was along time ago, thnx for reminding me , of being young, mi Amigo !!
Love those old firebird cars my older brothers best friend had a 76 that he bought new and had for the better part of 40 years until a young girl ran a stop sign on a rare day he had decided to drive it to work RIP Trans Am.. .Mark barely survived the crash... long recovery.... no job is important enough to run stop signs risk people's lives for
It's crazy because with the next gen dart blocks I'm running a 454 and procharger setup. Small block but tall deck and it should be around 1700whp using aluminum rods. Never thought I'd like big block power in a small gen block. Inane can't wait to load videos of what an F1x can do.
@@codyfoster3205 Yes, I agree, best movie! I saw it at a drive in movie at 12 years old. It was with my Dad in his ‘34 Ford Hot Rod, coincidently powered by a built up 400 Pontiac! Great memories!
@@bodarville2510 wow! That's killer! I'm far too young to have seen it like that. I'm only 22, but this movie was a major part of my childhood. I've always been a car enthusiast, and this was always amazing to me. My grandpa had it on vhs and every time I went to his house I'd ask to borrow it. I learned after his passing that he used to build hot rods. I wish I had knew that because we could have bonded more from that. I sure miss him, and thus movie always reminds me of him. I also got my younger brother into it when we were kids. I was in 6th grade. He's 4 years younger than I am. And he's starting to play with cars now too at 18.
i grew up in mi and lets just say this is literal spring fever. everyone was itchin for the snow to melt and the cool cars to hit the streets. first dry roads youd always see someone out having a blast and its all you can hear in the distance usually. id always loved cars so as a kid i was looking for the first one to jump into. back then it was cool anyone would give you a ride and it wasnt weird. now it disgusts me people are snobby with the purchase price of their car or its not worth my time its expensive. bought not built they have nothing to talk about it just what it costs. every time i take my cool car out i get stopped and talked to by atleast one person and i almost sold it because its impossible to go anywhere. but then i was like ya know ive always wanted one of these im not gonna let you ruin it for me. the ppl that arent dbags or jerks or weirdos ill stop and tell em whatever they wanna hear cause ive noticed it really made some peoples day. i forgot about that when i was young and didnt have something fun. i had the skills from 10 on so i always had the cool stuff but didnt know it was cool it was just every day thing. id actually got a few people on their path to having their own recently and totally worth it. nobody wants to learn anymore but i had a few ppl beg to learn from me and that also put me off im like just do it but they have nobody to ask or explain what the how to is even telling them what to do. they know zero car jargon. nobody really taught me but i had the ability to learn well so i always got the your smart youll figure it out from a fucking master mechanic. at 10 trying to rebuild a 4 stroke motor and ive never seen an engine before. he never told me showed me or taught me much of anything about working on them and it made me pretty good at it because i knew that the best of the best knew i didnt need any of that. i took that for granted cause i figured everyone could but ppl get scared i get that. i have a few friends now that literally will take my word over the manufacturer at this point cause i know their car better ugh. but its nice being able to share the knowledge instead of just fix it for me and i dont want to pay you. they want to fix it themselves and i commend that. i dont even want to work on my own cars at this point. i only enjoy building them at this point and thats expensive unless you sell and id rather drive ugh...
Nice sounding engine. I'm from the U.P. and have spent a few years working on the iron range in MN. I have a 1967 Firebird. I'm in the process of taking out the 400 and dropping a '73 455 bored .040 over, zero decked, balanced rotating assembly, RPM intake and heads, 705 Voodoo cam, eagle rods, Icon pistons, Doug Thorley headers, TCI TH400, and 3:55 gears. Hot rod did an article on a similar build and it made around 600 hp and tq on pump gas. I dont think the stock rear end will hold up to that kind of power, not even sure the TCI street fighter will. What's in your drive line?
@John Bleau I live in the UP as well. Near Marquette. You could say I am big into Pontiac. Did you ever get the engine swap done? I put one of my 455s in my 65 GTO back in 2018, its lots of fun now.. Not the fastest one I own, that would be the 79 Formula with a Butler engine similar to Deeeps engine, but with more cam and airflow. Have you ever come to Ishpeming for Buzz the Gut? If you are still around let me know.
What I remember most about that car was the was the gage just off screen to the right, I could never keep that Fulker out of the red. Sounds good, nice car.
Car sounds nice I had a 1981 firebird turbo 4.9 with a built 350 Chev pushing 500hp in it with a 3000 stall and a 3:42 locker funny as hell it was like I was in my old car I had a factory tach 2
Super super bad ass!!!! Where are you from? Canada or Wisconsin or somewhere like that lol??? I know you guys know how to work on the big block stuff for racing
Minnesoda.This was my first engine build. I did a lot of research and bought a lot of measuring instruments. I could do a lot better if I did it again.
Bad Ass Car , sounds Awesome too ... just think a gear swap may have been done , without changing the gear in the transmission for speedometer ? Been around the block a few times ...
Saw your comment over on the HICKOCK45 channel about the value of his dirt and saw your avatar then went here!. HELL YES ANOTHER PONTIAC MAN I am nearly finished with a Gasser style 1973 Grand Prix. 461 11.4:1 310cfm KRE D ports, 588 603 lift 244 252 duration with 1.65 scorpion roller rockers on the Lunati voodoo cam. CNC'd Performer RPM intake, 937cfm QUADZILLA Q JET from SMI. Level 4.5 Turbo 400 reverse manual transbrake from FTI 3000 stall Continental Converter. Finishing the spool Moser axles and 3.90s in the 10 bolt and removing bumpers as we speak. Gutted for weight I am looking through the rotted floor pans with only a pair of plastic racing seats an a few toggle switches but about 810 lbs lighter running without the hood. Will have videos soon. Look up stock 1973 grand prix burnouts for some shots the day I drug it home for $400 a few years back with the stock low compression 400.
@@superduty4556 also th400 reverse manual is pointless when u can run the 4L80 plug wires to ground (-) and then run the 12v (+) wire to switch ign and shift it manually with shifter. Whatever gear selcted is what it is in. Takss 10 min to setup, way less $$$$ and still have an OD gear with lockup converter.
Sounds mean👌👌👌 Oil pressure looking good... gas gage the needle went down🤣 Just like my 1976 TA Midnight Blue metallic 400 block with some mods...as the speedometer goes up(mine works lol) the gas gage it's going down as fast🤣🤣🤣
I saw your reply below with what you are running under the hood to C. Performance, but what does the outside of the car appear as? Is this a 1970?1971?
Somebody that's been around alot of Cars you listen for differences.Like In American Grafitti the race at the Stop Light the Black 55 and the Yellow Coupe.The 55 I read in that race had a 427 with a 4 speed in that race.A Friend that hasn't been around alot of cars was watching it with me.I asked him if he could tell the difference and which car had the big block and which one had the small block? I put it put and said now liaten.I said you hear one is really rapping out and one a deeper thud? He said ya I can hear it.The one really rapping up is the Coupe because it's a small block.The Big Block in the 55 Has the deeper thud sound.The one at the end was a Complete Different car.It had a 454 From a 1970 Chevelle LS6 Engine but had like a 488 gear or something really low.When they took off and the One that rapped really tight really quick was the 55.I read that was the actual sound it made
The specs are; Edelbrock performer RPM heads ported by butler to flow
315 cfm , Victor intake, Holley HP 850, lunati solid roller lifters,
voodoo roller rockers, comp cam 597 lift 260 duration a @.50. forged
crank, 4bolt forged mains , bored .073 over, hard-blocked, canton oil
pan with oil cooler, Precision Industries 3800 stall torque converter, stainless Flowmaster super 40 with 3" stainless
X-pipe Pypes all tig welded together, Doug's headers coated by Jet-Hot (the only way to go).
1000rpm idle with a big cam + single plane. Pretty good. What about torque converter? gears?
@@R0yL33 If i recall it was a 3800 stall with 3.08 gears. Precision Industries makes the torque convertor. It was the best but damn expensive.
.73 over, so technically it’s bigger than 455, right?
@@jonathancisneros7150 468 when I did the math.
Reminds me of when I was a 7yr old kid watching from the back seat at the gauges bouncing back and forth, one of the best memories of my life
In my opinion the Trans-am is one of the best looking cars ever made.
That ain't opinion lol that's straight up facts
Pretty much every body style was great , some more iconic than others but they all turned heads when they came out
I wouldn’t say best but they are definitely cool cars. It is sad cars are not made with such design any longer.
Excuse me but GTO IS BETTER LOOKING
@@bigthunder2860 if your talkin 72 and earlier you got me there lol. 73 an up missed all the marks
The Engine sounds of the 1970's It was another lifetime to grow up in.Thanks for the memories.
One of my friend's had a 455 4sp back in the 80's. I got a chance to run that car good! Miss those days, and it's good to see any old rides back on the road!!👍😎
Back in the early 90s I had a landscaping job for a while and saved up for a GTI.
Anyways, the new guy had a 78 with a swapped 455/4 speed and was the younger bro of a friend.
We had a blast swapping cars and chasing each other around this huge complex where the shop was,it had some nice torque.
As a teen in the 80's I miss the old Trans am's. I dreamed of having one, but it never panned out. Awesome looking cars. Great to see you have yours running. RPMs and wheels spinning. Never gets old :-)
"Let's see if we can smoke the tires a little"
*6000 RPM rolling burnout*
I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the power coming from this Trans Am. Epic
Why ? its not Civic Nation
it's got the big 455 under the hood if that ain't puttin out power then water isn't wet
@@santosjerez1586 ewww no one cares
Oh look high school. Seemed weird at first, then I realized there wasn't a TOPS rolling paper envelope on the gauge shelf.
We were able to add several MPH back in those days by trimming our bangs really short and cutting the sleeves off our T shirts.
Have fun and keep it well. Warms my heart to see these still around.
There ain’t nothing like a warmed over Poncho,👍👍👏👍👏👍👍
Thank the maker for John Delorean and keeping Pontiac true through the years.
Pontiac was good up until 1999 2000 .
@@Portuguese-linguica Exactly. I'm a Pontiac lover, and I agree...MAYBE 2005.
@@damonemoore7343 The LS GTOs were good contenders.
Nice car...
I use to own a 1974 SD 455, wish I still had it.
Beautiful car David, i love the trans am. I had a 78 4 speed manual. Loved that car bad sadly got wrecked when my wife went through a green light someone ran a red light and t boned it!! I miss my car so much!!
That’s sad to hear. The 77 & 78 had the best front ends on them! Love these cars always have. I hope someday you’re blessed to have another brotha!
Pontiac Trans Am Thee Most Beautiful Car EVER MADE. Period
i love trans am's owned many and still do. but nothing is as sweet as a second Gen.
ignore the haters. your T/A is sweet.
Thanks for the ride bro. Miss my 77 so bad,,
Butler knows their business with Pontiacs. They have certainly figured things out. Sweet T/A!
Couldn't agree more I got to talk to Jim a lot before I bought my parts. Felt like I was talking to a legend.
Amazing! Love the sweep of the gages! That speedos taking a beating! The converter is perfect!
It's a Precision Industries...expensive but the best!
That engine turned dashboard is a thing of beauty!!
455 is such a great engine. My favorite GM motor for sure.
Which flavor, Pontiac, Olds or Buick?
@@unclebob7937 thanks BOB was about to say the same- it wasn't a "GM" power plant, it was Divisonal. Can't even swap a timing cover between the Olds Buick and Poncho 455s let alone intakes heads, cranks...
@@bbb462cid Love the frame twisting torque of those old dinosaurs. Working on a 69 Delta 455 now.
This is totally SWEET man! Takes me back to my beater back in the day ran 9's in the quarter and lifted the front wheels down half track but that was cuz I added the roots blower off a GreyHound onto the air cooled helicopter motor in my old Tucker in the 90's... it was a screamer!
I had a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Formula for 15 years 1990-2005. I loved looking at this instrument panel while I was driving. Mine had the 403 Olds V8 with Rochester Quadrajet and THM-400 transmission. It was a good performer. With T-Tops too.
The TH400 was swapped in as the 403 would have had the TH350.
Absolutely badass! I love the speedometer float of these old gauges. The speedo in my Camaro does the same thing.
Pull the cable out of the casing from the speedo end and lube it with regular wheel bearing grease and that unwanted movement will go away. GM cables go dry and start jumping, if it's gone bad you can replace just the inner part from any parts store.
Never was a Seahawks fan and their beast mode. But this car right here....by the sound of it is in fact BEAST MODE.
Thanks for sharing, loved it!
Nice. My 1st TA was a '75, then had an '80 Pace with a '73 front end. Now I have an '81 Pace. Running the factory, short-deck 301 turbo, now a 383 stroker, with KRE aluminum heads, custom single-plane intake, CC roller, bigger turbo, BME rods/pistons, nitro injection, hard-blok, 30 over, about .550 lift, 3.42 true-trac, built TH350c with 2500 stall, etc. Been in the works for a while. Not quite complete...
I had nothing but problems with the 301 turbo. I had it running good once and it was decent for what it was.
@@deeeeeeps It was definitely different, & required a different approach to making it run. My engine has been out about 14 months, & I'm still trying to re-engineer things into a powerful & reliable alternative Pontiac engine. But one gots to pay the Pontiac tax...lol!
I know folks hate them but I’ve always had a soft spot for the 301 turbo. It’s what I had in high school.
We just got done building a 72 Ventura. During covid. Me and my son. It's got the same shaker hood sbc 400 .30 over port and polished heads headers turbo350 trans with two stall converter and 3:23 10 bolt posi. Your ride is sweet
Love the dash in these cars. Had a 81 in high school put a built 350 and 700r4 in it. Still have the motor and trans.
I had to watch that a few times. Nice car man!
Sounds solid. Phenomenal
Just got it running!!!!! Runs it to 6000rpm FFS.
@Car Guy daddyo no no no no Still dude....
Break it in like you will drive it everyday!
Drive it fast and it will be fast
Wow, that engine sounds and runs like hell!
Mines is original (455HO and #197 heads)and has way less power, but enough for me😉
Great car! Cheers from France
I love the feel and brutalness of those Era cars.
I remember a time when I didnt have to sift through endless 'reaction videos' and 'review videos' in order to find a decent muscle car video.
Videos like this and porn are what makes the internet wholesome.
No shit man lol. I love this comment. The internet has been polluted so bad.
Had to come back and say hi me. I feel the same way now as I did 'waaay back just a few months ago'.
Nice launch looks like a powerful motor 👍🏻
Yes that's one heck of a car, one of the best looking cars ever, I remember the first ones in the 60s they were mostly white with blue accents, they were on the firebird line, but the style you have is the by far my fav, I used to street race a 70 firebird formula , 4.88 ring gear, with a old Corvette 327 350 hp, manual shift, open headers, it would be wound out in 1 quick hurry top end was a little more than 105 , that was along time ago, thnx for reminding me , of being young, mi Amigo !!
Iv always loved the dash boards in that year of car
Love those old firebird cars my older brothers best friend had a 76 that he bought new and had for the better part of 40 years until a young girl ran a stop sign on a rare day he had decided to drive it to work
RIP Trans Am.. .Mark barely survived the crash... long recovery.... no job is important enough to run stop signs risk people's lives for
I miss my old Pontiac! 😥 It had a 428 with two 4 barrel carburetors. Those were the days!🤗
It's crazy because with the next gen dart blocks I'm running a 454 and procharger setup. Small block but tall deck and it should be around 1700whp using aluminum rods. Never thought I'd like big block power in a small gen block. Inane can't wait to load videos of what an F1x can do.
“Are we really going 110?!
We’re going 110!!”
Very impressive Poncho!
Haha best comment, best name, best profile pic, best movie! 😂
@@codyfoster3205
Yes, I agree, best movie!
I saw it at a drive in movie at 12 years old.
It was with my Dad in his ‘34 Ford Hot Rod, coincidently powered by a built up 400 Pontiac!
Great memories!
@@bodarville2510 wow! That's killer! I'm far too young to have seen it like that. I'm only 22, but this movie was a major part of my childhood. I've always been a car enthusiast, and this was always amazing to me. My grandpa had it on vhs and every time I went to his house I'd ask to borrow it. I learned after his passing that he used to build hot rods. I wish I had knew that because we could have bonded more from that. I sure miss him, and thus movie always reminds me of him. I also got my younger brother into it when we were kids. I was in 6th grade. He's 4 years younger than I am. And he's starting to play with cars now too at 18.
i grew up in mi and lets just say this is literal spring fever. everyone was itchin for the snow to melt and the cool cars to hit the streets.
first dry roads youd always see someone out having a blast and its all you can hear in the distance usually.
id always loved cars so as a kid i was looking for the first one to jump into. back then it was cool anyone would give you a ride and it wasnt weird.
now it disgusts me people are snobby with the purchase price of their car or its not worth my time its expensive. bought not built they have nothing to talk about it just what it costs.
every time i take my cool car out i get stopped and talked to by atleast one person and i almost sold it because its impossible to go anywhere. but then i was like ya know ive always wanted one of these im not gonna let you ruin it for me. the ppl that arent dbags or jerks or weirdos ill stop and tell em whatever they wanna hear cause ive noticed it really made some peoples day. i forgot about that when i was young and didnt have something fun. i had the skills from 10 on so i always had the cool stuff but didnt know it was cool it was just every day thing. id actually got a few people on their path to having their own recently and totally worth it. nobody wants to learn anymore but i had a few ppl beg to learn from me and that also put me off im like just do it but they have nobody to ask or explain what the how to is even telling them what to do. they know zero car jargon. nobody really taught me but i had the ability to learn well so i always got the your smart youll figure it out from a fucking master mechanic. at 10 trying to rebuild a 4 stroke motor and ive never seen an engine before. he never told me showed me or taught me much of anything about working on them and it made me pretty good at it because i knew that the best of the best knew i didnt need any of that. i took that for granted cause i figured everyone could but ppl get scared i get that. i have a few friends now that literally will take my word over the manufacturer at this point cause i know their car better ugh. but its nice being able to share the knowledge instead of just fix it for me and i dont want to pay you. they want to fix it themselves and i commend that. i dont even want to work on my own cars at this point. i only enjoy building them at this point and thats expensive unless you sell and id rather drive ugh...
Man that thing was moving! Sounda amzing as well
RTS baby! radial tuned suspension
Nice sounding engine. I'm from the U.P. and have spent a few years working on the iron range in MN. I have a 1967 Firebird. I'm in the process of taking out the 400 and dropping a '73 455 bored .040 over, zero decked, balanced rotating assembly, RPM intake and heads, 705 Voodoo cam, eagle rods, Icon pistons, Doug Thorley headers, TCI TH400, and 3:55 gears. Hot rod did an article on a similar build and it made around 600 hp and tq on pump gas. I dont think the stock rear end will hold up to that kind of power, not even sure the TCI street fighter will. What's in your drive line?
How bout a video?...just asking
@John Bleau I live in the UP as well. Near Marquette. You could say I am big into Pontiac. Did you ever get the engine swap done? I put one of my 455s in my 65 GTO back in 2018, its lots of fun now.. Not the fastest one I own, that would be the 79 Formula with a Butler engine similar to Deeeps engine, but with more cam and airflow. Have you ever come to Ishpeming for Buzz the Gut? If you are still around let me know.
Love the video, I’ve watched it several times over the years. Wondering, why does the speedometer jump like that?
Badass car, I have an 80 Trans-am cherish that car, I get tons of looks all the time not that many where I am.
Sweet sounding Trans am
This car epitomizes the phrase suck it Japan
Anyone else notice the mileage? The odometer indicates 5 miles! Very impressive it sounds like King Kong….but that spedo is a bit optimistic.
Probably a low rear end ratio and speedo is not even close to true.
speedo acting like a tach?
Yeah i put a new speedo cable in. I needs to be lubricated.
The speedo wants to run..✅✅✅✅
I had a 79 with the RTS. Talk about a great handling car
Bad Ass man. Thanks for sharing.
What I remember most about that car was the was the gage just off screen to the right, I could never keep that Fulker out of the red. Sounds good, nice car.
Haha yup fill up at every gas station or you might not make it to the next.
The car took off like a rocket! I also thought it would have a Rochester Quadrajet carburetor on it.
I had a white 1981 model with red firebird on the hood mine had a 455 Pontiac in it I miss that car.
Car sounds nice I had a 1981 firebird turbo 4.9 with a built 350 Chev pushing 500hp in it with a 3000 stall and a 3:42 locker funny as hell it was like I was in my old car I had a factory tach 2
Had one at 17 for six months too much fun. Too many tickets sold bought truck. So to slow tickets it worked but boy i miss that car
We had our 400 making similar hp and we spun 7100 hundred. Some of the crank shaft and connectingrods made it on the road with an oily mess
Did you have a forged crank 4 bolt? I also have forged rods and used a bolt stretch method to torque the ARP bolts..hoping for the best.
That's more typical of the Pontiac
@@richhauxwell7848 you can fix that issue with an ls ..we have had a lot of hate but it stays together!
Super super bad ass!!!! Where are you from? Canada or Wisconsin or somewhere like that lol??? I know you guys know how to work on the big block stuff for racing
Minnesoda.This was my first engine build. I did a lot of research and bought a lot of measuring instruments. I could do a lot better if I did it again.
David Sanders oh shit, nice we should hang out when I head back to MN to visit
Radial Tuned Suspension
She sounds SWEET !!
Fuckin astonishing brother, sounds so crisp and clean!
'finally got it running been a long time" looks at my car i feel that. sick car
Holds rpm really nice after shifts
It's a Beast !!! LOVE TO CRUISE IN IT !!
thats one sexy dash. i miss the trans am
what's year your pontiac trans am???
Bad Ass Car , sounds Awesome too ... just think a gear swap may have been done , without changing the gear in the transmission for speedometer ? Been around the block a few times ...
George Baker Jr what? Original rear end.
sounds good!
Rev/counter speedo trim rings missing ?
Waiting to redo the interior after I install a new rear end.
I remember driving on the highway with my buddy in his T/A . You could literally watch the gas guage going down.. But yes it was super cool.
Lost some traction on the first run, probably should of warmed up the tires a bit but this is a beast car man, fantastic.
Saw your comment over on the HICKOCK45 channel about the value of his dirt and saw your avatar then went here!. HELL YES ANOTHER PONTIAC MAN I am nearly finished with a Gasser style 1973 Grand Prix. 461 11.4:1 310cfm KRE D ports, 588 603 lift 244 252 duration with 1.65 scorpion roller rockers on the Lunati voodoo cam. CNC'd Performer RPM intake, 937cfm QUADZILLA Q JET from SMI. Level 4.5 Turbo 400 reverse manual transbrake from FTI 3000 stall Continental Converter. Finishing the spool Moser axles and 3.90s in the 10 bolt and removing bumpers as we speak. Gutted for weight I am looking through the rotted floor pans with only a pair of plastic racing seats an a few toggle switches but about 810 lbs lighter running without the hood. Will have videos soon. Look up stock 1973 grand prix burnouts for some shots the day I drug it home for $400 a few years back with the stock low compression 400.
Ian Jacques yank out the 400 dinosaur and swap in a manual 4l80
@@TAWS-wq3hx dinosaurs are still popular.
@@superduty4556 lame shit 1 chevys are popular too. Popularity doesnt make it better
@@superduty4556 also th400 reverse manual is pointless when u can run the 4L80 plug wires to ground (-) and then run the 12v (+) wire to switch ign and shift it manually with shifter. Whatever gear selcted is what it is in. Takss 10 min to setup, way less $$$$ and still have an OD gear with lockup converter.
@@TAWS-wq3hx damn you're salty
Ive had three TAs. Just plain fun
yep, ive in a 77 ta, blow the doors off just about anything
What year you planning on us looking out the window???
WOW!! Must be a barn-find with only 4.5 miles on the clock. -lol VERY NICE!! Now, get that speed-o cable replaced.
What year and give us a walk around on the exterior
Looks to be late 70s, W/a early nose on it.
Sweet bro.!
Radial Tuned Suspension !
Awesome ride
Sounds awesome
Cams? I know nothing about these muscle cars or how you get them fast other than headers and blowers lol?
Gotta lube that speedo cable
Wow love it in 2022
Did you recalibrate speedo gear in trans for the gears and tires to be accurate again.
its like 2 mph off and yes i did.
Ahh the broken speedo cable hippy hop
Damn.... She's quick!
Good body but a big block Chevy 454 and a four speed and 411 gears is where it’s at Thanks for sharing. Good stuff
Smoke em if you got em. 👍🏻👍🏻💰
Sounds mean👌👌👌
Oil pressure looking good... gas gage the needle went down🤣
Just like my 1976 TA Midnight Blue metallic 400 block with some mods...as the speedometer goes up(mine works lol) the gas gage it's going down as fast🤣🤣🤣
I had a 76 45t, 4 speed and it was wicked. Bought it in 86
FYI, there are ram air 4 heads available for this awesome car
AWESOME!!!!!!👍👍
OOO that spedo workes great lol
I saw your reply below with what you are running under the hood to C. Performance, but what does the outside of the car appear as? Is this a 1970?1971?
Oh, here it is ua-cam.com/video/JsO2aeEcNVs/v-deo.html
What are you running for cooling system like radiator and such? I have a 1979 trans am with an olds 455
Its actually a pretty cheap Champion 4 core that works great with 2 electric fans
Wanted to update my comment since the Champion radiator went to shit on me. Buy a quality one!
Somebody that's been around alot of Cars you listen for differences.Like In American Grafitti the race at the Stop Light the Black 55 and the Yellow Coupe.The 55 I read in that race had a 427 with a 4 speed in that race.A Friend that hasn't been around alot of cars was watching it with me.I asked him if he could tell the difference and which car had the big block and which one had the small block? I put it put and said now liaten.I said you hear one is really rapping out and one a deeper thud? He said ya I can hear it.The one really rapping up is the Coupe because it's a small block.The Big Block in the 55 Has the deeper thud sound.The one at the end was a Complete Different car.It had a 454 From a 1970 Chevelle LS6 Engine but had like a 488 gear or something really low.When they took off and the One that rapped really tight really quick was the 55.I read that was the actual sound it made
That speedometer needle look like it's having a epileptic seizure😂😂🤪
Famous F-Body speedo issues.