Hope everybody likes a good ol' fashioned one tire fire! Had fun with this one, although the actual productivity of this episode is a bit lacking. Just decided there weren't enough (or any!) actual burnouts on this channel and couldn't pass up this opportunity. Also, at 10:02 I mistakenly said "brake boosting" instead of "power braking" and didn't realize it until the video was uploaded so here comes the angry mob! Everybody off of the streets!
That I can forgive, but... You should really watch yourself when spraying combustibles straight into the intake manifold. One backfire and it's goodbye hand! If you have a PO box for the channel I'll mail you a present to help with that.
@@TheBrokenLife That is certainly a fair point, an intake backfire would be bad stuff! And I appreciate the offer! Don't have a PO box set up currently but I would like to in the future. I'm sure I'll mention it in an update video or something if I manage to set that up!
@@FuzzyDiceProjects Or if you trust me, I'll mail it wherever. I'm trying to butter you up for a Blazer on Blazer podcast of who bought the worst one! :)
I agree I normally get bored watching these videos from the lack of voiceovers or just being boring but his videos are great by the things he does during the rebuilds
I've already got both with a flowbastard exhaust and a super 10 for a muffler and 2 12" skar audio subwoofers pushing 1250 rms and in a huge ported box
honestly man you impress me. I hit like before I even watch the videos. I am an extreme fan of your style. You capture the nostalgia of working on old cars, cut your videos well, present them professionally and give plenty of knowledge. I can tell you are a young dude but you know your stuff. Again, I appreciate and look forward to your straight forward/ home style content. Keep it up man, HONESTLY you could have your own show on public TV YOU ARE THAT GOOD!!!!
Man the sound of that older GM v8 cranking and starting takes me right back to my childhood. Chevy conversions, trucks, caprices, Buick lesabre wagons, everything.
It starts just like any TBI I've had. I think your lifters will quiet down once you drive it on the highway for a while. Those L03 305's aren't powerhouses but at least yours is in a Firebird and not a '91 Roadmaster wagon like mine was. It was a DOG. I have a few videos on my channel of it from way back in 2010.
1:38....you can see a spark arcing from a spark plug wire. That will cause a misfire. Possibly adding to the ticky noise. EDIT: You can see the arcing at 1:16 too. Look at the area ahead of the master reservoir at the base of the valve cover.
Good catch, i think it needs a full tune up and exhaust manifold gasket or donut gasket. That should solve alot of the sound then u can hear the valve train with a stethoscope
I stumbled upon your channel by accident a few hours ago by clicking on the first episode of this car series... what are the chances of you uploading a new episode while me watching the old ones...hmmmm... I guess I’m a lucky man.
You make this all seem so easy to understand - I know literally nothing about cars and I found your channel yesterday. I cant stop watching this series 😂
Lucas Oils make a hydraulic lifter additive that I've used several times with success on engines with hydraulic lifter/tappet castanets going on. One of the vehicles, which really sounded horrible, so bad that it sounded like it had serious internal engine issues, has racked up another 100,000 miles since being treated without any repeat of the tapping, of course regular oil and filter changes at the correct intervals have had a lot to do with it...
You can also add some ATF to the engine oil. ATF has about the viscocity of 5W30 and it is packed with dopes for cleaning and for keeping oilseals flexibel. The cleaning dopes help clean out stuck hydraulic lifters.
@@jfv65 Agree, I used ATF for scrubbing down cylinder walls for a new engine that hadn't broke in the rings properly... ATF is like a detergent so be careful.
Hey dude, love the vids and appreciate the commentary, you remind me of one of my best friends...same sense/style of humor. Oh! Anyway, I noticed at the 1:39 mark your spark plugs and wires are arcing...time for a tune-up? Anyhow, awesome job! Keep up the great work!
Seeing you work on the Firebird really makes me want to start a project of my own. I'm 21 and don't really know much about a car parts but i'm willing to go to school to be a mechanical as a hobby or even as a career. Keep up the good work ! Love your projects and patience for them.
Love your bird vids, I have owned a 79 gold bought with 23k on her, lost it due to not getting paid when I was in the US Navy. Have had an 80 and an 85 thanks again, i look forward to these
I've owned two 91 Firebirds in my time (both of the V6 variety) and they were great cars and I thought it was the best looking body styling for the 3rd gens. Great find on yours. Enjoying the videos.
I found that seafoam does a better job cleaning carbon and build up as a soak more than an engine additive. I had to clean the intake on my tacoma which was horribly gunked up. It had never been taken off in 20 years. So I poured some in the intake and let it sit for a while and then using a wire brush, scrubbed and scrubbed and it melted all the build up. I've also used it to soak valves from dirtbikes as I was cleaning the cylinder head. It didn't take very much to really get the carbon to come off.
this is like my fifth time watching this series and i cant get enough. the sound i heard after the burn outs sounds like the same tap when i loosened the rockers to adjust them while its running. with the engine running, loosen a rocker until you hear a tick, then slowly tighten until the tick just goes away.. then tighten a half turn, rinse repeat. try that out and maybe that tick will go away.
Hi I really like your videos and the effort you put into them. Keep up the good work. Also I’m very excited for the next episode and the wait is killing me
I really enjoy these. Look forward to more episodes. I am fixing up my daily driver 84 Chevy C10 and these videos inspire me to keep going on it. Just bought a decent amount of parts to throw on the ole truck.
My college roommate did cheat on me with a torque wrench. I told him that is not how you use that expensive instrument. Still hard to get that image out of my head. My roommate got really torqued when I caught him.
I love this car! You should of heard my '00 Yukon with 5.3, piston slap galore! I used synthetic oil and it went away pretty good. The oil is dirty, but synthetic cleans the motor a wee bit, like you said, after a few oil changes, it should be good to go. I used seafoam once a year and had over 220,000 miles on the clock when I got rid of it. Keep them coming, I love the video's and with no annoying music to go along and awesome voice over work.
My dad taught me that same trick back in the day to find the source of a noise, but a bar on every front end part and listen at the other end! He was an old school 60s muscle car guy.
I had an 04 Silverado with really bad lifter ticking and I used an old trick that my grandfather used and that was to leave a liter of oil out and replace it with atf and behold the noise was gone and noticed a huge difference in power and fuel efficiency. Worth a try for your car.
Very entertaining :) I Just love how much work and effort you would put on such a car like that. Makes me happy :) Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next episode!
I would personally recommend avoiding introducing solvents into your engine due to the very likely risk of disturbing carbon deposit's from years of build up and having some bits of that stuff clogging up oil passages like for your cam, lifters, pick up screen or oil ports for things like your timing chain tensioner. It's really best to slowly and gently clean up an engine with good oil like Castrol Edge High Mileage for example. Other than that the project looks like it's really coming along, good job!
I did this with one quart of ATF in the original 250 I had in my 78 nova. Prior owner(s) did not take care of poor thing and the lifters started ticking bad. The ATF worked great and even stripped the grime off about half the rockers... which promptly plugged up the oil passages to the main bearings. Oops. Stopped driving it when I started hearing knocking. Upon tear down up all the main bearings were toast. Oh well gave me an excuse to build up and install the 355 that was laying around!
Your videos are the reason why Pontiac Firebird's are now my favorite cars. They look super nice, in my opinion. I hope I can get one someday. PS: I don't have a job, am in college, and live with my parents because of both of the first reasons. Also, I'm only just turning 18.
great video, burnouts fix everything. i don’t understand how you torque every bolt you put on but reused old oil. you probably torque your valve stem caps. the car is coming along nice.
its because of these series, im inspired to by my friends 1991 firebird thats been sitting in her backyard for two years. it has a gm 3.1L V6 with multiport injection.
that slo-mo burnout for the win man!!! that last still image at the end of the video of the burnout should be framed on the wall. i love all your series, but this one is the best because third gen F bodies hold a special place in my heart. i cannot wait till the weather turns nice and i can get my IROC out.
Man, drive the thing. Bought my 79 2 yrs ago. It sat for a few yrs. It has an 86 305 h.o. and now daily drive it. I've put 20k miles on it and running great.
I am by no means a "motorhead" -- I don't even have a Driving Licence but Damn dude - You kept me hooked to this for all 6 parts XD I am even planning to watch more of your other videos :D Thanks for being so entertaining :D
Nice burnouts! I had an 87' V6 car that was $2k I took completely apart and sanded down for paint to put in the 383 stroker motor from my old 83' car with Recaro T/A parts that had been wrecked and redone a few times. Anyway, I never did finish it but you can see the 83' in this vintage 1996 VHS tape with a 71 Challenger blowing off a tire at my Burn outs & Boobs Firebird and Challenger video!
Keep up the awesome work on the firebird. Just picked up an 89 formula firebird with a 305TBI. Runs well enough, but needs some TLC. And it's nice to follow along.
Hope everybody likes a good ol' fashioned one tire fire! Had fun with this one, although the actual productivity of this episode is a bit lacking. Just decided there weren't enough (or any!) actual burnouts on this channel and couldn't pass up this opportunity. Also, at 10:02 I mistakenly said "brake boosting" instead of "power braking" and didn't realize it until the video was uploaded so here comes the angry mob! Everybody off of the streets!
That’s it, where’s my pitchfork!!
You need to learn how to do a burnout from a Australian haha 😂 I can teach you if you like 🇦🇺
That I can forgive, but... You should really watch yourself when spraying combustibles straight into the intake manifold. One backfire and it's goodbye hand! If you have a PO box for the channel I'll mail you a present to help with that.
@@TheBrokenLife That is certainly a fair point, an intake backfire would be bad stuff! And I appreciate the offer! Don't have a PO box set up currently but I would like to in the future. I'm sure I'll mention it in an update video or something if I manage to set that up!
@@FuzzyDiceProjects Or if you trust me, I'll mail it wherever. I'm trying to butter you up for a Blazer on Blazer podcast of who bought the worst one! :)
I love your voiceovers they are informative and funny too
I agree I normally get bored watching these videos from the lack of voiceovers or just being boring but his videos are great by the things he does during the rebuilds
Just put a louder muffler on it then you won't be able to hear the lifters...Problem solved
Or a loud stereo system
@@genejackson4261 Or, hear me out... Both.
I've already got both with a flowbastard exhaust and a super 10 for a muffler and 2 12" skar audio subwoofers pushing 1250 rms and in a huge ported box
Modern problems call for modern solutions
Yeah but he did all that work and he wants to be able to hear the radio on in the car is running
Can we see the final product being shown to the person you got it from
Heck yea! That's a good idea
He is watching the videos
it is his neighbor so I imagine he has at the very least heard what been going on
Great idea @ Fuckin' /w\SSSLLLAAYYYEERRGGGHHH/w\
Update:
I still need Google for bicycle maintenance
But did you buy a project car?
you bought a car yet?
@@aleksifrmdao not yet, but a drive one of our mothers two
honestly man you impress me. I hit like before I even watch the videos. I am an extreme fan of your style. You capture the nostalgia of working on old cars, cut your videos well, present them professionally and give plenty of knowledge. I can tell you are a young dude but you know your stuff. Again, I appreciate and look forward to your straight forward/ home style content. Keep it up man, HONESTLY you could have your own show on public TV YOU ARE THAT GOOD!!!!
The paint looks pretty good on this ole girl;
Yeah but the drivers side rear quarter panel though ;(
that dent needs to be pulled out with toilet bowl plunger, right this instant. beautiful car I love it.
dual cherry bomb m80s for $40 bucks, problem solved
Ole boy, not girl
@@cruzechevy3485 i think he wanted to say "old"
Doing burnouts in a firebird and calling it an Italian tuneup is like adding ketchup to spaghetti-O’s and calling it fine Italian cuisine
Wait, how did you get your hands on my grocery list?
Fuzzy Dice Projects Lmao I laughed out loud at this. Great channel btw. Keep up the good work!
Man the sound of that older GM v8 cranking and starting takes me right back to my childhood. Chevy conversions, trucks, caprices, Buick lesabre wagons, everything.
Really liking this build, keep up the good work.
I’m a teenager and this is a lot more interesting to watch than another teen adding another turbo to the same mustang everyone else has keep it up 👍
It starts just like any TBI I've had. I think your lifters will quiet down once you drive it on the highway for a while. Those L03 305's aren't powerhouses but at least yours is in a Firebird and not a '91 Roadmaster wagon like mine was. It was a DOG. I have a few videos on my channel of it from way back in 2010.
This has definitely been an interesting and educational adventure! I'm totally hyped for episode 7!
I love this series. I wish I would have found it when it was all done so i could binge watch them all haha! Great vids!!! Keep it up!
Hey i really like this series and your videos. Keep up the good work
I love how you have given this car a second chance. The videos you have made about this car have been enjoyable to watch.
1:38....you can see a spark arcing from a spark plug wire. That will cause a misfire. Possibly adding to the ticky noise. EDIT: You can see the arcing at 1:16 too. Look at the area ahead of the master reservoir at the base of the valve cover.
Good catch, i think it needs a full tune up and exhaust manifold gasket or donut gasket. That should solve alot of the sound then u can hear the valve train with a stethoscope
Sssooooo... Where is episode 7? Lol I need my fixs 😂😂
@Digby Dooright its out now
I stumbled upon your channel by accident a few hours ago by clicking on the first episode of this car series...
what are the chances of you uploading a new episode while me watching the old ones...hmmmm... I guess I’m a lucky man.
Fashionable Skeleton same happened to me hahaha I just hope he uploads the next one ASAP
Watch the S10 Blazer series too it's a pretty cool build. Small block powered S10 Blazer.
umad42 will do
You make this all seem so easy to understand - I know literally nothing about cars and I found your channel yesterday. I cant stop watching this series 😂
Loving this build rescuing a classic firebird always a good thing 😀😀😀
Your Rebuilds and M539 Restorations are the best series i've found on yt. You can tell your love for these vehicles.
The burnouts are enough for me. Lol. I'm re-living my memories. Thanks
Lucas Oils make a hydraulic lifter additive that I've used several times with success on engines with hydraulic lifter/tappet castanets going on. One of the vehicles, which really sounded horrible, so bad that it sounded like it had serious internal engine issues, has racked up another 100,000 miles since being treated without any repeat of the tapping, of course regular oil and filter changes at the correct intervals have had a lot to do with it...
You can also add some ATF to the engine oil. ATF has about the viscocity of 5W30 and it is packed with dopes for cleaning and for keeping oilseals flexibel.
The cleaning dopes help clean out stuck hydraulic lifters.
@@jfv65 Agree, I used ATF for scrubbing down cylinder walls for a new engine that hadn't broke in the rings properly... ATF is like a detergent so be careful.
I love today (sarcasm intended) you can buy a car for 200$ but new tires cost 400$
Hey dude, love the vids and appreciate the commentary, you remind me of one of my best friends...same sense/style of humor. Oh! Anyway, I noticed at the 1:39 mark your spark plugs and wires are arcing...time for a tune-up? Anyhow, awesome job! Keep up the great work!
Seeing you work on the Firebird really makes me want to start a project of my own. I'm 21 and don't really know much about a car parts but i'm willing to go to school to be a mechanical as a hobby or even as a career. Keep up the good work ! Love your projects and patience for them.
you should learn to work on electronics in cars as a gasoline or electric
Love your bird vids, I have owned a 79 gold bought with 23k on her, lost it due to not getting paid when I was in the US Navy. Have had an 80 and an 85 thanks again, i look forward to these
Man, I love this channel. You’re so calm, yet funny and you usually know what you’re doing. Keep it going! :D
1:40 It looks like you have spark jumping on the #5 sparkplug wire at the engine block and manifold.
I dig these budget builds. Especially on a clean older car. Great video!
your content is good man i enjoy that you arent an over the top youtuber and seem like a real person
I love your voiceover it's so calming and EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE I learned so much watching this video
Dude, let me tell you, I absolutely love your channel. Keep all this up, I enjoy the quality and progression of your work!!
Burnouts to quiet noisy lifters...
You’re my kind of guy!
I've owned two 91 Firebirds in my time (both of the V6 variety) and they were great cars and I thought it was the best looking body styling for the 3rd gens. Great find on yours. Enjoying the videos.
After getting valve cover off I would have gone the slight extra mile of measuring the valve rod end to push rod lever gap.
Love these videos. The 91 Firebird is my favorite project of yours.
I prefer the "is it very important that its torqued to spec" school of thought when it comes to tightening bolts
Spoken from a man who's snapped off a small block chevy valve cover bolt a time or two! /w\/w\
Craving episode 7...😎
I had a '89 Trans Am GTA. Same color and same great factory paint. That little 305 has balls! Nice car.
Lifters are tickin'...
BETTER DO A BURNOUT
This series is amazing. This gets me excited for when I’ll start driving . (hoping I can get a good deal on a ‘98 - ‘02 Camaro when it comes time)
Making great progress on this special car keep unloading and doing the good work
Nice car and relaxing voice-over: ointment for the soul
love these videos, out of all the content on youtube, these are the ones I sit and wait for the next one to come out. seriously love the channel
Can't stop watching these...
I don't own a car.
Boy do I miss my old firebird!
I found that seafoam does a better job cleaning carbon and build up as a soak more than an engine additive. I had to clean the intake on my tacoma which was horribly gunked up. It had never been taken off in 20 years. So I poured some in the intake and let it sit for a while and then using a wire brush, scrubbed and scrubbed and it melted all the build up. I've also used it to soak valves from dirtbikes as I was cleaning the cylinder head. It didn't take very much to really get the carbon to come off.
Once it's melted off, where does all that intake carbon go?
@@missingremote4388 This was with it off the engine so no, it didn't go into the engine
Yes sir cant wait to see this project further along the road
A new video! This is my favorite series on the internet right now.
this is like my fifth time watching this series and i cant get enough. the sound i heard after the burn outs sounds like the same tap when i loosened the rockers to adjust them while its running. with the engine running, loosen a rocker until you hear a tick, then slowly tighten until the tick just goes away.. then tighten a half turn, rinse repeat. try that out and maybe that tick will go away.
Thank God a new video!!! Been way too long.
Hi from the UK. Really enjoying the work that you are doing on the Firebird, all good sensible stuff. Keep at it!
Hi I really like your videos and the effort you put into them. Keep up the good work. Also I’m very excited for the next episode and the wait is killing me
I really enjoy these. Look forward to more episodes. I am fixing up my daily driver 84 Chevy C10 and these videos inspire me to keep going on it. Just bought a decent amount of parts to throw on the ole truck.
My college roommate did cheat on me with a torque wrench. I told him that is not how you use that expensive instrument. Still hard to get that image out of my head.
My roommate got really torqued when I caught him.
Bruuuuuh.
I'm dead asf😂😂
Love your videos keep up the great work I always watch till the end
Rislone oil treatment worked great on the lifters in my 08 Tahoe.
I love this car! You should of heard my '00 Yukon with 5.3, piston slap galore! I used synthetic oil and it went away pretty good. The oil is dirty, but synthetic cleans the motor a wee bit, like you said, after a few oil changes, it should be good to go. I used seafoam once a year and had over 220,000 miles on the clock when I got rid of it. Keep them coming, I love the video's and with no annoying music to go along and awesome voice over work.
These videos are great. I'm loving this build it gives me some inspiration to continue on my own build.
That was a heck of a deal on the ole Firebird. I like that body style even now, they were cool as hell when they were new. Great vid Bro.
My dad taught me that same trick back in the day to find the source of a noise, but a bar on every front end part and listen at the other end! He was an old school 60s muscle car guy.
I have been a devoted you tube guy for years. You have an awesome channel! Please don't change the formula..
This is my dream car! Loved all of the episodes!
most soothing channel ever.
You rock bro iv been needing these videos for 3 years
I had an 04 Silverado with really bad lifter ticking and I used an old trick that my grandfather used and that was to leave a liter of oil out and replace it with atf and behold the noise was gone and noticed a huge difference in power and fuel efficiency. Worth a try for your car.
You certainly have raised the value for sure.
Love it, can't wait to see it. Bring it to Mason Dixon dragway this summer!
Very entertaining :) I Just love how much work and effort you would put on such a car like that. Makes me happy :) Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next episode!
Makes me miss my old ‘95 firebird.
Great channel! You guys are great!
I would personally recommend avoiding introducing solvents into your engine due to the very likely risk of disturbing carbon deposit's from years of build up and having some bits of that stuff clogging up oil passages like for your cam, lifters, pick up screen or oil ports for things like your timing chain tensioner. It's really best to slowly and gently clean up an engine with good oil like Castrol Edge High Mileage for example. Other than that the project looks like it's really coming along, good job!
im ready for the next episode
I'm a big believer of Marvel Mystery Oil. I've also had success with adding 1/2 quart of transmission fluid to the oil.
I did this with one quart of ATF in the original 250 I had in my 78 nova. Prior owner(s) did not take care of poor thing and the lifters started ticking bad. The ATF worked great and even stripped the grime off about half the rockers... which promptly plugged up the oil passages to the main bearings. Oops. Stopped driving it when I started hearing knocking. Upon tear down up all the main bearings were toast. Oh well gave me an excuse to build up and install the 355 that was laying around!
Your videos are the reason why Pontiac Firebird's are now my favorite cars. They look super nice, in my opinion. I hope I can get one someday.
PS: I don't have a job, am in college, and live with my parents because of both of the first reasons. Also, I'm only just turning 18.
GM EOS Engine Oil Supplement is used to cure ticking lifters. I used it back in 1973 for the first time with excellent results.
Really enjoying your videos!
I'm glad we can all live with just doing a few burnouts in this episode and calling it maintenance lol
great video, burnouts fix everything. i don’t understand how you torque every bolt you put on but reused old oil. you probably torque your valve stem caps. the car is coming along nice.
Your videos are by far my favorite. Keep it up!
That's dope! Looking good buddy!
I had 2 1991 Caprice 9C1 cars with 305 TBI engines. TBI injectors tick. I just learned to live with the noise. awesome car, though!
Ha! The good old "one tire fire" those were the days.
I love this car so much
I had never done a burn out before but now I feel that I can. :) Thank you.....:)
Outstanding video man! I’m enjoying your resto of this classic Firebird. Keep it up!
its because of these series, im inspired to by my friends 1991 firebird thats been sitting in her backyard for two years. it has a gm 3.1L V6 with multiport injection.
that slo-mo burnout for the win man!!! that last still image at the end of the video of the burnout should be framed on the wall. i love all your series, but this one is the best because third gen F bodies hold a special place in my heart. i cannot wait till the weather turns nice and i can get my IROC out.
I agree, frame that picture! One day many years from now you'll look at it and be happy you did.
Man, drive the thing. Bought my 79 2 yrs ago. It sat for a few yrs. It has an 86 305 h.o. and now daily drive it. I've put 20k miles on it and running great.
love your channel and this is a great episode I'd been waiting for
Love the series!
I am by no means a "motorhead" -- I don't even have a Driving Licence but Damn dude - You kept me hooked to this for all 6 parts XD I am even planning to watch more of your other videos :D Thanks for being so entertaining :D
About time ! I live for this series
Love the videos dude keep it up!
Nice burnouts! I had an 87' V6 car that was $2k I took completely apart and sanded down for paint to put in the 383 stroker motor from my old 83' car with Recaro T/A parts that had been wrecked and redone a few times. Anyway, I never did finish it but you can see the 83' in this vintage 1996 VHS tape with a 71 Challenger blowing off a tire at my Burn outs & Boobs Firebird and Challenger video!
BTW seafoam DOES WORK for carbon and so does e 85. I've tested them both.
Keep up the awesome work on the firebird. Just picked up an 89 formula firebird with a 305TBI. Runs well enough, but needs some TLC. And it's nice to follow along.
Great, Great videos. Always learning. Great commentary too.😉