Trans Am's

So These tired Gauges with their old technology wire template... with dark barely usable gauges... yeah its time for the change... So I white Faced them for the cheap 30 bucks or whatever... Helped considerably... Until I tried Red Led lights then it was no better than the black face with a white light... yea they looked cool except the two main center ones that were still bright white... again Fail...

Ok So you can shop used... You can find some shops who redid them and charge you an arm and leg may as well contact a shop and ask how much to recover yours... If your mechanical functions are all there great... If you need to replace things start changing for ya to a degree... First now you need to find out the exact measurements of your set up now... You also need to see if you can remove and reuse anything like is there an angle cage built under your seat or is your seat a unimold kinda thing... only fits your car... I made that word up to get my main point across... Ok So I would remove the front seats and the rears why the hell not…

Lets start with Carpet... So I did... Then I said man these seat suck and are broken... So I decided to fix that problem...

Ok so The Whole Mirrored hood well we think of World of wheels and Show cars But to be honest I like them on just about any damn thing kinda like tinted windows a good friend of mine back in High School... Gary Burns...said man go out to the junk yard... Look at all the cars then imagine them with tinted Limo windows... They all even that shitty one on blocks will look better so the value is increased... Makes sense to me... Mirrors looks cool if you do them right they can add a touch of class or if half ass done they can look hideous and way overboard and outta place... First Try to have something worth reflecting... We dont lounge in front …

But first... Ever wanted to get better Burn from your fuel and more efficiency from your engine? Me to thats why I support Holley 850s and up... 🙂 Ok seriously... Dont ever wrap a set of headers yourself (Unless you work for NASA and have access to an EVA Suit because that shit gets everywhere... I itched for five days... Got kicked out of bed twice and had to change and do laundry twice... So dont even wrap your own to gain what you get from the added insulation for detonation precision... because well its not worth it... 🙂 Also headers...No more just run manifolds I watched as race car drivers were running manifolds and I was…

So I dressed it up a tad... added a better horn ... and installed some alumn brushed pullys... Added the mirrored hood... and stuff like that... 4 x 1" Brushed Alum Dimond plate like 40 bucks...

I got the car fixed up all special starting to be like back in my day... And I could hear a grinding in the bottom end... I figured it was only a matter of time now before the bearings seized up or spun...I figured better to fix it not broken than blow it...and do more damage so I went and bought this...I know your gonna say damn... In PA when you buy an engine at a junk yard... you pay for CI so a 350 is 350 a 455 is 455 bucks I know sounds weird so anyhow here is my 400 - 400 Pontiac... why not an olds when they turn up quicker? Because CI to CI a Pontiac produces more Engine Torque than other engines Hand down...:) thats why... So a reminder th…

Well I think so... Went from drum to Disk set up...Bought the kit and installed the kit... Meanwhile changed from factory 3:73 Gears stupid way to high down to 2:73 much better for top end use... 🙂 Added Pumpkin cover Chrome difference of day and night...lol Zero Shims Also... 🙂

The two absolute Brightest Bulbs I ever saw hot too but man brighter than all four headlights at the same time... 2~4" Quartz Cubes... Everyone said dont cut the Honeycomb out at the bottom... I was like watch this hold my beer...they wont look right round floods with squares up top Oh yea... say that again? Then I figured I may as well wire in the new headlights LEDs and all... I also reverse the High beam and low beams so the low beams are inside close to the center of the nose and the high beams when turned on are the outer bulbs and lenses... for this unique look more like a vette in the dark than a TA...

I needed to align the rear trunk slightly to get it to seal better and stop leaking the old seal had a pinch is all so I replaced it centered the trunk which wasnt so fun what a pain in the ass lots of patience is all I say...Like freaking headers... So anyhow I used to do this with tape then I bough them cut the way I liked I think you will agree... I was doing this since the 80s by the way... 🙂 My Idea First...

So you take the sail panel bird or side panel up behind your shoulder where the door connects and the rear glass is that bird... This one... 🙂

Honeycomb Wheels Trademark of Trans Am,,, Personally I never liked them back in the day that much and one day Ill replace the ones I got with some really bad ass Mags... For now I couldnt bare it any longer and was forced to spend an hour to an hour and a half on each wheel meticulously cleaning them for a touch up and repaint by rattle can... Just hang on for now until I show you... 🙂 Ok original wheels i got...

the old guys who claimed they were ASE Mechanics Who clearly were anything but... Ill explain later... Anyhow so I dressed what I had up and noticed things like wire brush marks on the chrome valve covers and thought what an idiot... But wait there is so much more...

You will see some things I have done to all or both of my modified daily drivers... I will drive this TA for months to work daily... Love it...:) I also drove Lucille for 4 yrs as I built her up to where she is currently... You will notice things like underglows I removed later but you will see them... You also will see the rock lights on Lucille and hood vents lit in red and see that on the TA where I did it many yrs ago first... You will notice I always take out the dash and radios and improve them drastically in all the vehicles I drive to date the only one I havent touched yet is my JL and its great stock they have come leaps and bounds from t…

Here is the day I picked her up... 79 original was 403 Olds they replaced with 400 pontiac that was shit... They also hacked the Air filter bowl and were bypassing the breather completely, idiots trashed a Pontiac motor... and much so much more... Anyway this is step one of what and how I did what I do... Hobby #1 My love for 79-81 Trans ams Big Block 455 bored out to max permitted 469 CI... instead of 6.6 liter its now a 7.7 but for this day... It was square one... First thing that needs to go are the tires... 🙂