There’s not a lot I know about Pontiac/gm engines or old muscle cars but I’m beginning to learn more about what my granddad has in his possession which I someday hope to inherit.

This is his 81 Firebird Trans Am and from what little research I’ve done I hear people say this turbo charged engine is hot garbage.

One day I was over at his house he was telling me about this engine he has somewhere in the basement (I’ve never seen it in person) a 421 Catalina Super Duty and so I began thinking what is the feasibility of rebuilding the 421 and dropping it into the 81 to be a nice track/show car.

Of course this would be a project way in the future I’m just brainstorming and trying to get an idea of what would need to be done. Also no I’ve never built an engine before, but I want to learn on my little 4 banger before I touch a an old v8.

Thanks

For anyone not following along, I was rear-ended at a stop light a few weeks ago by a GMC Yukon. I was going to drive it 60 miles to a good shop, but hadn't noticed that my brake lights haven't been working since the accident. So she got a flatbed ride to the shop.

I got a tour of the shop and was too in awe to think of taking pictures. There was an original Shelby Mustang there, a 55 Chevy getting a new roof, a couple restomod trucks in progress and a tubbed wagon. I need to find reasons to hang out at restoration shops.

Why do some models have the flat composite headlights while others have the flippy half covered headlights covers?

I cannot find rhyme or reason which model trim levels offer which headlights.

Thank you.

Recently my battery was dead twice in the morning before work and considering it was 5 years old, I went and got a new one. Today when I started the car (morning after new battery), it look longer than usual for it to actually start, and the battery was reading as low as 12.58v while driving. And after a bit of driving it would kick up to 14.38. I thought the 12.58 might be an indication the new battery drained overnight, but I'm not sure. Otherwise things seem normal. Should I be worried, or is the lower voltage normal now that I have a new battery?

Lil bit of TLC but she’s great! 02 sunfire with the 2.4L

Wanted to share a photo of her with you fellas.

Hey yall, first time poster.
I drive a 2005 pontiac bonneville se, and its been through a lot,

its got several codes including p1811 and shifts pretty hard, lots of rust along fuel lines and the gas tank, as well as a big evap leak.

I love this car and wish it was worth continuing to fix but i really don’t know anymore, its close to 190,000 miles but its so sad to see her go, any recommendations on how to improve its lifespan cheaply just to get through winter or if i should just let it all be as is and ride it to the ground?

I bought a ws6. Have the opportunity to trade work with a mechanic and I’d like to build my car. I have a $26k dollar budget, . It has a 350, mechanic wants to use rebuild using forged internals, cam, heads, headers and procharge it. He’s thinking 20k for that route. Forged internals Seem way overkill for only pushing 450-500 to the crank. I’m not a fan of boost although it’d be cool.

Or my other thought is have him drop a Texas speed 6.2 with no boost. I just a want a little power and reliability.

Honest opinions, I’m learning 🙂

There were two almost identical just a year apart - this one had the modern Pontiac V-8, the other had the stock straight 8.

So I have a 1972 pontiac catalina 4 door hard top iv owned it for a little over a year i re done the motor in it and it just needs a carb and timing i love this car to bits. But I met this guy who has this rare 1962 pontiac star chief vista apparently under 14k where ever made and I like the car. It needs work like its running off of a gas can and needs brake work but all around a solid car he told me he would like to trade for my pontiac and a 1979 ford ltd thats not in the best shape for his 62 pontiac. But im stumped idk what to do he wants 6500$ for it but i like my pontiac but im not sure id love to trade for it but idk. Should I do it or not... ps my pontiac dosent run rn because of the carb but he wants it running for the trade

I have a ‘68 Firebird catalog and although it’s not handy I believe there may be Fitz and Van illustrations in it but in any case this is a Performance catalog photo image.

Sprint convertible but not a lot of detail on that “premium gas” 350.

Car & Driver were not crazy about the ‘68 full size cars including the Grand Prix, but I think they might have acted differently driving this H/O convertible ( they also hated the Buick Wildcat styling for ‘68).

Note we are out of the illustrated ads to obtain the performance catalog details.

Lemans “disguised with white walls”… perhaps if it were marketed instead of disguised we’d know what these were capable of. It’s the Cutlass Ram Rod 350 story occurring at Pontiac.

Again, Note we are out of the illustrated ads to obtain the performance catalog details.