How Arrogant does your TTA make you?

[prokeep15]

Hell yea another young guy with one of the fire chickens!! I was 16 when I got mine out of pure chance. Originally I was looking for a jeep to turn into a crawler or a ranger to go prerunning with out here in the desert(tucson,az) but then out of chance while flipping through auto trader I see an add in the pontiac section,"Turbo trans am pace car, v-6 very fast, fun, mechanic owned blah blah blah" so I figure its just some kit car never knowing what a GN TR or TTA were. A week later I see it again with an ad next to it for an 81 "turbo" trans am so I do a google search and see the 89 is legit and decide to get a turbo supra buddy to come look at it with me and bring his car. So I talk with the owner, a young service manager at the local pontiac dealership(who also in his garage has a clean GN with the motor out getting built) and wants to sell it with 35k on it so his wife can tile the house. So I ask the usual noob questions, any accidents, documents of oil change, tap around the body, look at the underside. Then He ask if I want to go for a ride. As I walk to the passanger door he throws me the keys and tells me to give it a go. After explaining to me how a turbo acts he takes me with my friend in toe in his BPU turbo supra to an old street racing road here so I can let it open and tells my buddy to line up with us. So never driving a fast car I floor it from a stop, get sideways then take off like a SOB!! That car was bought 24hrs later by some very trusting parents! I've had it for 5yrs and no regets(except taking off perfectly fine heads now! I love schooling the old hot rodders who never knew about the LC2 in a T/A! and the little Sh*theads with their motor swaps!

 

[72firebird]

Hell yea another young guy with one of the fire chickens!! I was 16 when I got mine out of pure chance. Originally I was looking for a jeep to turn into a crawler or a ranger to go prerunning with out here in the desert(tucson,az) but then out of chance while flipping through auto trader I see an add in the pontiac section,"Turbo trans am pace car, v-6 very fast, fun, mechanic owned blah blah blah" so I figure its just some kit car never knowing what a GN TR or TTA were. A week later I see it again with an ad next to it for an 81 "turbo" trans am so I do a google search and see the 89 is legit and decide to get a turbo supra buddy to come look at it with me and bring his car. So I talk with the owner, a young service manager at the local pontiac dealership(who also in his garage has a clean GN with the motor out getting built) and wants to sell it with 35k on it so his wife can tile the house. So I ask the usual noob questions, any accidents, documents of oil change, tap around the body, look at the underside. Then He ask if I want to go for a ride. As I walk to the passanger door he throws me the keys and tells me to give it a go. After explaining to me how a turbo acts he takes me with my friend in toe in his BPU turbo supra to an old street racing road here so I can let it open and tells my buddy to line up with us. So never driving a fast car I floor it from a stop, get sideways then take off like a SOB!! That car was bought 24hrs later by some very trusting parents! I've had it for 5yrs and no regets(except taking off perfectly fine heads now! I love schooling the old hot rodders who never knew about the LC2 in a T/A! and the little Sh*theads with their motor swaps!

that's a good story. In my case my family are Firebird diehards. We have a 72 Firebird (my dad is the original owner with like 63k miles on it being restored) and a 98 Trans Am (my mom was the original owner but it's now my brothers). The TTA is really the only third gen that I would ever own. I was looking mainly at older muscle cars like a 67 Firebird, GTOs, and Chevelles. However everything was pretty much out of my price range or not up to my standards. Then after seeing a TTA at the Trans Am Nationals I decided that I would start looking for one. After a lot of reading and looking at a couple for sale I finally purchased mine up by Detroit from a guy wanting to buy a used C5 (dunno why you'd trade a TTA for a C5). So I picked it up with 16k miles on it but the car being a little rough. I have spent the last almost 2 years cleaning it up and keeping it in the best shape that I can.

As for beating people I suprised a Heads/Cam/ Supercharged LT1 this last weekend. We went out and raced from a low roll (around 30 mph) and after I finally got traction (he had 315s in the rear) I kept even with him. He ended up beating me by about a car length but he expected it to be more.

 

[prokeep15]

Thats sweet, your setup is almost like mine...what are you doing for a DP, or do you run a cutout? I have a pt52 50lbs-er's walbro 340kit from racetronix or something like that and a fresh billet 9inch 3200stall T/C and fresh tranny back from century tranny. Unfortunately I'm a dumbass though and took my perfectly virgin heads off cause I thought it'd be good spring cleaning

 

[GN owner]

Heads Removal

"Unfortunately I'm a dumbass though and took my perfectly virgin heads off cause I thought it'd be good spring cleaning"
Is there a problem with the TTA when you remove the heads? I am not aware of any problems with the LC2 (GN) when you remove the heads.

 

[Quiky One]

Read the two previous threads. "Head bolts" and "head bolts and heads" I think you will get the idea of what he is talking about.

HTH Jason

 

[72firebird]

Thats sweet, your setup is almost like mine...what are you doing for a DP, or do you run a cutout? I have a pt52 50lbs-er's walbro 340kit from racetronix or something like that and a fresh billet 9inch 3200stall T/C and fresh tranny back from century tranny. Unfortunately I'm a dumbass though and took my perfectly virgin heads off cause I thought it'd be good spring cleaning

Yeah, I just got my setup running really good. I have been staying even with local cars that are running 11.6-11.8@117-119 lately from about a 30 mph roll. I'm pretty happy with the setup. As far as DP I'm just running the stocker with a cutout. Everyone makes fun of me for it but it spools just fine and I would rather just deal with a little tiny bit of lag (probably like 50-100 rpm) compared to the fitment problems and cutting the heat shield and everything. I hope you have a nice investment in a tire company though because radials are gunna hook, anything below like a 30 mph it just blows them off and anything below like 40mph it spins a little.

 

[prokeep15]

Yea I have a cutout to which will probably be going back on now that you mentioned your opinion and times with just about the same size turbo and its spooling effects. I really wanna justify getting a 3inch but since no one is making them right now, (and I always felt a cutout is pretty close to a 3in DP), I think it'll go back on!