The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) XXXI

jchammond · 01-05-2019, 10:07 PM

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old guy · 01-05-2019, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

'78, I bought my first new TransAm.

Loaded with all the options. $10,003.

My first new car was a 77 Trans am $7800 +tax
Red w/ white leather, bird delete.......never did like the bird

Did get the hook up though, the girl I was dating father owned the Pontiac dealer. He's still in business selling Buick & GMC

Rusty · 01-05-2019, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by old guy

My first new car was a 77 Trans am $7800 +tax
Red w/ white leather, bird delete.......never did like the bird

Did get the hook up though, the girl I was dating father owned the Pontiac dealer. He's still in business selling Buick & GMC

My first '78 TransAm was a WS6 240hp auto, with the Hurst T tops. All black with the bird on the hood. No pin stripes. This car was a major chick magnet.

My second '78 TranAm was a WS6 240hp with a stick. No T tops. Red with a black interior. It was one of the first ones with the 4 wheel disc brakes. Went through 4 motors, 3 trannies, and 2 rear ends. The last motor in it was a cheby LS7 crate motor.

Spooler · 01-05-2019, 11:40 PM

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Hour job turned into 5 hours.

Removed the old pads and rotors on the PowerWagon. Took the rotors to get turned. That was over an hours. Rick just wanted to BS the whole time he was cutting my rotors.

Come home and get ready to install the rotors. Took my air hose and blew the junk out from the rotors and around the e-brake shoes. Ended up blowing the brake material off of the metal shoe.

The bonding that holds the material to the shoe had released.

Now have to go to NAPA and get new e-brakes.

Come home and start to put things back together. Left side first. E-brake shoes on. That was a bitch. Rotor on, new pads in place. Push the 2 pistons back in the caliper. Heard a pop on the right side.

Had pushed a piston out on the right side caliper.

Go to install the left caliper. Come to find out that the slides are sticking. So...I fixed them. Left side finished.

Start on the right side. Fixed the slides first. Install the e-brake shoes. Manage to push the popped out piston back in the caliper with no trouble.

Dodged a bullet on that. Finish this side.

Next time for rear brakes. I'll need new rotors, and all the hardware.

Watch out for your rear calipers sticking and brakes smoking. Common Dodge issue. I just bought new calipers when I did mine along with new rotors. Rear Brakes, 130k miles before any brake work. The fronts went to 155k. New Rotors, Pads, and calipers. All good. I tow too heavy to even consider turning the rotors. Need all the heat sink I can get.

jchammond · 01-05-2019, 11:40 PM

Dallas won a playoff game

Rusty · 01-05-2019, 11:45 PM

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Watch out for your rear calipers sticking and brakes smoking. Common Dodge issue. I just bought new calipers when I did mine along with new rotors. Rear Brakes, 130k miles before any brake work. The fronts went to 155k. New Rotors, Pads, and calipers. All good. I tow too heavy to even consider turning the rotors. Need all the heat sink I can get.

The pistons are good. Had the sliders sticking. My pads are EBC YellowStuff, and the rotors are EBC sport rotors. Well.......my truck sees mud and water at times.

jchammond · 01-05-2019, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

My first '78 TransAm was a WS6 240hp auto, with the Hurst T tops. All black with the bird on the hood. No pin stripes. This car was a major chick magnet.

My second '78 TranAm was a WS6 240hp with a stick. No T tops. Red with a black interior. It was one of the first ones with the 4 wheel disc brakes. Went through 4 motors, 3 trannies, and 2 rear ends. The last motor in it was a cheby LS7 crate motor.

You got an LS7 or a BBC 427 ?

Rusty · 01-05-2019, 11:59 PM

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You got an LS7 or a BBC 427 ?

Had the '70's, Big Block 454 LS7 Rated HP was 465HP. It was more likely over 500HP. Big block Pontiac motors don't like to rev over 5,000 rpm's very long. So I switched to the big block cheby. Local dealer had ordered the motor for a guy. And the guy died before he could pick it up. So I got a deal on it because the dealer couldn't send it back and it was sitting collecting dust.

jchammond · 01-06-2019, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

Had the '70's, Big Block 454 LS7 Rated HP was 465HP. It was more likely over 500HP. Big block Pontiac motors don't like to rev over 5,000 rpm's very long. So I switched to the big block cheby. Local dealer had ordered the motor for a guy. And the guy died before he could pick it up. So I got a deal on it because the dealer couldn't send it back and it was sitting collecting dust.

Torque Monster; no wonder you were breaking everything

old guy · 01-06-2019, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

My first '78 TransAm was a WS6 240hp auto, with the Hurst T tops. All black with the bird on the hood. No pin stripes. This car was a major chick magnet.

My second '78 TranAm was a WS6 240hp with a stick. No T tops. Red with a black interior. It was one of the first ones with the 4 wheel disc brakes. Went through 4 motors, 3 trannies, and 2 rear ends. The last motor in it was a cheby LS7 crate motor.

My T/A had the Pontiac 6.6 ( not the Oldsmobile ) rated at a pitiful 190hp. It was a lot of fun over 100mph the ground effects and spoiler sucked that baby to the ground and it felt incredibly stable ! Should have kept that one.

Rusty · 01-06-2019, 01:11 AM

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Torque Monster; no wonder you were breaking everything

Yep. The trannies was 2, BW Super T10's, and one Rock Crusher. One 10 bolt and one 12 bolt rear end.

Rusty · 01-06-2019, 01:17 AM

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My T/A had the Pontiac 6.6 ( not the Oldsmobile ) rated at a pitiful 190hp. It was a lot of fun over 100mph the ground effects and spoiler sucked that baby to the ground and it felt incredibly stable ! Should have kept that one.

Both of my TA's had the 6.6 Pontiac 240HP motors. The way to tell a 6.6 200 HP Pontiac motor from a 6.6 240 HP Pontiac motor was the valve covers. The 240 had chrome valve covers and the 200 had painted covers.

The Olds 6.6 (403) didn't come until '79. '80 had the 301 turbo or the 307 Olds.

Geoff-AU · 01-06-2019, 02:07 AM

Didn't do anything with my Z today except walk past it a couple of times in the garage and admire it..

back to commuter duties tomorrow!

Spoiler · 01-06-2019, 05:59 AM

Morning all...

jchammond · 01-06-2019, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty

Both of my TA's had the 6.6 Pontiac 240HP motors. The way to tell a 6.6 200 HP Pontiac motor from a 6.6 240 HP Pontiac motor was the valve covers. The 240 had chrome valve covers and the 200 had painted covers.

The Olds 6.6 (403) didn't come until '79. '80 had the 301 turbo or the 307 Olds.

My first car that I purchased in summer of 82’ was a 73’ Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme w/Rocket 455 engine,Turbo 400 trans & 2.73:1 limited slip diff.
The engine was only rated ar 250hp, but was very torky...it was a medium blue w/white interior & bucket seats with center console & shifter.
Tilt steering w/cushion grip sport wheel...2door hardtop (vinyl). 14” wheels w/stainless trim rings & something like G78x14 tires.
At 16yrs of age,,,my HotRodding day’s had began. 4,000 rpm shift points by the tachometer mounted on top of steering column w/hose clamp.
I learned how to tune a quadrajet carb well & adjust the points and timing.
This was not a very big car & we used to cut class & go d***-r*** at the nearby designated spot in the country...it jumped out the hole like a frog & kept pulling

I paid 1k for it & had title in hand,,,ugh the good old days

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