Naw.. All you need is a credit card then take all the time you need to pay it down....! lol

@Eddy..."Join the crowd".

Heads are the key with Pontiac. If you port a set of 6X heads and put in the 2.11 1.77 Ferrera Stainless Valves (best ones out there) and keep the stock (pre 74) intake off any Pontiac and look up some of the old HO Racing cam grinds they run strong. With a flat top Piston and those heads it will give you 9.5-1 compression. Change the stock rods if you are going into the bottom end. Scat, Eagle or some good rods and a forged flat top (used to use a TRW flat top but long time ago now). Butler sells some very good ones. ARP Rod bolts are a must! Oil Pump needs to be HV and a good oil pump drive shaft. Use a factory long windge tray and stock pan. Double roller timing chain set. ARP screw in Big Block Chevy studs and guide plates. That combo with a 230 duration @ .050 with a .480-.500 lift and about a 280 -290 duration 112 center cam is great for the street and should put close to 425 with headers. If you have 10-1 compression or more you will have closer to 475-500 and well over 550 foot lbs of torque.

68 -72 cast intake is the best. You do not want a 73.

I was thinking of setting up a sim racing simulator with the Pontiac Formula steering wheel, Trans Am seat, pedal covers, and a hurst T handle on a sim shifter. Drive a TA in Grand Theft Auto, Assetto Corsa, not the Competition one, or drive around in American Truck Simulator.

You ever try a first generation miata? it really pulls off that old school RWD feel with the added benefit of 90s boring reliability

Very true 👍

Exactly! First thing that came to my mind watching.

I Had A. 78 formula 400........ Shift at 6000 RPM.

Amen

Bet its a pisser to drive. These 400 4 speeds are awesome

So do I!

Why is that funny? Do window cranks excite you too?

Its geared high..its something them big blocks do so good with high gears. Had a old olds omega years ago, put a Pontiac 455 and 350 turbo in it , ran with and beat many big block camaros and chevells and big block fords with low gears like 373 and 410 Finley blew up when we took the cover off rear can't remember the number but was very high like 267 .amazed all of us how a mostly stock 455 with freeway gas saver gears could run so fast and run with and beat many others with 1/4 mile gear set ups. Love them old Pontiac big blocks

@@hopebrowning6300 Used to run 3.08s in my 71 442. Those old torque motors have a lot of grunt to push a tall gear! 3rd gear was always pulling some mph!

I don't think so, 4 sp cars came with 3:23's. Also a non AC car. Typically, AC cars came with highway gears. I have a 76 TA 4sp. It has 3: 23's

As someone who loves the visuals and the sound of these cars but has no idea about cars per se: What are you guys talking about? :D

@@user-rv3cm7hv3l Gotta also keep in mind, like most of the muscle cars of that era (although by 76 they were down on power) lots of folks modified them by putting on headers and some even changed gears. I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibilities that a car that is over 40 years old with multiple owners might have had the gears changed. I did on some of mine for sure!

LOL. Funny stuff.

Not to demean the 75 Trans am 455 as it was the fastest of the worst year. Great cars but so down on power.

The beginning of the 75 model yr, the 455 was not available at first but then became available around mid yr and continued into the 76 model yr. last yr. of the 455. But they were not H.O.'s. The 71 and 2 TA's were 455 H.O.'s Most of the 75 and 6 TA's were 400's The 455 was pretty rare those yrs.

@@burningblue1254 Visually the 75/76 Trans Ams have the least exciting front to me by far. Kind of becomes less relevant when you see it fron inside and get THIS feeling with THIS sound :)

​@@user-rv3cm7hv3lThe 75 had 455 HO, 76 had a 455. 71/72 also had 455 HO, although much different. As did 1970, which had 360HP, only available in the GTO.