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Author:	Kevs87TA [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:30 am ]
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Well it has officially begun. I now have a complete car....almost.... I picked up my 1976 Trans Am 2 years ago, basically a rolling shell. ] The original owner was an undercoater so the car had tons of the stuff to remove. Other than a couple of holes in the front floor area, the car is real solid. I started to refinish the under carriage. Anyhow I just recently picked up a running Pontiac 400 w/ TH350 tranny Now I am looking at having the block cleaned up, bored .40 over. Just in the process of dismantling it...The block looks pretty good to me, there isn't any scoring in the cylinders and other than some carbon on the top of the pistons, everything looks clean... I hope to have this car on the road by next summer, if everything goes to plan. I want the car to be a good street car, but be able to have a little fun at the track as well. I will keep you posted....

Author:	6SIX6 [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:03 pm ]
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Nice car man and loks clean as well. Good luck with the build

Author:	Alex IROC Z-28 [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:40 pm ]
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nice toy!!!

Author:	Mr Bastard [ Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:46 pm ]
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about time you got off the couch

Author:	wheelman [ Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:58 pm ]
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Nice car. Be sure to have the short-block zero-decked if going to machine shop. Seat rails OK? Or was the previous owner 300lbs.?

Author:	Kevs87TA [ Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:02 pm ]
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So 4 years later, the TA has remained up on blocks until last week. Reason for the delay on this project is time, family, money and having more than one car. Last two years we rebuilt our 1990 GTA. Now I had to move the cars around in the garage, so I have reinstalled the rear suspension and got the car cleaned out of all the parts that were sitting in it all these years. The interior has been stored in the basement and I have already contacted my interior guy to start the design process. My next step is to dismantle the entire front end and clean all the rust and grease from the suspension, remove and replace all steering components and replace all the bushings with polyurethane ones from Energy Suspension. The engine is disassembled and will be rebuilt with stock components with a head and cam package and Edelbrock intake and Holley carb. I have new floor pans for the car and and the red interior plastics will be redyed red. Even though the car has been sitting for over 4 years, I have new parts ready to be installed, like front coils, calipers, windshield, rims, control arm bushings, subframe body mount bushings, traction bars etc...I will be using Auto_gods technique in removing all the grease and rust off of the control arms, tie rod links and thatever else is going to be repainted. One question I have, will it hurt any rubber bushings? Anyhow, I think that the time has come to start seeing this project move forward, besides, my wife hates seeing cars up on jackstands, you can imagine how she feels about seeing it for the last 4 years...lol Here is a link to the pics taken the other day... http://1drv.ms/16G9KHt

Author:	The Project [ Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:37 pm ]
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Ah yes,never ending project...I can relate Looks good so far.

Author:	Kevs87TA [ Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:52 pm ]
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LOL, I think anyone that owns an old car can relate. I am hoping on getting the suspension done before spring as well as the interior. This car will be a drivers car, no major customizing on this one, just replacing worn out parts with upgraded parts....The only think I would like to do is put in a disc rear end in with 3.42's, but I can do that at a later date, unless something comes along...

Author:	auto_god [ Sun Dec 21, 2014 7:30 pm ]
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Wow....4 years! You're a patient man! I've only had my project since July & its driving me crazy waiting to be able to drive it!

Author:	mikesz1984 [ Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:00 pm ]
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Glad to see you getting around to it again. I am looking forward to see this come together

Author:	Kevs87TA [ Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:12 am ]
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Yeah, it's actually been 6 years, but as I said, I have more than one car, so I have lots to occupy my time . The car car actually has a cool history. I called the second owner of the car, who happens to be local to this area. I bought the car off of a young guy that thought it would be a great idea to turn this car into a drag car with a chev motor. He had sold off the original engine and tranny and then put the car in a barn for storage. This is how it sat for years. When I happen to see the ad in the triad newspaper, it turned out he lived around the corner from me. I picked up the car after Lotsatas (Paul) and I went to look at it. Inside there was a hole lot of invoices and receipts. I found the original dealers invoice as well as the factory spec sheets. Pretty cool find...anyhow, I looked up the name that I found on one of the receipts and found out he lived in St.Clements. I looked him up and called him. He was very surprised when I told him that I now had the car. He told me that his wife, before he knew her, worked at the head office of NCR in Dayton Ohio where she dated a guy from Mexico. They bought the car in Dayton brand new. Things happened and the guy moved back to Mexico, taking the car with him. The woman came back to Canada and met her future husband. They married in 1980 and sometime later, the guy came home from work to find this Trans Am sitting in his driveway. It was a wedding gift to them from the guy in Mexico. I even have the documentation from when it was brought across the border and registered here in Canada. It has 95000 original miles on it. It was originally a 400 with a 350TH. I have a 1975 400 and 350TH that I picked up from a guy in Hamilton. So I have everything I need to put it back together now...just have to get at it...

Author:	FOWL PLAY [ Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:18 am ]
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Good Luck with the build Kev...you're going to become the new "Lotsatas" before you know it Happy new year to you and Laurie from us northerners!

Author:	Kevs87TA [ Thu Jan 01, 2015 2:52 pm ]
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Thanks Keith, Well I definitely have more Birds than Paul now lol... Happy New Years to you and Deb...

Author:	Kevs87TA [ Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:02 pm ]
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So I had a couple of parts arrive today... 3.08 posi disc brake rear end with a Summit Racing adjustable proportioning valve and a Hurricane aluminum intake manifold. Been too cold to be out in my garage, hopefully I can get started on the car in the next couple of weeks...

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