This one has really been flying around the internet for the last few days and deservedly so. The car is a nice, clean third generation Camaro of the IROC-Z variety that is packing a hot rodded Buick 3.8L turbo V6 that was pillaged from a Grand National. The swap is near factor level and the car has been together and covered in magazines and other media for several years. We know, the third generation Firebird was equipped with this engine in 1989 but we have never seen the swap done in a Camaro which is a mechanically identical car.
Just looking at this thing in the terms of it being one of the nicest third generation Camaros we have seen in a long time makes it impressive in our book and we dig the fact that once the swap was done, the builder didn’t go completely off the rails with changing and altering the car time and time again. He nailed it and didn’t screw with it much (looks-wise) from that point forward. There’s something to be said for that because all too often cool cars come together and then get “improved” into something that is way less appealing than the way it was after first being “done”.
The car has just 42,000 miles on it and virtually everything you see in terms of the body and interior is factory stock the way it rolled out of the line in 1989. We really like the fact that the builder added the cool little 3.8 callouts where it would have said 5.7 Fuel Injected back when the car was born with a TPI 350 in it. The car is just really, really nice and we bet it screams because the engine is not just a bone stocker, it has been warmed up and fortified with TTA heads, a TTA crank, a COMP cam, and all sorts of other parts. Simply put, this thing is awesome!
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Wow, that’s a really nice conversion. Guarantee that it’s considerably quicker than if it had the stock 5.7L too.
That’s surprisingly clean and hackjob-free for most of the rigs that we get to see.
The old 3.8 was a decent motor, too. I bet with the iron lung, it’ll scream!
I like it.
It is a nice looking car but it is worth $24,900? That’s what the owner is asking.
This is a 1989 Turbo Trans Am engine set up. The TTA’s had center bolt valve covers because they used the FWD heads to clear the strut towers.
I had a friend who bought a TTA new. It was as fast as a GN but would corner and brake like a slot car.
Interesting!
I guarantee you can’t build one like it for anywhere near that price so from that standpoint its definitely worth the money….and is a much better build since it retains a factory appearance too! Ird be funny to store it away for 30 years and bring it back out for sale….youd have everybody thinking its some rare one off build from GM and people will be scouring through the paperwork to try and document it….that would be funny!