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This project has been floating around the background of some of my other project threads for a long while and thought I'd start up it's own project thread.
The back story is I had a '69 Firebird with a Pontiac 400 back in college. It was taken out by a guy with no license or insurance that ran a red light back in 2002. Took me almost ten years to finally pick up another '69 Firebird. At this point in my life I have three other cars with big blocks so figured when I get another '69 Firebird I'd do something different. Pontiac offered an unusual straight six with a single Over Head Cam (OHC) and figured I'd go that route. I've had a couple engines almost a year longer than I've owned the car and the engine build thread can be found here. I plan on going sequential EFI with a turbo on it.
The engine build thread.
Back to the car, I was casually looking for one over the years and about a year ago a BangShift member put me in contact with a fellow Power Tour'r in Alabama that had a '69 Firebird for sale. After looking at some pictures and talking with the owner I decided the price was good and flew out the Alabama to drive the car home to Ely, NV. Which is the second time I've done the fly and drive home routine, the first was with my Thunderbird out of Colorado. On to the pictures.
The car itself is pretty decent and solid. It has manual drum brakes that have been gone through and manual steering. It needs some wiring work, but I plan on doing quite a bit of wiring with the EFI anyways. The first picture from 383S-10 on here.
And thus in December of 2011 I started my ~1200 mile road trip home.
Where I saw all sorts of weather.
And the heater didn't work :*( I tried hooking up the heater core, but of course it leaked.
On the way home I stayed over at DieselGeek Scott's house and he convinced me to install a heater core before leaving Omaha for the trip home. Considering the INSIDE of the car was around 23*F for the drive to his place I said we'd do it if the parts store had one. Well there is a NAPA distribution center there and they did, so the work began and a friend of his was gracious enough to let me use his shop.
The damage. But after it was replaced I was a happy warm camper.
All was good and I was making good time until about 50 miles before the Utah border.
When this happened. No over heating, just went. Rut-roh.
Got towed into Evanstan, WY pretty late, so the next morning got a temporary freeze plug and hit the road again.
Then I made it home.
The back story is I had a '69 Firebird with a Pontiac 400 back in college. It was taken out by a guy with no license or insurance that ran a red light back in 2002. Took me almost ten years to finally pick up another '69 Firebird. At this point in my life I have three other cars with big blocks so figured when I get another '69 Firebird I'd do something different. Pontiac offered an unusual straight six with a single Over Head Cam (OHC) and figured I'd go that route. I've had a couple engines almost a year longer than I've owned the car and the engine build thread can be found here. I plan on going sequential EFI with a turbo on it.
The engine build thread.
Back to the car, I was casually looking for one over the years and about a year ago a BangShift member put me in contact with a fellow Power Tour'r in Alabama that had a '69 Firebird for sale. After looking at some pictures and talking with the owner I decided the price was good and flew out the Alabama to drive the car home to Ely, NV. Which is the second time I've done the fly and drive home routine, the first was with my Thunderbird out of Colorado. On to the pictures.
The car itself is pretty decent and solid. It has manual drum brakes that have been gone through and manual steering. It needs some wiring work, but I plan on doing quite a bit of wiring with the EFI anyways. The first picture from 383S-10 on here.
And thus in December of 2011 I started my ~1200 mile road trip home.
Where I saw all sorts of weather.
And the heater didn't work :*( I tried hooking up the heater core, but of course it leaked.
On the way home I stayed over at DieselGeek Scott's house and he convinced me to install a heater core before leaving Omaha for the trip home. Considering the INSIDE of the car was around 23*F for the drive to his place I said we'd do it if the parts store had one. Well there is a NAPA distribution center there and they did, so the work began and a friend of his was gracious enough to let me use his shop.
The damage. But after it was replaced I was a happy warm camper.
All was good and I was making good time until about 50 miles before the Utah border.
When this happened. No over heating, just went. Rut-roh.
Got towed into Evanstan, WY pretty late, so the next morning got a temporary freeze plug and hit the road again.
Then I made it home.
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