I have done 2 T/A's and 5 camaros. You have one hell of a project ahead of you. I dont think any of mine were that bad off but at least it gives you something to be proud of when your done. My last 81 looked better than new and had 435hp and 489tq. Good luck!!

 

ight so for the past couple evenings ive been stripping old under coat off the bottom of the trans am and it actually got alot easyier after i got away from the truck.... so its 90% off and ill be taking the rest of the undercoat off tomorrow night b/c we also took the rear end off so now i can hit the spots that the leaf spring were covering.. and then im wiping the whole underneath down with diesle andthen drying it all off to have a nice clean surface to work with,,, there are a couple pin holes in the back floor pans that will probabl be filled and sealed with some rust preventer my dad bought, while we have to weld in patches for the front and a corner peice on the firewall. and a couiple sheets are getting welded on the underneath side of the trunk pan i think i will have alot more pics tomorrow heres some from the past couple days





what the under coat looks like on

and offf

 

i will get more pics of the underneath finished tomorrow and of some new parts

 

sorry everyone for not having an update for a while ive beenbusy working the trans am lol and graduation and all that good stuff... so the rear end has been cleaned and rebuilt and painted... the underneath of the car upto the firewall is totally finshed... it has been strippe, acid washed por15'd and painted black with no clear for a clean flat black look underneath... we have also riped the front clip off and tottally disassembled and grinded scuffed acid washed and por15'd.. it all looks really well!!!!

my dad also pushed in new bearing and bushings into everything... mostly poly.. also we got a motor ) pontiac 455 it is going to get shaved heads and ported larger piston and hopefully new headers... the motor is the only thing we are not doing it is gettin done by a motor guru in our area...

 

rear end back underneath


acid washh




ready for por!



por15

 

por15 is the ****!

 

yes sir it is haha

 

Nice work! I got a 80 T/A myself I'm gonna tear into in a few months or so!

 

nice work. i need to find a project car.

 

Cool, IMO anything 79-81 look ugly. I really like the 77s-78s. Was that a silver with a blue bird on the hood? The silver cars are pretty rare. My neighbor has a blue on blue 77 with a blue bird. His step son has a smokey and the bandit tribute 77.

 

No rear disc swap?

 

Id have to go against a LSx in there, a Pontiac 400 is what belongs in there

 

where did he say he was putting an lsx in there?

 

Correction 455. The 400s are bad ass little motors though. Id either go LSX or 455 if it were my own personal car. My grandpa has a 72 Grand Prix, that he bought brand new. Its still on the original motor and tranny. It still runs perfect. It even still has the points in it. He is gonna swap over to HEI. He is getting to old to jack with them.

And OP welcome to the world of a GM built vehicle. The are rust buckets bad. It appears from your pics, they didnt have the problems solved by the late 70s either.

 

they put a 400 in that year

 

The 455 is more awesome but its also harder to find

 

niceee

 

thanks all and yeah the green one (the one we r rebuilding ) came gold from GM and the parts car is silver.. both came with 400s with turbo 350 trans

the green one is actually a y88 special edition with a larger sway bars and few other things.. we have a 455 sitting in the floor along with a turbo 400 trans.. we also have various parts from a 400 motor like heads, oil pan, intake.. it might end up being a frankenstein with the 400 heads for a higher compression, mind u the entire motor is gona be built to the 450hp range