1991 Turbocharged Firebird

91Bird305

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'91 Pontiac Firebird w/ LC2 (Grand National motor) swap

Motor details
1987 Buick Grand National 3.8L Turbocharged V6 (bored 20 over)
-GT6776s turbo
-212/212 Roller Camshaft
-Billet Center / Front Main Caps
-Ported/Polished Stock Iron Heads
-Port Matched Intake (Thermal Coated)
-Diamond Forged Pistons (Thermal Coated)
-Higher Oil Volume Front Timing Cover
-LT1 Starter
-ARP Bolts / Studs
-BeCool Radiator w/ dual fan setup

Exhaust
Downpipe is a 3" Terry Houston modified by Mike Mizzi & Stenod Peformance.
Coated Exhaust Manifolds
Intercooler piping is all 3"
Everything was coated by QC Coatings
3" Electric Cut Out

Read End
Dana 60 from Strange Engineering
3:52 Gear Ratio
Disc Brake Conversation

Suspension
-Spohn Sway Bars
-Spohn Adj. Torque Arm
-Spohn Adj. Panhard Bar
-Spohn Front End Rebuild Kit
-KYB Gas-a-just shocks / GR2 Struts (air bags in the rear soon)
-Spohn Subframe Connectors
-Lakewood LCA's
-Eibach Pro Kit Spring
-M/T ET Street radials 255/50/16
-Hawk HPS Front/Rear Brake Pads
-Rear Ls1 brakes

Transmission
-Pro-Built 700r4
-CK Performance 10 1/2" 3500 Stall
-B&M Racing Trans Cooler
-Polyurethane Mount
-TransGo Shift Kit
-Corvette servos
-Custom Dynotech Driveshaft

Others:
-Walbro 340 w/ Hotwire Kit
-Accufab 65mm Throttle Body / Plenum w/ RJC Powerplate
-72lb Seimens Injectors
-LS1 Maf w/ Translator +
-Extender Extreme Chip from FullThrottleSpeed.com
-Alkcontrol Methanol Setup
-BBK CAI
-Billet AFPR
-Greddy ProFec B Spec II Boost Controller
-Scanmaster II
-LC1 Gauge
-Autometer Cobalt Series Boost Gauge
-Custom Made FMIC from Stenodperformance.com
-4th gen style hood
-Black 16x9 GTA Wheels

Has AC compressor installed but just needs the AC lines ran.

Issues:
- Small rip in the back seat side speaker cover
- Small rip in the driver seat on the door side. Will probably just sew this up myself
- Leather glove box needs to be re-sewn at the bottom. No visible tear but you can feel it if you put your hand down there
- Need AC lines ran. Doesn't keep car from running obviously

Mid 11 second street car. Made 467hp/464tq @ 19lbs Obviously has more boost you can throw at it. I just never pushed it that hard to get the numbers

Drives great. Beautiful sound when the boost comes up. :)

This was my car since I was 17. Started out with a 305 TBI. In college, after speaking to some car friends and some help from someone who was going to a stage II motor in their Buick Grand National, I decided to swap in an LC2. The car ended up making 467hp/464tq on the dyno. It had a small piece about it in Pontiac Enthusiasts magazine when they came to see Stenod's shop.

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Recently I've decided to move on from doing the car thing for awhile and start a new hobby. Obviously I stored this car every winter and took very good care of it throughout the years.

Big thank you to the following people and shops that helped me with my car throughout the year.

- Mike Mizzi and his brother for the motor swap and fabrication work. You guys did an amazing job
- Stenod Performance for their amazing fabrication work and talking me into that Dana 60. :)
- Engineered Victories for the dyno and transmission work
- Victory Racing for their awesome help throughout the years when I couldn't figure something out and for their amazing tuning work when I needed it most
- LTLHomer for helping me out in the garage when I needed it
- Ryelou for the great deals on the tires
- All of my car friends from all the different sites I've been on throughout the years (MM, TB, TGO..)

And anyone else that's helped me with the car that I forgot over the 15+ years I've owned it.

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Small Video

Feel free to contact me via email ([email protected]) or by PM.

Looking for $9,000 OBO
 
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Very sorry to hear this is for sale. I wish you luck with the sale and if anyone needs to know that this is a very nice car with lots of time and care to the install of the engine. Someone will get a very nice car.
 
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. Everyone keeps telling me I'm going to regret this. I probably will. :-X
 
Man, I wish I could afford to buy it, if for nothing else than to be able to sell it back to you once you realize you should have kept it.
 
Thanks everyone.

I backed the car out of the garage yesterday from winter storage and noticed I had missed something. (been awhile I guess)

I was working on an electrical issue right before I put it in storage. Something is grounding out under the dash and causing me to blow a gauge cluster fuse on startup. I'm thinking about just driving it over to Joe (Duke) on MM and have him handle it professionally. I apologize in advanced. I plan on fixing this before the car is sold.

Just making everyone aware. Not a major issue, but I don't want to leave anything out in the description.

The car rides great though. Drove it to Grand Rapids last summer and back. No problems at all. It's been up to St. Ignace a couple times also and back and forth to Flint area where I grew up obviously. That's about it as far as long drives though on the LC2 motor. Mostly just a city car for me, but can be driven far distances without any heating or other issues.
 
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People were asking for interior photos. See below.

I removed the cup hold from the drivers side because my foot kept hitting it.

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The seat rip and back seat rip
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Just got the car back today. Gauges back to normal (except the speedo needs to be recalibrated).

I'll be emailing everyone that got with me. I should be available next week to have people come over to see it.
 
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