I was looking through you pictures, totally badass. I'm doing a similar conversion and have a question. I like how you worked the bracketry for the shifter to get the shifter where you want it. It's all clear in the picture but what do you have anchoring the bottom of the shifter down, below the bracket on the plate below the shift ****?

 

Its like a small ball & socket joint, both parts had 3/8 threads on them.
I welded the socket part to 11G plate & bolted it down with 4 #10
screws. I think parts were from MSC.
Good luck with it

Dale

 

Love that blue paint! Engine bay looks great with it too.

 

all i can say is WOW!!! u did a great job with that car...

 

Awesome car. Saw you at the Trans Am Nationals last year... You gonna make it back out tis year?

 

That was a 8hr drive, we put 1200 miles on the car in 3 days.
I am not going this year, $$ tight

Dale

 

How did you go abouts to install the 99 whole a/c system? Talking about the evap box along with the inner dash box? needed to cut the frame?

 

There was a whole lot of cutting & a lot of 1 off parts made,
I am a machinest so I used to make alot of car parts @ work.
My car is a 2nd gen, yours is 3rd gen.
dale

 

Check out the remote battery terminal block.
I saw this on the SLP ultra Z and started making them.

 

what material is that connecting the 2 terminals, the blocks?

 

Its 1/2'' thick lexan - see other pic
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...hlight=battery

Dale

 

Now that is a true bird of fire. She looks unreal. Just amazing.

 

This could save the car from a fire
200A class T fuse Dale
This is on my 98 TA

 

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...hlight=battery

The cover fits into a tapered groove thats milled on base.

 

man that car looks sick! very nice job. where did u get the ls1 emblems?.

man are your still gonna have to go through the pain of doing a sparkplug change like if it was a 4th gen? lolt hat would suck.

 

At my old job we had a laser, thats where a made the emblems
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showt...ghlight=emblems
I havent changed plugs with motor in car,but I dont think
it will be as bad as in 4th gen. Dale

 

Extremely well done! How long time did you use? I'm thinking about doing something similar to my 80 / 77 Trans Am. Do you have any good tips?

 

It took me six months. I worked on it almost every day after work and that didn't include the body work and paint. You will need a donor car with a good front end and the wheel base is longer in the second gen. car so everything like the dash, shifter and steering column need to be lengthened. Look thru my pictures good because they tell the story. I also work in a machine shop so I can make custom stuff at work. Good luck. Feel free to ask me more questions if you need to.

Dale

 

02 formula here, buddy of mine has one too. Got a question though. If you read this, it sounds like there were no formulas in 2000. http://media.gm.com/division/canada/...0Firebird.html
and it was reintroduced in 2001.
http://media.gm.com/division/canada/...1Firebird.html

Am I missing something here?

 

his sig says '99...