'98 Formula WS6 1LE
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Here's another option. Fitment is spot on and works like a champ.
http://www.pcmofnc.com/product/93-02...ission-cooler/
http://www.pcmofnc.com/product/93-02...ission-cooler/
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There was a thread in the firebird section where they were tracking the 1le formulas.
When I had a formula I was very interested in them, if I recall correctly I've seen 4 or 5 on this site pop up for sale. Most have been relatively stock, and most are silver or black. I believe only 1 was made in the gold 98 only color but that's off the top of my head
When I had a formula I was very interested in them, if I recall correctly I've seen 4 or 5 on this site pop up for sale. Most have been relatively stock, and most are silver or black. I believe only 1 was made in the gold 98 only color but that's off the top of my head
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There was a thread in the firebird section where they were tracking the 1le formulas.
When I had a formula I was very interested in them, if I recall correctly I've seen 4 or 5 on this site pop up for sale. Most have been relatively stock, and most are silver or black. I believe only 1 was made in the gold 98 only color but that's off the top of my head
When I had a formula I was very interested in them, if I recall correctly I've seen 4 or 5 on this site pop up for sale. Most have been relatively stock, and most are silver or black. I believe only 1 was made in the gold 98 only color but that's off the top of my head
I would LOVE to get a site/registry together and make it popular enough to actually track these cars. I did hear a rumor that at least 1 and possibly 2 of them were totaled out.
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Here's another option. Fitment is spot on and works like a champ.
http://www.pcmofnc.com/product/93-02...ission-cooler/
http://www.pcmofnc.com/product/93-02...ission-cooler/
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Raised up the front end from slammed to about just about right. Used some grade 8 nuts and a washer under each strut mounting blade on top of each lower A-arm to raise the nose 1/2".
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Also added the front bird, replacement ram air hood decals, and rear 'pontiac' fill in metallic charcoal vinyl
Have a few more exterior details and lighting going on this weekend. Still lovin this car.
Before:
After:
Also added the front bird, replacement ram air hood decals, and rear 'pontiac' fill in metallic charcoal vinyl
Have a few more exterior details and lighting going on this weekend. Still lovin this car.
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Done a few more things with the car over the last couple weeks. Added some more charcoal vinyl ('formula' over the door emblems), tinted the windows 30% on the sides and 15% on the back, and redid the entire front lighting. Added 60mm hella projectors, 5000k 55w HIDs with a morimoto dual relay harness, tram plates, new LMC truck highbeam housings (LED bulbs on the way), new parking/signal light housings with iJDMTOY amber/white LED switchbacks, and the morimoto knockoff LEDs that some guys are using in another thread on here on trans am's. They fit great in the formula bumpers as well. HUGE improvement in lighting, literally unbelievable change and feels like a I'm behind the wheel of a much newer car at night.
Here's the output with just the parking lights and low beams. I didn't get a pic with the fogs on as well. The fogs add an amber glow around everything and I think will add a lot of functionality in foggy mornings.
Here's the output with just the parking lights and low beams. I didn't get a pic with the fogs on as well. The fogs add an amber glow around everything and I think will add a lot of functionality in foggy mornings.
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Been tinkering with the car here and there. Latest modification has been to the exhaust and had my buddy do a retune on it on 91 octane (our premium pump here in OK). I had the local exhaust shop install a 3" to 4" flowmaster merge, 4" dynomax bullet, then a 4" QTP cutout, necked down to the factory exhaust. I'm going to pick the car up tomorrow, but here's a dyno graph of closed/open with the cutout.
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Yep! Even though the 1LE is what it is, the exhaust is no different than the single out muffler found on all '98 WS6 cars. I'd had good luck with cutouts in the past with NA deals and boosted setups. A '99 Z28 I had with a set of PRC stage 1 heads and a TREX cam on a 110lsa gained 30rwhp going thru a 3.5" cutout, and a turbo car gained 45rwhp using a cutout. Love how you can go from stealth to crazy sounding with the flip of a switch. It appears to have lost a little at the peak hp from the 93 to 91 tune, but torque was pretty similar before, and opening that up helped a lot there as well.
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The car made 407/363 on 93 octane at Cartek in NJ with the previous owner. It had the same combination except 3"/3" out ypipe and 3" stock catback. So no real comparison due to the octane changes. But you can figure the similarities. If you put a high flowing catback behind it and neck it down to 3" over the axle you'd maybe lose ~<5rwhp.