I have a blown 200r4 in my 1985 Delta 88 Oldsmobile. Will a short tail 350 turbo transmission work. I know it doesn't have overdrive. I just trying to find out if I could use it with any modifications
I have a question for you you may know and you may not. I am Looking for the dimensions of the letter’s PONTIAC on my windshield to my 1981 pace car number 0019 according to robin it’s the 60th one built. Thx
I had a hard time putting the freeze plugs on, and after watching your video I realized that I installed the passenger side freeze plug on the plate instead of the head, besides that it worked great and I got the parts through you. Great video.
Another good video! You had mentioned you installed a roller cam in a customers car. What modifications did you make to the valley pan so the lifter cross bar did not make contact? Thanks!
I had an 80 301 t/a with a turbo 350 tranny and my friend had an 80 with a 301 and a 200 metric. we would race all the time and i would win everytime . I think the metric has a 2.74 1st gear which should have helped but who knows. So many variants involved. But i would pull away while still in 1st gear.
Problem is all the seals are 40+ years old and rotten. Usually starts slipping soon after changing or flushing the fluid. TH200 is an easy rebuild though.
I built up the very first grand national turbo engine for buick and then just a few weeks later, pontaic had me build up this very first turbo engine 301 engine. Then i did all the testing on a dyno in ann arbor michigan. This pontiac engine ran real good and then i built up the engine to run on propane with the turbo! Now that was one sweet running motor.
I remember that Trans Go kit! Gill younger use-ta market it, 70s, into the 80s. They were cheap, and worked fine. Gil offered a mail in training course on how to rebuild automatics. They were fairly in-depth. Once the frt wheel drives became popular, these tranny interests went away. And you are right. That 200 3 spd tranny is crap. The R4 was a slight improvement. Good luck with yours.
Hi, I am asking you because I believe you would know. Where is a good source for draw through turbo chargers. I need one for a small block Chevy less than about 400 hp. Thank you
Amazing car, with that low a mileage. Destined to remain an all stock trailer queen. Maybe a museum piece. Me? If it were mine....rip out the entire drivetrain, put it under wraps in mothballs, and give another drivetrain the full TTA monte'. Be a great super sleeper, if it were competing in the F.A.S.T. group. 👍
Beautiful 81 Trans Am Daytona Pace Car. Sounds good! Only thing I would do different is to lower that car. To much gap between the fenders and tires. I know they come that way from the factory.
Imo enlarging all of them to the same size of the large one is not ideal. You have 6 holes taking turns using the runner and 2 sharing a runner at the same time....reason for the 2 sizes so you basically doubled the runner volume of 6 cylinders but left 2 cylinders with factory size? Just adding like say 30% runner volume across the board to each one (same on the head port) would be the best way but hey I'm not an air flow expert I could be all wrong you probably already know this and are just doin a whatever why not just try it. Increasing vertical plenum height may likely help with the transition of inlet to runners but looks like room is an issue not much if any down and going up would throw everythings locations off. But hey keep on it there's got to be room improving the OEM set up you start swapping out major parts like heads and turbos ECT at some point you really don't have a 301 turbo you just have a turbo charged poncho... anyone can do that it's not new I mean its cool n all but nothing ground breaking or remotely oem, but anything is cooler than tossin a LS in 🙄 which I'm soooo sick of, I'm not competing drag racing so I'll just keep jerkin with my SBC it was the hot ticket for decades and now all the sudden its an obsolete piece of dinosaur shit waste of money?? No it's fine and still viable. I love watching Billy the kid woop LS cars bad with his 400 SBC S10 🤙
I’m really enjoying the 301 content. Back in the day I thought about would it be worth to build one N/A and even the Pontiac guys would say there’s no aftermarket support for them and they weren’t designed for performance. But you changed my mind about it I like what you’re doing with the 301. I would like to see a modern build with a blow through EFI Turbo setup or a multi port fuel injection turbo setup.
I have old issues of HPP that went into depth about these cars. 200, 300,200 possibly (?) In '77,'78'79. Some 403s, the turbo cars running properly were like a scalded ape. Besides H-O racing , i think there was mention of Rayjay turbochargers on some of them from DKM, but i could be wrong. You covered a lot of the Macho t/a stuff👍. I just ran into a fellow Pontiac fanatic the other day, i brought up the Macho t/a, the Doug Nash 4+1 was installed in some of these 77-8-9 , with overdrive. We were talking, Pontiac, as soon as that was even a day 2 conversion was even a rumor out there in the tuner world should have offered by Pontiac, if not bought by GM. (Did the Doug Nash trannys eventually become Richmond or were they based off a Richmond, thought i read that in the 90s). Even if 1982 was the same, Pontiac could have gotten more mpg from these cars, more performance from the 301, 350(1977 or 8), 400, 403, turbo 301 with deeper gears in the rear diff, from 1977 or whatever up through 1981. But those Mecham interviews in the mags were interesting, the way he'd talk about the Quadrajet isn't a bad carb, you just have to know what you're doing, blocking internal leaks(I think he said), he wasn't shy , referring to it as a black art. They knew what they were doing with the carb, distributor etc to get a lot more power from the factory 400(I dont recall what all they did to those engines....port matching , or even porting the heads?). Love your channel, I had a '80 Turbo T/A
