If I'm not mistaken, the '77 Pontiac Trans Am 6.6 litre is a 403cid rated conservatively at 180 net h.p. (about 240 -- 260 gross h.p.), still a good looking 'Bird, man.......
They were 2 6.6’s, the olds 403 and the Pontiac 400. The Pontiac 400’s were the def stronger motor, both were pretty much the kings of factory cars in the late 70’s, everything else, including the Vettes were choked down small blocks, The hood scoop on the olds 403 said 6.6 Liter. The Pontiac 400’s scoops said T/A 6.6 Beautiful cars
Damn. The engine in my generator makes more power. Seems like it would b quite an achievement to design a big block that DOESNT achieve any power at all.
@@treykearns4867emmisions made it damn near impossible to make a powerful engine from the factory but for the sake of the badging and the reputation behind the chevy 396/402 and the pontiac 400 general motors did everything in their power to keep those big block engines even if it meant making them underpowered pieces of shit
@@jaybo6881I mean back then if you wanted a fast car you didn't buy a new car you bought a 1967-1971 camaro or firebird usually a camaro for the looks and reputation of that 396 producing wayy more horsepower then whats written on that engine
Yea the first ones great 1+2 are on Netflix… tried watching 2 and couldn’t get into it .. I remember the first from 77’ was 7 years old when it came out first year for star wars too!!
As an owner of a late 70s Lincoln with a Ford 400, I can tell you that a couple changes to timing and removing the emissions tech will double the power on the weak smog era V8s. If you have the chance to rebuild and increase the CR, you can triple it!
Delco Electronics Corporation was the automotive electronics design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors based in Kokomo, Indiana, that manufactured Delco Automobile radios and other electric products found in GM cars.
Not to bring race into this, but back in the early 90s, a friend had a 78 Trans Am that looked a lot like the one in this video. Same color, same fire bird on the hood but the head light housing was slightly different. White guys were always offering to buy it from him. After he said to me _"I don't know why white dudes want this car so bad,"_ I replied _"it's probably because of Burt Reynolds and that Smokey and the Bandit movie."_ He eventually sold it for $600. It sold the same day he put the _"For Sale"_ sign on the windshield.
Here you go...1970s emissions kept all performance cars of the 70's at low hp/ tq ratings...& a.c. Delco was a part department of general motors...like Mopar for Chrysler & fomoco for ford/ mercury/ Lincoln..etc
GM cars had radios by AC Delco because Delco was GM`s electrical and electronic supplier and still are today but they just don't "feature" it. And, the SE trim level was one year only, as the Firebird/TA went through a complete restyle in 1978. Pontiac supplied the SE Trans Am because it was free promotion for a slow-selling trim.
i truly despise these talking head videos where the creator is reading internet gleened facts and pretending like they have a clue at all what theyre talking about
