New guy here...PICS++

[WarShrike]

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is indeed a great looking car! welcome to the forum! and damn you texans for your lovely warm weather:rant:

Hah, we've been in the 20's and 30's for awhile here, actually got a break and saw the 50's yesterday. But we're not anything close to what you'll see in WI. No lake effect snow here :)

And the lift on the cam with the rockers will be:
212º/216º .556"/.546" 113º LSA (Profile with 1.7 ratio rockers)

Oh yeah, heads are milled 0.020" and using thinner head gaskets to try and get 10.0:1 static compression ratio.

[venom3300]

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welcome, nice bird indeed! keep us posted on the build.

i see u have already met the local creeper, ssms ;)

[firebirddrvr]

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welcome...now finish the build!

[BallerMaro13]

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welcome aboard man.


nice build you have in the works ---- keep it up! and of course, fantastic paint you've got :D

[bigairboarder44]

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so warshrike has pics but where are those pictures of the jeep balls?

[WarShrike]

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so warshrike has pics but where are those pictures of the jeep balls?

Don't think I follow you on that one.

[bigairboarder44]

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ah sorry, ballermaro took his girl and jeep on a wintery cruise last week and he told us he'd post some pictures he took, but he hasn't yet. it was totally off topic

[Mighty Thor]

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So that's you huh.

I've seen your vids in utube before. That's awesome. It's good to see another fellow Firebird added to our beloved website.

[BallerMaro13]

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ah sorry, ballermaro took his girl and jeep on a wintery cruise last week and he told us he'd post some pictures he took, but he hasn't yet. it was totally off topic

haha oh damn i totally forgot bro --- thanks for reminding me. they're on her computer so i'll get them from her and put them up as i have 'em.

[WarShrike]

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Here's a shot of the heads assembled at the shop:

[bigairboarder44]

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damn thats perdy! :)

[3800SoloWing]

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Fantastic car! And an hell of an engine to boot! Do you mind PMing me the build details? Especially what looks like a port polish job? I'd greatly appreciate it.

[WarShrike]

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Actually, the build is pretty straight forward.

60*Inclusive did the LIM and Heads with just a basic hand porting. He did flowbench them before and after, got a nice gain from mid to top end even for just a basic port job. He also tapped the heads for the different stud setup for the Yella Terra rockers, and milled the valve guides to allow for 0.600" of lift as the Intense S1X cam with the 1.7's will surpass the normal limits of the stock heads.

Had the heads milled 0.020" and using I think 0.045" MLS gaskets to try and bump the compression up some more.

I'm running the S1X because it was available at a really good price, and initially I just wanted a cam (which changed after pulling the valve covers). I also wanted to see how it performed. Tim King ran an S1X w/ 1.7's in his Firebird but I never found any results. Which is a big thing in the V6 community, very little hard line results and comparisons.

Going to be strictly NA, no nitrous. I don't want to pop my DD car, cause that's just foolish.

It was just a budget build initially, but the downtime has allowed me to build some funding for other supporting mods that and necessity of getting new or updated parts to replace worn or broken stuff I find over the course of the past few months.