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Accidentally stumbled on to a teal 92 formula 350 with ttops i just couldn't live without. (like i need another project)
Started talking with the (2nd) owner about a month before the car showed up. The more we spoke, the more i thought i needed the car.
The car has 50k ish miles, was repainted early on in its life due to peeling paint and a minor accident that resulted in a scratch. Paint isn't the greatest but it's good enough to drive. The door decals were installed way wrong, no rear bumper decal and the sail panel birds weren't quite right. All that is fixed now. Tires are the wrong size, may go with hawks 17s. Had a few broken connectors with blue zip ties under hood from the inj replacement. Wish they would have replaced them all, so I'll be buying/installing those soon.
The car needs a serious top to bottom detail. I'm fighting the urge to modify it. I have factory 1LE brakes and a aluminum driveshaft ready to go.
I'd love to do a car like lingenfelter would have done back in the day. 383/396, alum heads, cam, exhaust trans work rearend ect. Another vintage build, but not sure i want to with this car.(yet).
Roy at door to door took care of the shipping for me. Everything was great but wish there was more communication from the driver when pickup happened and about delays, (because of rain/snow).
Nice find! A vintage Lingenfelter build would be nice to follow but another Firehawk build would also be sweet!
Quick question on that NOS serpentine belt. Did the original belts have that many rows with part numbers?
Nice find! A vintage Lingenfelter build would be nice to follow but another Firehawk build would also be sweet!
Quick question on that NOS serpentine belt. Did the original belts have that many rows with part numbers?
Yes the NOS belts are covered from side to side with the info, like writing sentences on the board when in trouble at school.
It's not really a NOS belt, more like a day 2 replacement.
I have a picture of a NOS belt in my "it has begun" build thread.
That's awesome. There was a teal 92 I tried to buy back in '16, it belonged to a gentlemen I knew who bought it new. After he passed his wife sold it, I remember it having paint issues and the guy having the roof resprayed. When I went to look at the car the paint was coming off the roof in pieces, poor adhesion to the metal. At that point, car that age its in for a repaint. The people wouldn't budge on the price, so I passed on it. Any case, look forward to seeing your progress on it.
the window sweep had a nasty notch in it so i took some time to replace it and the door seal with nos gm parts. They were both showing their age. The door glass was tinted at one time so i also cleaned up the door insides and lower glass that still had some goo on it.
That's some handsome looking help you got there. Has he already claimed a stake on that Formula for when he turn's 16? Looks like he's ready to go take the driver permit test now.
Dug out the aluminum driveshaft i bought for my 89 formula 350 back in 96. (upgraded to larger aluminum 3.5 lingenfelter) installed new spicer u-joints, and ready for install into the teal unit.
Not sure why these formulas never got the jg1, esp with all the other lightweight parts used. (I know about CAFE stuff but still)
The F-body cars came with the JG1 aluminum driveshaft for US EPA C.A.F.E standards. JG1 couldn't be ordered as an option on a F-body and only came standard equipment with the 1LE performance package. All the other cars that got a JG1 were big fat porkers like the Trans Am / GTA and Z/28 / IROC-Z ordered with every single option you could check off on the order form.
91/92 Formulas being lighter and more aerodynamic got a little bit better gas mileage and could sneak under the EPA C.A.F.E standards without a JG1 aluminum driveshaft. The 91/92 CC1 T-top Formulas with the lighter black PW7 cross lace wheels could still manage to sneak under the EPA C.A.F.E standards without a JG1 aluminum driveshaft.
GM could meet the fuel economy standards without the JG1 aluminum driveshaft and it saved them a few bucks not using it so they didn't.
It would have been nice if GM would have offered the JG1 aluminum driveshaft and T45 aluminum hood as an option you could order. GM could have made a profit off selling them and improved their C.A.F.E numbers.
Edit: It's also kind of like J41 cast iron rear drum brakes and J42 aluminum rear drum brakes. You couldn't order them and they came in no option package. You got them based on GM whims. Even when GM ran low on rear disc brakes and gave you a credit option down grade to rear drum brakes on cars supposed to be equipped with J65 4 wheel disc brakes. Some cars got J41 cast iron and some got J42 aluminum.
If I had to guess it was also because of EPA C.A.F.E standards.
Man...there should be a thread just about ^THIS^!! GM's "skill" at wrecking what could have been pretty great cars, with their insanely stupid option/packages/deletes, etc.
Guess i should have pointed out that i understand how the cafe bs has become just another over bearing government thing.
You'd think with all the lighter weight parts that jg1 would have been included with R6P like it was with 1LE.
All those special light weight parts probably came at a cost premium compared to their heavy steel counterparts. If marketing and finance tell you that cannot pass that cost on to the consumer, you are in a real pickle.
My understanding is that T-tops were not available on 5.7 cars after 89.
Welcome to the Pontiac formula 350 world, where the rules were... bent
In late 91-2 you could get the 350/ttop on the formula 350 but the black diamond spoke wheels became mandatory to keep weights inline for cafe. Or they just had a surplus of them and didn't want to order more formula wheels
I sent you an important time sensitive PM on a steal of a deal on a part you need. Not what we were PMing about earlier but related. This part I just randomly found.
yup, that was me. Got there waaaay early to drop off car and go do things with the family b4 the show.
I parked, what i thought, was waay out of the way. Apparently not. Lol
02-23-2024, 02:14 PM
