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**buIf6yoW** · 08-10-2009, 11:23 PM

I'm sure there are a few. I don't know as Firebird's and T/A's aren't my specialty. I'm much more into 1972 and earlier muscle cars, specificaly 1972 Chevelle SS's.

We didn't have fancy, smanshy Air Dam's.

One of the most popular questions on the 3rd gen forums is "why does my firebird overheat on the highway?" The most popular answer is check your air-dam! Cars need it.

Found a pic that shows the center air-dam piece. Yes, I've seen the rust, one of the things I'm doing shortly is putting it up on jack stands and taking a wire wheel to the underbody till its all shiny, sanding it and then coating it with underbody coating again. The car is also coated with power steering fluid spray from when the high pressure power steering line started to fail. And by fail, I mean leaking about 1qt of fluid in 20 miles. I have to fill a spray bottle with a dawn dish soap solution when I do the underbody and clean that up.

Picked up a Moroso cold-air intake, MAF sensor (my car was converted to speed density), wired it up. And now I need get the MAF tune loaded which will help quite a bit.

I'm developing a small exhaust leak at one of the ports. I'm gonna have to reseal the headers this weekend (not a fun job). But here is a clip last night from leaving the place I picked up the hood at.

Its a short clip because i started from about 30mph and let it go to almost the 3rd gear upshift. However I felt that was a tad faster than I wanted to go so I let off..
http://home.comcast.net/~thirdgen89g..._gear_pull.mp3

08-10-2009, 11:23 PM	#15
buIf6yoW Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 481 Senior Member	I'm sure there are a few. I don't know as Firebird's and T/A's aren't my specialty. I'm much more into 1972 and earlier muscle cars, specificaly 1972 Chevelle SS's. We didn't have fancy, smanshy Air Dam's. One of the most popular questions on the 3rd gen forums is "why does my firebird overheat on the highway?" The most popular answer is check your air-dam! Cars need it. Found a pic that shows the center air-dam piece. Yes, I've seen the rust, one of the things I'm doing shortly is putting it up on jack stands and taking a wire wheel to the underbody till its all shiny, sanding it and then coating it with underbody coating again. The car is also coated with power steering fluid spray from when the high pressure power steering line started to fail. And by fail, I mean leaking about 1qt of fluid in 20 miles. I have to fill a spray bottle with a dawn dish soap solution when I do the underbody and clean that up. Picked up a Moroso cold-air intake, MAF sensor (my car was converted to speed density), wired it up. And now I need get the MAF tune loaded which will help quite a bit. I'm developing a small exhaust leak at one of the ports. I'm gonna have to reseal the headers this weekend (not a fun job). But here is a clip last night from leaving the place I picked up the hood at. Its a short clip because i started from about 30mph and let it go to almost the 3rd gear upshift. However I felt that was a tad faster than I wanted to go so I let off.. http://home.comcast.net/~thirdgen89g..._gear_pull.mp3
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