What did you do with your Trans Am today?

**DarrenWS6** · 04-21-2020, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by herculesrider1

Hey Darren, your reference to "Depo" means what exactly? Could you elaborate? Thanks man.

Certainly.

Depo is an aftermarket company that makes replacement light housings for vehicles. They to my knowledge are the only ones who make replacement blinker housings for the Trans Ams. But CarID, Amazon, and Ebay have listings for these light housings.

https://www.carid.com/1998-pontiac-f...-80117444.html

Firebirds have a round housing while Trans Am have our more unique shaped housing for the bumper. So be sure you are ordering Trans Am housings.

**herculesrider1** · 04-21-2020, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by DarrenWS6

Certainly.

Depo is an aftermarket company that makes replacement light housings for vehicles. They to my knowledge are the only ones who make replacement blinker housings for the Trans Ams. But CarID, Amazon, and Ebay have listings for these light housings.

https://www.carid.com/1998-pontiac-f...-80117444.html

Firebirds have a round housing while Trans Am have our more unique shaped housing for the bumper. So be sure you are ordering Trans Am housings.

Wow, $51 each? I found a set (2) for $52.95 at Autolightsbulbs.com, brand new in box, OEM quality, with free shipping, and a 3 yr. warranty. Thanks Darren.

**Y2KArcticSS** · 04-21-2020, 09:41 AM

Jump started due to not being moved in 3 weeks. Changed the oil. Found a small coolant leak from the plastic end of the radiator. I feel like I'm living Groundhog Day with this car's issues vs my old SS. Same sh!t, different VIN.

**herculesrider1** · 04-21-2020, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Y2KArcticSS

Jump started due to not being moved in 3 weeks. Changed the oil. Found a small coolant leak from the plastic end of the radiator. I feel like I'm living Groundhog Day with this car's issues vs my old SS. Same sh!t, different VIN.

Hey Terry, I too found a leak in my plastic ended radiator. I thought I would keep it from happening again, by purchasing an all aluminum radiator. It has all aluminum construction with a heavy duty 2-row core with 1.0" tubes. The radiator looks really nice with polished aluminum ends and haven't experienced any negative results. However, installation was a BEAR!!! The radiator was a different size than the OEM radiator, even though the company assured that it would fit '98-'02 Pontiac Firebird TransAms. If you decide to go with all aluminum, be ready to do a lot of "massaging" to get it in....

**Y2KArcticSS** · 04-22-2020, 06:03 AM

Good to know, because I was in fact researching all aluminum radiators

Thanks for the heads-up.

**DarrenWS6** · 04-22-2020, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by herculesrider1

Wow, $51 each? I found a set (2) for $52.95 at Autolightsbulbs.com, brand new in box, OEM quality, with free shipping, and a 3 yr. warranty. Thanks Darren.

No that price should be for the pair. I got mine off of ebay 3yrs ago for around $55 I believe.

**herculesrider1** · 04-22-2020, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by DarrenWS6

No that price should be for the pair. I got mine off of ebay 3yrs ago for around $55 I believe.

I thought it said EACH. I will recheck. Thanks man!

**herculesrider1** · 04-23-2020, 02:38 PM

Purchased 8 ACDelco Iridium spark plugs from RockAuto for $45, and got a spark plug rebate from ACDelco for $24. Total, the plugs cost me $21. Can't beat that with a stick!!!

**DarrenWS6** · 04-26-2020, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by herculesrider1

Purchased 8 ACDelco Iridium spark plugs from RockAuto for $45, and got a spark plug rebate from ACDelco for $24. Total, the plugs cost me $21. Can't beat that with a stick!!!

Very good deal!

I went with the NGK Tr-55s. Hope they last awhile. Doesn't look like a fun plug job haha. I put the improper AcDelco iridium plugs in my 04 Silverado, made it 28k mi until I was getting random misfires. The electrodes on #7 & #5 were almost all gone lol. I just recently replaced them with NGK TR5IX iridiums which seem to be all the rage. Ran awesome, shortly after my pass. cat broke apart so I put longtube headers on it with an ORY. Runs even better now and I average 14mpg now. Always got 11/12 with it. Guess them cats were shot lol!

My WS6 runs amazing compared to what it was with lid & catback. The plugs, LS6 intake, longtubes, ORY, egr delete, and dyno tune. 360rwhp. Had the Tr-55s put in while apart. Did the MSD 8.5mm wires just for updating old wires, and for some pzazz haha!

***SMWS6TA*** · 04-27-2020, 08:49 AM

Friday gave the TA a much needed bath and then the wife and I went for a cruise on several back roads with winding turns and several nice straight a ways to open it up.

Picked up a goal find at the junk yard...a fully functional power antenna. That went on the TA and a spare tire for my daughters car. I also found the leak on her ac system, it was missing a gasket on the compressor. And I also installed my sway bar from my TA to her car. The V6 sway bar measure 27mm while the TA stock one measure 30mm and felt a little more heavier. At the minimum she has a little more stiffness on front body roll. The vert is benefiting from the hand me downs from the TA that are still good, but better then the V6 parts.

**naperws6** · 04-28-2020, 09:55 AM

Went for a cruise

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***SMWS6TA*** · 05-06-2020, 01:34 PM

Found the source of my pain for the last month with the vert giving me the Reduce Power code.

The egr tube somehow got crushed causing a massive vacuum leak (thanks Carpy in troubleshooting), either it was this or the MAF sensor I replaced.

**pajeff02** · 05-06-2020, 03:57 PM

Yowza! That doesn't look good.

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-07-2020, 05:47 AM

Got lucky and found one at a junk yard.

**pajeff02** · 05-09-2020, 04:02 AM

I miss my junkyard days. A happy Saturday was walking into the local salvage yard with tool box in hand to go scrounge parts for whatever I happened to be working on at the time.

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-12-2020, 06:08 AM

I'm finding that the Cash for Clunkers program really fwak up the junk yards in inventory. Pickings are getting scarce on f bodies......

The one that is in the yard right now kinda pisses me off. It's a hard top V6. I would love to have a hard top to make it into a track car. But once they're in the yard you can't buy them.

**Y2KArcticSS** · 05-12-2020, 12:13 PM

Scott, if things start looking really scarce and you can't find something you need, you should hit up American Camaro & Firebird. It is a salvage yard fairly local to me (Oklahoma City) pretty much dedicated to F-bodies. They ship out a lot of their parts, and I'm sure with a phone call you could find even the most mundane parts you need. Whamhammer got a steering column through them.

***SMWS6TA*** · 05-14-2020, 06:31 AM

I know about them. Haven't yet had a need to reach out that far yet. I also when it comes to use parts to have a look at them in person.

**Whamhammer** · 05-15-2020, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

I'm finding that the Cash for Clunkers program really fwak up the junk yards in inventory. Pickings are getting scarce on f bodies......

The one that is in the yard right now kinda pisses me off. It's a hard top V6. I would love to have a hard top to make it into a track car. But once they're in the yard you can't buy them.

Thats odd, if I remember correctly, the only F-bodies that qualified for “Cash for Clunkers” were LT1 cars? The ret of the cars were on the north side of the mpg ratings needed.

**Whamhammer** · 05-15-2020, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Y2KArcticSS

Scott, if things start looking really scarce and you can't find something you need, you should hit up American Camaro & Firebird. It is a salvage yard fairly local to me (Oklahoma City) pretty much dedicated to F-bodies. They ship out a lot of their parts, and I'm sure with a phone call you could find even the most mundane parts you need. Whamhammer got a steering column through them.

Not sure about them having the more mundane parts, tried to get a dash top and any form of front seat/seat cushion for my car, and no dice.

I am looking hard for a good condition seat foam, as there still are no new ones being made, OEM or aftermarket.