Vehicle Description
1976 Pontiac Trans AM For Sale In Edmonton, AB, Canada
76 Trans Am Street Warrior � This is a sleeper with show car looks.
That is until you start her up and heads will turn. Factory Steel
body, 1000 Watt stereo, over drive transmission, full exhaust and
full interior, is this a race car? The intent was to maintain the
original classic qualities, yet have an insane amount of power in a
street car. Butler Performance 535 CID Fuel Injected, dyno tuned
naturally aspirated 829HP pump gas, over 1100 HP with nitrous. This
is a $40k bracket engine built for street driving manners and
durability. The only thing Edelbrock about the heads was they
started as raw castings for CNC wide porting increasing flow from
270 cfm to 365 cfm. The shaker is fully functional and correctly
mounted by fabricating a custom base and shaving the Victor intake
(also CNC ported).
This is a true street car with rear seats, so no wheel tubes. Full
Interior is factory other than racing bucket front seats. The
carbon fiber Auto meter gauges are modern touch mounted in the
factory locations. The exhaust has 2� ceramic coated Super Comp
headers, 3.5� full length full length mandrel bent exhaust and even
duplicated the factory style dual tail pipes by hand making them
3.5� and chrome plating. 3 chamber Flowmaster mufflers provide the
perfect sound. When you step on the gas pedal, the engine screams
like it belongs racing in NASCAR, yet there is no idle drone and
you can have a conversation at a normal volume while cruising
around. At 4000 ft altitude, this car runs low 10's on pump gas and
9's with nitrous in the quarter mile on 10.5" slick. The
transmission is a TCI 6X overdrive 6 speed is matched with a 4500
rpm lockup converter that allows highway cruising at 2100 rpm for
great fuel economy (due to some EFI tuning tricks) and top speeds
over 200 MPH. The tranny has a Reid SFI removable bell housing and
is run by a fully programmable race controller by PCS and paddle
shifters with display was installed after the photos and video.
The firewall was completely flattened out after removing the heater
and the fuel lines were routed through the cowl area and enter the
engine bay through the top of the fire wall with flushed flush
mounted fittings. A lot of details went into make the engine bay
clean with modern show car finishing. The rear axle is a Ford 9� by
Moser is rated for 2500 hp with oversized bearings, 35 spline
shafts, a Detroit Locker rated for high HP, 3.89 gears, ladder bar
suspension, and Willwood brakes. The front suspension is factory
with the addition of adjustable QA1 coil over shocks on all 4
corners. Not in the photos, the car now has a Hydra boost power
brake booster. Every single part and fitting is the best you can
buy. Two full days on an engine dyno - 10 hours of street driving
to tune the FAST XFI fuel injection. The XFI also has built in
traction control (not that I spent much time at the track to
program it properly as I am a street guy not a bracket racer).
There is a switch to change between 4 engine programs for normal
cruising - race tune, a nitrous mode, traction control mode, and
even add a tune so that you can simply change the fuel and at the
flip of the switch you can run 100% ethanol, methanol or alcohol.
The XFI also has built in data logger or you can use a laptop while
racing to capture data from a dozen sensors. The body is all steal,
only had a small rust bubble on the fender that was cut and
replaced with metal. A one off fiberglass bumper was hand made with
a steel impact bar.
Custom 2x3� frame connectors were installed and cut to fit through
the floor and the cross member for the ladder bars. 275 60R15
street tires were used for the video/pics but the car also comes
with 10.5x28 slicks on 15x10 matching rims. I generally just drive
around with the slicks all the time. I competed in the 2012 Rimbey
200 foot street shoot out. It's a no prep, shoot out on a county
paved road. I ran in the street tire class, no nitrous, and I had
to launch in 5th gear riding the converter as launching in 4th gear
lights up the tires. I won the street tire class, drove over 1 hour
there on the highway, raced and drove home all on less than 1 tank
of pump gas. This car was featured in Pontiac Enthusiast July 2010.
I have a binder with the manuals for the performance parts, and I
even made a wiring schematic of the electrical changes, switches -
relays. Invested in this build was over $80k US just in performance
parts.
This does not include buying the car, restoration parts, show car
body work, $20k for a mirror finish paint job, and over 2000 hours
of skilled fabrication and customization. You will have a hard time
building this car for less than $200k. This is not a light weight,
striped down and hacked together bracket race car. But, executed
with attention to detail for the highest level of show and go. If
you want a Trans Am that keeps to its original body and looks (79
tail light swap was done), has an engine bay that belongs in a
jewelry store, can tear up the street, turn fast numbers at the
track for a 3900 lb full interior car, and cruise around with mild
manors on the street with durability and reliability, then this is
the Ultimate Trans Am. Car Shows, Race Track, or Street Cruising,
this Street Warrior is on the HUNT.
I believe in full disclosure. The final build, restoration and
drive train has 4500 miles on it. Last year the engine was pulled
and the bearings looked like they had barely been even run on a
dyno. But it was apart so the bearings, valve springs and roller
lifters were replaced anyways. The paint is 12 years old and looks
excellent except for some rock chips in the front bumper, a small
impact on the rear bumper was touched up with paint, and the car
was lent to be used on a parade float and someone laid on the hood
causing minor denting. The hood dent can only been seen from the
drives seat. I was going to refinish and repaint the bumpers and
hood this winter but selling now. Expect to spend about $3k on a
shop to correct this with a mirror finish to match the rest of the
car. Other than that car is in excellent condition. Call today for
more details to get behind the wheel of this 1976 Pontiac Trans
Am!
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