1988 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 TakeOff

[itsamemario333]

No... your Honda Civic can't do that.

[V8TransAmGTA]

Sounds great!!!!

[demonsparkx]

@noodl3z18 LOL wow... thats a shame really.,well to the cars anyway.

[Annihilator1111]

the 1982-1992 Pontiac Firebird was assembled in

Van Nuys, California, United States

Norwood, Ohio, United States

[demonsparkx]

sounds so beasty. why no hard launch?

[NoOdL3z18]

@demonsparkx looked like he was afraid to put the hammer down.

[NoOdL3z18]

@demonsparkx lol seriously watch his other videos, he launches slow, even with the corvette

[aaronzack14]

@demonsparkx he doesn't rip his shit up. he takes care of it. thats why they didn't last past the 90`s without having some work done to keep them on the road.

[0117ization]

old technology .........2010 camaro ss  why wouldnt you buy one !!!!

[squiergear]

@0117ization ummm because you practically can only see in front of you. The sides looked like they're jacked up high enough to be on a truck, and the only thing they did right on them was put a damn good engine in it. they're uglier than hell! you put the same stuff that's in the 2010 and put it in the 1982-1992 and I'd be in heaven. or the 1993-2002.

[460faust]

man them fire birds were never fast... always had to do somthing to it to make it fast....and still got its ass beat by 5.0 mustangs.....and mustangs got there ass beat by 5.0 camaro's

[jawj4291]

@460faust I could beat a 5.0 mustang with an early 60's Impalla easy. Of course the Impalla had a pontiac 400, burck 2 speed powerglide trans and a pasatrack rearendwas clocked at over 150 at half thratle. My uncle had the Impalla.

[Paulyfr3sh]

@460faust The formula 350 was faster then the Mustang, stock. Much lighter too. Id be aware of your facts before you state false ones.

[RicerEater1978]

@460faust there was only a 10 hp difference between the firebird and the camaro because of intake design. maybe youre thinking of v6 firebirds? lol

[460faust]

@460faust yaa should have raced on long island....every weekend we raced...boss mustangs..monti carlo ss..fire bird t/a's... camaro z28's...corvettes.. and porshe 928's ...ext.....all stick all the way.....them camaro's were the fastest

[usdx329]

my trysickle's faster

[rantarave]

that has to be the slowest start in history.

[LiveFastMotorsports]

The T-5 can't handle the torque. the WC T-5 can only handle 300 ft. lbs of torque and the TPI 350 put out 330 while the 305 TPI put out 270. there were 66 TPI 350/T-5 test cars made in 1987 but 22 of them broke their transmissions right away and were destroyed the other problem was that the T56 did't even come out until 1992 and was only put in 25 Firebirds

[dante04srt]

@LiveFastMotorsports The 6 speed in the 92 Firehawks was a ZF 6speed, not a T56.

[IRONSEAN7]

nice rig,,,, such a shame that GM only made the 350s avail in a 4spd auto,,, these cars woulda been much cooler with a T56,,,, or even a Beefed up T-5

[VayLoc310]

@IRONSEAN7 Well, you know you can always do a swap, my uncle was tellin' me the Borg Warner T-5's were always breaking down, especially 2nd or 3rd gear would always break, but I told him instead of junking the transmission, rebuild and fortify it, strengthen all the weak points

[IRONSEAN7]

@VayLoc310 absoloutely man,, the stock T-5 had a GLASS 3rd gear, i shattered a few 3rd gears in T-5s i had in my mustangs,, i heard that the GM version was even a little weaker... these cars are cool,,, less comon to see a nice Formula than a TA or camaro

[VayLoc310]

@IRONSEAN7 Yeah, that's what I was hearing too, and that's one advantage Ford had over Chevy, their blocks were nickel coated to reduce cylinder wall wear, I was reading a build-up story where these guys took a 5.0L engine out of wrecked 1990 Mustang GT, & when they stripped the block down, it barely had .001 of wear on the cylinder walls in the bores!, because of the nickel coat, & part of the reason why GM went into bankruptcy is because of the cheap parts they were making their cars with...

[VayLoc310]

@IRONSEAN7 And that's partly why people bought more Mustangs than the 3rd gen Camaros that were around at that time, Ford's 5.0L engine was a healthy 225hp, while GM's same size 5.0L engine was only 190hp?, & GM had to go up to 350 cubic inches to achieve the same 225hp in the L98?!, that sucks because GM was taking cost effective routes to build their cars, which hurt them later cuz like I said, more guys were buying Mustang GT's than 3rd gen Camaros, & that's why the T-5 was wack!!

[poolboyinla]

nice color of bird

[TheOllie63]

Very nice, it made my subwoofer shake my room.