Picked up a 78 Y82 W72
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Picked up a super early 78 (09C) built Trans Am from fellow PY'er "gpguy". Super nice guy, with two sweet GPs!
The car needs some rust repair, but isn't too far gone. I'll end up doing a passenger quarter, rear tail panel, driver side rear rail at the shackle point, and driver side toe board. It's a pretty well optioned car. The most important being the Y82 W72 with a 4 speed trans. I believe it's 1 of 489 4 speed Y82s built, as it's a Norwood car, while the Y84 black and gold were all built in Van Nuys if I'm reading correctly. I need to finish up a car I'm working on now, but hope to start thr build on this very soon. I'll keep the thread updated as I go along. |
Very nice!!!
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Question for the 78 Y82 guys:
I had another early built 78 Y82 (January 78) but it had drum brakes despite being loaded. This one is earlier and has discs. Was Pontiac just using whatever they had in hand? Also, it has the right 78 style snowflakes, but the 77 style round stainless steel center caps. Would that be correct since it's built so early, or should it have the hexagon style caps? |
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Same for the center caps, the plastic hex caps were only used on 79 & up years, the 78s all had the round stainless caps. |
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The hex caps were definitely 79-81. |
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I believe it has the original master and proportion valve, which I would imagine make the rear discs unpredictable under use. It'll be getting all new everything, so I can just keep the discs and use the correct setup for them. I'll grab more pics of the car tomorrow for you guys. It currently has a Chevy Q-jet on it, but I just ordered Cliffs rebuild kit for a 77 Pontiac Q-jet I'll use on this car. |
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the hex caps were only on the 10th ann cars in 79
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I'd also look for a buildsheet in the car. It would be great if you found it. :) |
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Got a few pics. Cant make heads or tails of the rear axle code. All the other axles I have I can read no problem, go figure lol
Also grabbed few pics of the car. It hasn't made its way into the garage, so they aren't great. Got a good shot of the crumpled and oil canned passenger quarter. |
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Heres some more. I do have the correct shaker for it.
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5PV, 1979 2.41 Posi-Traction.
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Interesting. The thing must have been a highway warrior back in the day. |
johnta1 has it only listed as PV on the Wallace site. Along with the 2PS.
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I usually check the Wallace site. I guess I just overlooked it. I have a 78 rear for it, but it's after the build date of the car, so idk if it's worth swapping, although those 2.41s are brutal |
I’m surprised it has a master cylinder with bleeder valves. None of my ‘77’s or 78 have them, so I would assume that’s been swapped out as well.
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My 78 MC did not have bleeders either.
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Yeah my 77 doesn't have them, so idk where the master came from? I'll see if I can get a code off it.
Got the car running under it's own power. Rebuilt a Pontiac Quadrajet I had laying around and installed it. Also put in a new tank and sending unit. Fires right up now. |
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