[1967SharkOHC]

Hi there! My name is John and I am a LONG time member of the "other" OHC forum. Just stumbled across this wonderful place and though I would join up!

I have a '67 Firebird (#4404) which was born with a 1bbl and 2 speed auto. It's funny, I was looking for a decent GM F-body for years and passed up on some good deals. When I found my car it was an Ebay auction that happened to be 10 minutes away. I offered a cash price after the reserve wasn't met and he accepted. I remember thinking "but it's a six!" with some disappointment, but now it's my favorite part of the car.

It's almost all completely stock, base coupe, originally Montreax Blue. Only options are power steering and console. It ran fine for the first 5 years of ownership and I always had plans to convert to sprint trim, I seemed to collect everything I needed for the swap. Then 3 years ago it started running rough. Did a compression check and found one cylinder down. Pulled the head and discovered that a ring had broken and eroded a little groove in the piston and cylinder wall, argh!

Many moons later, and more dollars, my rebuild is almost complete! I had to go 040 over on the pistons. All new reciprocating mass with original crank. E grind cam with '66 4 bbl head, mated to a CPT 200R4. Only major changes from stock are new aluminum radiator and Pertronix kit.

Oh, and I had a few things chromed and polished....


TLDR; New Firebird guy, likes shiny things!

Thanks for reading,
John