[gtobob67]

Originally Posted by 67Fbird

might i ask WHY?

Finicky until heat soaked. Takes a good 10 minutes before it will idle correctly. Don't see a need for blocking it in street only.

[grivera]

Originally Posted by 64speed

I used the Canton road race pan that is no longer available and I got it for a good price.

This one? https://butlerperformance.com/i-2445...anton%2B15-450

[RocktimusPryme]

Granted I didnt look for very long, but Ive seen a lot of BBC pans with simply windage screens built in and a big kickout up top near the bolts.

Pontiac not so much. Does the low kickout at the bottom of the pan even do anything?

I wonder if they dont have them because the starter is on the opposite side. Same with pontiac dipstick tube design causing the lack of the the built in windage screen. Just a guess.

[1968GTO421]

Many times I think I should have gotten over my GTO hangup in the '90's and bought a '71-72 LeMans post that a woman I worked with was selling (in 1995) as she was retiring and wanted a "smaller" ride. Other than faded out original paint the car was a "mint" original with no rust, just parking lot dings and a perfect interior, P350/350 power. Price was only a few thousand and she was willing to come down. I had recently bought the Studebaker and about had it fixed up right and thought I'd take her car if it was a 242 GTO and not a LeMans. Stupid, Stupid,Stupid!
She would have let me do time payments until I sold the Stude to some Stude guys in NC. I could have bought a junkyard 455 w/ TH400 from a full size Pontiac, rebuilt it, and had a far quicker and better car than the Stude. (And now all those junkyards are subdivisions.) And in recent years with all the performance stuff out for Pontiacs I could have rebuilt the 455 again with the good stuff and been able to "scare" myself for half of what I have in the GTO now that still needs more work. Having a 242 GTO is great but a LeMans that could run 11's would satisfy more....and been cheaper to do. Ah well, we all know about hindsight.

[mgarblik]

I would not have wasted nearly 2 years from age 16 to 17 1/2 building and modifying my 1969 Camaro SB, engine, 4.10:1 gear, race powerglide with 7" converter, only to get beat badly by my friend's mostly stock 1968 Bonneville 2dr. in a high school street race. Sold the car the next week and it's been Pontiacs only for the next 45 years! I at least learned from my mistake.

[72projectbird]

Originally Posted by mgarblik

I would not have wasted nearly 2 years from age 16 to 17 1/2 building and modifying my 1969 Camaro SB, engine, 4.10:1 gear, race powerglide with 7" converter, only to get beat badly by my friend's mostly stock 1968 Bonneville 2dr. in a high school street race. Sold the car the next week and it's been Pontiacs only for the next 45 years! I at least learned from my mistake.

Did you leave a few plug wires off? lol

[steve25]

I would never have used early forged rod's dispite how well a reworked them!

[gobrdgo]

Well my 69 bird is six months in or so. So for now I wish I rebuilt the stock a arms instead of the tubular. I don’t dig the Chinese look. They’ll probably squeak also. I thought I was buying a car I could drive and tinker as I went but it ended up being frame off. This thread is fun to read but posting personally it’s bumming me out. Ha.

[i82much]

you can drive yourself crazy picking your own car apart. chances are, if it wasn’t yours and you saw the same car at the gas station, you’d drool all over it. ignore the little stuff and enjoy your car.