you dont want to buy a new car?? how much money are you willing to spend?

5.3 or 6.0 take out
arp rod bolts
arp head studs
ls9 gaskets
twin 340's in-tank
88mm turbo

and ENJOY!!!!

or staying with sbc:
4bolt 350
brodix M2 heads & cam (track heads ported by m2 racing
750 w/venturi or 850 carb
= 500 @ fly
than add a 150hp shot of the good stuff on it. (wet kit preferbly)

Im in love with 3rd gen firebirds i want to build it to be a fun good looking car i have an 07 f150 as my daily driver. New cars just dont interest me(but there motors do)

he knows what he is talking about SLEEPER is the man

Is there any plan/goal here or are we just throwing out money is no object dream build?

who knows you can throw out ure dream n something under 25k

Seriously. Wtf do you really want? Don't just say 500hp or something stupid. What do you really want from the car? What do you want it to do? How much are you really willing to spend? Honestly a mild heads/cam gen III is lots of fun and capable of high 10s or quicker in the 1/4 if the car is geared towards that. If you want to road race/autox, well you'd want something with power in the rpm range you'll be in. Is your trans even built? 400hp will ruin it sooner or later and you'll be $2-3k having it built. What rear is in the car? We all know how that goes. What has been done to the suspension? Why are you so afraid of efi? Sure its a bit of money to retrofit a gen III efi/computer system into your car but it is definitely worth it.

street/strip car, t-56 is built, rear i need to order (havent desided gear ratio yet). rear suspension hotchkis everything but springs, umi subframe connectors(not installed yet) 4th gen style torque arm for t-56. ordered full front end coil over kmember kit for ls swap. breaks going 4 wheel disc(havent ordered yet) all that ive spent so fair equals up to alittle over 7k rears gonna probably be another 3k brakes 5k i have about 10k to finsh rest of the car until i have to start saving up again im looking for about 450 n up at the wheels. sorry for confusing anyone and pissing them off just was asking a question and then looking for opinions.

450 is attainable and if parts are chosen properly, very streetable. Lots of other guys on here are better than me at gen III setups so I'll let them tell you what works best. With 10k, you can probably just about do a fuel injected swap with a premade speartech harness, stainless longtube headers specific for a gen III in a 3rd gen, and gauges to wrap it all up.

Seriously tried to read that but got lost halfway through ...

So... You want a street strip car, want 450 hp roughly, and you have 7 grand into the car already?

What Brakes are 5,000 dollars?

Fail brakes

http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/pr...DFirebird.html

http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/pr...DFirebird.html

hawksthirdgenparts.com

That is honestly most likely too much rear brake. There are so many better options for about four thousand cheaper anyway

n yes deadtrend

Holy crap, aside from hawks horrible price inflation, theres much cheaper and still very practical alternatives.

most likely but i like the best of the best

Mike beat me to it

i can return the bcks seeing there unopened n unused

Return them? So you already bought them?

Then you wouldn't be building a carbed third gen

yea just havent paid for em yet my dad bought them for his 3rd gen used front onces sold his car to put downpayment on his maxium so he told me there mine n wants the money for them

i love carburetors but realisicly im stupid for wanting a carb ls motor

realisicly i make alot of stupid choices lol

You know this and still make them?

yea love the car too much to give up on her