Vehicle Owner

Member ID: KITT350

Location: Ames, IA

Vehicle Info

1989 Pontiac Firebird

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

  • Borla Exhaust 

Car Audio & Video

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    • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Jun 13, 2008

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Scott’s Pontiac Firebird
“KITT”

  • Currently 3.225 /5 Stars.
44 guestbook comments

I have been meaning to get around to doing it but haven't had the chance until now. When I originally put the nose on it had some problems that I could deal with but now I am trying to fix. The nose doesn't exactly fit right on the fenders so some modifications are needed to be made.

Here you can see on the passenger side that it doesn't sit flush at the top leaving a gap between the fender and the nose.
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

Also it sits to far in on the fenders on both sides and I have moved the fenders as far as they can go so this is the best it would sit for now.

KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

Since I was taking the nose off, I decided to do some painting to the impact bar and the fog lights.

Here is what it looked like after I took the nose back off.
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

I decided to primer the impact bar and also the silver casings on the fog lights so they wouldn't be quite as noticable except for the lenses. I didn't think the silver casings would look very nice after painting the bar. Here is the bar and fog lights primered in black.
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

And her they are after I painted the bar and lights gloss black. It was done with just spray cans so the quality isn't the best but it works for me
KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

Now since this was done I started to work on the nose to get it to fit better at the top on the passenger side. It would sit flush at the bottom but not at the top so I decided to sand down at the bottom to get the top to come in. After I got done sanding it down to where I thought it would fit better I decided to test fit it and it fits flush with the top as you can see in the pic.

KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

Only problem that happened was that I took to much off of the bottom so now there is a space there as you can see in the pic.

KITT350's 1989 Pontiac Firebird

I can deal with this problem with some bondo since I am going to have to use it on the nose anyway to get it to line up better with the nose. It is starting to look a little better now but I am still planning on getting a new nose from Marks Custom Kits. I figured I would get this one fitting better so if I sell it to someone else they won't have to go through all the trouble I did to get it to fit.

Page 1 Introduction
Page 2 Nose and scanner Installation
Page 3 Silver reverse glow gauges install
Page 4 Borla Cat-Back Exhaust
Page 5 New Hood
Page 6 Car Show Excitement
Page 7 4th Gen spoiler Install
Page 8 Center Console
Page 9 Nose re-fit
Page 10 Engine Bay
Page 11 New Scanner Lenses
Page 12 Clear Side Marker Lights
Page 13 Neons
Page 14 Audio Equipment
Page 15 Lighted Gas Pedal

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mavrickf1613  

Posted by: mavrickf1613

11/20/2008 03:54PM

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caminokid  

Posted by: caminokid

09/19/2007 08:00AM

Nice car. Check out my rides! 5 stars!

Rick1805  

Posted by: Rick1805

03/03/2007 09:21AM

WOW lot of work looks good!!!!!

VendettaV6  

Posted by: VendettaV6

12/04/2006 01:26AM

Nice car, Looks really nice! Come Check out my firebird sometime..... Make sure you tell me what ya think! And please rate me too! Thanks, and Good luck with your car!

Trans11779  

Posted by: Trans11779

03/02/2006 12:02AM

hey great pics...good job on your car. If you got more pics love too see them..

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Member ID: KITT350

Location: Ames, IA