hello this is Giovanni from Philly. car sounds awesome looks great I have a 1988pontiac GTA trans AM. also looks and sounds great. owner of the car for 40 years and going to keep it..
I´ll have to admit I´m a bit on the fence here. She sounds great and the red looks amazing. I don´t like the wheels and the LED rear lights, though. But cool video as always.
I've seen LED taillights on other 79-81s that looked soon much better. Maybe its the tail lens that makes some some of the bulbs dimmer than the others. But some look like they are either not working or missing. Digi-Tails are the ones to get.
Yeah I'm on the fence too. I've owned a 74 TA 400 4spd, that I rebuilt from the metal up. I've helped rebuild and paint of few too, including a 70 TA RAIII. I'm not a fan of the LED tail lights at all, that funky hood attached scoop or those wheels. Other than that it looked great and sounded great too. Loved the rear fender flares, i've always thought Pontiac should have done those on all TA's but for some reason they didn't. Thanks for the nice video. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith
I currently am restoring a 79 Trans Am, this car sounds incredible. We have a 400 XX block and I am wondering what all that you did to your engine to get those numbers with this sound.
Omg what did you do to the shaker hood scoop? It had the coolest steering wheel and gauge cluster of its time and you switched them to I’m truly dying over here.
What a retard!!! Guy botched everything cool: exhaust, taillights, shaker scoop…..here in Tennessee he’d get laughed at. Looks like he’s a foreigner by them plates
Sorry man the rims tail lights and exhaust are killing me 77-81 T/A’s were perfection you don’t fuck with perfection I don’t mean no disrespect you have a gorgeous car it’s just perfect out the box.
i also had had them tail lights but took out cause kept burn out... but nice car check out kool headlights they got out now for the T/a! make whole front car badass coustom look for real... i got red 79 and got one have red led around light.
No, no, no. It sounds very wrong for the late 70s TA. Don't get me wrong, it sounds good. But it is just not right for the time period and badassness for that car.
I guess it's really a big deal to have a run of the mill TA with a Borla Exhaust show up in Europe. Considering all the stupid rules some countries like the UK have it's quite a commitment. But....that cam is either stock or a mild grind from the lope I hear. I don't believe it's making 450 HP from a Pontiac 400 without a 100HP nitrous shot or a supercharger which may explain that kinda goofy hood and completely wrong hood. Nice that someone appreciates it anyway. Still don't know how I feel about the LED taillights. I think a socketed LED would have done the job better than "1000 points of light." Kind of makes the car a bit too disco.
don't put those led lights ,I had them on my T A and some led burned out and eventually the main power source burned out all in 6 months,not worth the 350.00 I paid for that crap
Steve Holsten Actually the 400 orginally was supposed to go up to 650 HP. But it was weakened since GM wanted to make The 400 series much weaker. However to find these engines. It's called the 557 Pontiac Firebird 1967/1975 engine block. Luckily for me I have that block!
@@remibriere3932 actually you could get both the 400 and the 403 in 79, but all 400 cars that year had the T-10 4 Speed Manual, while 403 cars had the TH350 Automatic (you could never get a stick with the 403 as it was designed for the still bloated 77&78 Oldsmobile Toronado)
My souped 403 definitely sounds better and it doesn't even currently have the tips. Still a beauty regardless of the fact that it's actually a modded plain jane Firebird not a TA
Perspective - for someone who's obviously serious about his car (e.g. the dash), he's decided on different treatment of the shaker. One clue could be the size and height he needed under the hood for his tune of the engine...? Having flipped so many other standard features of his Trans Am, it's not such a big surprise he included the shaker on his 'list'...
Perspective - actually, as I look at the video a second time (...and I had a '79 Olds 403 auto Trans Am in UK from '83-88) he's been quite consistent... Bringing the exhausts toward the centre at the rear instead of the outside; spoilers on the rear of the wheel arches as well as the front; the shaker; the dash, etc. I hope his more subtle re-working of some of the classic Trans Am features start to grow on you as it is with me. I certainly admire what the owner has achieved as an overall package - pretty cool celebration yet updating of a classic and many of it's famous features.
Yep should have left the ehaust tips where they were. Ruined the look of the car by doing that and changing the front scoop and the wheels. Dump $45,000 into a car and make it lose value. Stupid!!!!!
exhaust tips need to be spread out more. but other than that, glad u kept the PONTIAC V8 and not downgrade to an lsx pile of shit luke alot of idiots in america do
96TAWS6455 Nah, "LS swap it" is what new gen kids do. I had an '81 TA and now '79 Camaro and the original motor is FINE WITH ME. that LS thing looks like a big piece of plastic. It can be fast all it wants, but it's gayeeeeee
Speaking of pieces of shit, here you are commenting, +96TAWS6455. Seriously, like about 99% of the parts that are between Chevrolet and Pontiac/Acadia/Asuna products are compatible with one another, and that ALSO includes their engines, not to mention that they are also compatible with Geo and even partner companies that work with GM ALSO share GM parts, such as Suzuki, for instance. Honestly, elitist fuckwits like yourself that pretend to know, let alone think that they are in artificial places of authority that think that they get to dictate to the peons what to think in the automotive world, and woe be to anyone that dares to cross their path, are exactly like the super prissy, stupid basic bitches that will bitch and moan about the insensitivity of a guy that just bought them a pair of jeans from Old Navy or The Gap instead of Banana Republic, never mind that a. all of the jeans that are made by the EXACT SAME FUCKING COMPANY, and b. the only fucking differences that they have on them are the fucking labels that are on the clothing. There is GM and all of its allied companies, such as Isuzu and Suzuki, in a nut shell. Now get something for that period and make some mother fucking sandwiches in the kitchen, okay? Thank you.
This vid is enough to make a '79 TA purist jump for joy. Another stock 400 ruined! Too bad no T-Tops. A properly restored '79 gets a lot of attention no matter which exhaust system is chosen. Using a Magnaflow cat-back system which sounds very close to stock as opposed to what I believe are these loud, obnoxious and purposely attention-getting incorrectly rear-projecting Pypes is just not necessary. The stock '79 is iconic. No "customization" will improve the automobile and still allow it to be registered and licensed.
That's the music of my people!!!
that was my year trans am though , had a couple of them in the 80's
I don't understand all of the haters. Thing looks and sounds amazing all around.
The wheels and exhaust tips don’t look right.
incredible v8 sound , idling .
Sweet sound to my ears
That bird sounds amazing!
Ultimate muscle car.
Great muscle sound
Such a iconic Muscle car
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hello this is Giovanni from Philly. car sounds awesome looks great I have a 1988pontiac GTA trans AM. also looks and sounds great. owner of the car for 40 years and going to keep it..
That’s cool, glad you stopped by 😊👍
If you browse the channel you’ll find many more videos featuring Firebirds and other cool Muscle Cars & Classics.
If the car is a 88 then it is only 31 years old. Not 40
Beautiful Trans Am sounds fabulous.
Beautiful car and great sound
beautiful
I´ll have to admit I´m a bit on the fence here. She sounds great and the red looks amazing. I don´t like the wheels and the LED rear lights, though. But cool video as always.
I gotcha bro, I'm diggin those led lights myself. A matter of taste for sure. Thanks so much once again buddy!
exactly what I thought
I've seen LED taillights on other 79-81s that looked soon much better. Maybe its the tail lens that makes some some of the bulbs dimmer than the others. But some look like they are either not working or missing. Digi-Tails are the ones to get.
Yeah I'm on the fence too. I've owned a 74 TA 400 4spd, that I rebuilt from the metal up. I've helped rebuild and paint of few too, including a 70 TA RAIII. I'm not a fan of the LED tail lights at all, that funky hood attached scoop or those wheels. Other than that it looked great and sounded great too. Loved the rear fender flares, i've always thought Pontiac should have done those on all TA's but for some reason they didn't. Thanks for the nice video.
Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith
I kinda like the taillights but the wheels are abysmal
Pontiac Lover here...T/A is my soft spot...… why ruin it with the LED tail lights?? The best part of the birds is the tail lights.
And no 17 inch snowflake rims. Blasphemous.
I have been there to saw that beautiful car in finland helsinki
Very nice! Noticed another pretty red one at 01:57 in the backgroud.
nice sound 👍🏻
I currently am restoring a 79 Trans Am, this car sounds incredible. We have a 400 XX block and I am wondering what all that you did to your engine to get those numbers with this sound.
Omg what did you do to the shaker hood scoop? It had the coolest steering wheel and gauge cluster of its time and you switched them to I’m truly dying over here.
Not to mention the exhaust placement is atrocious
Looks like it might have started life in Japan. The plate looks Australian so there is a good chance I’m right.
What a retard!!! Guy botched everything cool: exhaust, taillights, shaker scoop…..here in Tennessee he’d get laughed at. Looks like he’s a foreigner by them plates
Sorry man the rims tail lights and exhaust are killing me 77-81 T/A’s were perfection you don’t fuck with perfection I don’t mean no disrespect you have a gorgeous car it’s just perfect out the box.
With 70's cats, restrictive exhaust and poor compression it is far from perfect
but anything else with the car was definitively american muscle
i also had had them tail lights but took out cause kept burn out... but nice car check out kool headlights they got out now for the T/a! make whole front car badass coustom look for real... i got red 79 and got one have red led around light.
Beating us Americans at our own hobby hahaha
+JakeFromStateFarmGames 😂😂😂 thanks man!
You may not know but the LS series engine is a pontiac design
Really?
Any "real" Trans Am fans would have noticed that it's converted firebird within the 2 seconds of showing the dash.
Awesome Trans Am!!!
No, no, no. It sounds very wrong for the late 70s TA. Don't get me wrong, it sounds good. But it is just not right for the time period and badassness for that car.
nice !!
I want to be american just for these cars.
Here on Europe it is very expensive hobby.
It’s insanely expensive here also
Cool, ou trouver ces led de feux ar de 79, merci
Doesn't seem to have the choppy overlap of a built up Pontiac, just sounds like loud exhaust, liked the 70-73 formula way better
What pipes is this so I can put them on my 2002 GMC envoy 4200 in line 6 vortec v8
It can't be an inline 6 as well as a V8!? That don't make no sense 😂
I guess it's really a big deal to have a run of the mill TA with a Borla Exhaust show up in Europe. Considering all the stupid rules some countries like the UK have it's quite a commitment.
But....that cam is either stock or a mild grind from the lope I hear. I don't believe it's making 450 HP from a Pontiac 400 without a 100HP nitrous shot or a supercharger which may explain that kinda goofy hood and completely wrong hood.
Nice that someone appreciates it anyway.
Still don't know how I feel about the LED taillights. I think a socketed LED would have done the job better than "1000 points of light." Kind of makes the car a bit too disco.
1979 TA! Disco was at its peak!
don't put those led lights ,I had them on my T A and some led burned out and eventually the main power source burned out all in 6 months,not worth the 350.00 I paid for that crap
Any idea what mufflers those are?
try a v8 sound of a 1975 lincoln mark iv
Show us that sweet 455 HP 400
Steve Holsten Actually the 400 orginally was supposed to go up to 650 HP. But it was weakened since GM wanted to make The 400 series much weaker. However to find these engines. It's called the 557 Pontiac Firebird 1967/1975 engine block. Luckily for me I have that block!
No surprise the driver had a mullet.
1958 chevy bel air sound
I was more interested in the green cuda.. The wheels, the led taillights & the exhaust all could have been done better. Not impressed ..
lol i seen it to . might have had a hemi
Peeling out on cobblestones just doesn't seem right. ;-P
LMAO!
I don’t like the hood scoop, wheels, exhaust pipes, and the sound of it. Original look is much better.
Not a fan of the rear Tail lights at all...He should have tied the front and rear flares together with a side Ground effect
I think 77 was the first year of the square headlights
1979 was the first year and it was also the first year for the Oldsmobile 403 instead of the Pontiac 400
remi briere Wrong 77 was the first year of the square headlights, ever see Smokey and the bandit number 1, that's a 77 !
JR G your correct
Yes it was... and I think I am the only one that prefers the round headlights on a trans am
@@remibriere3932 actually you could get both the 400 and the 403 in 79, but all 400 cars that year had the T-10 4 Speed Manual, while 403 cars had the TH350 Automatic (you could never get a stick with the 403 as it was designed for the still bloated 77&78 Oldsmobile Toronado)
This in Finland 🇫🇮
FUCKIN' race wars. No, the other one.
Trans am in Finland 🤔
bone stock 403 , sounds like to me
My souped 403 definitely sounds better and it doesn't even currently have the tips. Still a beauty regardless of the fact that it's actually a modded plain jane Firebird not a TA
Kool Car, but terrible video of walking behind it for 5 mins
LED tail lights look dodgy and the wrong wheels and tyres that make the stance look average .
Don't like the hood or the pipes but car is 👍
What's up with these fake shakers?
Perspective - for someone who's obviously serious about his car (e.g. the dash), he's decided on different treatment of the shaker. One clue could be the size and height he needed under the hood for his tune of the engine...? Having flipped so many other standard features of his Trans Am, it's not such a big surprise he included the shaker on his 'list'...
Perspective - actually, as I look at the video a second time (...and I had a '79 Olds 403 auto Trans Am in UK from '83-88) he's been quite consistent... Bringing the exhausts toward the centre at the rear instead of the outside; spoilers on the rear of the wheel arches as well as the front; the shaker; the dash, etc. I hope his more subtle re-working of some of the classic Trans Am features start to grow on you as it is with me. I certainly admire what the owner has achieved as an overall package - pretty cool celebration yet updating of a classic and many of it's famous features.
Nice car the shaker molded into the hood looks like shit though
Messed it up some
Yep should have left the ehaust tips where they were. Ruined the look of the car by doing that and changing the front scoop and the wheels. Dump $45,000 into a car and make it lose value. Stupid!!!!!
exhaust tips need to be spread out more. but other than that, glad u kept the PONTIAC V8 and not downgrade to an lsx pile of shit luke alot of idiots in america do
96TAWS6455 Nah, "LS swap it" is what new gen kids do. I had an '81 TA and now '79 Camaro and the original motor is FINE WITH ME. that LS thing looks like a big piece of plastic. It can be fast all it wants, but it's gayeeeeee
Speaking of pieces of shit, here you are commenting, +96TAWS6455. Seriously, like about 99% of the parts that are between Chevrolet and Pontiac/Acadia/Asuna products are compatible with one another, and that ALSO includes their engines, not to mention that they are also compatible with Geo and even partner companies that work with GM ALSO share GM parts, such as Suzuki, for instance. Honestly, elitist fuckwits like yourself that pretend to know, let alone think that they are in artificial places of authority that think that they get to dictate to the peons what to think in the automotive world, and woe be to anyone that dares to cross their path, are exactly like the super prissy, stupid basic bitches that will bitch and moan about the insensitivity of a guy that just bought them a pair of jeans from Old Navy or The Gap instead of Banana Republic, never mind that a. all of the jeans that are made by the EXACT SAME FUCKING COMPANY, and b. the only fucking differences that they have on them are the fucking labels that are on the clothing. There is GM and all of its allied companies, such as Isuzu and Suzuki, in a nut shell. Now get something for that period and make some mother fucking sandwiches in the kitchen, okay? Thank you.
That hood? Yikes
This vid is enough to make a '79 TA purist jump for joy. Another stock 400 ruined! Too bad no T-Tops. A properly restored '79 gets a lot of attention no matter which exhaust system is chosen. Using a Magnaflow cat-back system which sounds very close to stock as opposed to what I believe are these loud, obnoxious and purposely attention-getting incorrectly rear-projecting Pypes is just not necessary. The stock '79 is iconic. No "customization" will improve the automobile and still allow it to be registered and licensed.
WTF this sucked, such a bad ass car and NOTHING from it
It sounds OKAY.....meh
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Riced out ta
Meh. Ruined it with that ugly hood scoop and steering wheel. And why does this dude never show us the engine compartment?
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