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I have done a few of the vintage air heater control updates and been happy with them so far.

Thanks! I am excited to see how my black bird is going to look after using the linear block. If it turns out great it will be totally worth it.

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Yes all the little details add up.

Fantastic!

Fantastic good luck with the new purchase. Glad to help!

The motivation comes from the coupe I have owned since high school and have not driven it over 20 years. Drivetrain is all done. It just needs painted and interior then back on the road.

@@VinylVillageGarage That would do it!

The answer is I don’t know. It doesn’t say in the directions either way. I normally just fill or primer over it. Now if it was areas that where completely black and untouched by sand paper I believe I would scuff the area out with a Scotch bright pad the apply filler

@@VinylVillageGarage Good to know, thanks.

Thanks!

Well it’s from here in the Midwest we call the housing editions vinyl villages because they pop up quick and everywhere and the houses are vinyl sided. Since I live in a vinyl village and work out of my small garage that is where vinyl village garage came from. But when I picked the name I didn’t put in consideration the most of the world doesn’t know what vinyl village meant

Thank you 🙏

You bet, I can’t wait to see how my black car comes out. I want to see if the linear block made a difference

Glad it was helpful!

Right on! That will look great when done.

Much appreciated, I show what I have learned and the results. No smoke and mirrors here.

Anytime!

Thank you 🙏

It didn’t blow my socks off. I did hear a rumor that the orange Mountain was discontinued ☹️ I have not confirmed that but that will be a sad day.

Me too. I have been warned it will have its challenges so we shall see

You and me both!

Once it cools down there you can have a block party

It was a sad day when i realized what i had done. I wasn’t happy and a little heart broken.

Yes

Thanks! I am very excited to get my Car back on the road again as well.

Brilliant! You should not give me ideas I might just do them 😎

Sounds like I will be having a lot fun to get this working on my car. Thanks for the heads up. Might be worth taking the hood off prior to paint and flip it over and get it all working right first.

Still doing the equipment repair, then playing cars after. I just don’t think I want to do cars full time in fear of it becomes a job and not liking it anymore

This kit to make it Work will definitely have its issues for sure.

Way tooo much, I found mine for $1,300 range as high as $1,800 for the same kit. I always wanted a ram air bird and this was the car I wanted it on.

@@VinylVillageGarage Holy smokes! I figured they were around $750.

@@FINfinFINfinFINfin used to be about 5 years ago

Yes it can be modified, I have even seen the ram air pans on the Holley sniper efi set up. It just requires a little creativity

@@VinylVillageGarage do they make one for the 76 formula. It's a 1 year only hood

@@woodrowdelozier1 I have not seen a kit. That is a cool hood and with some creativity it could be done, I could see using the 68 style kit as a start and modifying it

Thanks!

Yup. The seller had already contacted me back and shipped the correct part.

Thanks!

No problem

They sure do. The only I think they don’t sell is the vacuum line kit.

Owning a real trans am is on my wish list, you did mention that Firebird central had a more comprehensive kit. I actually forgot 😬. I was just on the goal Of getting the hood inserts to mock up before paint. Super glad the plastic blasting tip worked for you as well. I accidentally figured it out a few years ago when cleaning up grilles for my 69 bird they were perfect minus being painted blue…. So I hit it with the media and almost instantly down to base plastic and no perceptible damage plus the paint bonds amazingly. Good luck on the new bird hopefully you are going back to Lucerne blue too.

@@VinylVillageGarage Oh yeah, it's definitely going back to lucerne blue !! I'm just a very small shop, kinda like you working out of your garage with the exception that I built a shop next to my house and do restorations out of it. If you'd like to see some of the cars I've done, like the 69' T/A or the 71' I'm doing now, you can go on F/B and look up Perfect Finish. There are albums for most of the cars I've done

this kit was $1,300. the hood tach was an OER brand and it comes with a template in the box to locate the holes

@@VinylVillageGarage where did you order the OER tach from? What was the ram air III on and what was it called when it first come out? The reason I ask is I can't find any listing for the ram air 3 in any catalog

@@williammorrison1433 the tach I bought from a guy selling them. Ram air 3 came originally on 1969 GTO and Firebirds and trans ams. But the three Ram air kits are not the same. Your car will need to regular 400 Firebird kit.

@@VinylVillageGarage with the 400 kit, is that ram air?

@@williammorrison1433 yes for the most part making it functional will needs messing with and firing the doors into place I have been told needs a little finesse

Actually very similar, it is almost exactly the same. The trans am hood doesn’t have the flapper doors and cable system is the only difference in the kits. Thus making the trans am kit cheaper .

@@VinylVillageGarage So you have to buy the flat ish tubes that run from the scoops back to the air box separately? I bought them separately and I have to say they don't go into the hood real nice. seems like it is going to be a bit of a fight.

@@LakeAndLodgeGarage yup those plastic tubes are sold separately, they don’t go in without a bit of a fight from the two sets I have tried.

Wow that is cool, I miss that car for you I would love to just drive it once.

That guy is Len A. Great guy. We went to opposing high schools. We were both buying and selling Firebirds parts and Len started repopping '69 Trans Am parts. He had a parts list on mimeographed paper. The kind you smell the page before you read it. His mom made the copies for him at her job IIRC. We both started around the same time in '78/'79.

VIN 22337N109163 69TA RAIV 4 Speed , also had 68 FB RA2 4 speed. I only have a 68 350 auto bought it in 76 from 1st owner and a 69 FB 350 convertible the interior burned up from short in amp meter I rebuilt it in 89 only had car 2 days was aftermarket gauge it had not run in years put new battery clean fuel and drove it home, 3am was on fire , I now have disconnect battery switch on both..lol ,, I am collecting parts to make the 69 a TA clone so am watching your videos with great attention. going is slow as I am 70 . Thanks for sharing

I think all the ram air kits and parts are manufactured at the same place. For the most part they all include the same stuff minus Firebird central sells there kits with a few more of the missing parts but still need to get more to make theirs complete as well. AMES sells almost everything needed minus the vacuum line kit, I get those off eBay for a GTO and make them work.

Fortunately one phone call, one picture with an email the correct part is on the way I feel that is reasonable

The 67 ram air kits are different, a lot less Parts and less Expensive

Awesome thanks for watching

Dang it, did you find it?

@@VinylVillageGarage I checked the mile marker but no. Long gone. Passenger sidr.

Well crap, could have been worse.

Wow finding original pans and parts is a rarity, nice find. I would prefer to have original parts on my judge if I can make it happen for a fair price

The ram air kit for 68 is much cheaper and simpler. It doesn’t have flapper doors on the hood the inserts Are open all the time. Something else to consider is you need a quadrajet carb or modify the lower pan to get it to mount to the carb. “The parts place” also sells the 68 kit. I think around $7-800 dollar range.

I am all about some custom fab work and making a functional ram air would be awesome. I did that on my LS swapped trans am. Plus if you made Your own you could overcome the restrictive air filter of the factory set up.

I used to only use PPG epoxy primer but my supplier closed up and searched for a reasonably priced seller…..yeah that didn’t happen. I have now switched to transtar epoxy still a little spendy but reasonable. The insides of hoods and trunk lids. If it’s new with edp i typically just scuff and paint. If it’s original metal trunk lids I sand blast insides then epoxy. with hoods I would never sandblast both the inside and outside it will warp if you do them Both entirely. The hood if I blast the top side I then only sandblast the inner frame then sand the flat areas between with a DA or by hand to remove the paint/rust then epoxy prime.

The part place made it right and the correct part is on the way. Really quite painless so not to disappointed

The ram air Option was a rare and even more rare Was the ram Air 4 firebirds. I always loved the look under the hood but the ram air system and filter actually reduces engine power and the added weight made the cars slower unfortunately.