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I've owned my 1989 formula 350 for going on 4 years now. I first laid eyes on it outside of a coworker's halloween party, derelict and sitting on 4 flat tires. I told the guy I was interested, 4 months later I got my answer that he was ready to sell.
I did a lot of the work myself these past 4 years, including new Southbay stock replacement injectors and replacing just about every sensor on the motor. The last thing to be done was a stock replacement radiator. There are no performance mods to the car minus a 180 thermostat to help keep it a little cooler.
One of the biggest challenges but most rewarding was tracking down a set of Cragar louvers for the car. I found these on a 6 cylinder Firebird, 2 hour's drive away. Offered the guy a price, then headed out in the daily driver to stuff them in the back. I took off the aero spoiler, as it was rotting away and rusting. A pedestal style spoiler is in its place now.
I got the car past Colorado emissions this year, after fighting with the car shutting off seemingly randomly. Upon cracking the fuel line, I found rusty black gas full of particles coming out!
I got lucky and found a guy on Facebook selling a brand new tank from a Camaro with a Walbro pump inside for 75 bucks.
One more trip to the shop later, I got the car back and now she only gets ethanol free 90 octane. It seems much happier and hasn't shut off on me again so far. I'm itching to get this thing together with some other F-bodies. I've even been throwing around starting up a small F-body club in the Denver area.
Anyone out there got your ears on?
Last edited by deektheoutlaw; 08-26-2024 at 01:47 PM.
You can get a fiberglass aero spoiler replacement from hawks.
Way too much money for my taste. I'm ok with the pedestal style I only paid 50 for a replacement. The window louvers don't fit that well with the Aero spoiler on
Definitely agree on the spoiler. I still have the remnants of the old Aero one (back half of it) stowed away in the garage for safe keeping. I figured the 3rd brake light housing on it might be worth something, to someone
08-26-2024, 01:42 PM
