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Basic Specifications
Vehicle Color: Midnight Blue MetallicEngine Type: 6 Cylinder
Transmission: Other
Est. Horsepower: 330 HP
Est. Curb Weight: 3,400 lbs.
Mileage: 93,000 miles
At the Track
Best 60': 1.581Best R/T:
Best 1/8 Mile ET: 7.689
Best 1/8 Mile MPH: 91.02
Best 1/4 Mile ET: 12.100
Best 1/4 Mile MPH: 114.08
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Showing Off
Awards Won: 1st place, GTO All Pontiac Show, 4th gen Firebird/Trans AM/Firehawk (Oct 19, 2002)Stuf Products Best not in Show Aug 2005 (Event)
2005 Stuf Products Best not in Show (National)
2nd Place EFA Outlaw 3800 II V6, April 15, 2006
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Get your forum exposure. Click here and join for FREE!Pathogen's 1998 Pontiac Firebird
Big Dogs, prepare to be porched. (LAWL)
About this Previous Vehicle:
Sold; 9/13/08
This was my ProCharged V6 Firebird.
I bought this 1998 Firebird in 2002 with the intention of “maybe” putting a small nitrous shot on the car … eventually. Five years later, “a little shot of nitrous” just makes me laugh. In 2006, the car went 12.1 on a stock engine, 12-15 psi boost and a small 60 wet shot before going lean and chipping three pistons. It's been over a year since that happend and I've finally gotten the car back together -- kinda sorta.
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Not really ready to drive yet - but here's a clip of the car starting with the blower on. 
While we were working on the new blower setup, my Dad and Uncle Kenny "threw together" a true dual setup for the car -- here's a sound clip.
Here's my bird going 12.1... a week before it went lean (Grrr)
Don't ask, you can't have one, lol
The ProCharger P600 kit previously sported by this car was home grown in my dad's garage, so you can't buy one. You can get a P1SC kit from Mach Performance in MI... I don't know a whole lot about that kit, but Google is your friend.
"And in the Auto Fab lane is a ... Fire... a Pontiac."
It's a Firestorm dang it - you've never seen one before and you're never going to see one again. lol
Vehicle Journal:
Nov 18
12.100 @ 114 w/ 1.76 60'
All we did from the last run is change the tires from 28" Hoosier slicks to 26" worn-out "shop loaner" BFGs. -- Offically completely maxed out the MAF and need to do something about crank case pressure before.
Suggestions welcome!
Nov 12
Dyno & Shake Down! WHOOT!
Dyno tuned on Saturday and hit the track Sunday .... kind've a spur of the moment thing.
After four hrs the car was putting down 330/338 on the F-Body Central Mustang Dyno... but spinning when we tried to do simulated pulls.
The following day, on a whim, the shop owner (Jason) baited me out to Mason Dixon Dragyway with a set of 28" Hoosier slicks - "Just to see what the car would do."
End result? well - the car doesn't like 28" tires with the 3.23 gears. (grr)
But shake all three passes we made were 12.3 around 110.... First pass of the day was no burnout and I let off somewhere around the 1/8 ... went 12.3 coasting through the traps at 104mph.
Found some problems we knew were there, but over all I'm thrilled with it's first day out.
This car has so much more in
Sep 25
Frustrated? You have no idea.
Over the weekend I took the factory jack out and put the car as high as as possible... and then placed my SINGLE jackstand under it. Why? Well, I'd given up on trying to put ducting on the car while it was sitting on the apartment parking lot.
After a few hrs, I'd found enough peices in my bucket of parts that I could get MOST of the ducting done -- right now there's a good kink in one coupler and I need a 45' peice to finish the work. Hopefully after I cut one of the two peices I have left in the bucket I'll be able to take the car for dyno. 
Factory Options:
Off the show room floor, this car had a Monsoon CD stereo, cloth seats, T-tops, a 5spd transmission and 16" alloy rims (painted silver). ... you basic run of the mill V6 Firebird.
Exterior Modifications:
SLP Firehawk hood
PP Firestorm graphics package
Weld ProStar wheels (15") or TT2s (Chrome 17") depending on the car's driving purpose at that particular time of day.
Interior Modifications:
Otto-R Racing Seats
G-Force 5pt harness (driver)
"Off The Shelf" 4pt harness (passenger)
S&W RaceCar Cromoly 6pt roll bar fabricated and installed by Performance Auto Fab
Summit Racing roll bar pading w/ matching tie wraps :)
Autometer gauges
Performance:
Braking: SLP Line lock, stock everything else
Cooling: 160 Hypertech Thermo, SLP fan switch, Meziere electric water pump
Exhaust: Pace Setter headers to bullet mufflers under the passenger seat and dual chrome Z28 tipes under the rear of passengerside door - don't burn your ankles on the way out.
Fuel: Walbro 255 in-tank pump, 42# injectors
Ignition: Taylor 8mm wires & NGK TR6 plugs
Induction: Custom 10psi Front Mount Intercoolered D1SC ProCharger dedicated-belt system by Shaffer Engineering
Suspension/Chassis:
Hotchkis LCAs, Pan Hard Rod, Subframes
1LE front & rear swaybars
PA Racing tubular K-frame
Eibach 3-way adjustable rear shocks
Drivetrain:
T5 conversion to Chesapeake Transmission 4L60 w/ Forward shift pattern manual valve body, stock 2000-2400 stall, JLS Mini-spool, 3.23 gears, GM 1LE Alum. Driveshaft
Electronics:
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To-Do List:
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16 Comments on Pathogen's Firebird
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Very sweet lookin ride...I like the cage and the fact that you actually race it...Bad ace...I always believe in usin a car for what its made for..Chek my rides out sometime...15 stars here...
Sweet project!
Sweet car. Boost her up.
pathogen thnx for all the help over on FBO, if i had the money i would have bought ur bird, procharger and all that was a sick ride!!!
Sweet ride,,, 5 stars for your rating
Nice bird
Looks great
One of the best v6's ever!!! Keep up the great work pathogen!!
Love everything you've done with the car
That things is sounding mean.. I can't wait to see the numbers on it.. Good Job on her..
Good to see the motor is back together.
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