Well, I stumbled upon a Firebird in pretty decent condition. I was thinking about getting an other muscle car again, and this one kinda found me. It's a 91 Firebird. The owner says that it has the Formula package, which I think it does, because the hood and rear look slightly different that other firebirds.

It's a 305 TPI motor, with a 5spd manual. Everything looks orginal, the stock intake and exhaust are there. It hasn't been modified from what I can tell, but I didn't think that the 305 came with a 5spd in 91. I tried looking it up, but couldn't find anything.

Anything I should look out for?

Yes the 5-speed did come in 91. Usually if its a 5-speed it has a G92 performance package. Which will include a dual cat exhaust, .345 gears in the manual, higher red line, bigger cam instead of what they call the peanut cam in the 305. If you have the G92 package stock for stock you can keep up or beat 350's. But once you start to mod its over for the 305. Still a great motor. Just look for the 2 cats, the G92 on the RPO codes, or a higher redline. Should be 5500 or 6000 if its lower its not a G92 and pretty slow.

Great, I'll look and see if it has the two cats. Hopefully it does.

The biggest thing is the .345 gears. They help a lot instead of the 279 that are normally in the cars If you open up the center console there should be an RPO code list. There is also one in the hatch on the drivers side in the little storage area in the wheel well. It'll just say G92 as one of the codes, but yea the 2 cats is pretty easy to tell also.

Rabbit(AKA RedAssassin) wrote:The biggest thing is the .345 gears. They help a lot instead of the 279 that are normally in the cars If you open up the center console there should be an RPO code list. There is also one in the hatch on the drivers side in the little storage area in the wheel well. It'll just say G92 as one of the codes, but yea the 2 cats is pretty easy to tell also.

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and to be fair redassassin, no third gens except for a TTA were fast.


-Borsty

I had the exact same car except it was a trans am. It was a pretty fun car to drive...230hp 300tq 3.42 gears.

Does it have t tops? Does it have 4 wheel disc?(91's didn't come out with rear disc until mid year due to a redesign change) I believe the rpo's on t/a's are in the rear storage and camaro's are in the console.

do some research on www.thirdgen.org

Their were only a few thousand made so they are somewhat rare. The production numbers seem to differ on some of the sites. http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2150896

Well, I took it out for a "spirited" test drive. It went pretty well, but there seemed to be alittle faint ticking noise from the tranny, aswell the clutch seemed to slip. I had also taken it to a shop for a compression check, and #3 cyl was alittle low on compression.

It drove well, but there were afew little things that just made me feel like something wasn't right. So I passed it up.

Borsty wrote:

Rabbit(AKA RedAssassin) wrote:The biggest thing is the .345 gears. They help a lot instead of the 279 that are normally in the cars If you open up the center console there should be an RPO code list. There is also one in the hatch on the drivers side in the little storage area in the wheel well. It'll just say G92 as one of the codes, but yea the 2 cats is pretty easy to tell also.

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and to be fair redassassin, no third gens except for a TTA were fast.

LOL the TTA is pretty sick, there was one for sale near me not to long ago, down in the Cape, it was on ebay for like 18K with only something like 30k on it. TOo much for me but a nice car none the less.

And as for the rest being slow, i dont remember, its been a while. My bro had a 88 formula 350 with a rebuilt engine and tranny. He use to let me drive it when he had it, use to scare the @!#$ outa me sometimes. But then again i was only 16 so who knows now.