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Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:53 am Post subject: how much is this car worth?

my 1982 Pontiac Trans am has a 305 4bbl, a little rust on the under side of the hood and its missing the weather striping on the out side of the hatch. it has the wrong type of distributor but runs. i bought this car for my 16th b day for $1336 at kent auction house write off of river road in Puyallup. was the car worth that much? here is some pix of it sitting in my garage, oh we drove it home too.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:06 am Post subject:

$1300 seems about average for a trans-am in that condition.

cameron7710 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:32 am Post subject:

looks in nice shape id say u got a pretty good deal

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:

blue89 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject:

Nice looking ride. Do you have some income to get modifying it? Post a welcome thread in the Back Porch area so we know a little about you.

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

What do you mean it won't keep timing?

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

we set the timing and we start it, it will run all day but the next day or two we go to start it and it want's to die. but when we set the timing it runs fine

iansane · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:

I don't know, but do the older ones like that have to have the EST wire disconnected when setting timing like the newer ones? If so, and you're not doing that, it'll go right back to where it was timing-wise.

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

the HEI i have in it is all messed up it wont stay in place

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

Check the distributor hold down/ hold down bolt. My guess is if its the stock LG4 305, you have an aluminum manifold. Could be possible the threads on the manifold aren't in good shape or the hold down isn't clamping securely.

That or EST wire as iansane said.

do you have any restart problems after you've been driving it for a bit?

Jason_Culbertson · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: