At first the headers were completely open, which was how Devon liked it. A set of headers take care of the exhaust. The three two-barrel carbs and manifold were being sold by a guy going through a divorce.Īn MSD electronic ignition generates the spark. But when he found a Pontiac Tri-Power set up for sale, he grabbed it. name Firebird summed up the car Pontiac first introduced in 1967. The original plan was to use three two-barrels that weren’t designed to go together.
He really knows carburetors.” And as far as Deon is concerned, the more carbs the better. 1967 - 1969 Firebird Convertible Power Top Motor, Pump, and Seal Rebuild Kit.
1967 - 1969 Firebird Convertible Power Top Motor Pump, Cylinders, Hoses and Shoulder Bolt Kit. This time around, they took the heads to a different shop to be rebuilt.ĭevon told me his Dad is “a big carburetor guy. 1967 - 1969 Firebird Convertible Power Top Lift Cylinders, Pair. (He refers to the car being a “stock Pontiac” not a “stock Firebird.”) The pistons had to be replaced due to the damage caused by the dropped valve, and Deon installed a slightly hotter cam. Deon rebuilt the bottom end again using mostly Pontiac components. So the engine rebuild started for the second time. “It ran for an hour or two and it dropped a valve.” “We got the motor together and got it running,” Devon told me. The Howards reassembled the motor and step one was complete. (The Firebird’s original block had been bored out during the car’s drag racing days.) A set of Pontiac 421 heads were sent to a shop to be freshened up. That bottom end that Deon rebuilt previously was a 400 block from a Grand Prix the family had owned. Their goal was to get the Firebird running again with Deon behind the wheel.įirst up was the engine. They bought every part that they thought would possibly need right at the start. We were trying to get it done so he’d still be able to drive it before he lost all his vision.” “We went pretty hard on buying stuff and putting it together. “We had a big push because Dad was getting to the point where he couldn’t drive any more,” Devon told me. The 1968 Pontiac Firebird 350-cid HO V-8 engine, with high-performance camshaft, better exhaust-gas scavenging, and revised carburetion, delivered 320. Deon had been diagnosed with macular degeneration. But there was another, more pressing, reason to get the car going. Devon and Ethan were out of school and working, so there was more money to put towards the project. It was 2018 when work on the Firebird started back up again. The 1968 Pontiac Firebird measures 73.60 inches in width, The 1968 Pontiac Firebird measures 188.80 inches in length, and has a wheelbase of 108.00 inches. “We got it to that point,” Devon said, “and then it was time to shove a bunch of money into it.” With the boys about to go to college, there was not much money in the family budget for hot rodding and the Firebird sat.
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