Bought a Firehawk

[69 Charger RT]

Hi fellas (gals too)
I just bought a 55K mile, orig. owner, mint 2001 10th annivers. 6spd Firehawk
The owners is as anal as I am in terms of my cars, still has the key chains in plastic, extra floor mats, decals and T-tops, window sticker and business card from dealership where he bought it in NJ. No mods except the skip shift elim. but I plan on adding SLP full headers/loudmouth exhaust and a few intake goodies, ALL from SLP to keep it "company built" oriented for a rare car.
Its been a number of years since I've had an LS1 and it feels great to get my hands on another one finally. The car is in PA, and I am going to pick it up and trailer it home on Fri. (about a 6hr drive one way). I have a spot reserved in the garage already for it beside the heavily modded IROC and spring can't come fast enough.

I'm linking pics instead of posting as they are fairly huge.
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/ext004.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/int02.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/engine1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/ext010.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/ext001.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/int04.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/portfolio1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/sticker2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/ext014.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gbonk/firehawk/ext005.jpg

[archimedes8989]

wow, firehawk. Great find. Do you have any pictures of your IROC too? I have an 86. They're awsome cars.

[FirebirdGirl02]

Dammm I love those Firehawks!! Congrats on your new hawk.

[69 Charger RT]

Originally Posted by archimedes8989

wow, firehawk. Great find. Do you have any pictures of your IROC too? I have an 86. They're awsome cars.

I do, I'll post a few.
I only have 2 of the new paint, but its close to the old. You'll see.



Old paint scheme without hood pins(dunno if I should redo the SS stripes or not....opinions welcome)







Current paint scheme, minus the "IROC-Z" decals, as you can see, she's sitting on the used car lot at work (GM dealership)


I just spent $3100 on a fully built tranny and another thousand doing a bunch of tune up/maintenance work as its been sitting for 2yrs.

[69 Charger RT]

Heres the goodies on it:

Induction:
Ported Factory intake base
MAS screens removed
Modified air box with K&N

Exhaust:
Edelbrock TES headers & Y pipe
Flomaster exhaust
Hi Flo cat (hollow)

Suspension:
Eibach sport 1.5 inch lowering springs
Polyurathayne Bushings all around
modified lower control arms panhard bar and stiffened torque arm

Engine:
355 c.i. 4 bolt main TPI Approx 425HP/455 lbs-TQ
Balanced and blue printed
heads flow charted
Forged steel crank
ported & polished 62cc heads
stainless steel valves
compress ratio of 10:6 to 1
ported oil passages
2 valve relief hyperutectic pistons
crower cam with matched 6500rpm valve springs
comp cams hardened 0.80 pushrods

Cam specs:
Advertised Int. duration 278/497 lift
Exh. duration 286/518 lift
LSA of 108 (yes, its lumpy)

Roller rockers
Roller lifters
True roller timing chain
Ported Intake Runners
Ported plenum
52mm Edelbrock Throttle body
Hypertech air foil
hypertech 160 thermostat
hypertech stage 2 thermo chip
High capacity alum Radiator
Jacobs Coil
taylor 8mm wires
March underdrive pulleys
Fuel press reg and gauge
Lockar stainless steel throttle cables

Transmission:
Corvette 700R4 with HD servo kit
B&M cooler
B&M Stage 2 shift kit
B&M 2200 stall
B&M Kick Down kit
B&M Megashifter

Rearend:
Stock (For now)with Richmond 3:73's

Brakes:
Cross drilled front rotors
carbon fiber pads
stock alum drums in rear

Audio:
2 10inch Pioneer subs
with Pioneer 400 watt amp
stock speakers
Sony Xplode head unit with remote

[bigslim]

That Firehawk is a real keeper. Really nice clean car. Way to go.

[69 Charger RT]

Originally Posted by bigslim

That Firehawk is a real keeper. Really nice clean car. Way to go.

Indeed, I've been looking on and off for about 2yrs for the right price/shape of car. U can tell alot about the car/owner by inspecting the door/trunk jambs and the engine bay, in particular, the strut towers, obviously, not to mention the underneath.

The 3 things I gotta do as soon as its home/spring;
-Tint the windows 5% back 15% doors

-paint the brake cailiper black and add "Firehawk" script to the fronts
(why black? Because it hides the "look" of the caliper and will help the wheels stand out and red would look so bad or any other color for that matter on a black/gold car and also, black is not really noticeable)

-replace the 2 or 3 missing black lug nut caps

[bigwheelinbubba]

That IROC gives me wood :D

[archimedes8989]

now THAT is what I call an IROC. That car is absolutely amazing in every way.You have quite a fleet on your hands there haha.

[SLP LS1]

LS1 is a sweet engine and on top of it you bought an anniversary, awesome man! That car might be worth some bucks if you keep it in good condition.