Pontiac SOHC 6 Stockers ?

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

So someone is interested in the one Ive got ? Complete with emblems

The engine I havent been into.....its locked , looks like from sitting, it sat for 25 years in dry storage in Florida.....interior immaculate, top damaged in storage, no rust. I also have a buddy who pulled one from his firechicken years ago....He since sold the car and the new owner didnt want it...The trans on these I know is a 2 speed but not a glide, but I could sub a glide....

Hell maybe I should buy his motor for the whopping 300 he wants, and pop em on ebay Buy something I want......more...

Today I found one here in Atlanta, been looking 2 years for one even for sale.....havent seen but 1 other.....so a rust free 83 Challenger here I come ! Thatll complete the "unholy trininty" of Challengers.....



You are right again ........

Billy,

Those engine parts are very rare, ask the collectors...[/QUOTE]

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by W J

More egg deposited on the faces of the "naysayers" lurking here....gotta love it. WJ

I'm still looking for the Pontiac OHC items in the link above.

I'm here waiting to hear how good a combo these are.....Got my bib on...

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

What link ? What do you mean "looking" ? As in to buy ? Or at the track ? Or in my hairbrained opinion ? I might sell the engine.......might....

I think 320+ hp is doable from one without issue the Sohc 6, coating on the cam, long duration makes it a no brainer.......but crap.....thatll get me nowhere in this car I dont think with the index on it........but there are other engine combos , I just dont have any and well.....not like those havent been done to death.....I wont say anyone can do a V8.....but maybe the thing is everyone does......

But I thought I found my Challenger, turns out its got rust. BAH...., I said I thought 2 under....You thought 1 .... Ill split the difference and call it 1.5 when I get my hands on one (if, not like I havent been looking for over a year).......

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

I'm still looking for the Pontiac OHC items in the link above.

I'm here waiting to hear how good a combo these are.....Got my bib on...

[Kegracing]

My 67 Firebird convertible is an origional Sprint car. I have the complete motor and 3 speed manual trans in the shop. When I found the car in 1986 it was sitting in a field with sunflowers growing up thru the engine bay. Motor and trans was in owners barn. He had taken it out years earlier and put in little chevy 6 for his daughter after several tickets. I restored car and put the OHC motor back in. Parts were tought to find then, have not even looked for years.
I took it to the Nat. Pontiac meet in Kansas City a couple of years after that. Hundreds of cars, and only a handful of OHC's.
I know some people will freak when they find out that I have turned it into a stocker and even worse, with a chevy crate motor in it for now... I do have a Pontiac 400 with the 67 only "670" heads and proper intake, but that motor will take a little while... will hopefully have it ready to race in another month with crate motor.
I did drive the car for a few years with the OHC. Was a fun little motor. Would outrun most mid 70's smog camaros and birds... not that I ever "street raced" - when in highschool or college.

One thing I never found was the proper hood emblems for my car... Hood has the holes for them, and owner did not know what happened to them.

Should see me on the qualifying sheets in div 4 IHRA soon!

Ken

[W J]

Originally Posted by Kegracing

My 67 Firebird convertible is an origional Sprint car. I have the complete motor and 3 speed manual trans in the shop. When I found the car in 1986 it was sitting in a field with sunflowers growing up thru the engine bay. Motor and trans was in owners barn. He had taken it out years earlier and put in little chevy 6 for his daughter after several tickets. I restored car and put the OHC motor back in. Parts were tought to find then, have not even looked for years.
I took it to the Nat. Pontiac meet in Kansas City a couple of years after that. Hundreds of cars, and only a handful of OHC's.
I know some people will freak when they find out that I have turned it into a stocker and even worse, with a chevy crate motor in it for now... I do have a Pontiac 400 with the 67 only "670" heads and proper intake, but that motor will take a little while... will hopefully have it ready to race in another month with crate motor.
I did drive the car for a few years with the OHC. Was a fun little motor. Would outrun most mid 70's smog camaros and birds... not that I ever "street raced" - when in highschool or college.

One thing I never found was the proper hood emblems for my car... Hood has the holes for them, and owner did not know what happened to them.

Should see me on the qualifying sheets in div 4 IHRA soon!

Ken

Good luck w/your Firebird stocker, Ken. If the right person reads this post, I'll bet they could lead you to a correct pair of OHC Sprint hood emblems as well---so don't fill-in those holes! That car is surely worth some good $$ w/correct powertrain. WJ

[Byron Clemens]

More info @
http://sohcsix.yuku.com/

[Kegracing]

Thanks WJ

Byron, cool website - thanks. Sure could have used that when I was doing this car first time... course, in late 80's I did not have a computer, let alone access to the web! I have saved the site... one more place for me to spend time!

Ken

[Adam Strang]

I have the hood emblems and the hood.I can take some pics if you`re interested in them.

[Michael Kilduff]

I have a question , maybe someone can get me in the ballpark.

I have a '69 firebird with one of these 6 cyl OHC engines, the small carb version. The engine is complete and there is an automatic trans in the car, all is hooked up and was alledgedly running and the engine had been rebuilt. Any ideas on what the engine and trans is worth?
Since i don't know for a fact it was rebuilt even though it is very clean and looks fresh, I would only attach a value to it as being complete and rebuildable.

Thanks in advance!

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Well since the what its worth is what someone is willing to pay thing, I picked up one about 2 years ago at the scrapyard.

I was going to do ? with it, but for $50 I couldnt pass it up.

Got it home it was locked , threw it and the trans on ebay as is, saying that it was locked I got $500 for the engine and trans, but it was complete to the air cleaner. That one was the small carb version not the 4bbl like the Lemans has. The guy oddly bought it to rebuild it and put it in a 40 ? Pontiac coupe...wanted something different.

Cheers

Chris

Originally Posted by Michael Kilduff

I have a question , maybe someone can get me in the ballpark.

I have a '69 firebird with one of these 6 cyl OHC engines, the small carb version. The engine is complete and there is an automatic trans in the car, all is hooked up and was alledgedly running and the engine had been rebuilt. Any ideas on what the engine and trans is worth?
Since i don't know for a fact it was rebuilt even though it is very clean and looks fresh, I would only attach a value to it as being complete and rebuildable.

Thanks in advance!