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68′ Pontiac Firebird Car Restoration

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Eric R. W.

I am happy to announce that I will be working on my old rusty 1968 Pontiac Firebird car restoration.  I started on it a few years ago and finally got back into it.  The old bird is rusty so I might have to get my pressure pot sandblaster out for a few parts on the car.  Although it needs a lot of new metal, it only has about 65,000 original miles on it.  We will be putting in a new camshaft, new heads, headers, intake manifold, and carb.  See the current photo below:

The current state of the 68' pontiac firebird restoration.

I will be posting photos of the progress here in the sandblaster news blog with information of what I did.  I will document step by step with photos of how to restore a 1968 Firebird so be sure to check back, comment, and ask questions.  Hopefully I met other muscle car lovers on the internet here.

If you sign up to the right, I will probably email you each time that I make a new blog post so you can keep track of what I am doing.  Stay tuned!  I will be pulling the engine out before the winter hits.


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5 thoughts on “68′ Pontiac Firebird Car Restoration”

  1. Phil Comisky says:
    October 25, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    I got your e-mail today, I guess this is the the place to leave my message. I have a 100 lb. pot blaster (harbor freight) with a water separator & 5 micron filter at the pot. It is supplied with plenty of clean dry air volume. Yesterday I was blasting parts for my 70 GTX with 00 sand, 1 problem I was having was as the pot emptied I would get intermittent flow, any ideas or tips would be appreciated.

    phil

  2. Eric R. W. says:
    October 25, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    Hey Phil, unfortunately that is the problem with most pressure pot systems. It seems as if the pot can’t funnel the abrasive consistently when it gets lower.

    I honestly don’t know why these companies are designing them the way they do but even more expensive brands slightly have this problem. I do sell plans which is aimed at fixing this problem but other people have paid for them so it would be unfair to just give them out now.

    You can always try to rig up a agitator on the outside to shake the abrasive down.

    By the way its great to hear others working on old muscle cars. If you’d like to make a guest post and show it off, that would be cool.
    -Eric

  3. Phil Comisky says:
    October 26, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    eric,
    you obviously blasted your body, what media & pressure did you use, how long did it take
    & what size pot? I’m trying to see if it is cost effective to do it myself or send it out.

  4. Brad says:
    April 30, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    I just recently got tha 68 firebird from my uncle. Im no pro mechanic but it looks to me that theres a lot of work to be done. And im new at this I love muscle cara but this will be my first one ill be working on, so id just appreciate any tips on how and where I should start… Thanks guys

  5. Peter says:
    July 24, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    I’ve got a 76 ‘bird that needs total rebuild (wife bought it off her nephew as ‘project’ for me)
    Last of the round headlight before ‘Smokey and the Bandit’
    I’m a motorcycle mechanic so all the heavy metal is a bit daunting.
    (I’m British and used to much smaller lighter cars :o) )

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