Mild 79 Z
 

I don't plan to spend a bunch of money on this car, nor beat my brains out tearing this all down and look at it for years - I'm going to drive it. It has a variety of mild suspension upgrades as I got the car.
Survivor paint 79Z. Car has had the underside of the tub sandblasted and POR15'd. Powertrain consists of a ZZ4 crate 350 with aluminum heads, Be Cool radiator with electric fans, 200R4 o/d trans, Moser limited slip rear end, 2" drop spindles, Hotchkiss front springs/rear leaf springs/sway bars, bilstien shocks, Wildwood disk brakes all around with a Wildwood master cylinder, AGR steering box.
As I got the car.
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I played around with the car a little, as I had some pristine silver window molding.
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I played around with the shifter as I had found a stock leather shifter knob from a late model camaro. The stock shifter is a ratcheting shifter, and I wouldn't have wanted to remove it. Also found some late model power window switches and made them work rather than reinstalling old style rocker switches.
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Today, I put a set of leather seats in the car from a WS6 late model Trans Am. Nothing racy, just more comfortable.
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Taz claimed the take out seats already.
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Oh yea, I found a couple things I didn't like with the air filter and throttle linkage. I moved the springs inward as they seemed to get hung up on the air cleaner base.
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Found a set of aluminum valve covers and a spun aluminum air cleaner at the roundy round swap meet cheap ($70 for the set).
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Taz wants to know when we are going for a spin already.
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Fixed the famous GM steering column wobble.
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That brings us up to speed with my new toy. I don't know how far I'll go with this car. I would like to do a couple amateur autocross events, but the car has an automatic. Is it even worth trying? Or should I just cruise the car and watch autocross?

With those newer seats, I would say why not give it a try. Do it once and see how it goes.

Thanks for the thought. I wasn't sure if guys even tried autocross in an automatic.