eBay Find - 1000 HP Blown 1980 Trans Am From West Bend Dyno

1980 ‘Bird is perfect canvas for state of the art, heavy artillery speed upgrade.

When it comes to vintage GM performance cars, original examples with full documentation and interesting backstories are the hot ticket with today’s collectors. Chrome bumpered 1970 1/2 to 1973 F-bodies are a perfect example of this. They are so revered among muscle heads that unless its a real dog, cutting up a chrome bumpered car no longer makes sense, morally or financially.

Blown LS3 with 3.3L Lysholm blower makes monster power. Looks right at home under 2nd Gen F-body hood.

That’s what’s so great about the rubber bumpered Camaros and Firebirds from the late seventies and early eighties. Because GM made hundreds of thousands of them, modernizing them with big horsepower and the latest in suspension technology is easy and you don’t have to worry about cutting up an original car or any of that matching numbers or stencil marks on the chassis nonsense.

And if there were ever a poster child for a ferocious rubber bumpered 2^nd Gen, it’s this ’80 Trans Am that popped up on Ebay.

Built by Brad Riekoff and his crew at West Bend Dyno Tuning in West Bend, Wisconsin, this 1000 HP Trans Am is off the charts. According to West Bend, this ‘Bird has the joint efforts of over 31 manufacturers and several thousand hours of labor. Not to mention $125k in parts. It was on display at SEMA 2013, featured in several magazines, TV coverage and competed in several national events including the Optima Street Car Challenge and the Heidts Performance Challenge where it was the overall winner.

Now we know why the chicken screams.

It’s available today at a BIN (Buy it now) price of $95k, O.B.O. It would make a great Christmas gift.

Smog motor and malaise era performance cured once and for all.

This is what $125K in parts look like:

ENGINE/DRIVETRAIN

Wegner Motorsports 416 CI LS3 with CNC Ported LS9 heads
Lysholm 3.3L Supercharger with custom adapter plate
Custom Billet CNC front drive
Custom Dailey Engineering Dry Sump system with Billet Aluminum low profile oil pan
Stainless Works Long Tube headers
Custom 3 inch stainless steel exhaust with x-pipe and Borla mufflers
FIC / Bosch 120 lb/hr fuel injectors
Custom Billet fuel rails
Custom oil catch can
FAST 102mm Throttlebody
Custom fabricated and painted cold air intake
Bowler T56 6-Speed manual trans (from a 4th Gen Camaro) with upgrades
Quicktime bell housing
Centerforce twin disk DYAD
Mark Williams custom driveshaft

BODY FRAME

Heidts full Front frame w/Heidts Subframe with connectors
Heidts Rear Pro-G 4-Link with Moser axles and Strange center section
AFCO double adjustable coil-overs w/ remote reservoirs
DSE Wheel tubs
Custom Wilwood 6 piston front and 4 piston rear disk brakes (with Wilwood master, pads, and fluid)
Custom painted Formula 43 3-piece wheels
BFG Gforce Rivals (295/35R19 F/335/30R18 R)
Carbon fiber inner and outer door skins
Carbon fiber inner and outer front fenders
Custom modified Turbo T/A style hood with Aerolatch hood latches
Custom paint and pinstriping
Custom graphics

INTERIOR

Complete SPARCO interior including seats, rails, steering wheel, harnesses
Complete roll cage with frame integration and functional T-Tops
SFI Rollbar padding
Custom wrapped rear seat and door panels
Full compliment of Autometer gauges
New carpet, dash pad, door sills
Lokar shifter and shift boot
Custom fire extinguisher with harness bar mount

OTHER

Complete custom Aeromotive fuel system
Custom fuel cell
AC Compressor is included in front drive (system prepped for Vintage Air install)
Several original and spare parts are also available for purchase