Turbo LS Swapped 2000 Firebird Trans Am V6 - Stock 5.3 With 250k Miles & 85mm Turbo - Mid 9s!
Oct 27, 2026
Saw this nice turbo Firebird and asked what's done to it. He took a 2000 Pontica Firebird V6 and did an LS swap with a stock 5.3L and a big single turbo.
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AI GeneratedA driver discusses his budget-friendly drag racing build after achieving a 9.4-second pass. He highlights that the car was originally a V6 purchased for $900 and converted using a high-mileage 5.3L engine, proving that impressive performance is possible without a massive budget.
Okay.
9.4.
Best pass ever.
Hell yeah.
Can I see that time slip?
And hopefully I'll film you
and get a better one.
Nice pass, man.
Yeah, thanks.
Is there anything else significant about it,
like the rear end, any of that stuff?
It's got an 8.8 out of a Ford Explorer.
There's a stock 5.3, 85 millimeter.
That's right.
Gets a camera.
Gets it done, huh?
That's right.
Damn.
If you have a goal for the day, what would it be?
I'd like to go a little faster.
I'd like to get bottom nines.
Bottom nines.
All right.
You think it's possible today?
It should be.
You've got the weather, huh?
That's right.
Low DA.
I've got an oil leak I've got to look into, though.
All right.
So, uh...
You're telling me anyone could do this, huh?
That's right.
It's not a big budget,
but you can get some nice sick passes out of that thing.
That's right.
200,000 mile, 5.3.
Yep, 250 bucks.
All right, man.
Well, thank you.
Thanks.
Tell me that this thing cost you to build like total?
Probably 6,000.
I bought the car for $900.
And it was a V6?
It was a V6 car.
Wow.
So I threw that thing.
Two of them here.
Yeah.
I'll have a video on that red one too.
So I threw the V6 away and...
Put a 250,000 mile 5.3 in it.
All right.
That's so sick.
I would have never thought this was a V6 car.
Guess that works, though.

