Anyone own a early 80s Trans Am, or have the haynes manual?

[Russell]

Hey guys!

A buddy at school has his 402 powered Trans Am in the shop, and when he popped the hood I was just speechless at the mess.

Its gonna need to be completely rewired, and it needs the vaccume lines to be re run. There are open ports all over the place, and bare wires hanging out everywhere. No wonder the car runs like a pig... Its rad was completely dry, it doesn't have an overflow tank, so I'm taking the one from the 76 in tommorow for him, the power steering pump was nearly dry, the tranmission was nearly dry, and the engine oil is very very low. Overally the car is in pretty rough shape for having an engine that is only a year or so old... I told him to get exhaust on it ASAP or he'll burn or warp his valves as soon as he gets it warm and lets it cool off, so hopefully he is smart and gets some pipes on it sometime soon.

He isn't interested in the emissions equipment, just wants to run his hot air choke, and distributer advance.

He has a Q-Jet, and I'm fairly sure I know how it all hooks together, but I will be needing a wiring diagram to make sure that we get all the electrical done properly, along with getting all the vac stuff done right (if there is a difference for bigblocks)

Oh yeah, his brand new TH350 isn't shifting out of first either. The fluid (what little there was) was nice and red, with no metal particles in it. Is it the vac issues? He said that he had the ol' engine spinnin nearly 4500 rpm before it hit second bringing it in, and now it doesn't shift at all...