Topic: new owner of 79 T/A 4 speed, tranny question

[zaidigonzo]

Hello, thank you for providing this site.
I just bought the vehicle and it has a 4speed with a handle that has HURST written on it and by the side of the stick. Is the tranny a BW super T10/ muncie 4spd or ?. According to PO the car has 63k original miles but vin states the engine is  a 301 . It is a non t-top car
VIN is 2W87W9N157007

PO had it listed as a 6.6 litre V8...........

[LOMILETA]

First off, welcome to the site. By PO do you mean previous owner? The trans should be a BW  T10, but the stick itself was a hurst item.

[y88rick]

well from what i was told, these cars had only the super T-10 and mine says hurst also on the shift. mine was a w72 6.6 400

[LOMILETA]

I believe there were alot more 301 stick cars than 400's.

[y88rick]

im sure there were. from what i was told 2,917 were made as a 400 car that was not a s.e. or tata

[kentuckyyeti]

im sure there were. from what i was told 2,917 were made as a 400 car that was not a s.e. or tata

I know where two of them are   Both red, t-top cars.

[limey]

I know where there's a Heritage Brown one   Should be a Borg Warner T10, with the Hurst shifter.  Welcome to the site

[Rick]

Welcome to 78TA.com!

I just bought the vehicle and it has a 4speed with a handle that has HURST written on it and by the side of the stick.

I bet it looks like this:



Unless somebody's changed it, the transmission willl be a BW ST10.  But 30 years is a long time so it's possible anything might be in there.  You'll need to get under there and look.

[Rarebird]

ok guys  78/79 only used the Borg warner t-10 4 speeds, Hurst shifters were an option which a majority recieved, the knob on other hands I have seen all sorts of arrangements from black ball, white ball, Pontiac style. as for the numbers


  1979 model year according to my information:
     1590   301 T/A
     2485   400 T/A
     1530    301 T/A w/T-top
     2917    400 T/A w/T-top
      213     301 T/A SE w/T-top
     1107    400 T/A SE w/T-top
     1817     400 T/ATA

  So accordingto this you have 1 of 1590 out of a total of 211,453 Firebirds

[y88rick]

i knew i had my number right on the t-top one lol

[hdebo]

Borg Warner T10, with the Hurst shifter. Gotta love to see another 79 with a 4 speed out there. Welcome to the forum and post more pics of that car.

[y88rick]

mine has the white ball for the shifter super T/10 but of course we would like to see a pic or two.

[Rarebird]

a white one like this?

[hdebo]

Heres mine.

[ta78w72]

Was that white ball stock?