Okay, so first off. I'd like to apologize for trolling the forums. I was doing stupid, excuse my language "****" at the time, lying to everyone and got me in HUGE trouble. Enough about my personal life. Okay, so I bought a 1994 Grand Prix SE, As seen in my display picture, I owned the car for a month and a half, I'll continue this in a moment, let's talk about how I obtained the car. August: Uncle loaned me 2000 dollars to get a car. I test drove many different types of cars, trucks, mini-van's, and SUV's. Pretty much anything in my price range. After weeks of searching, I saw this GORGEOUS Grand Prix for 3000 dollars. I talked to the guy about it, believing him at the time of course, He made statements that the car was owned by a 70 year old lady, just one owner, being young and gullible, I believed him. I test drove the Cars with my Parents, the car seemed to run AMAZING, drove AMAZING, and the Interior was AMAZING. Instantly fell in love with the car, (Usually happens to me with any Pontiac). But I failed to take the car to my Mechanic to have him look at it. I told the guy I would give him 2000 dollars cash for it. He instantly said yes. (Looking back, should have set off an alarm, because no normal person drops the price of a car by 1000 dollars). A week later, I noticed a MAJOR oil leak with my car. So, me and my father put a jack under the car and looked. The oil pan was tightened down so much, that the gasket was squeezing out the sides, leaving the under-carriage of my car a DISGUSTING oily mess. So, I would have to put atleast 2 quarts of oil in it a day to make sure it wouldn't go dry. 3 day's after we came to the conclusion that the oil pan gasket was destroyed, I bought a new gasket, and I had scheduled with my Mechanic to have it repaired. The gasket get's repaired. End of August September: The car was back up and running great. I was cruising around town, having a good time with friends (They all loved the spacious interior of the car). After I had dropped them off, Mom called me and asked me to run to the bank for them. I get to the bank all fine and dandy. As I leave to come home, I noticed a nasty knocking sound. I drove the car carefully, to try and make it home. I get 3/4 of the way home, and Knock knock knock, the car stalls. I start it, now it sounds like a GRENADE exploded in the motor. So I push the car to Wal-Mart parking lot. Talk about a work out. Call my brother, tow's the car to my house. Now 2 things crossed my mind. 1. My car is ****ed. 2. Why didn't the service engine light come on. After taking a closer look at the Gauge cluster, I see the service engine light, has been TAPED over. No clue how this was acomplished. October - December: Time for the motor search. After Weeks of searching, I found a Low-Milage 3.1, same year and model as my car. The motor has 30,XXX miles on it. January: Motor Installed, car is running. The old motor, spun a rod bearing, and bent a rod. Would have cost me more to rebuild the motor, then the one I purchased (Only paid 600 dollars for the current motor in the car). As the mechanic was removing the motor and tranmission ( He did them as a unit) He sent the transmission off the be checked over. Now, you see there is a gasket in the transmission, that was missing, and the Transmission was full of Gasoline. There's 1200 dollars gone right there to rebuild the Transmission. February: I've learned to give my car TLC, and it is running quite well. No more shifting problems. No more sluggishness. I just had Flowmaster 70 series installed on it. (I have an exhaust video, that I took yesterday if anyone would like to hear it). I've have been looking into PCM tuning, Don't know if it's possible, and Performance chips. JET Chips has 2, a stage 1 and stage 2 chip. I don't know if anyone on here has used them or not. Also, I am looking for anyone that know's or has a custom Intake design, I will pay money for it. I am looking for Performance parts. I am looking for Rims. (Curse the plastic hub caps) I am looking for gauge clusters. Please, let me know if you have any knowledge of any of these items. Thanks, Matt
Originally Posted by Wotgtp
