Ghost99GT
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Thought I'd do a thread on my GP, my mods will take FOREVER to do since I'm currently working Part Time, plus side is though I get parts discounts :th_biggrin2:
Just bought my first Grand Prix, a White GT Coupe this past Monday, and have been planning stuff since! In case you didn't see my intro, it's a 1999 with a new 3800 Series II that was installed 3 years ago, car wasn't driven much since and has only had 30k or so put on it since then, car itself has 167,6xx miles on it, a new Radiator was installed along with a new Starter when the engine was installed. It's the Black Leather interior(perfect BTW!) with the heated seat, HUD, DIC, has a JVC Headunit, aftermarket Alarm with Keyless Entry, Tinted windows, rear defrost. The girl I bought it from was asking $1500, I went and looked at it, drove it after I talked to Booba about what to look for the night before, found it needed struts, a tune-up, the power window motors replaced, sunroof fixed, fog lights fixed, have a squealing pulley somewhere.. asked her if she'd take $1200 for it after the test drive and she said yes. Only issue was she didn't have the title, she broke up with a BF and he took the title, so I gave her $600 to hold it til Monday, which finally rolled around after a day and a half of anticipation.... everything at the Tag Agency went smooth and I walked away with the keys and the alarm fob.
I then gave it a tune up, used NGK TR55's, Bosch Wires(better than the Duralast brand I stock at work), found the route cause of why I didn't have Fog's, vacuumed it out, and found out the passengerside wiper arm is stripped on the mounting hole, also rotated the Dog Bone Bushings... Then the Tuesday it died on me while sitting at a stop sign, then would act like it was back firing and such under throttle, had to put it in neutral and rev it to keep it running(making some people think I was trying to race I guess cause they'd gun it at a light), Pulled P0102, P0134, and a P1133 code, first two I thought were O2 but were actually MAF after talking with Booba. So I bought some carb cleaner and a new air filter(will make a homebrew HAI later) and proceeded with cleaning the MAF, the TB, the IAC as well, old filter was NASTY which probably explains why the MAF was messing up, TB had a bunch of tan **** come out of it, same with IAC. Buttoned it all back up and it sat for a day, was busy with other things..
So today rolls around, took the car around town a little(my town is kinda small but not too small), got it up to OT and all was well, Throttle Response was WAY better than before, hooked up the code reader while I was at work and erased my codes so my SES light would go off(annoying little ****ing thing).
Here's a few of the same pics from my Intro thread:
First upgrade is gonna be the Impala front brakes, mine still have quite a bit of life left, but I'll buy the parts to have when the time comes.
Just bought my first Grand Prix, a White GT Coupe this past Monday, and have been planning stuff since! In case you didn't see my intro, it's a 1999 with a new 3800 Series II that was installed 3 years ago, car wasn't driven much since and has only had 30k or so put on it since then, car itself has 167,6xx miles on it, a new Radiator was installed along with a new Starter when the engine was installed. It's the Black Leather interior(perfect BTW!) with the heated seat, HUD, DIC, has a JVC Headunit, aftermarket Alarm with Keyless Entry, Tinted windows, rear defrost. The girl I bought it from was asking $1500, I went and looked at it, drove it after I talked to Booba about what to look for the night before, found it needed struts, a tune-up, the power window motors replaced, sunroof fixed, fog lights fixed, have a squealing pulley somewhere.. asked her if she'd take $1200 for it after the test drive and she said yes. Only issue was she didn't have the title, she broke up with a BF and he took the title, so I gave her $600 to hold it til Monday, which finally rolled around after a day and a half of anticipation.... everything at the Tag Agency went smooth and I walked away with the keys and the alarm fob.
I then gave it a tune up, used NGK TR55's, Bosch Wires(better than the Duralast brand I stock at work), found the route cause of why I didn't have Fog's, vacuumed it out, and found out the passengerside wiper arm is stripped on the mounting hole, also rotated the Dog Bone Bushings... Then the Tuesday it died on me while sitting at a stop sign, then would act like it was back firing and such under throttle, had to put it in neutral and rev it to keep it running(making some people think I was trying to race I guess cause they'd gun it at a light), Pulled P0102, P0134, and a P1133 code, first two I thought were O2 but were actually MAF after talking with Booba. So I bought some carb cleaner and a new air filter(will make a homebrew HAI later) and proceeded with cleaning the MAF, the TB, the IAC as well, old filter was NASTY which probably explains why the MAF was messing up, TB had a bunch of tan **** come out of it, same with IAC. Buttoned it all back up and it sat for a day, was busy with other things..
So today rolls around, took the car around town a little(my town is kinda small but not too small), got it up to OT and all was well, Throttle Response was WAY better than before, hooked up the code reader while I was at work and erased my codes so my SES light would go off(annoying little ****ing thing).
Here's a few of the same pics from my Intro thread:
First upgrade is gonna be the Impala front brakes, mine still have quite a bit of life left, but I'll buy the parts to have when the time comes.
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