Thread: My 97 Transformation - Sound of a New Rebuild.

This is my 97 after a bad accident.
I started putting her back together over 3 years ago
This is how she has evolved

The dates on the pictures are all out of whack




New parts From ebay and the junk yard.

Piecing her back together slowly







Primer and straightened frame

Finally looking like a Grand Prix again





And She's off for paint. (orange crush pearl)
hence my gp-forums user name







Now The fun begins.
MODS!!!
Modular pulley system
VS cam
valve springs
exhaust
headers
new brakes
intake
tune
ported blower
new tie rods
new wheel bearings
New gaskets, plugs, wires etc...






Now we have a low 13 second sleeper!

The Power of the car did not match the color at all, so decided to repaint Bright red with White rally stripes (plus my orange turned out copper)


A little too brown for me










Turns out, the car was too fast for the suspension, so I had to do some upgrades.

Shortly after, the tranny started to go out, so I called up Dave at triple edge performance to bring her back to life.


BACK TO THE SHOP AGAIN!!!






TEP Street/Strip Transmission 3.29's




New Dynomax Mufflers and tips on The gp

Lowered 1.1/4 inch by ssc springs



And after a little cleaning up, New parts and painting under the hood. This is how she sits today

looks pretty good man i like it. how come u didnt continue the stripes on the front and rear bumper? And i think i ahve watched teh vid of you walking around your car on youtube

cleann

how bad was it to fix the damage on the quarter panel? my car is really banged up and ill need a whole new quarter panel.

Originally Posted by BoostnBlackGTP

looks pretty good man i like it. how come u didnt continue the stripes on the front and rear bumper? And i think i ahve watched teh vid of you walking around your car on youtube

Thanks man. I wanted to pull the stripes down, but I was scared I'd mess up the car. I think thats next on the list. And yeah, that was probably me on youtube.

Originally Posted by zildjian102

how bad was it to fix the damage on the quarter panel? my car is really banged up and ill need a whole new quarter panel.

The rear quarter panel is a b!tch. I Probably would have done better just getting a new one.

Looks good...shoulda painted it a brighter orange...like Sunset Orange Metallic.
My brother had a Ninja painted Orange Glow over Sterling Silver

well my car definetly needs a new one lol.. How much labor would you say is involved in replacing the quarter panel?

We mostly had to take the back seats out, the rear interior panel on the driver side, and pounded the snot out of the inner quarter panel to bump it out. Then it was a lot of filler, bondo, sanding and so on.It was at least 3-4 good hard work days back there just on the quarter panel.

nice color choices.

nice lookin car, where in michigan are you?

Originally Posted by stevenk8

nice lookin car, where in michigan are you?

Thanks bro. I'm back and forth from Lansing to Macomb County all the time with work and 2 places and a family

what did the TEP transmission run ya?

^^Plenty.

Clean car...progress pics are awesome, especially when they come from what you started out with.

Hopefully you got 300m input shafts or equivalents so you can toss some slicks on that things and run 12's as it sits

Originally Posted by 4THGENCAMAROFAN

Looks good...shoulda painted it a brighter orange...like Sunset Orange Metallic.
My brother had a Ninja painted Orange Glow over Sterling Silver

YESSS! Thats kind of what I wanted, but I ended up just playing it safe

Originally Posted by 02gpgt88

nice color choices.

Thank you sir!

Originally Posted by Spartan GL

what did the TEP transmission run ya?

They start at $1650 I do believe

Originally Posted by bluegtp91

^^Plenty.

Clean car...progress pics are awesome, especially when they come from what you started out with.

Hopefully you got 300m input shafts or equivalents so you can toss some slicks on that things and run 12's as it sits

Thanks man. I'm running a new stock input shaft, so I won't be putting many Slick passes on her. I think I could pull a high 12 on a good pair of Nittos or g-forces ... maybe

Thats nice as hell! Where did you get the corner panel? Mine needs a bandaid =/

Originally Posted by LowRidinCrew

Thats nice as hell! Where did you get the corner panel? Mine needs a bandaid =/

Thanks!. It's the same quarter panel, I just bumped it out from the inside and Then used body filler to even things out the best I could

Just saw this car yesterday and its looks great in person

Originally Posted by stevenk8

Just saw this car yesterday and its looks great in person

Thanks bro. Where did you catch me at? I barely drive it in the winter, but I did have it out yesterday for about a half hour

You were pulling out onto hall road from like where boarders books is.