Thread: My 2000 TransAm

I got the button installed yesterday. I ended up removing the lighter plug next to the TCS button and installing the perf shift button there as it had the same diameter and it has another lighter plug next to the e-brake anyway. it took me way longer than I had expected, but it's finally done.

Yes lol but I can't keep my foot off the pedal. :P

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Why did you go with such a small cam?

Also, I don't think I read about any exhaust work. That thing needs to breathe, put some longtube headers and a true dual exhaust on it. Show those odd people in mexico why v8's are clearly better.

Oh, never mind. I just looked at your pictures again and saw the stainless headers. Good.

Originally Posted by LS1GTP

Oh, never mind. I just looked at your pictures again and saw the stainless headers. Good.

Yup, mods are in my signature too. I don't want a bigger cam for a couple of reasons: as you can see the street tires are barely hanging in there, the trans and differential are taking a beating too, that's why I decided to install the perf shift button so I can run them on stock settings most of the time I also don't want this car to lope at idle, it sounds great but I don't like to drive it all day like that and I also didn't want to hurt MPG.

I normally go with the mods that won't hurt MPG, driveability and somewhat comfort. I don't always drive it hard, I like to drive it to work every day comfortably but still have that extra punch in it. I like it to be reliable enough so that I can take my wife with me and drive it down to the beach.

Anyway I'm very pleased with this cam, given that it's one of the smallest out there I didn't expect to see much difference, but it does and a lot! The car sounds different (a little more loud and deep) now other car alarms will trigger when I pass by and I still have the stock muffler in there. It also revs faster and it pulls harder obviously. I also need to press the gas pedal a lot less now, the speedo climbs real quick with very little effort.

Maybe it wont break any dyno or track records, but I like how the engine "behaves" now it feels completely different.

I only have the rear LCAs so far but I also have planned to get relocation brackets, phanard bar and sub frame connectors later this year. Hopefully it will help, I know the LCAs did.

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That's a lot of money for things that won't be doing too much- k-member, and do I see new front spindles at the top? I see no point in those besides a little weight savings.

Originally Posted by Juanmiguel

I only have the rear LCAs so far but I also have planned to get relocation brackets, phanard bar and sub frame connectors later this year. Hopefully it will help, I know the LCAs did.

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Yep those are good suspension mods, I'd get a STB because it's cheap. Don't spend money on a torque arm unless you just have extra money to blow.

The best suspension mod I did to my fbody was definitely springs and shocks. Went with bilsteins and strano springs, what an amazing ride. Not harsh but still nice and firm with a great stance that wasn't too low. I know you like comfort but you should consider it because your shocks could probably be replaced anyway.

Oh yeah man, midwest has some excellent rear ends for fbodys.

I can't lower and/or stiffen the suspension. You see here in this city every moron that thinks that cars drive by their house or business just too damn fast for their taste go and hire someone to put a speed bump outside their house or business without any permit of any kind. So they put as many as they want and as high as they want and the authorities RARELY take out any of these bumps. There's this house in my neighborhood that has THREE speed bumps one after the other right outside. On top of all that they don't take the time to put any signals or even put some paint over the bump so in most cases it has the same color as the road and if you're lucky, it's also placed under the shadow of a tree to make it more stealthy. All these steps ensure two things:

1. The first time you drive by a newly set speed bump you have a very good chance of not seeing it, specially if it's night time or raining which will lead to "Crashing into the speed bump" as I refer to it now. Why? because it's so damn big and you were going so fast that you didn't felt like you went over it, you felt like you crashed into it.

2. Once you learned the location of the new speed bump you stop, but it's so high that you have to pass over it sideways to avoid hitting it with the exhaust which doesn't always work because the street is not wide enough or there's another car next to you.

The rule of thumb to set the height of these things is normally the same height as the curve, but I've seen cases in which they lay down a concrete post (like the ones used for electrical lines) across the street and cover it with concrete or pavement.

Besides all that a lot of the streets around here are in really bad shape. What happens here is that when they make them, they just set the ground surface even and put some pavement on it. No foundation, no concrete. 90% of the streets here are made like that. When it rains they get filled with pot holes and heavy load trucks finish the job. They remain like this the whole rain season, they don't get fixed or nothing until it stops raining. That's a good 4 months worth of random pot holes all over town. Once the rain stops, they go and just cover the pot holes with some pavement (it's just a truck loaded with pavement and 4 or 5 guys with a shovel) and move on. Then the process starts all over again, so after a few years the streets are mainly made of pavement, pot holes, uneven pot hole patches and speed bumps.

Still this is the number one city in Mexico in which people buy aftermarket wheels! lmao! What many of these brave fellows do is that they switch back to the stock wheels in the rain season. But still there are a lot of shops out there that all they do is fix bent and broken wheels and obviously they have a lot of work haha.

So yeah, lowering springs, hardened suspension and lower profile wheels are just a breakdown waiting to happen.