Thread: Jomamma's Bagged Red 97 GTP | Somethings Always Broken |

Its about time I made a thread.

Let me start by introducing myself.

My name's Joe and I live in Howell New Jersey. I've been on here since February 2012 which is exactly when I bought my car, Horace. Horace got his name from his previous owner, the elderly man in one of the pictures below. Yup that's right garage kept and grandpa driven from 11 miles all the way until 46k on the clock.

What I've done so far:

Installed new headunit
2 10" kicker comp vr subs with a kicker 1000.1 amp rated at 1200 watts
99+ washer fluid bottle
Home depot intake
New blower motor resistor
Aluminum coolant elbows
TInted LED lights
Gen V
Metal LIM Gaskets
ZZP headers
Air Bag suspension

Soon to come:

HS 1.9 roller rockers
Pulley drop



Horace to the right and my Dad on the left.


The day I got it



More pics




Polished my tips



After a wash and wax with zano products







My old gp in the background.


My old gp, and my dads solstice



Got rid of that ugly washer fluid bottle and stole the one out of my silver gp



Plastidipped the front and rear lower facia's before the winter



That's basically how it sits today with 65k one the clock. (4/16/13)

I painted my Gen V last week


Getting ready to put it one in a few weeks.

LED tails came in the mail the other day

started working on re-tinting them today


How long should I let the clear coats cure before sanding and buffing

Clean ride dude! Welcome to the forum happy modding!

Very clean for the year.

let the clear coat set up for a full day.

damn nice car BTW.

Thanks guys.

And I put the tails in my car already. Ill take them out again tomorrow after class and sand them and buff them to a shine

Those tails are so shiny.

Car is amazingly clean. Looks good.

Originally Posted by DanPrixGTP

Those tails are so shiny.

Car is amazingly clean. Looks good.

That was before the clear, they're a little more foggy looking now... until I buff em out.

Ill post pics as soon as they're done

Clean looking ride man. So how did you do the tails? Bought the LED Smoked ones then went through the process of VHT?

I bought used ones that were already tinted. I stripped the tint sanded it and retinted.

They were the clear black ones

These Black 97 03 Pontiac Grand Prix Philips Lumileds LED Perform Tail Lights Lamps | eBay

Very clean ride and the tails are awesome. keep up the good work Sir.

I think you're refering to the coolant overflow bottle? It relocates it to the front passenger strut tower

Originally Posted by camopaint0707

What exactly does that windshield washer bottle mod do?

The 97's and 98's had a stupid place for the windshield washer fluid bottle. Under the passenger side diagonal brace.

99+ was hidden in the passenger fender well. Its just an appearance mod

Originally Posted by JDrach

I think you're refering to the coolant overflow bottle? It relocates it to the front passenger strut tower

No, thats something different. I stole one of those too out of my old gp.

i think the led ones are kind of ugly without tint

They are that's why I re-tinted them.

bet they look good, though

They're damn shiny now



They're far from perfect but a lot better than they were. Its a good 5-10 footer which is good for now.

I burned some of it off while buffing it with a power drill. I guess I could try and touch it up.

1. Hello Jomamma it appears that today is your Birthday.We just wanted to wish you a happy birthday.

Why thank you GPF