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1997 Black GTP - Soon To Be Thumping.

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Re: 1997 Black GTP - Is Now Going Intercooled.

Got another piece of the puzzle completed for the intercooler.

Bought some modded rails from Smuts. Decided to install them to get the nasty stock fuel rails away.

Yay for new parts:


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Going to be putting my Short Stack up for sale soon, since the original buyer backed out. to fund for a Full size core.

I also finally rolled my rear fenders, since everytime the back end squatted it would rub and started to see marks on the tires. No more rubbing :)
 
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Have you thought about putting an arrowhead (maybe off a G6?) on your relay box? I think it'd look really good on there.
 


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Negative.

It's a "newer" girlfriend. My first present ever from her was an intercooler. Definitely putting a ring on her. Lol
 
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Boo.

I drove ten hours and didn't even get to see this car.

THANKS DAN.
 
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So now that the SSIC sold it's time to go all out and get a FSIC and E85 right?
 


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Doubt it. He put all that money into it unless something expensive goes wrong (trans) or that cancer..I'm sure he's keeping it and the trans already been addressed.


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Well, here's the plan kid's.

I did sell the short stack, and I've actually purchased a full size core. It's an old school PRJ Core, or so I've been told.







But Ace isn't wrong, I've been heavily thinking about parting the car out and selling it. This constant 14.9*of cruising KR is killing my MPG. Averaging 13.7ish MPG and I can't keep up with it. Josh and I try turning off the Knock sensors under 3k RPM but with a '97, it's not that easy. DHP doesn't have a setting for it. So you have to go through Tiny Tuners, and when we did, we got a CheckSum error and caused the car to not start.

Where I stand now, is I sent my PCM to Scotty and we believe he figured out the issue but it was a complete headache for him. He believes my BIN is bad on the PCM causing the tuner to not fully read, and error out. Luckily, he had another '97 BIN file from Bill with a different OSID Number, copied my tune onto the new BIN, everything seemed to work properly without an error. (Something like that). So once I receive my PCM back from him, it will need a security learn, then i'll see if the sensors are turned off. If not, then I believe it may be time to end my 3800 scene with my car.

For the KR, I have figured out it is noise related. I added 4 gallons of 110 octane, when I was on E and the KR was still just as bad. It's definitely picking up a noise from somewhere, but it's a needle in a hay stack to figure out what it causing the certain frequency the sensors are picking up. I've been told, it's probably a trans related noise.
 
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That would suck man, I really like your car. I can understand though. It gets to a point where you just get pissed off looking at it.
 


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Booba5185 said:
That would suck man, I really like your car. I can understand though. It gets to a point where you just get pissed off looking at it.
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Quoted for the truth.

Hope you stick with it.. And yes that's a old skool prj IC nice pick up



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Re: 1997 Black GTP - Is Now Going Intercooled.

I don't get pissed off looking at it, I get pissed every time I drive it and at the gas station.

With constant KR while driving, I only have 0 - 5* of Ignition timing. The car runs like sh1t. I let my girlfriend drive it the other day, and she even said something as to why it just "Didn't want to go." Also, with that low of timing, the car gets sh1t MPG. Trying to find the one minute sound the sensors are picking up, is nearly impossible. Plus with the rust getting worse and daily driven in Michigan year round, it will rot to the ground if not taken care of soon enough.

I'd hate to see it go, as it's a gorgeous car and have many more plans with her, but if this issue doesn't get straightened out, it's just not worth it at this point. Looking pretty can only get you so far.
 
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I am no tuning expert but I believe to correct the checksum error you just need to load the bin back into the dhp and make a change to the bin and resave it. Like any change. I believe that is all I had to do to get mine to work.
 
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