2004 grand prix gt2 performance ideas

[sevenhellz]

After reading sevenhellz posts I think I have lost a few IQ points.

Dude, just stop. You are clueless about cars. Fancy oil is just that, fancy oil. You aren't protecting the internals any more than you would using the cheap stuff. Your "fancy" oil isn't helping.... ANY. I have only ever seen temps that high on a few occasions and that was when the temperature was 50+ degrees hotter than it is in your pic and it was in stop and go traffic.

BTW all I have in my transmission is Valvoline. It has 168k miles on it and still shifts super smooth.

Yup I’m clueless about cars. iv replaced valve cover gaskets on VW's and head gaskets on fieros. Replaced water pumps, radiators, power steering pumps, sh1t ton of suspension work. i don’t pay other people to do my work. Never had any problems doing sh1t myself but you know I’m clueless about cars. Too bad I’m in my 2nd year as an auto tech and have passed all my classes with 3.0+ and over 30 credit hours in auto classes so far. Sorry for my inputs and standing up for what i do with my vehicles. You can continue this thread and i won’t input in any more. Or any other thread for that matter sense clearly there’s no respect for others opinions or past experience/real world experience.

 

[stealthee]

You're my hero.

Everyone else has real world experience, and they obviously know more than you do.

Royal Purple didn't decrease your temps, new fluid did.

You are the one with a lack of respect. When there are several others telling you that you are wrong you continue to argue and act like they are the idiots.

Oh wow, you have auto classes? I have REAL WORLD experience.

 

[Below Average Joe]

I wish we had the like button for the above comment

 

[loopy smurf]

Knowing how to replace parts in no way reflects any understanding over the "WHY" you are replacing those parts or what they will do, or how it can be improved. I have taken absolutely zero auto tech classes. I can change my brakes, do my struts, change my oil, do a bit of exhaust work, tune-ups, tons of other stuff...but that in no way means I have any understanding of how those parts interact to make the car run at an optimal level. Do I know what struts do? Of course. Do I know how to make them better? Not a clue. I'm not a mechanical engineer, therefore I can provide no level of expertise on what tilting your motor with shorter dogbones will do to the operation of a vehicle. Can I put shorter dogbones on my car? You bet your bippy...easy as pie. I can change my oil without thinking about it, but I don't have a great enough understanding of fluid dynamics or thermal dynamics to know what different types of oil will do in my engine.

One thing I DO know is that I would never rely solely on the talking/marketing points presented on a manufacturer/vendor website. I put MUCH more faith in the experience of people that have actually used the products, and know what that particular item did. What it helped, but more importantly - what it hurt.

Big difference between being able to change a part out to a different one, and knowing the reasoning behind doing it.