What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

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Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

visual, they drive over a camera in the floor. no sniffer here, only obd2 scan. and i passed all that clearly lol

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Bummer. I hear that Reynaldo is a real stickler. LOL

Funny how things change depending on where you stand. They call it "tampering" we call it "modding."

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Originally Posted by Mad Monkey

yeah broco bro, sorry to chime in, but those are just Fat5's

the pregens are almost the same but middle is inside more like those pics.

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Ya, I can clearly see the difference now. Oh well, live and learn.

Well what you don't know can't hurt you right? You could have mounted tires on 4 of those and drove them and been perfectly happy. Now we have wrecked it for ya

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Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

Well what you don't know can't hurt you right?

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Yup. Just nickels and dimes the pocket book. LOL

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You could have mounted tires on 4 of those and drove them and been perfectly happy. Now we have wrecked it for ya

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Perfectly happy? NOT! What would have happened is that I would have got them on the car, then said WTF when I see that the offset is the same as what I had. I'm glad you guys pointed it out, cuz if I had paid to have them M&B'd, then found out, lets just say.... Hulk Smash! :th_laugh-lol2:

I might run them once I get the 4th wheel here, but worst case I throw them back on Craigslist and recoupe as much money as i can. I only have $100 tied up at this point for all 4 wheels.

Those are what came on one of my 97 gtps stock.
pre-gens have Pontiac machined on one of the spokes. look for that in your when you are searching for them.
I have only seen pre-gens painted silver.

You can get $100 out of them probably, they make decent winter rims

One more time.
What is the magic solution besides powder coating that will stick to nickel plating. Dupli primer, base and clear, chip bad
Ready to do the dip with clear..
Maybe some Rustoleum high performance wheel paint and clear.....these have to be black.

http://i1359.photobucket.com/albums/...pszlmpaxmn.jpg

How did you prep them?

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Originally Posted by seventone

Those are what came on one of my 97 gtps stock.
pre-gens have Pontiac machined on one of the spokes. look for that in your when you are searching for them.
I have only seen pre-gens painted silver.

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Thanks for that info.

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Originally Posted by Mad Monkey

You can get $100 out of them probably, they make decent winter rims

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Ya, that's how I feel.

So now I have a set of torque-stars, snowflakes, fat5's, and 3 pregens (looking into repairing the 4th). Any other wheels I should stock? :th_laugh-lol2:

Went across the border last night to pick up my pillar pod. Got home and found the GP fairy dropped of a front strut tower brace for me.

Finally got to see the cluster LEDs at night.

http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...pst8a207mf.jpg

Now onto the harder LED stuff, the DIC, climate control, and window switches...

Replaced the front shocks on my sons Z71 this morning. Feeling good.

You did tigthen the top nut after the truck was lowered on the ground right??

Atleast thats the proper way to do it.

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Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

You did tigthen the top nut after the truck was lowered on the ground right??

Atleast thats the proper way to do it.

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Yes Sir, just like that. It rides so smooth now with all new shocks on 4 corners.

My crapiler brackets came today.

craplier lol

Headed for lunchtime burnouts in the fun machine now. Took the camera to the shop today so maybe hot rod peeks later!

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Originally Posted by The Guz

Mine has been having a little hiccup for the last couple days when driving. Cleaned the MAF and that wasn't it. It's not the trans. It's something electrical or a sensor. Caught it with HP Tuners when scanning it on my drive in to work. Time to figure out what it is.

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Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Sent you a pm with your answer..

It's a crank sensor.

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Originally Posted by The Guz

Got your PM. Thanks. I charged up my lap top at work and scanned it with HP Tuners on the way home. Did it 3 times. Checked the DTC's and it came up with P0102 and P0171, pointing towards the MAF. Going to swap it out for another MAF I pulled from the salvage yard. I cleaned it but that had no effect. It was still doing ot. I was getting no SES light. You bring up a good point. I'm going to keep a crank sensor on hand. Never know.

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Thanks to Bill. We were able to isolate this as being the MAF and not the crank sensor. Ended up swapping over the other MAF I had pulled from the salvage yard to give it a go and cleared any DTC's. The car is running good so far.

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Originally Posted by idrivejunk

craplier lol

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They were so filthy and covered in brake dust it seemed fitting lol

ordered the cat to fix the tampering issue.

also ordered some carbide tip grinders for some diy head porting.

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Originally Posted by The Guz

How did you prep them?

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I sanded and wire brushed, followed by Dupli paint prep. Then some coats of green self etching primer,dupli perfect match black and clear multiple coats each.

I just bought some black plastdip to use as a primer. Wrappin it front and back with the dip then a couple Duplicolor black caliper gloss coats.
Last will be some Dupli wheel clear. The only 2 paints that had the same ingredients. Plenty of flat and satin wheel paint to be had but no black gloss.
Thats why the caliper paint. Hopefully with the dip it will be more resilient.