Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

I saw junk mentioned, and then peeking under skirts so I had to log in lol. Kaiser you have skinned the proverbial cat on that core support. The tractor makes a pretty fair frame machine, in a pinch. Will you fix it the rest of the way and sell it?

Changed oil on my G6. Dont have my grand prix, ended up getting 5600 for the car, 450 for the 17" wheels off a gtp. Was about -20 out when changed my oil, 4500 miles and it was dark.

Running mobil one high milage with k n oil filter. Costs me about 30$ a oil change. 100K miles it hit the other day.

Originally Posted by CrazyGuy03

So you're not scrapping / parting it out ?

Thankfully not, lol.

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

I saw junk mentioned, and then peeking under skirts so I had to log in lol. Kaiser you have skinned the proverbial cat on that core support. The tractor makes a pretty fair frame machine, in a pinch. Will you fix it the rest of the way and sell it?

It is, I was surprised how well it worked. Yup, currently in search of a few parts, I think I might keep it and sell the GTP. Cheap nice car to drive till the next thing comes along.

Damn dude

Nothing..well filled it with gas. Gathered some more parts to go on it come springtime



After pulling the sunshade out let's say probably 6 years ago. Decided to finally do something about it, had a piece of material left over from when I did my headliner years ago. Of course my ocd wouldn't allow me to leave the top faded so that was painted too. Now to figure out why my sunroof doesn't always want to open and find the time to get this sucker installed,

Originally Posted by GoldGTP

LOL! What's the wiffle ball bat for? Stress management?

Originally Posted by GoldGTP

'03 GTP -- date on original shaft is 09/14/02
Do they make a hardened sun gear shaft?

I'd shoot a PM to Billboost and GMRBadass. They may have what you need sitting on a shelf.

Bought replacement 194's for the instrument panel, and a battery for the 'Maro

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Smack the tank first to confirm it's the pump. Sometimes that can bring them back to life and check fuses and power to the pump aswell.

painted my gen v

After doing some diagnosis it came up with a p0520 code, so something to do with the oil pressure sending unit, or hopefully a ground with it we are going to try and tackle it down shortly, and also one of the coils actually split apart, so there must have been some condensation in it (but the car has been running absolutely great up until now) that caused it to expand and crack like this, and of course one of the few spare parts I don't have from my collection of spare parts is a coil lol. This cold weather is making everything harder to do but now it is in buddies heated shop and on the positive it's only minus 20 today lol

I created a thread asking for any input

http://www.grandprixforums.net/threa...69#post1411569

Originally Posted by AaroGaming

Bought a battery for the 'Maro

I like the sound of that. New meat is always funnest.

I just flogged the GTP as usual today, nother bellyfulla Shell 91 another week. Primed a nasty 70 Mustang today though. Do unto others'.

Painting just makes a mess, doesn't it? lol

Do you do anything special to prevent paint from getting where it's not supposed to, or just some sort of sheet and green painters tape? Seems we always get paint specs where they don't belong at least somewhere when we do tractors... I envy your paint bay though, nothing like pvc piping, sheets of plastic, tape, and buckets of water on the floor in our shop to paint when we can't do it outside.

Originally Posted by Kaiser Pontiac

Painting just makes a mess, doesn't it? lol

Do you do anything special to prevent paint from getting where it's not supposed to, or just some sort of sheet and green painters tape? Seems we always get paint specs where they don't belong at least somewhere when we do tractors... I envy your paint bay though, nothing like pvc piping, sheets of plastic, tape, and buckets of water on the floor in our shop to paint when we can't do it outside.

Yeah what you see is what I use. Continuous car cover plastic, green 3M tape and white masking paper. Nuthin special. BUT- that masking job ate up a whole day. That might be the difference. Kinda enjoy masking, it takes me back. Got a pretty clean mask job on it if I do say so myself but it takes a painter to see the neatness / thrifty-ness of it. I clean first, including where tape will go. Most guys grab 6" paper for that bottom edge of the rocker and throw wheel maskers on it. I make a full skirt so overspray can't migrate when I go low with the gun. With the rear-to-front airflow, the ends of this job weren't as critical to seal off but that stuff drifts. Theres stuff called overspray masking liquid (many brands and names) that can be sprayed on anything pretty much and its like a dry film of soap. Spray it everywhere you're not painting including dirty stuff, let dry and do the work then rinse it off when done. We don't use it since most stuff is bare bodies there but it has many applications.

Now the mixing bench... is like painter-flaged:

I enjoy masking too, lol. That overspray masking liquid sounds pretty legit, I'll have to pass that on to my Dad. We'll be painting 2/3 tractors pretty soon here.

He might go into sticker shock. You need a lot and its best to dedicate a gun to it. 3M calls it OML. Without searching, the only other name I know it by is slime. Check with paint store dudes. While you're there, ask about the wide car covers. They make the roll plastic in like van width. Lotta folks have trouble getting it unfolded all the way at first but they have it like 16' wide. The letters run down the middle, I have it sideways on the stang.

You wouldn't believe how many good guys have a mental block on masking. I painted in a production crash shop 2 years solid and got it licked but theres a learning curve. I was fortunate to work next to a masking ninja those two years, he could smoke everybody.

Nothing today, I think im going to put the new driver seat into my g6 soon..The heated seat does not work on that seat, the passenger is nice and toasty. I got a set of leather seats out of a 08 coupe, was 60$ i just had to get them out. They been sitting in my garage for a month, waiting for temps to go into the 30-40s then Ill do it. Sell the extra set I have for 200-250 hopefully.

this is a clean work station even for a painter. but i never used dixie's product before.....

Originally Posted by idrivejunk

The bottom of the car got power washed when I hit a few inches of water that were sitting in the road.

We started getting hit with heavy rainfall last night. That coupled with warmer temps (38*) and the melting snow made for lots of water. I didn't even see the water laying until I was in it. Thankfully the car didn't choke or stumble or throw a belt and trucked right through.