Hi everyone. Been reading for a few days and am starting to learn alot about the car I have.
My 99 GTP has about 170,000 miles (about 265,000 KM im Canadian).
I bought it with 190,000 KM on it about 1.5 years ago for $1000 Canadian.
It had been well looked after by the previous owner.
Thing is it's my only car and I put on a lot of miles to get to work.
I recently needed all new exhaust and was lucky to find a guy to sell me a next to new Borla Cat back... likely worth $1400 Canadian. Bought it for $300 even and a local muffler shop put it on for $100.
The same guy also sold me a 3.4 pulley and a puller for $100 which I thought was better than half price.
Now, due to all the reading I've done on this site I have the bug to modify.
But should I?
I will need....
1) Headers
2) colder plugs
3) Tstat
4) cone filter(I have already but like the mods I seen on this site)
and the sticky for modding suggests I also do the Lower Intake Manifold Gaskets/Coolant Elbows (2) ...
THis all sounds costly for a 170,000 Mile car doesn't it?
What shoudl I be doing?
a) nothing
b) mod it and if it blows up strip all the parts I bought(headers, borla, plugs, etc) and wait to find a nother car.
I am a car salesman at a GM dealer so it's not unreasonable to think another GTP could come along. I really like the dark forest green I have though.
Headers will cost me abotu $300 min plus $50 shipping... I'll have to pay someone to put those on, pay someone for the gaskets and etc...
I think the labour is going to be twice the cost of the parts!
I shouldn't do this on such a high mileage car should I?
By the way the tranny went at 225,000 KM and I had the GM dealer drop in a used one that had about 80,000 miles on it(125,000 KM)
