Thread: 04 gp gt: low, slow and a dirty sloot.

I'm not arguing with ya....

But it survived being frozen. Twice. Like -50* F frozen. Block of ice frozen. Worse than the movie. Frozen.

It's staying there until it dies. Or until I need more battery.

I bought more parts. again.

still a crappy n/a.... again

And it shall be the best handling crappy N/A.

With shiny door handles

Now get those dusty bootprints off the door panel and you'll really be getting somewhere...lol

nah.. lol

It's a dirty sloot. It's gonna stay dirty. lol

Why do you kick your door?

That's not from kicking, that's from the side of my boot.

If I never had to carry things with me while getting out of my car, I would have less scuffs on my doors, because I wouldn't need to use my foot to open the door fully.

Saw the longest shift EVER... 2-3 was 2.5 seconds on the way to work this morning. 1-2 and 3-4 were both .3 seconds, so I think I can narrow down the issue for whenever I feel like digging into this one.

Regardless, I'm looking at a pretty cheap JY trans with a 90 day warranty, but I'm wanting a new TC just to make the swap faster and easier, while still keeping the warranty.

got me a thing.



Cat approved.



these are nice.

All thanks to PurpleGuy, you've made my entire month.

you let a panther in the house, it ripped the pipes out the walls already, RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

LOL

that cat definitely acts like he's a sleek, powerful killing machine... until he realizes that his teeth don't go through denim so he just lays on the ground between your feet and meows at you until you pick him up. lol

Not nearly as dirty as before, but still a dirty sloot.

This picture shows how much stiff this car took right up the rear end...



Even with the worn out stock struts, this boat carves corners like nobody's business.

The only real mods are the addco rear sway pictured above (with the flimsy stocker pictured above), and the GM STBs (front STB isn't even on right now, needs better mounting hardware). Everything else is just improved stock replacements: Dorman boxed trailing arms, police impala LCAs, Dorman 34mm solid front sway, and poly end links. It doesn't even have poly front sway bushings or the Moog spherical front LCA bushings.

Once I get those few small things, I'm thinking about doing an autocross course just to quantify how much of an improvement you can do with mostly stock replacement parts.

Nix the autocross idea, the only place up here that has anything like that wants $150 per run on the course.

But it's still getting terrible gas mileage, which I want to say is because of my inability to keep myself from slamming the gas pedal every time I go anywhere... But I know it has to do with the o2 sensor, because before the trims started learning I got a full week out of 1/4 tank, and not even half a week out of the other 3/4 tank.

Drove it like I stole it the entire time.

Anyone got cheap ideas for cleaning an o2 sensor? I'd just go buy one if I didn't have to fly back home end of this week...

Never mind on that cleaning the o2 sensor, my brain stops working when I'm tired.

Of course one cannot clean an o2 sensor and make it work as it should, but one should not have to spend more than $40 to get a new o2 sensor locally, yet the cheapest I can find is $68.99 at O'Reillys.

I hate this place.

Now that I've changed the oil, put in NGK tr55's, and a fresh tank of gas, I have less KR....

Which doesn't matter with regards to anything other than a slightly interesting discussion about things that don't matter.

Found it.



Looks like I'll be needing a new one of those at some point in the future... Especially with the (eventual) plans that I have for this car (a long time from now)...

But I'm keeping those plans a secret.

Meanwhile, junk tie rods are junk, junk axle is junk, junk trans cooler lines are junk, junk engine and trans mounts are junk, and junk struts are junk. Plus the junk exhaust and junk lateral links...

But the strut towers are mint, and the rockers only need a few hours with the right tools.

Nasty old chunks of rust:



Now they look slightly less terrible...



I was gonna go with red, but they didn't have any... I did find a rattle that I was mildly annoyed with.



Rattle gone.

I've been in Kansas for one full day, and I've already seen so many other GP's it's actually slightly disturbing.

My own is just sitting, plugged in because the battery is starting to die now (Murphy's law) and waiting for me to get more new parts and install them.