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

It's too bad that I won't be using them, unless down the road I decide to go turdbo. Lol

Long, long ways down the road... Lol

Wife listened to some of the cams that I've been looking at and comparing, she says the intense stage 3/4 cam sounds like a bunch of rocks in a lawnmower.

She did like the thrasher cam, though...

Ok, so it's starting to get colder, the trans doesn't like the cold at all...

I will hopefully have a better way of dropping the sub frame and trans soon, for right now the plan is to jack it up as high as I can get it to go, unbolting it all, and dropping the trans and subframe together...then sliding it out from under the car and taking the trans off the subframe. Then bolt it back in and bring the car back down onto it's wheels so it looks like it's just parked.

Then I'll be hauling it down into the basement, mounting it onto something and starting the painfully slow process of "fixing"...

It's going to include new input piston, seal, PCS, clutch packs and valve body cleaning / whatever upgrades I can get in with a budget. Of course, the gaskets, seals and worn parts that need to be replaced for proper function will get ordered as well... Along with a bunch of fancy tools. Lol

I've already got the manuals on digits, I just need time to do all of this.

read bills tranny how to. your over thinking it all.

Probably, but it's limited space, in a driveway, and the car has to at least appear to be in one piece during the process. Dumb leasing company rules...

And I can't use a hoist or stand outside. Lol

you need none. you hang the engine with a 4x4 and a chain. drop the sub frame, then drop the tranny, cars on jack stands. hood aint gonna close tho. so maybe take it off and tarp the engine up nice.

I was thinking of getting a piece of angle iron and either supporting the drivers side from the subframe with a quickie bracket or just across the diagonal braces with a chain, in addition to bolting the rest of the mounts back up.

It needs to look like the car could be driven... Regardless of if it's going to move. Lol

your missing the fact that theres no more sub frame lol engine is 330 lbs, cross brace wont cut it.

you could use steel across the rad support to the cowl and a chain to take up less space and get the hood mostly closed.

Alright, so two pieces of 1/4 angle iron, from rad support to cowl, chained to the engine block.

It might be sitting like that for quite a while... It all depends on how quickly I can pull apart a trans and replace things, then add two weeks for the shipping and probably another week to get it back in, because byv then it will be snowing... Lol

you need one of these....

Actually, even one of those isn't allowed by my leasing company. Yeah, I know... I got screwed royally.

They claim it will detract from the curb appeal, but I think the pastel green and mauve do that already. It's like they're using army logic or something... Lol

id love to set one up in the parking lot i illegally park in nightly, see if they say some thing then lol

I wonder what they would say if I set one up behind the house...lol just claim that it's a shed and the GP is at a shop. lol

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,, i wont tell no one.

Lol thanks Scotty.

Remote start is at the mail room, here in a few I'm going to go pick it up and start digging into that... Might figure out which horn wire went bad while I'm in there.

First look at it is slightly disconcerting... Lol



But during the trim removal, to get to all of these wires that need splicing, I think I found my problem horn wire... If it's not that, it still needs fixed anyways. Lol



Time to get the soldering iron warmed up...

I haven't touched the damn thing in two days, night shift sucks...

But I think I've found most of the wires I need to splice into, just have to pull more of the dash apart to get everything mounted all nice and out of the way, and try to keep things from rubbing...

That seems to be my main issue with stuff around the steering column, which I want to clean up while it's all exposed anyways. Rust is a terrible material for car interior design. Lol

Ordered the police impala LCAs today from RA... Almost 60 bucks just for shipping. They should be here in a week or two, then I'll have much better suspensions up front.

On a side note, my LTFTs were staying way too rich, idle wouldn't come up from -25 even after 3 hours of just sitting there... I flashed the stock MAF table back in and after 30 minutes they were at -9.32. I guess removing the intake insert changed quite a bit. Lol

I do have to make a plate for the intake still...it's no HV3, but it should help some with the turbulence and it only cost me 3 bucks in sheet aluminum. Lol

I got bored and looked some stuff up, updated the first post in this thread with some backstory and stuff, if anyone's interested in things like that. Lol

Still working on that damn remote start install...

This is the farthest apart I've gotten the dash before... Still trying to find my problem horn wire.