Thread: 06 GXP...NOS+E85+V8= fun

Thought id start keeping current with all mods in one area

2006 GXP


Enigine
-E85
-NX Wet Nitrous kit
-DT Headers
-Header back 3.0inch Exhaust
-Cherry bombs x3 (resonator and mufflers)
-LS2 Intake manifold stage 2 ported by me w/ LS2 90mm TB
-LS7 Card MAF in 4' housing
-MSD Wires
-NGK TR6IX plugs
-4' FWI
-Innovative LC1 wideband
-Poly filled lower engine mounts
-Custom Poly Trans mount
-Billet Dog bone w/poly bushings by me
-DIY Shift kit
-B&M remote mount trans filter
-HAYDEN RV trans cooler
-0 gauge rewire
-HP tuned by me




Suspension
-ZZP Tubular LCA
-Bilstein coilovers on 350# QA1 springs
-GMPP front sway bar w/poly endlinks
-OTTO strut tower brace modified for use on LS4


Misc
-relocated battery to trunk
-Custom mesh grilles by me
-custom DRL's by me
-Retrofitted headlights w/4300K bulbs with ZZP HID wire kit
-Smoked L.E.D tails by me and 3rd brake light
-Debadged
-LED interior lighting (white)
-Carbon fiber D.I.C by me
-sprayed dash panels with duplicolor metallic dark
-plastidipped wheels grilles and exhaust tips by me






Thought id share the ride with you guys bought her 1 june 2012traded in the 97GTP for the 06 GXP....honestly its only cause i needed to start building credit and needed a change. if i could find where the dealer sold the car too id gladly buy it again though. but anyways once i got in the GXP i fell in love with her and theres no going back after hearing the V8 uncorked **** the supercharger whine and raspy exhaust.First mods where RV size transmission cooler and made my own custom DRL lights so i could utilize the hole for my future FWI<br><br>That monday i went ahead and had the factory u bend and resonator all cut out and replaced with 3' pipe to the&nbsp;<br>


lol this shot was taken for all the breaking bad fans out there<br><br>Put the SSC's on dont ask why i painted them green.<br>&nbsp;Did the Factory Grilles and cut out ALL honey comb **** from the lower to the upper to the fender &nbsp;is all mesh<br><br><br><br><br>

Did some Interior work Painted the Upper portion of the instrument cluster Aluminum and clear coated so at night you get a nice suttle reflection of the gauges. Cant tell otherwise in the day time also used duplicolor metallic spray paint to paint the radio bezel and vent cover. the whole point was to kind of tie into the tap shift silver on the console. everything works real well together. I did the same treatment to the DIC took it all apart and painted it black and silver where the display shows nice ambient glow at night.





Yes i cracked the acrylic damn shame too but **** it i learned to live with it.

got the HID's installed you can see where the DRL lights shine out in the bottom slit in the bumper




my attempt at making a decent badge for it

Now onto the suspension and engine ****.



window welded filled in bottom cavity and lockwired to it self so it wouldnt split like the old one did


old motor mount

relocated battery so id never have to deal with this **** just to remove it or do other maintnence





GMPP sway bar with shorter endlinks Sway bar sits perfectly level with ground as it should



The san francisco shot

ill post more in the morning

You know imma steal that grill idea right? lol Did you cut the honeycomb and use the frame to form it?

The car looks great

So nice. Can't wait to see more.

Really sexy GXP.

nice car man!

Got the billet dogbones in i drilled it for using the shorter dogbone style when i suscribed to that theory but poly dosent allow the engine to rock that far without tearing **** up so i stuck with the factory hole, and yes those are sway bar poly bushings used as dogbone bushings same size and cheap just my style lol


New exhaust tips, i think magnaflows look just a little trashy but i just like to be diffrent


Did the LS7 card style MAF upgrade love the improvement and now have the LS2 TB to match that will be coming very soon



The home fabbed 95A poly trans mount figured out you can run straight through so my bolts run all the way through in the future i might ream out the holes and use thicker studs but these grade 8 bolts are holding strong definatley a worth wile upgrade.

relocated trans cooler to the front bumper and installed WIX inline fluid filter for it.


got around to smoking the tails and put on the home depot lip





eventually black rims will come tossing some ideas around for badging might keep them and paint with white plasti dip.

im sure many of you have seen my intake but heres the latest version of everything



im sure i left off a bunch of things so just let me know ill try to update

but here are latest projects to be installed

Coilovers...still grinding the inside of the sleeve major PITA cause of IFR school but ill finish them up soon.




ANNNNNND the LS2 Throttle body 90mm of pure joy..lol soon as i get my adapter and pig tail ill post more.

Lol that would make us even for stealing **** lol anyway yea the grill is actually 2 pieces so i just cut out the honey comb and pressed the mesh screen between the two on reassembly, then plastidip them with about 3-4 coats and all has been well for months and months


Thank you everybody else for your comments glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Lishap

Beautiful car, love what you've done with it so far. What cell phone vent mount is that lol

Motorola i actually took out the vent and its just a platic plate so the suction cup can stick to it

Originally Posted by 91parkave

The home fabbed 95A poly trans mount figured out you can run straight through so my bolts run all the way through in the future i might ream out the holes and use thicker studs but these grade 8 bolts are holding strong definatley a worth wile upgrade.

Can this be done with the older/L67-L32 cars? I would be tempted to try this on mine.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

Can this be done with the older/L67-L32 cars? I would be tempted to try this on mine.

It wouldn't be any different for you but measure the bolt offsets on the top you should have just enough to run bolts straight through if you.

I have a spare trans mount, I'll have to look into this. Where did you get the block. I searched for 95A Poly but just get links to tubing lol.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

I have a spare trans mount, I'll have to look into this. Where did you get the block. I searched for 95A Poly but just get links to tubing lol.

eBay for polyurethane bar stock mine is 3' by 3' by 11 cost about 65 shipped

Originally Posted by Koniig

Thanks for making me wish even more so that mine was white. Sexy car, friend.

How much work is needed to do an LS7 MAF? Or, I should say, what would I need to do to run one in mine?

Also, the grilles are sex. Where did you get the material from to do them?

Its real easy tuning was interesting but I have it dialed in check under the 5.3 section here you'll see my writeup also I bought a sheet of the mesh **** at Lowes and cut to fit