Thread: 2000 GTP: Still Alive! New Trans?

Run that first one by your chick if you don't know what to think of it. Visually a big change but kinda a popular show car treatment. You'd only be adding black, not spraying any white.

That was hard as hell to make the hood anywhere near white, harder than I thought. Best I can do for free lol. Feel free to play with the image.



Picture this treatment with black rails. This was the muscley-er idea I had. You gotta squint, this edit isn't very realistic but gives you the idea.

Second image would look good. Then black roof rails and black GPOs


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Black roof, rails, splitter and grille areas. Starting to like this one.

Even better.. Reminds me of the g8 Firehawk


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FYI boobs, only the big two tone in the first pic allows fixing the dent.

Hey red, how about a 1/8" red pinstripe to separate the colors and help bury the paint edge? You'd hardly see it from that distance.

I like the last one by far. I think I'd leave the top white, someday end up with a set of roof rails, and get the SLP gen 1 in black. Which dent you talkin about?

That would look good. Just don't over do it.

And headlights should be black


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Originally Posted by Booba5185

I like the last one by far. I think I'd leave the top white, someday end up with a set of roof rails, and get the SLP gen 1 in black. Which dent you talkin about?

Your one and only! On the roof side, that tiny ping. Hopefully these are food for thought anyway. If you have a specific treatment in mind you'd like to see, holler.

Man, the more I see that last pic the more I want to do it, lol. Problem is my car would be without a hood for a week or two so I'd have to find a substitute. My mother in law needs a new hood on her 99 GT, so I was thinking of just using her old one whenever she gets (I find her) a new one. Since money is at terror threat "Yellow" right now, I'm saving money up until I have enough to buy the rocker panel supplies all at once and still have the next round of bills paid. I'm working 4-5 day weeks now, but I need to be ready to miss a week or more. I get unemployment for a week off, but it's $256 a week. That's a minimum of a ~$200 pay cut, and that's only if I work a 40 hour week...which I never do.

That pretty much means I get to start working on the projects I never finished before, lol. Like putting window trim on, trying to fix a rattle here and there, and all new door clips on the driver side (other 3 doors already have them). That all happened yesterday. Rattle is a little better, and only happens when the window is down and I close the door. Damn that rattle. Next weekend I'll go through and reinstall the LED trunk lights properly. They aren't installed very well right now, something like a teenager would have done lol. The wiring is correct and all, it's just how they are mounted. I've said since the beginning that it was a test run install, to make sure I liked them before I went through all the cutting and soldering and gluing and laying upside down in the trunk.

Dad's coming down today to hang out, and our little project today is to pull the CS144 and swap in the heavy duty voltage regulator I have. The one I have works fine, and I did glue a heatsink to it, but it's got a 10 second LRC. LRC is Load Response Control, which control how long the alternator takes to ramp up it's output. This works fine for heavy loads that are somewhat constant in their load. Heated seats, rear defrost, etc. They pull X amount of amps when they are on, no more, no less...well it varies a bit here and there, but I'd say it's probably within 5%. Take a stereo. It's all over the place, heavier bass uses more power and what was the last (tolerable) song you listened to that had 10 seconds of solid bass? Exactly. This other voltage regulator has 2.5 second LRC. I know 2.5 seconds is an eternity when it comes to music, but I'm thinking of it in a graph type situation. Since the 2.5 second LRC only has 2.5 seconds to ramp up to 100% output, at 0.1 seconds it's going to have 4 times the output of the 10 second. Or so I think. I'm probably wrong, lol. Either way it'll be a nice project to do with my dad and son today, and I'll finally have this question answered lol.

Just finished up putting the new regulator and brush assembly in. I found something concerning...

Yep, a broken brush. Glad I keep a spare laying around. Soldered everything onto the new regulator and installed it. So far, so good. My voltage off the battery posts doesn't drop below 14.6v and I had some Slipknot blasting pretty loud. We'll see how it goes tonight...

I need to figure out why my engine sits off to the passenger side. It's not my mounts. I checked them and they're fine. I also jacked up the passenger side of the engine and there wasn't any change. I'm thinking my subframe might be messed up. It'd be my luck.

Never seen a brush chunk off like that, but if a chip were to have happened when they were installed perhaps from a burr on whatever tool... I could see that hap'nin. Maybe just the UFO lighting and Slipknot who knows? Glad no fire. Time will tell about the regulator mod.

On the crooked engine thing, yeah inspect subframe but also imagine how hard the lady romps on that thing when you're not looking lol. Seriously the engine probably moves a lot more than we think it does. Try swapping the mounts around so they don't look crooked, thats what I did. They are just floppy double jointed foo foo mounts by design. Is that what makes you say its crooked? Maybe if you spun one or both lower mounts around, I mean they could be slightly offset. Or just slam the hood and do burnouts!

Keep looking at the hood paint as inspiration to get past the less fun things. My rule is five safety / maintainence jobs to one fun thing, on the car.

For now I'm trying to take care of the "except for" category. Example, it's a nice car except for the rocker panel rust. It drives great except for the odd 1-2 shift occasionally. It looks good except for the hood. You get the idea. Then comes the "could(should) be" It's a quick car, but it could be faster. It's a nice sounding stereo but is could be better. Things like that. I dunno.

Today was just one of those days where all I did was try something then put it right back the way I found it. Tried to fix the crooked engine, no dice. Put everything back together during the day and started the car. Lights lit up, voltage was 14.6v, all was well. Right? WRONG. I never actually got in the car, I just reached in and started it. I never saw the battery light was on. Even when I turned up the stereo. Voltage stayed at 14.6v the whole time. Anyways, zoom ahead 4 hours til the family is trying to go to Walmart. It's dark so I can see the LEDs...flickering very quickly, and the battery light on. , still at 14.6v. Ripped apart the alternator yet again and swapped in the original voltage regulator which fixed the problem...at 11:30PM. So the end result of today's work was replacing a brush that I didn't even know was broken in the first place, lol.

Well the hits keep coming for The Retrofit Source. First they send me a chipped bulb and won't replace it saying it doesn't affect the output, but yet tha bulb happens to have a hotspot, hmmm. Second the ballast dies, which they did handle rather well, I was up and going 3 business days later. Now both of my halos have LEDs going out in them. I messaged them this morning and they want me to take pictures of both halos and email them in the morning. I hope they handle the return the same way they did the ballasts..IE I don't have to rip my headlights apart, ship the halos back, rip the headlight apart again, and reinstall the halos.

What grinds my gears is I asked them if they have done anything about the high failure rate on these. He said there isn't that high of a failure rate, that people only post online when they have problems, not success. If they have such a low failure rate then why did BOTH of mine go out? No answer. I'm pretty pissed off right now, but I'm thinking of going to the BBB about this. I'll sleep on it and see how I feel about it tomorrow.

I like the halos, I won't be doing away with them, so there. I said it.

I know one guy on here his went bad after some months, dirtdogs halos went bad on him, even korys iirc went bad on him

I'll keep that in mind when I talk to them tomorrow or Thursday, depending on work stuff. Just irritating to say the least, I thought about changing shrouds so I can have the halo glow behind the shroud and hide any future dead LEDs. I don't know how it'd look or any other details, it just ran across my head a minute ago lol.

Ask pappas i think he did some behind the shroud

Don't run gaylos.. Problem solved


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^^^You're the reason I put that last line in, lol. I personally like the halos, it's rare that I do because typically people that put them in have some need to have the world's tackiest car. It might be because it's my car, but I think they blend with the car well. I am pondering painting the inside of the headlight housing while I have it apart, but I'm up in the air on that one.

Aw I feel so special


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