UPDATE 10/3/2015
James now owns this car!
I figured now would be a good time to start a members ride thread as it is completely torn apart downstairs...
I got my 2004 Grand Prix in March of 2007 with 7,xxx miles on the clock.
The vehicle was owned by my grandfather, garage kept and still to this day is garage kept.
The car was mint...
This is the 3rd time the engine/transaxle has been pulled.
1st time, I pulled the trigger on installing a cam/head studs way too early @ 58k miles back in Jan 2011.
2nd time, the stock transaxle started slipping around 80k miles in Sept 2012. I put in a temporary junkyard unit.
3rd time, I shattered the input shaft of the junkyard unit in April 2013, only 6.9k miles later.
I regret not making the trip earlier, but I had dropped off my slipping factory unit to Dave @ TEP on February 18th.
We brought four 4T65's, two of which were to be built and two for core/parts.
I bought a 7/8" chain with 2.93 ratio gears & a 4340 chromoly input shaft off of a friend, the same day prior to the road trip.
Here is the most recent picture of the car, a little over a week before I popped the input shaft.
Ironically I had just put the summer wheel setup back on, go figure.
On Sunday April 7th, the input shaft went bye bye into the converter during a 1-2 shift.
By early morning on April 10th, I had the engine/trans removed.
Inferno front lip that has been waiting to go on since January.
On May 19th, Dave finished up both transmissions and we hit the road.
We brought him an LS4 4T65 out of an burn victim Impala.
We also brought him the temporary unit. Note the input shaft.
Alas, after a long pain staking wait. Here it is. My Triple Edge Performance hunk of sand blasted aluminum. Pretty.
We picked up a new OEM front bumper cover from an old timer out in Indiana. Believe it or not, he had the remnants of a Subaru BRAT in his shop.
Here is a shot of our payload that day loading up outside TEP, what we've come so far for.
As of now, I've finally attained some free time to work on getting it together as I have this entire week off and everyone else's car is done.
Bright and early later on this morning, I'll be hitting the garage for some wrench time. I'm so excited, I can't sleep.
