Thread: General Exterior upgrade questions for my 97 GT

well my tails were about 200 and expect about 250 for headlights paint your grand prix badges or take them all off and tint

carid.com

thats a good site they have a lot of stuff. sometimes their prices are good, sometimes you can find the stuff cheaper else where. but its a good site just to browse for stuff.

and just like hockeybawler said, reflectiveconcepts.com. the "pontiac" on the rear bumper usually isnt painted. if someone did that i cant imagine the hard time they must have had taping everything off lol. dont paint it. get the reflectiveconcepts stickers. they are pretty easy to install and they look great at night.

not sure about 2 bulbs. u would have to poke around

I bought a set of projector halos from eby for 120 after i got them I complained a little bit and they knocked 20 off after getting them you will wanna black rtv seal the seem and both the light bulb sockets as well as the one projector light wiring they are the weak points bout 45 min making sure to be careful next some wiring is required as it does have a plug and play but it only operates signal high beams and headlights not the halos which are led. so they come with 4 wires two black two red ez enough splice the ends and cap it with a good 2 end crimp now your corner lamp bulb moves into the middle and has 3 wires 1 powers running lights 1 powers the blinker 3 wires all together brown = running lamps blue = blinker black = ground I first had them hooked up to running light but opted to cplice them to the blinker so when turning and active the halos would blink as well. all splice should be well crimped and than waterproof heat shrink wrapped the one qualm I have is it has a small gap aound the assembly but if you check out my profile I have a photobucket link showing the end result and some of the process

Head lights
97-03 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX BLACK HEADLIGHTS +CORNER SIGNAL LAMPS LIGHTS | eBay

Tails
Philips Lumileds 97-03 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX GT GTP SE BLK LED TAIL LIGHTS LAMPS | eBay
Plus a coat or two of nightshade and that should do the trick
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Plug and play nothin to it!

Debadge, inlay, tint and I think you will be happy bud.

I think de badgin it so you might have the guise of being a gtp would be better than Projecting the fact that you not supercharged just my lil tid bit. I know they look good and all but its like sporting fake bling . alot of gtp owners will even debadge to make the car look smoother all around. but if you are just trying to add some color to the car I get it there is a thread on cheapest mods all under about 40 bucks that are mostly the lil tweaks your looking for.one in specific is lossing the door panels on the outside to give it a much smoother almost gto like side profile

Save money for a transmission.

I painted the rear pontiac on my car and the front one on the plate inlay, It was cheaper then buying a inlay, however there was alot of time in taping, but i jacked the back end up and sat in a chair

I would rather spend the $10-15 and just get inlays instead of going through the hassle of taping,cutting etc and the chance you'll spray it wrong

I left it on just got the rear end up in the air so i wasnt sitting on the ground, I started my trying to tape over everything then cut it out with an exact knife but it wasnt working for me, so i used regular masking tape and carefully worked around the letters. If i were to do it again I would have gotten like 1/4 inch or even 1/8 inch masking tape so it woulda been easier around the curves. the front one i just taped over and cut out with a razor blade no problem

If i were to do it again i would get like 1/4 inch masking tape for the curves, cause they were a pain in the a**