Hey all, just thought I would consolidate and make a place to post my future updates. But first a little backstory on the car...
Grandpa ordered it brand new in 2000, base model with power/heated mirrors, alloys, LS wing, and some other odds an ends that I can’t remember right now. He drove my mom and I home from the hospital in it when I was born, so it was always kind of “my” car. Got it just before I turned 16 and was my daily for two years. I named it Jadah after my bipolar ex girlfriend because she’s got her good days and her bad days. I love her, but she’ll turn on me in a second. Haha so anyway I blew the head gasket on the 3.4 about a year and a half ago. Replaced it, and 8 months later fried the transmission. After that, the car has sat dormant for a year until I picked up a 3.8 Grand Prix donor car.
Full engine and trans swap happened at school, 2000 Grand Prix engine and trans, 2002 Monte Carlo wiring harness, and the 2000 impala body. With the swap came INTENSE racing PCM, and speed daddy headers/cat delete.
Mods before the swap were spyder auto halos, glasspack, middle resonator delete, strut tower braces front and rear, and a Milzy Motorsports tuned PCM for the 3.4 (obviously not being used now), and an ENORMOUS eBay all aluminum radiator. Seriously this thing is massive
Future mods I have planned:
-Top swap for high compression supercharged 3.8
-Lower the ride height, haven’t decided on BC racing coilovers, expensive but good quality
-shorter dog bones
-ZZP tubular lower control arms
-tubular rear trailing arms
-bigger sway bars
-full brake upgrade kit (looking for advice here)
Mods with the top swap:
-Ported heads/intake/blower
-e85
-cam
-LS7 rockers
-possibly some higher ratio rockers, haven’t decided
-northstar throttle body
-at that point if I don’t have any KR I’ll drop the pulley size
What do you guys think? Are there any 7th gen “must haves” that I’m leaving out? Toying with the idea of swapping in tan leather buckets and converting to console shift instead of column, but dunno how hard the shifter location will be to deal with.
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Grandpa ordered it brand new in 2000, base model with power/heated mirrors, alloys, LS wing, and some other odds an ends that I can’t remember right now. He drove my mom and I home from the hospital in it when I was born, so it was always kind of “my” car. Got it just before I turned 16 and was my daily for two years. I named it Jadah after my bipolar ex girlfriend because she’s got her good days and her bad days. I love her, but she’ll turn on me in a second. Haha so anyway I blew the head gasket on the 3.4 about a year and a half ago. Replaced it, and 8 months later fried the transmission. After that, the car has sat dormant for a year until I picked up a 3.8 Grand Prix donor car.
Full engine and trans swap happened at school, 2000 Grand Prix engine and trans, 2002 Monte Carlo wiring harness, and the 2000 impala body. With the swap came INTENSE racing PCM, and speed daddy headers/cat delete.
Mods before the swap were spyder auto halos, glasspack, middle resonator delete, strut tower braces front and rear, and a Milzy Motorsports tuned PCM for the 3.4 (obviously not being used now), and an ENORMOUS eBay all aluminum radiator. Seriously this thing is massive
Future mods I have planned:
-Top swap for high compression supercharged 3.8
-Lower the ride height, haven’t decided on BC racing coilovers, expensive but good quality
-shorter dog bones
-ZZP tubular lower control arms
-tubular rear trailing arms
-bigger sway bars
-full brake upgrade kit (looking for advice here)
Mods with the top swap:
-Ported heads/intake/blower
-e85
-cam
-LS7 rockers
-possibly some higher ratio rockers, haven’t decided
-northstar throttle body
-at that point if I don’t have any KR I’ll drop the pulley size
What do you guys think? Are there any 7th gen “must haves” that I’m leaving out? Toying with the idea of swapping in tan leather buckets and converting to console shift instead of column, but dunno how hard the shifter location will be to deal with.
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