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04-21-2016, 04:08 AM #5001
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Black/ Silver- 98 TA WS6/ 01 C5 Corvette
Lol my Christmas was late this year
Sent from my HTC6535LVW using Tapatalk1998 Trans Am WS6 - Phantom
421 CI LQ9, Tick Performance Custom Cam, TFS 255cc LS3 heads, Kooks 2" LT headers, Kooks 3" True Duals w/ high flow cats, FTP 104 lid, Speed Density Tune, 4" silicon tube, LS6 VCT, FAST 102 Intake, NW 102 TB, Oil Catch Can, SLP Bilstein Shocks w/ Vogtland Springs, CTS-V 4-piston Calipers w/C6 Z06 rotors, Stainless Steel Brake Lines, R1 concepts premium rotors, Hawk HP+ brake pads, VFN WSQ Hood, C5-R timing chain, SLP oil pump, E85 tune, Walbro 450 fuel pump, Deatschwerkz 95# injectors, Breathless performance headlights, Frost Tune, !HVAC.
(Coming Soon) BMR DSL, UMI TQ Arm
421 LQ9 14.8:1 on E85 Build/
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04-24-2016, 09:30 PM #5002
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Pewter- 2002 Trans Am WS6 M6
Finally finished ordering everything now just waiting for the stuff to arrive. Still waiting on seat covers, strano sway bars, rear konis, umi a arm kit and hardware, the vette shift knob. My office is starting to look like a car part storage room.
Full list of stuff that will be going on the car this spring as follows. All new suspension components - Strano sway bars and springs, Koni yellow on car adjustable shocks/struts, UMI upper and lower a arms, Founders lower control arms and pan hard bar (cheaper then replacing the rod ends on the UMI pieces with their roto joints), Founders torque arm, UMI torque arm relocation kit, MWC drive shaft safety loop, real leather seat covers, seat heaters, vette shift knob and finally going to get around to putting on the 6LE rear diffuser and front splitter ive had for a couple years but just never got around to doing it.
This should keep me busy for a while.Mods - Lid, Skip Shift Eliminator, MGW shifter, UMI SFCs, Founders Lower Control Arms, Founders Panhard Bar, Founders Adj. Torque Arm, UMI Torque arm mount, MWC Drive shaft safety loop, KONI Yellows, Strano Springs, Strano Sway bars, UMI Upper and lower A Arms, 160 thermostat, TSP headers and TSP true duals Monster stage 2 clutch, racetronix fuel pump, Strange S60 rear axle and tune by Frost.
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04-25-2016, 03:07 AM #5003
You have just about 2 months to get it all ready for your trip to the GM Nationals in Carlisle. Come join us!
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04-25-2016, 04:44 AM #5004
Was out cruising yesterday and some guy in a pickup was in the middle lane on the eway and tried cutting over the last minute to get off on an exit....the same exit I was just starting to get off on.... and he plowed through all the construction cones. The cones went flying everywhere and I literally had to lock them up at about 70mph and swerve several times to dodge the cones which were flying/rolling back at me. He kept going and I chased him down. Two idiots. I looked over the car when I got home very quickly and didn't see anything. I still don't know how I managed to dodge them.
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04-25-2016, 08:48 AM #5005
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04-25-2016, 04:50 PM #5006
Yikes, Jon. That had to get the blood pressure up a few points. Idiots.
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04-26-2016, 03:05 AM #5007
Holy shit Jon!!! When did you move to Maryland??!! LOL That's the kind of garbage that happens here several times a day. It's like everyone and their sister is drunk or high and go out driving. No respect for other drivers or any awareness what so ever of their surroundings. Even when you pull off next to them and give them the "WTF" look, they seem completely oblivious that they did anything wrong. Too bad you dont have train horns mounted under your hood to give them a nice 10 second blast!! LOL Glad to here you (and the SS) made it out without any issues. Great driving Cole Trickle!!!!
1998 Pontiac TA, stock heads, FAST 90, FAST 90 TB, FLP LT, off road y-pipe with cat delete, flow master muffler, comp cams 54-457-11 223/231-610/617-112 LSA, Pro charger D1SC with FMIC @ 8psi, FROST tune, VIG 3200 stall, built 4l60e, snow meth kit, MOSER 12 bolt 373 gears, Derale 13900 trans cooler.
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04-26-2016, 03:04 PM #5008
Treated like VIP today at GM dealer ! After fixing all the little nits on the car --- with all of your help, thanks :-) --- I brought 30th Ann Ed. T/Am in for a proper major service. Much buildup as one of the techs there owns a similar year ws6 and is going to handle for me. Service guys were all dying to drive my ride. Good news: major vibration and rattle under hard throttle in 3-5k rpm range turned out to be just a worn tranny mount.
Better news: it was NOT internal valves, rockers, chains, etc. ! HOORAY ! Can't wait to get car back from first major service in over a decade. Replaced all fluids: tranny, diff, coolant, oil, greased the ball joint and other fittings, siliconed and weather-stripped, rotated tires, and had the full multi-point inspection. New brake pads to boot ! Re-Birth !
Tech said rotors "rusted and worn" but have driven fine to my feel, and I can't imagine at 40k miles of "mid-aged guy driving" they're below 1223"and .985" Front/rear min. thickness. Told them I'd take another look in 10k miles. So, not too bad for the first in-shop visit in a LOOOOOONG time for this car. I ran to dealer as 2nd owner told me last week that 1st owner hadn't really driven it more than 50miles/year from '02 to '11, and 2nd owner only changed oil every year from '11 to '15. No other maintenance.
Absolutely hilarious: on the 20 mile drive to dealer today, the "Change Oil" light came on. F A T E !Last edited by BobbyGFirebird; 04-26-2016 at 03:08 PM.
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04-28-2016, 11:05 AM #5009
Great news! Rotors all-around were comfortably above the min. thickness (after a grind) and way over the discard thicknesses per Haynes manual. I told dealer I'd keep the rotors. They said rusted and should think about replace, but correct me if wrong, but even I know from the 1970s and 1980s that rusted rotors are fine as long as not warped. Won't some hard driving with new pads clean off any rust? They looked shiny as a silver spoon to me.... Is that just dealer trying to push $$$ rotors on me? I'd rather be rough on a set of new pads than replace 4 rotors at 40k miles. Thoughts?
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04-28-2016, 11:12 AM #5010
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Black/ Silver- 98 TA WS6/ 01 C5 Corvette
Depends how rusted. As rust will eventually eat into the rotor and destroy it. Me I replace if rusted especially if I've never replaced the rotors on the car or it's been a really long time.
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04-28-2016, 03:04 PM #5011
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1999 Formula WS6 M6-sold- 2001 Silverado Z71
Rotors can get rusty enough that they won't clean up nicely.
Here's what might have happened at the dealer. They probably assumed you'd be happier with fresh, clean, brand new rotors.-------------------------------------Kooks 1 7/8" race headers, Kooks ORY, Borla catback, Nitto 555R, LS6 intake manifold, Shaner S3 ported stock throttle body, SLP lid, smooth bellows, JAAM Ram Air kit, Elite Engineering catch can, LS6 valley cover, EGR and AIR deleted, Frost tune, and Simpson Racing child car seat in the back. 13.2 @ 108MPH
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04-28-2016, 03:11 PM #5012
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04-29-2016, 08:49 PM #5013
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New seat covers came in today but one of the headrest covers are missing. Waiting to hear from 6le. Of course they arrived Friday afternoon which means I probably won't hear anything till Monday.
Patience is not my strongest trait.
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04-30-2016, 10:22 AM #5014
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Found the other headrest was going inside and look down and it was behind a flower pot. Must of fallen out of the giant hole fedex left in the box an I was in a rush and just didn't notice.
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04-30-2016, 12:01 PM #5015
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Black/ Silver- 98 TA WS6/ 01 C5 Corvette
Got the newer 0411 pcm to swap into my 98.
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04-30-2016, 05:21 PM #5016
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05-01-2016, 05:59 PM #5017
Nice work man. But I can't believe you leave the window down on it while it sits. I would fear dust build up inside like a mad man haha!
2000 Trans Am WS.6 M6
SLP lid & bellow w/ K&N, GMMG catback w/ Corsa Clones, UMI SFC, UMI Adj. Panhard, UMI Adj. TQ arm w/ relocation kit, QTP Longtube headers ORY, LS6 intake, EGR/A.I.R delete.
Eibach prokit, Bilstein HDs, Nitto NT555s, skip shift elim, whiteface overlays, 20% tint, matte black decal/overlays
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05-01-2016, 08:24 PM #5018
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Silver- '02 Trans Am WS-6, 6M
I should have had my shop do new motor mounts when I had my headers/exhaust put in.
SLP Air Lid/Smooth Bellows
L76 6.0L block, PRC Ported 243 heads, Texas Speed 224R cam.
Kooks Emissions LT Headers/Catted Y pipe
NGK TR55 plugs
Magnaflow Cat-back
Spohn Front Upper Tubular Control Arms
UMI Front Lower Tubular Control Arms
UMI Front Sway Bar
UMI Rear Lower Control Arms/ Adjustable Panhard Rod
UMI Welded-on Two Piece Subframe Connectors
Factory C5 Z06 17x9.5 wheels w/ 285-40-17 Continental Extreme Contact Sports all the way around.
Dyno Dynamics dynoed @:
415 rwhp
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05-02-2016, 02:34 AM #5019
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05-02-2016, 06:15 AM #5020
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