*** The March Spring TRAIN ***

[cammed goat]

Bought. Retailed for 14.8, jewed them to twelve and they are paying excise tax. So in essence I paid 11,280. Plus, they calcd tax based on Arkansas 6%, but since I am an okie, I pay 3.25% plus 11 dollars to change title over to Oklahoma. cash for da pocket.

Car has 75k miles.

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Nice pick up. When I went to pick up my car, the dealership had a silver one in the showroom. I think it was around $26k. I was like "DAYUM!!"

[Y2KArcticSS]

260 horsepower from a 3900 V6 is NOT shabby imo.

She's got some getup. The only thing I don't like, and I've read this to be a common problem with the G6, is the steering wheel pops...it almost sounds like the knuckle hits the body. Definitely not a bad suspension piece type of noise.

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[cammed goat]

I could scare you with all 165 horses of my beater Subaru

I bet you would.

[Y2KArcticSS]

260 horsepower from a 3900 V6 is NOT shabby imo.

3900?

Yep. The G6 GXPs came with a 3900 V6.

Not sure if 3900 means 3.9L or not, but mine is a 3.6 VVT, rated at 252hp. Maybe it makes a difference being a 2008? And its the sedan, not the street edition. We both hated that ugly batwing on the back. Wouldn't mind the Hood though. I'll throw a pic up in a bit. She took her mom for a ride.

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[cammed goat]

I got my numbers mixed up. The GTP had the 3900 and was rated at 240. The GXP was rated at 252 and was a 3.6 VVT.

[Y2KArcticSS]

It's all good. I knew mostly nothing about these cars until we started shopping.

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[Knight]

Had some friends over, did some shooting, went to the gun shop and did some browsing, tried out my new auto-darkening welding helmet, ran the car up to operating temp. for a bit, and played with the kids. Overall, a pretty decent day.

[GTP231]

She's got some getup. The only thing I don't like, and I've read this to be a common problem with the G6, is the steering wheel pops...it almost sounds like the knuckle hits the body. Definitely not a bad suspension piece type of noise.

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Intermediate shaft. Not bad to replace. Not super cheap though. Get ready to replace brakes every 25 - 30K. 3.6s also have a tendency to suck oil down the throttle body in the bigger cars. Hadn't seen much in the Z bodies though. They do like to stretch timing chains if you get behind on oil changes or the keeping on the oil leaks from the timing cover or front crank seal.

[konigandy6]

Cool, I figured it woudl still ahve been the 3800 with a supercharger.

3800's were banhammered by the GM mods in 05 Too bad too, they were great engines!!

[Zapper2003]

Up til the point the block cracks and they start sucking coolant.

[konigandy6]

Up til the point the block cracks and they start sucking coolant.

Hey they weren't THAT bad!!

Never seen one with a cracked block, they just had intake gasket issues because people think coolant lasts forever and won't break down and start eating away at the gasket. And if that went untreated, it moved to overheating and destroying head gaskets or even warping heads.

[pajeff02]

Oil pan gasket has been changed out and the K-member is in the car. Still have lots to do...


Dan -- we stopped at Beaver Motors on the way home yesterday so another friend could look at a truck and I found that the G8 is still on the lot. I thought it was sold, but they simply moved it off to the side were it isn't easily spotted from the road.

[GTP231]

Hmmm maybe I'll give them a call come summer

[pajeff02]

Hmmm maybe I'll give them a call come summer

It is a great car with super low miles.

[GTP231]

Sunroof car?

[Zapper2003]

Too bad a modern RWD car isn't in my future. I'd look too..but again, if I had the money I'd probably hold out for a GXP.

[pajeff02]

I'd have to go back and look at the pics I took of it a few months ago... can't remember.

[GTP231]

Know what their site is? If I can find the last 8 of the vin I can find out everything about it

[jrbonds]

Time for more beer......

[GTP231]

yeah thats true and i have a guy wanting to give me 1500 for the entire set up w/o the electronic throttle body. im still debating though. ive got the whole cam kit with everything i just need to buy at fast 102 with the rails injectors and BM tB, then i found a set of 215 cc prc heads for 950 here locally that i want. im just curious as to what my rwhp would be. hopefully in the 450 range and well over 600 on bottle. thats my ultimate goal.

102 is a ridicuous amount of overkill. Just do a 90 and LS2 tb and have something will make useful torque for driving around and have all the super duper peak dyno queen numbers you care about