94' Grand Am speed

[Lostone01]

I have a 94 GA with the 6 cylinder in it and up to the time that I parked it, it ran great. I do massive traveling and I have had mine up to an easy 90-95 and still had pedal left to push. My problems only started after I parked mine. Mine has over 170K on it and has had very little motor work done to it. I highly reccommend the car!

[xeroinfinity]

There are lots of mods for lots of cars. I just try and be original and step outside the box. Do things people arent doing. GA's are great cars to drive and own. Thats why we are all here. I'd like to take a GA and make it AWD with a V8. Lower it to the ground, throw on some Candy Green metalic. That would be a sweet a** ride!

Have fun with the mods. \,,/ \,,/

[Mr. Luos]

Originally Posted by xeroinfinity

My 93' w/95 3.3L was built to blast. Bored, stroked, lower compression to9:1, for the turbo, hella tuff tranny.

Any 1/4 mile track time?

[xeroinfinity]

ya I do 11.4's @ around 126mph, with pump gas, the cheap stuff. Some more some less this was the average time outta 6-7 runs. It was a hot day, could have gotten alittle I think. The engine was new, 300miles on it. I took it easy, was running it around 4lbs of boost. Took me a month just to get it running. Alot of advanced things had to be delt with. I wasn't famillure with turbos, just found a used one of a Civic and made it work. Had to build a custom intercooler.

Today you can probley go buy off the shelf what I had to fabricate yrs ago. It lasted 2yrs, till the crash, and I enjoyed every minute of it. That was before traction control, was hell on tires though. LOL!

[Mr. Luos]

Pics??

Sounds like a hell of a set-up. How much did the car weigh?

[xeroinfinity]

Factory weight. Plus the extra weight from the turbo/intrecooler set up which wasnt much. A big speaker box w/ 2x 12s. It was a street eating machine. I kept the engine/tranny it wasnt damaged, still runs i'm sure, just been stored in my garage for 8yrs. might have a few fury gremlins livin in it . I spent more on the engine build than most newer used cars cost. I believe it was close to $8k. But that was full race parts, thought if it was good for the track ought to be great on the street.

[xeroinfinity]

So frankieG we got you convinced it's a Good car to mod?

[Mr. Luos]

How much power to the wheels man??

4 PSI and trapping 126MPH? That requires 500+ at the wheels. I just can't see that without more boost. What was the displacement?

[xeroinfinity]

3.3L bored 35over with a sleeve. it was beyond max bore so I stuffed a sleeve in case I bunrt a cylinder. YA it was a 4-5psi and at the wheels on a DYNO it turned 465hp with 93octane and fuel additive/alkyholl. track times were all with 83oct. at the same boost, just advanced the timming and turned up the fuel reg. This engine alone is close if not over 300hp, this did also have dual exhaust with no converter and high flow exteranl fuel pump. The turbo is a stage two w/custom bypass valves. With wimpy stock exhaust it made the headers glow in about 5 min. i'll find my track slips, they're with my fotos i cant find, well the wife cant find. And I have a build sheet somewhere on file.

[xeroinfinity]

WOWA! That was a MR. typo' above, I hadnt read what I wrote. Still , had really good times, but I did spend 7750$ on the motor not including teh near yr it took to build. It was 11.5@116.26, May 11, 95' round 8:30 am, when the gate opend. After noon times were slower due ambiant temps. rising was causing overheating. Also a little secret the rods were shortend to get more displacment, hehehe Some secrets I'll never share though...

[gmack221]

As far as the wing discussion, wings were introduced back in the 60's to put downforce on the rear tires to give you traction, there isn't a reason to have them on a front wheel drive car!!! They are only there to make them appear more sporty, the downforce on the hood keeps traction there, the rear wheels follow. Will the rear wheels lift if your going fast enough, yes, but lets not confuse the wing on the back of a grand am and a real wing like the one on the back of a dodge dayton! Lets not even get into the park benches that are put on honda's by teenagers that have no idea what a 60's muscle car is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please don't do that to your ride, its a discrase to you and me! Now if we really want to get something started we could talk about tach's that are big enough to tell time & latitude and longitude! My ultimate dis came when a guy pulled up to a light with a honda and a 6" tach, "Nice tach man, does it tell time?" Forgot to mention I was riding in my buddy's shelby glhs charger at the time! Even my dis wasn't enough to get him to race us!

[xeroinfinity]

this was a wing, like the one on a plane. Daytonas you mean, they had big ass flopin wings.LOL! A nice body kit does look nice, may not be functional but looks real nice. Who needs a stinkin Tach anyway. Keep it outa da ditch \,,/

[xeroinfinity]

Mr Luos it was bored more than .035 more like to a 4.3L w/5lbs boost. i just moved so soon as i find those pics I'll post'm somewhere conveneant \,,/