Grand Am Off Topic Thread

i was drunk lol... last night

damn im dddrunkk! http://www.butterylicious.com/smilies/classic/pull.gif

I wanna be just like you when I... grow up... :p

such a role model :p:lol::runaround:

anyone know a good place to get xeon bulbs? I'm really getting sick of not being able to see at night lol :p

thinking about getting TB ported and polished... but so many things are going wrong with my car now that I don't really want to put any big investments in... I'm completely baffled at all the problems that are suddenly popping up on the stupid thing :(

i was drunk lol... last night
I was up till about 4:30 being drunk... then had to get up early to go to the fair grounds, damn its hot !! :rolleyes:

And Vipey you can be anything you want to be when you grow up. :lol:
Oh Xenon, have you tried the silver stars ?
Or are your head light lens foggy ?


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You guys gettng the double post message when posting ??????

yea getting the double post thing...

speaking of problems vipey... I now have to completely fix my front passenger window... I guess the clip finally gave in... the side switch stopped working after a while, but I managed to get it to stay up and not move it around... the thing just fell after a rough bump... at the moment it's being held up with cardboard slits lol

hope my discount with the stealership will help me out

I have 10% off coupons to my local stealership... helped a bunch when they replaced my gaskets :p

:thumbsdow screw those stealershits coupons/discounts! :lol:

so its going to cost me... $247.00 even to fix my window... thats only parts... labor WILL BE FREE.. fuck that

because I have the 99 silver window motor.. the clips that go onto the part that holds the window... broke... and the clips for my motor arent made anymore... and I need the new clips... of which only work with the new motor...

im waiting till I get paid this friday to fix... a good mech friend there let me borrow his air pocket thingy to hold up the window till then... the panel is in my back seat with everything else lol, sorta weird driving with it missing.. I can see the speaker and all lol

havent had speakers in my door panels in years... but going to move them back in to my doors with the help of my gf :D i'll be like "hey move the speaker just a little lower... that hit the spot!"

god how did i make speaker installations perverted? LOL :runaround:

Gir, you could probly buy a used door cheaper, if you could find a match. :dunno: I guess yoru discount(s) do come in handy.

Vipey, you didnt have any speakers up front ??

I was just thinking the GT needs some new speakers in back ! :grinyes: Thinking some Pioneers, but something that'll be able to handle upgrades in the future. These look like they'll fit.
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Btw hope all of our southern Texas members are keeping safe inside!

I took out the old 6x9 out of the top and mounted the new 6x9 in the trunk. Easier to remove when the car goes. Btw the weather here has been gorgeous it has been in the mid 70's and no humidty.

i needed to make custom baffles to fit my 6x9's into my trunk because the magnet was too big. Yes I used to have speakers in the front but I took them out and put speakers in kick panels in the floor... I'll show pictures later of it... might me on my cardomain webpage in my signature...

But yeah I'll need to make custom baffles to put circular ones in there... gotta get a sawzall or something.

Isn't there a plastic adapter plate to go from 6 x 9 to 6 1/2 round. If I recall correctly I think that I saw a plate like this, it was a yellow plastic I think.

the doors hav 5x6 POS with a big plastic part that bolts to the door. Same with the rear they have an adapter plate that holds the 6x9 from below. Should be pics of these in the Apearance non performance section. :thumbsup:

My SE had to go in from the top because of the big magnet(s). To big of magnets in the doors will get hit by your window when you roll it down. lol

Yea its almost Friday ! http://www.butterylicious.com/smilies/classic/dance.gif

i have a set of pioneer in the front/rear .. right sizes... the rear is a 5-way blue cone.. I forget the model # .... 3-way speakers in the front.. those fit nicely in, the rear speakers are bulky and make the screen in the back poke up at a certain point... I said screw it at the time and just left it.. good enough for me..

GT is running great still !!
Gas mileage has increased to around 26 city.

I got 278 miles on 10 gals of gas, this is my new goal, to get the most MPG possible.
I think I'm going to start a MPG club. :cwm27:

thats... AWESOME!

No, 40 mpg would be AWESOME !! :lol:

I might be going to Georgia in the next few weeks, going to drive the GT and see how it does out on the highways. :ylsuper:

40 MPG on the highway would be awesome and very easily doable in the GT. The best i ever got on my gt was 33 MPG and that was me doing 74ish on the highway If i went a little slower Im sure I could have seen even higher. The 26 in the city is pretty impressive though I do have to admit.

Well the first 750 miles city MPG was due to keeping the rpms no more then 3k.
It realy made some folks mad because I was driving so granny like. lol tootin thier horns, and flying the bird and everything.....maybe I should keep it up. lmao

I think the best mpg I got on the SE was also 33mpg, mostly intertsate. I'd drive that down south but it needs new struts put on bad!
Was waiting on finding some 2" drop springs but thats not going to happen, no one makes them that low. :( Air ride is the next option... :dunno:

I think the best mpg I got on the SE was also 33mpg, mostly intertsate. :dunno:

Man my GT needs to spend some time at your place! I get less than 240 miles on my entire tank! Usually have to fill up around 220! :banghead: What's your secret?

My gp is stuck at 28 mpg on the highway and that is it. I get around 435 to 450 miles per tank. Gas prices around here have dropped. I am paying 3.72 per gallon now. Wonder how long that will last.

We are down to just above $3.50 here in the tri state. It feels nice but I can still remember paying $2 a gallon. Those were the days.

We are down to just above $3.50 here in the tri state. It feels nice but I can still remember paying $2 a gallon. Those were the days.


last year? :p:lol2:

last year? :p:lol2:

Exactly. . . Seems hard to beleive! What is this world coming to? :runaround: Man yesterday the GT spit out a spark plug on the interstate. The plug wire melted to the rad hose. Never heard that noise before, don't think I will ever forget it! Re threaded the hole, now back to good as new!

Man my GT needs to spend some time at your place! I get less than 240 miles on my entire tank! Usually have to fill up around 220! What's your secret?
Well th GT has a new top end, new plugs/wires, new O2 sensors. The SE is pretty much new too. I've kept them under 2000 rpms.... thats the hard part and probly the key trick. On highways I dont go over 75 mph, the gas seems to go faster when going faster then 75.
I also try and clean my fuel system once a year via the shradder valve on the fuel rail, keeps those misfires at bay.

Now the SE can drop drasticly if I'm leadfootin it! It can get as low as 16-18mpg in the city from jack rabbit starts and racing ricers from light to light. lol

My gp is stuck at 28 mpg on the highway and that is it. I get around 435 to 450 miles per tank. Gas prices around here have dropped. I am paying 3.72 per gallon now. Wonder how long that will last.
Yeah GP's have a bigger tank, either 18 or 22 gallon, depending on year/model.

And gas prices are lower here, been 3.65-3.70 for reg, but I burn premium these days, still under $4. A few weeks ago I was paying 4.75 for premium. :(

TGIF !! http://www.butterylicious.com/smilies/classic/dance.gif

The gas prices are definetly out of hand. I think the last time i got gas back in the beginning of the month, i found the cheapest i could find at 3.97 and I would only put 20-40 dollars worth in. I couldn't afford anymore then that. I miss the days where gas was 89 cents for regular! I think the last time the tank was filled up on the car was back in May and 50+ something dollars later I was broke! :mad: What would kill me for gas was living in the area i did. Constant NJ traffic! It sucked! No matter where you turn you sit in traffic or at another traffic light eating up your MPG. Then in true nature i would get frustrated, so at the next open area of road you floor it eating up more MPG. My only regret to trading in my GT was the gas mileage since that car got some damn good mileage. The g6 gtp drank gas like it was water.

The g6 gtp drank gas like it was water.

I am surprised to hear that. I just took my mom's G6 to Florida and I couldn't beleive the gas mileage I got. It took me a couple hundred dollars less than I thought it would to get down there and back! I was getting 34.8mpg driving through Alabama, I couldn't have been any happier!

Any GTP usualy doesnt get to good of MPG, IMO that's from hot roding it. :ylsuper:

I just filled up at lunch, figured this round mpg- I only got 25.5 mpg(280 miles/11 gals) though its been realy hot and humid here, seems to eat the gas more. :dunno:

I am surprised to hear that. I just took my mom's G6 to Florida and I couldn't beleive the gas mileage I got. It took me a couple hundred dollars less than I thought it would to get down there and back! I was getting 34.8mpg driving through Alabama, I couldn't have been any happier!

Your mom probably doesn't have the 3.9L GTP like i did. THe best i ever got on the highway with that car was just barely 27mpg. Most of the time I only saw about 24-25 on the highway, 20.5 mixed driving and 15 in the city.

The 3.9L GTP is a sweat@ss ride ! :grinyes:
I still cant believe GM put a 5.3L 303hp V8 in the GXP.
If it wasnt transverse mounted it would be a better/funner car to drive. But I guess then you could call it a sister GTO. :lol:

Well that was a scary loud storm! :eek:
Woke me right the hell up :mad:
You getting any of that Viipey?

i barely slept thx to that tornado warning... headed to campus and got back around 2 and i had to get up for work at 6... not a good morning :(

Hey everyone new to your side of the forum! Used to be a Blazer owner and now own a 2002 Grand AM SE. Hope I can learn lots and help out as much as I can! Happy posting.

Well you are certainly in the right place. The knowledge is endless here when it comes to Grand Ams.

i barely slept thx to that tornado warning... headed to campus and got back around 2 and i had to get up for work at 6... not a good morning :(

Wow! I didnt even know we were under a tornado warning. The thunder/lightning woke me up then my kids all came running . :lol:

Thats wierd my time stamp is wrong, it was after 2am when I posted.... dam daylight savings! :mad:


Hey everyone new to your side of the forum! Used to be a Blazer owner and now own a 2002 Grand AM SE. Hope I can learn lots and help out as much as I can! Happy posting.


Hey BlazerBoyLT98!
And Welcome to Grand am land! :naughty:

hope you like your GA Blazer... this place is a great place for grand am info... Xero here has a beast of a grand am and knows practically everything about them so there's always good knowledge to be had :p

yeah... the beast with almost 200k miles. :eek7:

:lol:

My wife works for BNSF rail road, she got stuck out on the rails last night. They lost all power, the towers were black, all the trains were on a complete stop, the backup generators were toast. The generators never came up. The Burger king, long john silvers, taco smell, KFC, McDonald's, and Dunkin donuts that are around me are black, they all have no power. Comed reported that there was 245,000 customers with out power.

my friend's car got hit by lightning while he was drivign to work this morning... i might have been in the same boat if i hadn't got to work two hours late... he was driving and suddenly FLASH and SLAM and his car was off... 20 seconds later he tried starting it and it worked... I have no idea HOW the electrical system didn't completely fry!

Your friend got very lucky.

Can any one tell me would be better to have my SOHC Quad 4 rebuilt with 122000 miles on it, as it may be only the head gasket blown, than to buy a good used one for $975 or a remanufactured one for $2100?

Can any one tell me would be better to have my SOHC Quad 4 rebuilt with 122000 miles on it, as it may be only the head gasket blown, than to buy a good used one for $975 or a remanufactured one for $2100?

Hi Kenny58, I would pull the head or have further diagnostics done to figure out what causing the low compression .
I just replied to your thread on the rough idle. :thumbsup:

man these week ends just go faster and faster. :(

I agree, they fly :( and classes start in two weeks, ugh. If I would have just decided not to go back to school after my Bachelor's degree, I'd be done now. Forever. No more school. But I want to get a Master's for some crazy reason called "money" and so I'm going back again... I'm envious of all my friends that graduated and are now earning craptons, while I'm still poor... but in the long run they will be envious of me! :D

Even the weeks are flying by also. It is almost fall, where did the summer go.

yeah Vipey I remember those days/nights when all my friends were out partying I had to study or work all the time. But now it was way worth every minute!!

Once you get that MD! :ylsuper:

This summer did go by fast...

.... makes me wonder if some world gov. can control time and speed it up during weekends and holidays, and summer vacations... then slow it down in the week...


Nothing worse then the Mondays!
:rofl:

Who can guess what I was having? :D

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Looks like coffee and mouth wash. :lol:

Is that an Iron Man shot glass ?!?

Those are some interesting colors for a shot!!!

I am going to register my vote as being Hypnotic and Jager?

Absinthe and coffee!!! LOL :rofl::runaround::uhoh:

Absinthe and coffee !?!

That would not be tasty! :grinno:

Sounds horrible!!! :crying:

I'd rather have the Hypnotic and Jager combo! :evillol:

Those are some interesting colors for a shot!!!

I am going to register my vote as being Hypnotic and Jager?


ding ding! WINNARR :grinyes:

was actually very tasty...

I had a birthday, last month on the 24th... havent really been around much, been doing lots of stuff with the gf and working... work work work

GA still running :eek7: I'm about to come up on the 190k mark lol

ding ding! WINNARR :grinyes:

was actually very tasty...

I had a birthday, last month on the 24th... havent really been around much, been doing lots of stuff with the gf and working... work work work

GA still running :eek7: I'm about to come up on the 190k mark lol

I hit 190k on Saturday :p

ding ding! WINNARR :grinyes:

Alright!!!! What do I win? :lol2:

Hey Everyone! I'm finally checking in... I've been sort of busy lately. Doing job searching almost everyday, working around the house, working out a little...etc. I've been just keeping busy.

190K on those g/a's!!! Damn good job keeping them running. :biggrin: I figured out if I kept my Grand am I would be at around 130K on it. When I traded in the g6 last month I had 61K on it. It was an 2006 too! :eek7: Average of 30K a year! :runaround:

190k miles is realy good guys ! :grinyes:
My SE is almost at 200k and seems to be running rather well of late. Probly time for something new to break... :rolleyes:

You must of had a long drive to work or just cruised alot grfnkl, 30k a year is kinda high.
I think the average per american is around 12k miles. I have several vehicles so mine get spread around. :lol:

So grfnkl you're in PR now ? I guess they'd have or not have jobs just as up here. I know a couple people that work 2 full time jobs and still strugle to make it from week to week, that would suck !

Yeah its almost Friday !

Yeah I'm finally living in PR. I moved here finally on July 22nd. So Almost a month of me living here. Jobs here are much like up there. Few... and the ones that do exsist are specialized fields or in my case require to be bilingual. So it'll take some time before i get a job.

When i bought my g6 it already had 30K miles on it. A year and a half later I put an additional 30K on it. :iceslolan All those miles are a combo of driving to work 50miles a day, side trips, and cruising around. It adds up quickly!

prob a repost but... http://www.motortrend.com/future/concept_cars/112_0002_pontiac_grand_am_sct/index.html :D good read