Grand Am Off Topic Thread

[roboticgod]

Originally Posted by xeroinfinity

Ok, On with the burnouts !

This one is about a month old.
This has to be the longest burnt out(posi) I've done in a fwd car. My neighbors love me!
This would be burnout alley. lol Everytime I do one the next day thiers a half dozen more covering mine.
And my favorite one!

Needless to say , I need new tires!
They have over 70k miles on them, they lasted longer then any other Good Year I've had on my GA's, and handled the best over all year.

those were some great burnouts !!

to bad you damaged your CV joints. lol

you ready to try and take the cobra after the pulley change ?

[xeroinfinity]

Originally Posted by roboticgod

those were some great burnouts !!

to bad you damaged your CV joints. lol

you ready to try and take the cobra after the pulley change ?

Hahaha! Like that's even fair!!

How about I boost the SE then we'll be evenish.

[Vipey1337]

Originally Posted by xeroinfinity

Hahaha! Like that's even fair!!

How about I boost the SE then we'll be evenish.

yeah boost the SE!!!! do it!!!

[xeroinfinity]

Originally Posted by Vipey1337

yeah boost the SE!!!! do it!!!

it is moving off the back burner, to the front. opcorn:

[xeroinfinity]

Hope everyones having a great week!

wow ! what a week its been for me!

Was very busy this week at the shop, and been workin on my friends "Hordes Of Nebulah" newest album cover art.
Well thier newest that they have an actual contract with from Abyss Records, about time!
Kind of a compilation from thier 2003 and 2005 albums....

Cover and inside inlay...


Inside inlay....scarry! lol


And my favorite piece the back CD inlay, its nice.(nice as unholy black metal can be)



And be carefull you guys who live down south!


edit ...

I just got a call about remastering this album, thier goes my weekend.
I was thinking I had mastered "When The Sun Was Bled Of Its Light 2005" but didnt get much say in the process, now I do.

[xeroinfinity]

Well the remaster this last saturday, it only took about 12 hrs! Sounds 110% better!

Well worth the troubles we had, also made small changes in the back inlay design, all being dropped off at Abyss this afternoon, deadlines suck! They should be updating thier myspace with the remastered songs, I just cant believe how much better it sounds.

Here's the updated pics... the back inlay.








Have a great week everyone !

[xeroinfinity]

where the hell is everybody... hope youre not all flooded out.

[Vipey1337]

been busy...school stuff :P working on grad degree!

btw I want to get my tranny built up!!!

[xeroinfinity]

Yeah work sucks! lol

How much money you wanting to spend on your trans ??

[doctorhrdware]

Work sucks, was laid off. There is significant flooding around me. Was on the way to Farm and Fleet. Had two detours due to flooding. And the detours were also very flooded. Now I am getting random multiply misfires.The DTC that I am getting is P0300. It feel like I am running on 4 cylinders. The idle is very ruff.

[Hungrycat7]

Just checkin in to see if you all are still with us! Who would have thought Cincinnati, Ohio would be hammered by a hurricane. I still don't have any power! No A/C, no lights, no stove, no fridge, and no hot water! Hopefully it will be back on any day now! How did everyone else fair?

[xeroinfinity]

I faired well, I did get around 8.5 inches of rain the night it stormed up here by Chicago. They got hit with around 10" of rain. The river that runs down the road is at its banks, it shouldnt get much higher... I hope not.

I've been lucky the last couple years, I dont loose power with my 4KW of solar daily(+/- due to dim lighting), ready to add a wid turbin now.

But yeah I've been there with no power/water/tv

[xeroinfinity]

Ok this is strange.... yet alarming at the same time.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2867356/8228068

I need a shielded hoster for my phone .

[Gir-_-]

ive seen that lol Dont think it's completely true though


man its been a while, I've been working working working :|

but now I'm faced with a problem,

Over by my alternator, I guess it's cycl 1 I do believe... but it's been making some loud knock noise... only when the motor hesitates (goes below idle, comes back up to idle) or if it's a real cold start, it'll do it untill it warms up...

This should load for you XI, its pretty small
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7WeilAs2Y - sorry for the horrible quality. cell phone lol, but you get the just of it.... you can still hear that knock! grr

That video was taken at work when I was really bored lol

The next day I celebrated with....

8oz - Seafoam - PCV cleaning
2 small bottles of Lucas injector cleaner
Oil changed with Royal Purple 5w-30 (decided to go purple this time)
ALSO!, used the HP-2001 filter and put in a little more oil... about 4.7 or .8L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgJR5s3_Nw

did this yesterday, noticed its running really smooth, I can really tell the difference, its like silk almost - Though this did not change the knock noise...

soon I'll drain the Max ATF I put in a while ago, change the tranny filter and go get some more put in there

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Im still wanting to go N2O, but with a small buildup first

I talked with Mike Miller (MMS - milzy dude) who owe's me $200 or so for that tranny mount, still never got the refund and got in touch with him today about it. I asked if it'd be possible to get another order but with the amount already discounted. I asked for a billet cam for N/A... but he said he wouldnt have any for a couple of months cause he had to switch companies to have them made. But he does have the cast NA available. I may just go that route...

from just looking... I can do a solid cast 3400 camshaft for $339.99 ... I'd only pay like $140 or so for it

plenum spacers = $64 (worth it?)

65mm throttle body = about $40 after discount... $20 more for 68mm....

I can get a set of ported/polished upper/lower intake manifolds for about $100 after discount

Chrome-moly pushrods for only $134.99, with more money to spend

what I'd like to do... is..

Camshaft
those chrome-moly rods
new rockers (will look around)
LS1 springs, or those yellow beehive springs like used on 'grand am fury v6' the one guy who has a really nice v6 grand am built up... he has some spring part #s...

possibly bigger sized valves (intake/exhaust)... might have to do custom, How could I set it up to be flush with the block when they open/close? would I have to get a pro to mill it out for me with a drimmel?

a PnP upper/lower intake later.. I think. And I'm sure getting the rods wont be too hard, not such a bad price to pay.

Then nitrous/wet setup... I know exactly where I'll mount everything inside (switches, lights etc...)

I'll put everything up into that useless holder that sits above my middle mirror, I'll take it out, make the holes/sizes and w/e and just wire it through the pillar and up the top.. everything just slides in there...

[xeroinfinity]

If you are talking about that random action noise it doesnt sound like a valve or lifter in your video. One of those would be a constant rhythm noise. Sounds more like your power steering pump though...

Could also be your timing chain rattling..

Are you getting any DTC's ??