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[meti]

lol ok
well his truck tries to start but it just wont fire. starter is fine then and ok i'll take ur advise cuz this weekend i will probably take a look at it in details.
blah ok yeah pulley adn stuff soon to be happening! ok i'll get back to ya when i see somthing new posted

[Ridenour]

O hey just had a new thought. From what you just said, it sounds like the truck might be having the air blocked from the rain. Check out his filter setup. If there's some way that the rain is leaking onto / soaking the filter, it could be doing it enough to make it hard for the engine to suck in air. If he has a stock airbox, make sure there's no leaks or anything that could let in water. If he has some type of other setup, judge it accordingly.

[meti]

damn i didnt think of that! Well I'll do every experiment possible. lol
i'll pour water and check everything.
I guess we'll see this weekend if he brings it over to my house! he better or it aint getting fixed lol

well how many miles do you have on ur grand am?
i got 63000.
average 13000 per year since i bought it well i bet ur put alot more since u drive long to go to school but 3.4 SFI engines are fairly cheap lol we'll replace them when we get around 150000 haha

[Ridenour]

I've got like 37,000-ish on mine. Yeh you're right, I've been putting on 60 a day at least, ever since I've been going to my LAMP class.

Yeh you're right about the 3.4 being cheap. I was on "the floor" of Traver's Auto - Junkyard here in town the other day, and they had like at least 10 of the things all sitting there on pallets. lol I guess I know where to go if I ever need a new one.

[meti]

lol yeah! thats why i am not too worried about miles. well your car has like no miles lol
Well I go around alot haha and i will probably will start looking for a new one when i step on 100000!

[Ridenour]

yeh 100,000 would be a good spot. I've been in 3 accidents / driven it hard though, so my 37,000 are probably equivlent to about 60,000 normal miles.

I'll probably end up selling my grand am when it gets to about 80,000 miles - due to the fact that that will be late college-ish, and if I get this co-op with GM, I should have plenty of money by then

[meti]

o thats nice! well i drove my car hard since i bought it lol but it had 48000 allready and a lady with kids had it before me! so i dont think she drove it hard

well i dont think i will ever sell my car unless i get a MBW Z something or M something! haha
well I have never been in a total accident but I was in couple...once spun out on a 25mph ramp....i was doing about 70 or more {lucky thanks God that i dindt flip/roll and i dont know why! but I didnt and just hit the guard rails....broke my drivers side taillight and the bumper was scrached deep! and YES i was racing....since a guy just cut me off doing over 100 and i was just cruising on 80...so i floored it and cought up with him but spun half way in the ramp when i floored it even more}
u know whats the best part? I had a girlfriend with me lol but she wasnt scared!BS thats what she said anyways and i remember watching the rear view mirror! there was so much smoke coming out from tires squeeling and also found out that i had my left side so close to guard rails that i was in sand....so that was low traction lol
blah thats terriably told but thats what happened! weather conditions were dry and no wetness whats so ever! it was embarrasing too though lol 5 days after i had bought the car!

and the other was recently when a stupid bitch/girl hit me! she broke a piece of my passanger side skirt!!! but its all good! i got it fixed allmost all and will be totally fixed when i get body kit sideskirts!

[Ridenour]

holy shit yeh you're lucky you didn't roll it. I'm suprised when it bit the shoulder going that fast it didn't catch it and roll it like mine. Wow, it sounds like we need more women in the world like your girlfriend. LoL.

Yeh I guess when I sell mine I'll most likely get some kind of F-body like a Camaro or Firebird or something good to start with. Maybe even a GTO - they should be cheap enough by then.

[meti]

yeah I guess it was her! I wish I still was with her lol
Well some dont bealive me but thats the truth and I sware to God, everything goes through your brain in that split second!

Did you ever notice that our cars sometimes dont kick at 115mph or 120mph? Yeah well its true. I had that happen and i got up to 125mph but i didnt have a radar detector to keep going! I bealive it was around 4200rpm at 125mph or somewhere close!
I didnt want to rist it lol and yes a mercedes was trying to get away but i was actually a tiny bit faster! Like I would move faster by inches faster....very hard to say that i was faster. it was 2.4L engine mercedes. I think it was series of 224 but i know the last digits were 2.4 since that represents the engine size!

Well I agree with you and I see your point of view on getting a bigger car...well for me for now I will keep mine and might get a BMW or nothing else in the future! I love my car and i bealive in it. It never EVER let me down! sware to God! weeding through traffic, racind, slowing/braking, looks on 18's. I love its fat/wide body looks and thats why i think grand am's look better then GTOs!

All cars can be great! So w/e u drive is good!
I like the BMW M5 or Z8 or 9...nice kick ass cars! best in the world for buring out! that satisfies me lol

[Ridenour]

Yeh you're right Meti, our cars aren't governed until 127 or 130, I don't remember which. And then some people have said they've gotten em up to like 150. I've personally never maxed mine out, but that's on my too do list one of these day's at 1:00 AM on the freeway . Well it sounds like you really love your Grand Am. That's good. I really like mine too, not to mention that it's saved my ass in 3 accidents. LoL. Sounds like you really like Beemer's too. I agree. Most of them are very badass. I would cut off my arm to drive the new M6 or whichever it is (it's like over 500 hp). It's friggin badass. Pretty much all of their models look great (cept for the SUV's, was never wild about those).

I personally am really into the new Caddy's. I go to the Lansing Grand River plant 1/2 of ever day for a class I'm in called LAMP, and my dad works there too, so I get to see the new CTS's / STS's / CTS-V's / SRX's every day! They're super badass, specially the new CTS-V and STS-V, and the new CTS super V is a god amongst cars.

[mcbeefer]

hey guys i just got my lightweight pulley in today havent had much time to drive it yet but it did smooth out the acceleration of my car, first of all the reason i got it was my stock balancer was breaking apart so i figured if i have to change it i might as well go for performance. so the new pulley got rid of a lot of vibrations when coasting. just wondering if you guys know how much living at a higher altitude affects the times i just did a hand held 0-60 time and got between 9-10 sec i have been hearing everyone else saying stock should be about 7.5, the reason i am asking is that i live in casper, Wy which is about 5000 ft above sealevel
just figured id pick your brains. oh yeah so far the pulley seems to be a good deal

[meti]

allright thanks man but can you give me the link where you got ur pulley from?

ummmmm high altitutes? nahhh I think why you got 9-10 was you might have burned out on start and or your car could be loosing some power somewhere like air intake or something! But yes stock cars should do 7.5 0-60.

I'll let Ridenour give his openion! But dude I Rednour: I love all them cars too! They are pricy though and i just would not be able to buy an escalade like my friend 52000$ the longest one they make..biggest and its great though! I love it.

Me and my bro just ordered vertical door kit for my sis's car which is 2002 grand am 2.2L but 2 door. IF that goes well then I can tell you guys where u get them cheap and I also just bought a cone air filter, xenon lamps and i dunno how much money i got left lol

k ttyl

[mcbeefer]

http://www.highrevmotorsports.com/ca...3c799dabda55bf
heres the site i bought mine from
but i think ud get more out of the one from fast foward cause mine was stock size and the one at fast foward is smaller and underdrives your accesories
http://www.fastfwdperformance.com/ud.htm
i belive this is the one Ridenour recomended

i guessn my problem is my car just needs a tune up new spark plugs and whatnot might also be that it has 80k on it

[meti]

yeah mine has 63k now and its good. Go ahead replace some spark plugs and wires and but i would definitelly once again check your intake!!!

[Ridenour]

I'm glad to hear that pulley helped, mcbeefer. I think that poor 0-60 time is due mainly to your high altitude. 5000 ft above sealevel has a hell of a lot less oxygen then where me and Meti are at (about 800 ft)

Yeh I like escalade's too meti. My dad had a white one with the like pickup bed-setup, as a company car for a few months, and it was badass

Good luck with those vertical doors. Lemme know how those, and the xenon lamps turn out.