I thought I had a project thread for this car. Guess not.
I purchased it late January 2011 after my former DD, the 2006 Monte Carlo SS, committed seppuku by barfing up the trans. As I've owned it, I keep finding little bits of new surprises every time I think I completely know the car.
It was already pretty stout when I acquired it. The 4.6 had been fitted with a C&L cold air kit and JBA headers and the computer had been flashed via an SCT tuner. A week into ownership, I took the car to Speedworld, near Phoenix, and on almost-dead Pirellis was running near-consistant 13.5's.
In April, the Pirellis gave up, and I put some pathetic, undersized Michelin X-Green Primacy tires on it to make it work. They suck.
Since that point, the car has gained a Steeda rear swaybar, GT500 coils and lower control arms, and after a little work, what was a GT is now a Mach 1 as I have envisioned it. I used the trunk emblem from a '72 for the outline.
Lately, I haven't done much to it but drive it. I have recurring issues with the brakes and transmission, the latter of which sent me to AMP Performance. I drove the shop guy around to see if I was hallucinating about the 5-gear auto's shifting being bad. When a speedshop guy is genuinely surprised, the owner genuinely is too. Bringing me to question one for this car:
I know there is a way to determine rear gear on the car by rotating the rear tires off the ground, monitoring the driveline. Can someone get me that, please? One possible theory is that the rear gears are not 3.31, the factory ratio, but something much deeper, possibly 4.10 according to two of the AMP guys who drove the car. It would give me something to go off of while they try to reprogram my programmer...
I purchased it late January 2011 after my former DD, the 2006 Monte Carlo SS, committed seppuku by barfing up the trans. As I've owned it, I keep finding little bits of new surprises every time I think I completely know the car.
It was already pretty stout when I acquired it. The 4.6 had been fitted with a C&L cold air kit and JBA headers and the computer had been flashed via an SCT tuner. A week into ownership, I took the car to Speedworld, near Phoenix, and on almost-dead Pirellis was running near-consistant 13.5's.
In April, the Pirellis gave up, and I put some pathetic, undersized Michelin X-Green Primacy tires on it to make it work. They suck.
Since that point, the car has gained a Steeda rear swaybar, GT500 coils and lower control arms, and after a little work, what was a GT is now a Mach 1 as I have envisioned it. I used the trunk emblem from a '72 for the outline.
Lately, I haven't done much to it but drive it. I have recurring issues with the brakes and transmission, the latter of which sent me to AMP Performance. I drove the shop guy around to see if I was hallucinating about the 5-gear auto's shifting being bad. When a speedshop guy is genuinely surprised, the owner genuinely is too. Bringing me to question one for this car:
I know there is a way to determine rear gear on the car by rotating the rear tires off the ground, monitoring the driveline. Can someone get me that, please? One possible theory is that the rear gears are not 3.31, the factory ratio, but something much deeper, possibly 4.10 according to two of the AMP guys who drove the car. It would give me something to go off of while they try to reprogram my programmer...
Comment