99 Grand Prix project SE coupe and dirty turbo

[Mater]

now i know what you are thinking don;t i have that grand am to work on?

yes yes i do and i still am but this is something i been wanting to do for a wile make a base model 2dr as GM never did for the LOLZ.

so been cruising CL for a wile looking for a good rust free candidate found this car seller said the underside and towers where clean and mint so had a buddy who was much closer to the Indiana border then me go and pick it up.





now i said i was looking for a rust free car seller said ti was a rust free car i was also originally only suppose to get the shell for 500. as you can see it is more then just shell that is because.... surprise the dude lied and it;s anot a rust free shell....






i have seen and owned worse this is still savable. they sell rocker panels for about 150 for the coupes 250 for sedans


towers will be a bit harder but still doable



also the interior is hideous







i mean really really hideous. like early 2000's level of FF hideous



yes that is spray paint yes i need to find away to remove it


now it came with a L67 from a bonnie SSEI (notice the weird coil bracket) not sure if it runs or is in good shape as the guy was running it off of the GT computer which has not tuning for positive pressure those cells are blank in the timing and fuel trim tables on a GT computer. it ran enough though to nuke the 4t65






did i mention the interior is hideous?




will be an interesting project as the dirty turbo part of it is me and my friend are literally going to use throw a way junk we both have to build a turbo 3800 using a powerstroke 7.3L turbo and engine that had a knock and using an engine that milkshaked it self for parts. and couple that to a trans that had no overdrive LOL

should be fun but will get the GA farther along before i do much if any thing to it

[Beagle]

they have a bunch of different EZ OFF oven cleaner kinds the last time I looked - you want the one with LYE in it. It may be in the ingredients as sodium hydroxide or caustic soda. All the same name for "wear rubber gloves and eye protection" rip paint off of plastic goodness. You may want to test it to make sure it doesn't eff up the plastic too. Polyethylene is pretty immune to it.

[Mater]

i have spare GP interior bits i can test it on


here are the 2 other motors that will be used for the turbo engine












you can also see the trans that will be used in the trunk picture but yes using an engine with a knock and then one that milkshaked for spare parts what could go wrong?

taking over under on how long this will survive haha

[Mater]

already sold the rear bumper and possibly the front

also have a line on a transmission with all 4 gears for 150

[Mater]

what the heck the pictures all died

any way here is the turbo it;s a garrett GTP38 from a 97 powerstroke same model roadkill used on the rotsun. also yes the GTP38 is going to be put a a GTP 3.8

[Deaf Bob]

Is it big enough?

[Mater]

actually it;s a little too big at least on the exhuast turbine side so lag will be a bit high.

should be good for 500+ though at 20+psi LOL rotson on low boost was about 400 think they only every ran it at 15psi


also figured out a cheap fuel system using 12 factory injectors by useing L67 heads (supercharged engine) as they have injector bosses in them then a L26 intake (the series 3 N/A engine has injector bosses in the intake) just have one trigger wire drive 2 injectors. will be fin or fail spectacularly but will still be fun

and if not i can get some 80# injectors easily.

[Mater]

care came with some pretty decent speakers. going to have to fig out a head unit. also seem to be decently installed. assuming by an owner before the last one....








also better pictures of the horrible interior.

car has heated seats....... WHY DOES IT NOT HAVE A HUD????







oh and a better photo for the radio antenna this is rare as 99.99% of cars came with the radio antenna built intot he rear glass but GM had issues so had to put it on the quarter panel on some early 99's late 98's and early 97's









oh and dug the turbo out of my shed

it's a wee little thing only a 60mm compressor wheel

[Mater]

got the bumpers off and sold car is cleaner then i thought with how bad the rockers are







also got this in the mail for future upgrades tot he car

[Mater]

extracted the rod knock N/A engine this will be the base for the actual final engine that will be in the care








also got the trans out that has no overdrive that i will be using



oh and a bunch of spare parts. it is literally the scrap pile that keeps on giving LOL