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Hi everyone, I’m happy to be in this group. Here are a few pictures of my car. We’ve painted it and had a new top installed but interior is original. Pretty good shape for 175 dollars running and driving.

Hi all. Hope we all had good holidays. I have not been on here in awhile. I work too much. I must say that W-Bodies are scarce in my area. Makes me sad. I miss my Cutlass. Last year I sold my 90 ScottsDale after NY killed the frame. My garage space is taken up by 2 Caddys. Still old school. The cream one is supposed to be my DD but I have a winter rat so I park it when I can. The Red one is a garage queen. Even these are getting difficult to find. I just refuse to buy newer. Since I retired my 94 Cutlass Supreme I have not found not one other. I had left phone number on 2 other that were driven locally in my area but both were driven into the ground and later found in my local yard. I will still try and lurk here to help our fellow members. Life gets crazy. I am sure we all know.

How in the world did you get it for that cheap?

I suppose from a personally selfish point of view I'd prefer that we keep our *home* just as it is. What models GM has to offer today to me pales in comparison to what it used to make available a lifetime ago. The technology has advanced, but the fewer choices that the buyer has to select from rubs me the wrong way. GM killed off both the Olds & the Pontiac marque just because they were not marketed on a global scale. I've never forgiven the upper echelon for doing that. If that reasoning was to stand why didn't they drop either the Chev or GMC truck line?...why are 2 lines needed?....when was last time you saw or heard of full sized trucks being exported overseas to Europe or Asia? In my past visits to either Britain, Poland or Germany I've never seen a GM truck being marketed there at all.....and you won't, not given the lack of fuel economy they deliver that doesn't meet the needs over there. The Pontiac brand was supposed to be the *sports* oriented division of the lot, so much for head office waving the *Excitement* banner.......the yearly Carlisle event (what used to be known as the GM Nationals) is now the Chevy Nationals, Chevrolet wouldn't sponsor the show unless the name was changed to Chevy.... another strike.....the show is now boycotted by many of the Pontiac & Olds owners for this reason, for those who own or want to own a W-body, they know where we are & the doors are always open...... Nope, I like things just the way they are.....

Nah. I don’t mind being helpful or people getting help but that defeats the purpose. I think that’ll kill our numbers because there will be even less users per topic as I don’t think many will migrate anyway. Just my .02

My concern is with diluting the W-body content. We're here because we want to specialize in W-body; losing that specialization would eliminate any reason for me to log on. The newest vehicle I own is a 2003; GM has probably lost me as a customer until that vehicle won't run reliably because they've decided to follow political correctness or crazy styling instead of building stuff I want to buy. There's not a car in the stable that I have any real interest in. Pretty-much the same with the trucks. If you need the tailgate to multi-function as a step ladder...the truck isn't designed for use, it's designed to "look mean". I don't need that. Linking to other GM platforms would be a total waste of bandwidth for me. I'm already on forums that specialize in other GM brands; what they have in common in that there's little content for newer crap. It's all Chevy-Pontiac-Olds-Buick-Cadillac pre-1999; and in most cases largely pre-1980. "Global personal transportation" and "alternative powered vehicles" are "politically-correct JUNK", and that is what I DO NOT WANT.

Finally got around to retrofitting 4th gen Camaro window sweep felts on my Cutlass. It definitely looks much better, and the wind noise reduced some! Hopefully they last a while considering they have been on a junkyard Camaro for its lifetime. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

When you put it like that, it sounds like a bad thing. Maybe I need to read Lord of the Flies. I figure when a corporation changes it's products so that they no longer make anything relevant, abandoning them is a responsibility, not merely a choice. Someone has to tell them they're on the wrong track, and sucking air. I volunteer. HEY GM: POUND SAND! And K-M-A. And shut your fukkin' headlights off in the daytime. You look ridiculous.

You are talking about a small subset of GM vehicles from a weird time period in their history. If people are interested, they will come here. Sadly, most forums are going away because of Social Media. After seeing most of the crap that goes on with those platforms I'm happy to let people find us and post good content rather than just posting content.

I don't know what the spec is, exactly. I just know 10ohm is probably still ok... I'd keep an eye on it. When they go bad they'll usually drop to 1ohm or less and at that point they short the driver and no injector pulse to all of them.

I had it done at a repair shop so I’m not sure how they did it. Later on I also had to do a vacuum ball(just a little plastic ball) that was cracked and resulted in poor running. When I took it to dealer they took the cover off for the timing belt and discovered the timing belt was eating itself due to some parts that held it on track breaking. I had been hearing a small squeak but didn’t think much of it.

I bought it at Copart auto auction. It needed some vacuum lines, brakes, and tires, and battery but it still ran and drove. It needed a lot of work but it was still a good deal.

Looks good!

Looks like I am back in the W body game. I am not new to the w body scene at all. I have had a few in my time. 1990 TGP, 2000 GTP, and a 1993 Z34. At the moment I have an 1989 Z24 powered by a TGP 3.1 turbo engine. But I am thinking of getting back in the game yet again. I got a line on a 1993 Cutlass Supreme. Very few details, but what I know is this. Its black with gray interior has 23,000 miles on it( yes that's not a typo). Been in Florida its whole life. Sitting in a parking garage under a car cover for the past 5 years. Only driven once a month up and down the garage. I live in Pa so rust free low mile W body is like the holy grail for me. No I dont have pics, but he tells me it's like new. But for the price I am paying for it and the while situation i cant pass this thing up. I should go to jail for this robbery lol

So, did you get it?

Congratulations on the upgrade.

There is a reason the GM trucks are not selling, and by updating them so quickly, they know why. I'm hopeful the redesign looks a lot better.

With the new Ram being a sales success and the new Silverado/Sierra falling to the 3rd sales slot, and a new 2021 F150 coming out soon, GM just announced a new interior and exterior refresh. More inline with the 21 Suburban/Yukon/Escalade styling. I hope it's alot better! A refresh only after 2 years in the car world is not common these days. I think GM is realizing they made some major styling mistakes.

I consider a mustang before a Camaro now. 10 years ago. Never. The Challengers are hard to beat. $35k base model RT with 375hp. They are beasts. I test drove a base model RT challenger back in early Feb. That thing pulls hard. I took it out to a country road and after the 4 way stop I stood on it and they are fast. My only problem, visibility sucks. That's a problem with all new cars. The ABC pillars are way too big. My old 06 silverado had great visibility. Why sacrifice that?

Totally agree. So now where the mirrors SHOULD be mounted, there is an ugly black piece of triangular plastic. Stupid! I think GM was trying to copy Ford a little bit there. I like how my Super has the beltline dropped down into that corner thru the shape of the door skin to create the same effect.

Absolutely! The Sierra is WAY BETTER looking than the Silverado. I would think the Sierra's would be killin it in sales compared to the Silverado. I myself would prefer the Mustang over the Challenger if I were in the market for one of them. Not to take anything away from the Challenger because it's killer, I just think Ford did it a tiny bit better with the styling. Also, the sequential tail lights and Pony projector is a must have for me. Not really feelin the Durango styling, performance...Hell yes! The Charger is more appealing to me than the Challenger, they are wicked! The interiors are really nice in the Chrysler products right now too. Like I said, if I couldn't make a deal on my Super Duty, I would have brought home a new Ram HD. Speaking of Mustang's...this is at my local dealer right now. I WANT IT!!!! I don't have $77,000 though.

The mirrors should not be on the doors. That is why I was looking into a Ram power wagon.

Out off all those, I don't mind the blazer, but everything else is just so bad looking. I like the 2020 Sierra HD, but the interior is getting dated. My 2015 had the same interior. The GM interiors do not impress me. The dodge line up is killing it, I just love the looks of and the V8 power avaible in everything. It sucks the blazer doesn't have a v8. When I'm looking at buying something I want a V8. I am very impressed with the Dodge interiors. They are nice to be. Comfortable, things feel nice to touch, and not a lot of noise going on on bumpy roads. I can't say that about my 2015 Sierra. That thing rattled like a tin can with a rock in it. Terrible.

It's pretty easy to walk away from GM right now, especially the Chevrolet brand. I mean, when your churning out crap like this...what does GM expect? The Camaro's airbag makes me sick! So ugly! And of course this crap! And the upcoming ugliness. I already hate it and they're not even on the lot yet!

I rented a Hemi Challenger a couple of years ago. Best rental of my life. Which doesn't say much, it's the first interesting car I ever rented. Everything else has been bottom-feeder fleet junk, once with an upgrade to a 4WD Blazer at a time when my wife wanted to go off-road for bird-watching. Doesn't mean I'm hot to buy a Challenger. But if I were in the market, I could do worse.

I've been a GM fan my entire life. I have been considering a Challenger/Charger for a while now. I think that would be a good summer DD for me.

Thats sort of why I`m liking Dodge more and more, GM just doesnt have anything interesting aside from the Corvette and those are pretty much exotic cars now.

I prefer we keep on like lord of the flies and shun the outside world as the blasphemous heathens they are...

Maybe it's because I'm a little older now but I have been repeatedly disappointed with new vehicles other than my Super Duty. GM has been putting out unattractive and just strange looking vehicles lately. I don't get it and I don't understand what's driving this trend with them. Nothing is attractively unique anymore within their divisions. Makes these older W's and vehicles from the 80's and 90's that much more enticing.

Thanks, the shop wanted over $700 to do this job but I think they had in mind changing the entire mechanism, not the cartridge itself. I watched that You Tube video again last night, as long a I have ALL the replacement parts at the ready I think this is one job I can do that will save big bucks on the whole. I just sunk $3400 into it getting it back up to being roadworthy after 8 years of neglect/abuse by my Dad & Brother, and since I'm the original owner and would really like to see my nephew get this car, it is all surely worth it. No turning back.

I too would like a new one for my 95! Can you PM me as well? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You have about a week to go get parts before he crushes her. His yard was overflowing. Better call ahead. RIP.

Sorry guys, been busy af @work. Here you go. The entire build was documented for competition purposes as well but I didn’t post all 200+ pics on the site http://sommersoundsystems.com/99-pontiac-grand-prix-gt-sss.php Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sweet, I had a 99 GTP coupe in the same factory color and miss it all the time. Yeah lets see some more of that or link us to your pics page.

uhh.. (just my opinion)....don't sink any money into an LG8, go out and find the latest LA1 engine or an LX9 & do a LA1 top swap & drop that in if you want to go *faster*.

You helped me out big time 2 years ago when i changed my belt and components on my 95 vert. Just want to say thanks again and also great video. Thumbs up my man.

Thank you for posting this video. After looking at it I can now safely say I will never attempt this job on my own. That's why these videos are so valuable. They not only provide a first hand practical look at how it's done, they also serve to give you a beforehand choice on whether or not you want to even attempt the task. I'm out. Kudos to Memphis Man for freeing up the huge part of a day of my life for me.

Thank you for the offer! Are they basically the same then? I'll might take you up on that! You won't believe it, my parts guy at the local GM dealer says there are still NOS ones available!

I didn’t read anything just took the pics. lol. If any are not clear enough or you need anything else let me know and I’ll send you better pics

Here's what I'm looking at on the right side.