Popular Post StockLS1 Posted February 26, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 hello columbus, just doing my intro. my name is cory im 20 yrs old. i drive a 1999 Pontiac Trans Am LS1 M6. bone stock but not for long. i bought it in april of 2011 and has it changed my life. when i bought it it had 157k mi on the odo,car has 166k on it now. paid $6300. came with the WS6 wheels and had no problems.noticed the oil pressure gauge was shaking a lot at warm idle so i replaced the pressure sending unit and oil pump for good measure, fixed the issue.on to the pics. in the driveway of the previous owners house http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/testdriveday.jpg driving it home http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/Grippedsig.png so i drove it pretty hard all summer. broke 5th gear somehow after having the car for just over i think 2 months. then 6th gear also did not work by the end of summer. so i did not go on highways once 6th broke. first time i took it to the track, which was the first time i ever drove a RWD Manual at the track i did horrible but improved quickly.dont have vids of races or pics of my timeslips but i ran a 15.4 my first run. then a 14.4, 14.2, 14.1, 14.0xx all at norwalk. then that night went to Dragway 42 and ran 4 low 14 runs till my last run i finaly hit the 13.9. on worn kumho summer tires. couple weeks went to 42 again and ran a 14.0 then i go to do a little burnout before my second run and all i hear is grinding.diff is tore up. http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/tagettingtowed.jpg http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/baddiff.jpg idk if you can see it but some teeth are gone. now its in my grandmas garage and i have my trans out and am gonna ship it to Tick For a stage 2 rebuild. http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/oldclutch.jpg http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/transaminstorageonstands.jpg last day before putting it away for the winter i smoked the clutch on an attempt to do a burnout in second gear. http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/burntflywheel.jpg guy i bought it from said it had a new clutch with little miles on it. DURALAST clutch from autozone. who ever did it was not a good mechanic. http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/looseclutchbolt.jpg http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp65/autogeek23/243heads.jpg going to be Doing cam with supporting mods, LT's,ORY,magnalfow catback, LS6 intake,42 lb injectors and a racetronix pump. might have the 243's i bought milled and cnc'd. hopefully i can afford nitrous(nytrex 100 shot). all by june at the latest. oh and i have an LS7 clutch with steel flywheel to be isntalled.also proper suspension mods, panhard bar, subframe connectors, tunnel brace mounted tq arm, UMI lower control arms im on LS1tech as autogeek23, heres my youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/autogeek23?feature=guide sorry if this was a long intro. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverMaker Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Good intro. Welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMeanGreen Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Nope, excellent intro. Welcome to CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cordell Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 nice car, great intro, good mods planned, look forward to meeting you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stangsn95gt Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Good intro/build thread welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderboy Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Your intro was too good. I vote ban. J/k welcome to CR. Hope to see you around at the meets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirks5oh Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Great intro. Save some time and money in the long run, and rebuild the bottom end while doing the cam swap, and head work. No sense throwing a big cam and heads onto a 170k shortblock. Welcome to the site. I fondly remember being 20 with my first 5.0, modding it, breaking it, modding it, breaking it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99ta Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 nice intro man. sounds like your off to a good start on the mods.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossle Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome to the site. Plenty of support for DIY guys here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourString Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 You're doing it the right way man. Break stuff, fix it, and learn from it. Welcome to Columbus LSx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnaplay1647545503 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturg1647545502 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 nice intro and welcome to CR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattsv8 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome I'm waiting on cr name change to columbus ls1. There is a ton of ls members on this site great intro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontiacfreak142 Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patterson Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Excellent intro. Welcome to CR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Cranium Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome to columbus LS racing. Great intro. Nice looking car, looks like your plans are pretty solid. Plenty of good LS information around here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex L. Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Welcome, get that thing together and race this little Celica of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockLS1 Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 thanks guys. looking forward to being active on this forum and come down to columbus to cruise and activities 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwashmycar Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMeanGreen Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 And....he's in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cordell Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Okay, I looked after his second post figuring he'd be in, must've taken a minute or you repped him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMeanGreen Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Once his status updated to "Riceboy", this was closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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