bfurches

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I have a spare LS4 block on the ground if someone local has 4t80e we can check against lol

91parkave

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Having that 4t80 would give us a real shot at throwing real power down to the ground and 4t80 transmissions are cheap as hell.

spawne32

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ironic that they put those on the northstar fwd v8's yet gave the LS4 dinky 4t65e's

91parkave

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Yea but the 4t80 is a tight fit on the woody.

bfurches

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Grand Am Brakes?

Any of you guys have any details on the grand am brake swap? For the kinda power we are looking to make, John @ M&H confirmed a 15" wheel is really in order. Anybody know what in all is involved with the Grand Am brake swap? I am having some trouble finding a thread online.

Mike The Canadian

I don't imagine it would be that difficult; I'm just speculating but I know both platforms do the F-body brake swap fairly easily.
When I was in the N-body world doing the F-body brake upgrade involved F-body calipers, bolts, same brake lines and a 12" rotor off a an Impala.

ramairetransam

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just get sprindles off a 97-03 grand prix. they have small rotors stock . i know bc my dad did the ls1 brakes upgrade on his 00 gtp

91parkave

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Spindles are all the same from 97 09 wbodies. They all have the same brake location. All that you need is the rotor caliper caliper bracket and probably a 3.8 standard grand prix brake line.

bfurches

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Turbo is on the way.

Went through Bullseye and picked up a Borg Warner S475 with the Stainless 1.0 V-Band Housing. The turbo and turbine housing were both in stock...if I am lucky, I might see it before the weekend.

91parkave

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so now the obvious question. What trans build you going with

blkchevyz

i'm putting one of those in my camaro... its a beast in size.

bfurches

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I have a little test fitting to do this weekend

The T6 housings are definately large. I have a few customers running it like Steve's third gen:



With the v-band exhaust housing, it's much more compact (similar in size to a T4 frame) which should make packaging a lot easier. I still have to discuss with the guys, but most likely the exhaust is going aluminum and straight out the hood.

91parkave

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Oh no don't cut up the inferno hood. Stick it out the fender!!

bfurches

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We'll see...this video kinda has me sold LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR25fDj1wIQ

My biggest thing is I want to evacuate the source of heat as quickly as possible from the engine bay. I rather not snake a 4" tube all over the bay.

blkchevyz

wonder if you could send it out on of the side vents lol

bfurches

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You have no idea how badly I wanted that to happen! LOL
We talked about that for a while, but there is no way of doing it to come out of both sides without running a bunch of unnecessary tubing, but maybe I would be happy with it just coming out the drivers side I dunno....

On my turbo caprice, I did something similar. I dumped the exhaust out the optional front fender-mounted marker lamp. Made for one really loud blinker

bfurches

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Dropped the subframe and got the motor and the transmission sitting on the ground. In the background you can see another spare aluminum subframe I snagged at my buddies salvage yard. I'm going to use it to fab up up some solid aluminum subframe bushings, and I also would like to touch up some of the factory welds and add a few gussets.



Stripped the motor down and made a pile of what we were keppeing, versus whats getting tossed or removed. The tossed pile grew rather quickly lol





In typical GXP fashion, the transmission had already been replaced at least once and the forward motor mount was broken in half. Surprise surprise.




Engine bay is stripped 90% now. Still a few more items to pull, then I can start the wire tuck/ filling holes & prepping for paint.

91parkave

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Might want to look into swapping over to a Saturn Vue electric power steering unit while you're at it. And swapping monte Carlos brake booster in.


Also I just built my fuel setup. I can tell you you'll want to ditch everything on the fuel canister first and get yourself a decent pump before going on with the turbo build. I'm now utilising a vette external filter/reg

spawne32

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is the electric steering on the vue have the motor on the rack? because I thought all the electric systems needed specific electric steering columns like the cobalt.

91parkave

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The motor would be inside the cabin actually I was gonna retrofit but I just don't have the time or can have my car apart for longer than a weekend