Ward83

iTrader: (1)

I've lurked around on these forums for a while, but decided to finally register. Anyways, here is my car: It's an 88 Pontiac GTA, one of 809 factory 5.0/5-speed cars built for 1988. It's got the digital dash, 9-bolt disc rear, and tan leather interior. It's a rolling project at the moment, I'm still slowly restoring the interior. I bought it last february and spent the first couple months getting it running well. I plan to start on suspension soon, doing spohn coilvers and LS1 brakes. It needs a little bodywork too, mostly on the driver side front. Still, for a 20 year old car with 175k miles, it's in great overall shape.

LSX Cayenne

Welcome! Nice 88!

The Batman

iTrader: (4)

throw a lt1/t56 combo in that bad boy

'02 WS6

iTrader: (73)

Welcome! Love GTA's, I had an '88 w/ digital dash as well, red w/ 5.7. So by law, I have to be jealous of your car. What's your motor plans, stick w/ tpi, lt, ls, hell lsx???

Pinky93

Very nice 88'...... 3rd gens are awesome!

Ward83

iTrader: (1)

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm not sure what I want to do with the motor yet. It runs great, so at least for the time being, I plan to leave it mostly stock. I do want to do a T56 swap though. I will probably stay with a Gen I motor, unless I come across a good deal on an LT1 or LS1. I don't know much about the LSX engines, so putting one in would be a learning experience for me. I do plan to keep the car stock appearing, and would like to retain A/C. I'm soon buying an Ostrich PROM emulator, so I can adjust the tune. Just out of curiosity, how hard is it to tune an LSX engine yourself? Is there software available like there is for the TPI?

'02 WS6

iTrader: (73)

oh yea. we've come a long way since the PROM burning days. HPtuners, efi live, ls1 edit, all those had great tuning/data logging capabilities. The handheld tuners are available as well, but aren't as in depth as the softwares.