2000 pontiac trans am project build

[OIF1VET]

crap wish i would have know about that sooner. may just have to heat the bad weld up, break it and reweld it properly.

Yea, I just started seeing issues with them in the last year or so.. No idea what they changed.. If mine was going to break, it would of broke by now.. Been used and abused.. Guess they built them better 5 years ago!

[Akodo]

plan to keep the tan interior, but it's hard to find good tan interior parts. only interior part i need is a passenger side door pad, and upper dash pad. i do have a set of door pads off a 93 t/a that have tan carpet on then insted of the leather.

Tell me about it. I ended up painting and rebuilding a pair of gray door panels for my car, though I did take advantage of the opportunity to shift the color slightly. Planning to pull off the rest of the passenger side plastics and repaint them this weekend, weather permitting.

[meissen]

Awesome - can't wait to watch this project.

[riderman329]

Tell me about it. I ended up painting and rebuilding a pair of gray door panels for my car, though I did take advantage of the opportunity to shift the color slightly. Planning to pull off the rest of the passenger side plastics and repaint them this weekend, weather permitting.

what are you doing with the leather insert pad?

[Akodo]

what are you doing with the leather insert pad?

I used it in the rebuilt door panel. I just painted the plastics from the bray door and rebuilt the old one with the new plastics. I took advantage of the opportunity to change the color slightly, its now a more "brown" tan instead of the slightly greyish stock tan. Closer to the headliner color. Heres a picture of the rebuilt door panel:
door panel.jpg

Ooops, wrong pic. This is the one I wanted:
daylight door panel.jpg

[riderman329]

Very nice. How hard was it to pop out the inserts?

[riderman329]

How difficult was it to pop the plastic panels off the other doors, with the 98 model plastic change kinda worried about taking them apart

[Akodo]

How difficult was it to pop the plastic panels off the other doors, with the 98 model plastic change kinda worried about taking them apart

It wasn't too bad. I just trimmed the melted part of the heat stakes off, the only hard part was getting the arm rest off of the outside plastic. Those heat stakes werte actually welded plastic to plastic. Only took about half an hour to strip it down. Putting it back together was a bit harder, but just took a couple of wood clamps and some patience. Though there is a very small gap at the very front of my speaker, but you can't see it even with the door open.

[riderman329]

Alright i'm gonna need your guys help...

As the summer is approching the OT at work is increasing. Any one know of a good shop in the flint area that can put everything on the car, I dont mind driving a little futher if I have too.

I want to get at least the headers and exhaust and torque arm put on, pretty much everything i'll need a lift for, I can pay my dad to do the rest. I just flat out wont have the time come April.

I think i'm gonna have DR Phil do the tune. Just need to get everything on the car first. and get a trailer to take to take the car down.

I was thinking EVI cus there close, but a few people have kind of told me to steer clear from them.

[riderman329]

My plan for tomorrow is to take the front seat out, so monday i can take them to flint auto upolstry to have resewn.

and see what i need to do to take the 93 door pad with the carpet insert of and put the leather one on from my curent door pad

[riderman329]

It really needs to get warm out quick. It getting harder and harder to not want to get the car out

[Akodo]

My plan for tomorrow is to take the front seat out, so monday i can take them to flint auto upolstry to have resewn.

and see what i need to do to take the 93 door pad with the carpet insert of and put the leather one on from my curent door pad

Its not too difficult. There is a series of heat stakes around the perimeter of the pad. You just need to trim them down enough to get the stake to pop through, peel it off, and then put the new one on in its place. I used an industrial strength high temp hot glue we have at work to re-attach mine. If you need any help, just let me know.

[riderman329]

Started getting some parts on the car on Sunday.

Put the new drilled and sloted brake rotors and ceramic pads in forgot to get a picture of them, still need to paint the brake calipers.

Got the panhard bar and LCA on.


Windows tinted.


molded piller pod for mcclause


New parts that came last night. Magnaflow muffler, MSD plug wires, Prothane Sway bar end links, and Pypes stainless exhaust tips.


Ken from sniper perfromance is gonna put my exhaust on the car in a few weeks.

[BP_Z28]

Re: 2000 pontiac trans am project build

Hey that bullet muffler looks familiar haha. When are you putting girdle on?

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[riderman329]

Hey that bullet muffler looks familiar haha. When are you putting girdle on?

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i'm taking the car to AL's transmission when ever it stops raining. So I can have the pinon seals replaced on the rear diff find out what else is leaking, get the gear lube changed and put the cover of at the same time.