Woot! Progress.

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-Car Guy Carl
"Penelope" - 2003 SLE - 247k Miles
"Sydney" - 2000 Honda S2000 - 98k miles

I have speakers you can just have for it, they are halfway decent but I have nothing to put them in. Also you know you want to put 9011/9012's in there.

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-Ryan
2004 GTO....LS1, LSA supercharged 525whp, 6MT
96 SSEi...September 2010 COTM........GONE
04 GTP comp G.... December 2015 COTM........GONE
2013 Audi Allroad Quattro

If only you could still get the good 9011/9012 I might be tempted.

But I'm not feeling like tearing apart the door trim and quarter trim just to change out a few speakers just yet. My truck project has been derailed long enough as it is.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

"SALAD SHOOTERS"?

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Tyler

2002 Galaxy Silver SSEi "Silver Shadow" 181, xxx miles- DD, tinted taillights, 10000k HID low beams, GXP strut brace, carbon fiber overlays, GXP door bezels and vents and Aeroforce Interceptor Gauge, cleared corners, drilled and slotted rotors, painted calipers, Intense Stage 1 Performance package, smoked door reflectors.
2001 Galaxy Silver SE 119, xxx miles- RIP
2007 White G6 Economy 96, xxx miles- Wife's car, carbon fiber inserts, tinted windows.

Salad shooters:

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

Did you buy those wheels yet? A friend of mine just totaled his Firehawk and has two sets of rims for sale if you're interested. He's got a set of 02 Firehawk 17's with new tires on them and a set of 08 Hertz Corvette wheels (18's front 19's rear), but they need rear tires... I don't know prices yet but if you're interested in can get you in touch with him...

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2004 Bonneville GXP Crimson Tintcoat- Casual fuel gauge | Brake Performance drilled/slotted rotors front and rear| Retrofit Morimoto mini H1 | clear corners | disabled DRL | 3000K HID fogs | 5% tint | K&N | Yakima rack with fairing, bike rails and kayak rack | Intermittent radio display
1995 Bonneville SSE Deep Amethyst Pearl- SSEI tails | 5% tint | 3 12jlw3v2 in custom enclosure -Gone
1991 Bonneville LE Blue- Alloy spokes -Deceased(deer)

Yeah, I picked those up already.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

ok, cool

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2004 Bonneville GXP Crimson Tintcoat- Casual fuel gauge | Brake Performance drilled/slotted rotors front and rear| Retrofit Morimoto mini H1 | clear corners | disabled DRL | 3000K HID fogs | 5% tint | K&N | Yakima rack with fairing, bike rails and kayak rack | Intermittent radio display
1995 Bonneville SSE Deep Amethyst Pearl- SSEI tails | 5% tint | 3 12jlw3v2 in custom enclosure -Gone
1991 Bonneville LE Blue- Alloy spokes -Deceased(deer)

Managed to get a keyless entry fob, programmed it and everything works good. Now I don't have to crawl through the passenger seat to unlock the other door, which had the lock cylinder changed and not re-keyed.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

Long time ago update! I saw I was nominated for TOCOTM so I thought I could share the progress I've made.

The keyless entry stopped working, not sure why, but I can't get the BCM into the reprogram mode and no activity from any of the fob buttons. No bad fuses. So that is irritating because once again I have to go through the passenger door to unlock the drivers door.

I managed to finally fix the tragedy that was my shifter:


And today I swapped out the drab, nastly, shady-used-car-lot smelling, noisy interior with something a little more, well, I'll let the pictures do the talking (also shout out to Ryan for not having power and coming out to help!):






I'm very happy with the new threads inside! The interior is from a '98. I think the color really goes well with the green. Still have some fixing up to do to the pillar trims, and the headliner needs some massive surgery and a proper color matched headliner material. I also took the time while everything was out to fix the speakers, and add the two additional rear speakers (the donor had a Monsoon system I think), so I finally have a decent sounding radio. I also need to find a different set of floor mats.

And finally managed to get it waxed, but not in time to get any daylight pictures.









And the best part of all this is, if you look close, you might see that the last of the redneck-ery is gone from the rear. Yes, finally, those two bowtie stickers are gone!

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

Sweet! The interior does look great with the green.

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-Car Guy Carl
"Penelope" - 2003 SLE - 247k Miles
"Sydney" - 2000 Honda S2000 - 98k miles

You know what she needs Matt, a set of 17" SS wheels. Those 16's are "meh". I had the plasti-chrome versions on mine and couldn't wait to get rid of them.

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Retired Bonneville Owner and former GM Tech:
2004 Pontiac Bonneville GXP: Black/Ebony *SOLD*

Summer Toys: Combined 827 RWHP / 877lb/ft RWTQ
2004 Pontiac GTO: Impulse Blue Metallic/Black/M6: lots 'o mods, 415 RWHP / 405lb/ft RWTQ!
2006 Cadillac STS-V: Light Platinum Metallic/Light Gray/A6 - Spectre CAI, Magnaflow exhaust, Speed Inc. tune, 412 RWHP / 472lb/ft RWTQ

Daily Drivers:
2019 Chrysler Pacifica Limited: Mommy's new RGC
2015 Chrysler Town & Country Limited Platinum: Kids new RGC
2007 Chrysler Town & Country Limited: Sold to neighbor
2009 Pontiac G8 GT: L76, Sport Red Metallic
2003 Chevrolet Suburban 2500: Doeskin Tan - 8.1L Big Block... new plow truck
1999 Chevrolet Suburban: Sunset Gold Metallic - Daddy's winter beater and plow truck

Starting to fix the already once repaired headliner board today. Learned that fiberglass resin starts to set up after about 5 minutes, so lost half a batch because nowhere did the container say it starts to set in 5 minutes...
The headliner board is broken in the middle, looks like it had broken once before, and that material that's covering it looks like seat cloth and is not flexible enough to have been used for the headliner.


Grabbed some daylight shots of the car:













I think I tracked down the issue with the keyless entry. I ended up pulling out the BCM and reflowing bunch of solder joints, I didn't see any that plainly looked cracked or anything. So not sure how that fixed the issue, but I'm not complaining.

As far as wheels go, I was thinking of either black/dark gunmetal or a dark bronze. I heart these customized salad shooters, but think bronze might go better with green:

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

That looks pretty good in the daylight considering it was polished half in the dark.

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-Ryan
2004 GTO....LS1, LSA supercharged 525whp, 6MT
96 SSEi...September 2010 COTM........GONE
04 GTP comp G.... December 2015 COTM........GONE
2013 Audi Allroad Quattro

Not much of a fan of the salad shooters, although those in black, on the white car look good.

Glad the BCM is all sorted out.

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Retired Bonneville Owner and former GM Tech:
2004 Pontiac Bonneville GXP: Black/Ebony *SOLD*

Summer Toys: Combined 827 RWHP / 877lb/ft RWTQ
2004 Pontiac GTO: Impulse Blue Metallic/Black/M6: lots 'o mods, 415 RWHP / 405lb/ft RWTQ!
2006 Cadillac STS-V: Light Platinum Metallic/Light Gray/A6 - Spectre CAI, Magnaflow exhaust, Speed Inc. tune, 412 RWHP / 472lb/ft RWTQ

Daily Drivers:
2019 Chrysler Pacifica Limited: Mommy's new RGC
2015 Chrysler Town & Country Limited Platinum: Kids new RGC
2007 Chrysler Town & Country Limited: Sold to neighbor
2009 Pontiac G8 GT: L76, Sport Red Metallic
2003 Chevrolet Suburban 2500: Doeskin Tan - 8.1L Big Block... new plow truck
1999 Chevrolet Suburban: Sunset Gold Metallic - Daddy's winter beater and plow truck

I picked up a vacuum pump for A/C this weekend so I could get the A/C working on the Camaro.

The system was bone dry, looks like the condenser had been replaced and the system never recharged. So I hooked up the vac pump, pulled vacuum on it and let it hold for about 25 minutes, everything was still sealed up.

So I proceeded to start to fill it, using R152a, the vac pulled about 8 oz in before I started up the car and turned the A/C to the max. It took another 4 oz. Low side reading was 32psi and the high side 190psi. The pipe was appropriately cold and sweating, and the air coming out of the vents was colder than the ambient air. It was 95 degrees out with 60% humidity. But it wasn't getting ice cold like it's supposed to.

It was just too hot out to really troubleshoot any further. I know I should check that the blend door is functioning properly. But beyond that not sure what could be causing it to not work well. Without a thermometer I'd say it's maybe a 10 degree difference from ambient. Airflow seems normal. But even this morning on my drive it was only able to keep the car slightly cooler than outside.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

What about sawblade wheels. Those would look interesting.

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It looks like there is a small chance that there is a leak in the system. Values today did not match where they were when I filled it yesterday. I'll check again tomorrow, if it's dropped again I'll have to use the dye to find the leak.

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So last night I managed to get the air to blow cold, I ended up with a high side pressure around 205 psi to get the coldest air out of the vents.(85 degrees out at 30% humidity). That seems a little high to me, but not going to sweat it until I know if there is any leakage going on. I'm thinking that something was up causing the high side pressure reading to be inflated when I filled it the first time, maybe the low side had some liquid refrigerant in it still. But the blend door was working correctly. And as of this morning it still had cold air.

Does anybody know if I can access the evaporator core through the blower motor housing? I want to check for leaves/pine needles or any other obstructions just to be sure I have all the bases covered.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

I think I found what was once a cat or two inside my blower motor. I ended up replacing the cage with one from a '93 Astro, it's about 1/2" deeper and the vanes are a bit more aggressive. It's metal instead of plastic as well. Airflow is so much better now. So there has been some positive progess!! But the A/C has a leak. Going to have to invest in a dye injector kit. But I think I see evidence of the compressor shaft leaking (there's a dark line on the oil filter bracket exactly in line with the a/c compressor pulley now).

Good thing that the 152a is only $3 a can or so.

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Boost addict


The Fleet:
'93 SSEi - Twincharged + manual Build thread
'97 Camaro - Top swap
'05 STS - V8, AWD, her DD
'92 Trofeo - Fair weather DD
'99 Montana - top swap 3800
'04 Sierra 2500HD - LLY Duramax

Current project:
Something cool, trust me.

Upcoming projects:
'92 Bonneville SSE
'87 LeSabre T-type
'67 LeSabre

Gone to greener pastures:
'84 Sierra Classic - Twin turbo 3800
'97 LeSabre - Top swap

RIP:
'86 LeSabre - pictures
'93 SE - L67

Car looks great, I dig the color combo - always have liked that shade of green and the tan interior looks great with it. I'm liking the OEM wheels best...sorry....always have liked them better and think they make it look more up to date.

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~Ben


2010 Chrysler 300 Touring Signature Series, Cool Vanilla - chrome 18's, MyGig touchsreen, all the toys.
2004 Chevy Avalanche LT 4x4, WBH, Arrival Blue Metallic - CAI, MBRP cat-back exhaust, lots of mods and all the options.
2004 Ford Mustang Premium convertible, Screaming Yellow - 18" staggered Bullitt wheels, 1.5" drop Eibach springs, CAI.
1973 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 Brougham, Antigua Blue - 23 ft, 5200 lbs, and 472 cubes of luxo-barge goodness.
1998 Chevy Corvette convertible, Light Carmine Red Metallic