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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:59 pm 
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Here are a few pics of the car. The thing is immaculate. So far the only things I've noticed on it are the drivers side mirror is trashed, and the engine bay is covered with sand and salt, so it will definitely need a good cleaning. Other than that, it runs and drives great, with plenty of power. For his birthday, I'm getting him a FWI kit, I'll have to probably run it a little differently than the Bonne's, but hopefully it should be pretty straight forward. I want to hear that supercharger whine more!!

Anyways, here are some pictures. Excuse the quality, they were taken on an Iphone 3g, which has a horrible camera. Enjoy!!

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Here's the trashed mirror, it looks like it has oil stuck under the glass or something. He'll be getting a replacement soon.
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I also tried to convince him to leave the engine cover off, but he likes the "elegant style it adds" so he's insistent on leaving it on. #-o
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All the white stuff you see in the engine bay is salt and sand. It definitely needs cleaning, but hopefully that will happen when I get that BS crap they call Dex out of there and do his lower intake gaskets. The car only has 62,000 miles on it, so I think I can save it at an early age.

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If he wants to keep it, get a Bonneville cover, they're black and the stripes are red. However, I MUCH prefer no engine cover due to heat-soak right where you don't want it, the top of the S/C.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:05 pm 
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:hit it: all day long buddy!

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If he wants to keep it, get a Bonneville cover, they're black and the stripes are red. However, I MUCH prefer no engine cover due to heat-soak right where you don't want it, the top of the S/C.


Which is exactly why I don't want him to keep it on. But then again, I also want him to get a scangauge and a 3.4 pully :twisted: but he's not into modding, he just wants it for a nice DD to work and back.

I'm glad he got something good though. Maybe i can convince him to join Pontiac Bonneville Club :banana:

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:12 pm 
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Maybe i can convince him to join Pontiac Bonneville Club :banana:


You better! :ban: :poke:

as far as the modding thing goes..thats why you let him borrow your lesabre for a week :-$ :beerchug:

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wake wrote:
Jfridge92 wrote:
Maybe i can convince him to join Pontiac Bonneville Club :banana:


You better! :ban: :poke:

as far as the modding thing goes..thats why you let him borrow your lesabre for a week :-$ :beerchug:


Haha I'm going to try! He's not big into the internet, so I'm not sure if the idea will bite with him or not, but it never hurts to ask, aka bug until he does :p


And I'm already trying to get him to trade with me hahaha, I love the PAU!

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:21 pm 
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oh im sure your searching for any and every way to drive that PAU :bwoohoo:

i know i would if that thing was in my driveway!:twisted:

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Oh yes! I'm trying to get him to let me drive it from my house in Gainesville back to Athens tomorrow morning for work and then I'll bring it back that afternoon. My reasoning was "to see what type of city mileage I can get" since he'll be mainly driving on the highway. Maybe he'll say yes to that at least, and the fact that I'll bring it back with a full tank of gas

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:18 am 
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something tells me that after a while of driving the PAU your car will seem slower..and youll get addicted to the blower whine


next thing you know youll be asking how do you put a supercharger on your lesabre [-( :lol:

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Psh, you can't hear blower whine with the stock airbox. Get an FWI and a pulley, then we'll talk about blower whine. That *shoot*'s addicting!

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Silly Ed, you can hear some blower whine stock, but you are right, it is addicting, and it leaves you wanting more :twisted:

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Nice car, and I agree that the blower whine is addicting

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ED that was the point i was getting at...blower whine (any at all) is addicting :twisted:

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Oh yeah, you can't hear it at all on the PAU with all the dampening it has. It's kind of depressing actually.


And Wake, I'm actually already contemplating a full drivetrain swap to an L67/4t65e-hd for the lesabre...if funds will allow. I figure if I can find a cheap enough junkyard or used setup, I can swap it in and sell my L36 and tranny for a decent price to make back some of the cost, but these are still dreams.


And Ed, he's getting a FWI for his birthday from me ;) As far as the pulley goes, he doesn't want to mod the car intensively, as he doesn't know how to do any tuning and what not to prevent KR, nor does he have the money to pay to get it sent out to intense or tuned at a shop. So unfortunately that will have to wait...until I get my hands on it :-$

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a FWI and a larger downpipe/HF cat will help the motor flow a lil better and sound a lil better..without breaking the bank or causing any serious problems :beerchug:

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The FWI is actually easier on the PAU than on the Bonneville, although you DO have to make one mod to it. There's a nice big hole right below the airbox, big enough to run the tube through without having to contort it. You'll need the Intense PCM tray, though.

The mod that I mentioned is the upper aluminum coupler has to be replaced with a curved piece. With the straight coupler, the hose will be mashed against the washer bottle, and will be pushed off the TB. You need to replace it with an aluminum elbow, or piece of stainless mandrel-bend with a tight curve to clear the bottle.

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Very nice PAU! Does it have the rear vanity mirrors like the older models?

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Yeah, it does have the vanity mirrors iirc, i haven't had a chance to really explore the car more, as it's in Gainesville and about 50 miles away in Athens.

And thanks for the info on the FWI Gonneville, that'll sure come in handy! :beerchug:

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It's been a long time since I've posted here, as I moved on from my LeSabre into the Infiniti world. My dad has still been rocking the '03 Park Avenue Ultra for the last 9 years, and has given it a lot of love. It's pretty much had every piece of suspension replaced for maintenance, a new transmission put in about 3 months ago, new supercharger coupler, new AC compressor, lines, and dryer/receiver, as well as a lot of other maintenance. He put new tires on it about 2 weeks ago, but sadly they aren't going to have the chance to be used on the car.

All good things must come to an end, and the PAU is done.

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Dad was driving home from work and was literally in their subdivision. Thankfully he is okay with no injuries, and the other party was found 100% at fault. A truck in front of him saw a friend walking, stopped (dad stopped about a car length behind) and the truck started backing up and never stopped. The driver's rear wheel of the truck ended up on top of the hood on the Park Avenue. The hood, grill, headlights, and radiator are all smashed in and pushed down, and enough of the weight of the truck was on it that it broke the subframe from the mounts. We're waiting to hear what that guys' insurance will offer, but the Park Avenue is 100% totaled. Thankfully dad has all the receipts from the work that was done over the past 3 months, so that will likely be taken into account when they offer a lowball number. Hopefully he can get into something that he loves as much as he did the PAU.

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