jeff97gt
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How's everyone ? Names jeff. From toms river Nj, about five minutes outside of seaside heights. Been building, working on, racing cars/boats for as long as I've been able to use tools. I'm 31 and I work as a mercruiser tech. I've been partial to gm just as long. F & G bodies in particular. Had a few trans ams/camaros and a few Monte carlo ss's as well. Looking forward to contributing and hopefully learning a thing or two
Current car (my fun car of course) is nothing special, money is very tight so I picked up a 1997 grand am gt. The car is a l82 3100 v6, 4t60e trans. Its basically stock for now with the exception of a 59mm throttle body, CAI, 180* stat(if you can call it a "mod"), and a magnaflow cat....most special thing about the car: 25,845 original miles.
Parts I have waiting to go on when I get some serious time to work on it.
2001 upper and lower intake manifold off of an lg8 v6. (Flows waaaaay better than the small port on the 94-98 ga's. They have both been ported
65 mm TB from an lx5 olds engine
Ported exhaust manifolds (have yet to find headers for a 97 grand am with a 3.1)
Will be purchasing a cam, have not decided which one.
Also have a set of ported and polished 3400 heads from a 2001 GA
Eventually it will be getting an lx9 swap with a getrag 5 speed. That is my ultimate goal and it is where I want the car. But if I can get 235-250 bhp out of this 3.1 I think it will make for a very fun , quick car to drive. Its already decently quick (ass dyno tells me a mid 15 second car) .....when the five speed gets swapped in I will be extremely excited. Still need to do a little more research on it though.
I have considered a 3400 swap also with a vortech SC setup, because the 3.4 is a direct bolt in basically. But as I said since the 3.1 only has 25k on it, I'm going to get what I can out of it. Really want this engine with a 5,speed swap though......anyway sorry for the long post. Looking forward to meeting you all
Jeff
Current car (my fun car of course) is nothing special, money is very tight so I picked up a 1997 grand am gt. The car is a l82 3100 v6, 4t60e trans. Its basically stock for now with the exception of a 59mm throttle body, CAI, 180* stat(if you can call it a "mod"), and a magnaflow cat....most special thing about the car: 25,845 original miles.
Parts I have waiting to go on when I get some serious time to work on it.
2001 upper and lower intake manifold off of an lg8 v6. (Flows waaaaay better than the small port on the 94-98 ga's. They have both been ported
65 mm TB from an lx5 olds engine
Ported exhaust manifolds (have yet to find headers for a 97 grand am with a 3.1)
Will be purchasing a cam, have not decided which one.
Also have a set of ported and polished 3400 heads from a 2001 GA
Eventually it will be getting an lx9 swap with a getrag 5 speed. That is my ultimate goal and it is where I want the car. But if I can get 235-250 bhp out of this 3.1 I think it will make for a very fun , quick car to drive. Its already decently quick (ass dyno tells me a mid 15 second car) .....when the five speed gets swapped in I will be extremely excited. Still need to do a little more research on it though.
I have considered a 3400 swap also with a vortech SC setup, because the 3.4 is a direct bolt in basically. But as I said since the 3.1 only has 25k on it, I'm going to get what I can out of it. Really want this engine with a 5,speed swap though......anyway sorry for the long post. Looking forward to meeting you all
Jeff
