My 89 GTU

Money pit Beretta · Post by **Money pit Beretta** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:30 am

Man what is it with Beretta's and deer?
Wow, guess no one does hammer and dolly work anymore.

SummitBalt08 · Post by **SummitBalt08** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:37 am

Looks great! I see you have a 7th gen Malibu also in the 3rd pic haha

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88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:50 pm

Yeah, I bought the malibu for the wife. Bought me some freedom to do what I want with my toys. It's a true bastard; 08, new bodystyle but old 3.5L V6.

felixGTU · Post by **felixGTU** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:41 am

Very good looking GTU. I just wish mine looked this good. Which GTU is going for the calendar picture?

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:20 am

I'm going to try to get the white one in the calendar. The black one is still in pieces.

J

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:59 pm

Progress update: I took care of all but one of the oil leaks (oil pan gasket left to do) and the trans pan gasket and filter that was also leaking. I cleaned out the upper and lower intake manifolds along with the valve covers which also got powdercoated.

J

felixGTU · Post by **felixGTU** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:36 am

Looks Great. Just out of curiosity why didn't you paint the upper intake (the part that says 2.8 I forget what it is called)? Do you have different color plans for that part?

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:02 am

I dont have any plans to paint the plenum. I've powdercoated the upper and lower set for the black car tho:

DOHC_tuner · Post by **DOHC_tuner** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:11 am

Nice! Boost it!

Littlee08 · Post by **Littlee08** » Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:12 pm

GTU was my favorite and yours are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:53 am

Thanks for the comment!

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Sun May 19, 2013 11:08 pm

Time for some updates!

After dealing with the issues when I bought the car I still wasn't happy with the automatic trans. So I decided to swap in a 5-spd that a buddy gave me. Then he informed me that there was a local yard with a small stock of 3500s that were dirt cheap so.......

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Sun May 19, 2013 11:20 pm

So here's a list of what was done:

Installed a 3500 from an 05 malibu with 16k on it.
Swapped in a full 5spd setup
Installed freshly powdercoated k-frames with welded and powdercoated control arms and del-a-lum bushings
Installed poly bushings for the front swaybar and endlinks and added the addco rear swaybar
Had a full 2.5" exhaust made with a magnaflow ss cat, flowmaster 40 series ss muffler, and borla tips
Also went with a set of lightweight rims.

There's more I'm forgetting but that's a start.

J

MY91GT(Z) · Post by **MY91GT(Z)** » Mon May 20, 2013 10:38 am

I bet its fun to drive also now

didnt u do disc swap on this car too??? And take some pix of it with the new.rimz on it

88_GTU · Post by **88_GTU** » Mon May 20, 2013 11:17 am

It's addictive to drive, that's for sure. No rear discs yet, the ones I have are for the black car. I may pick up another set if I come across them tho as the brakes are now the weak point by a wide margin. Toying with the idea of throwing on the wilwoods but I really dont want to buy another set for the black car in the future, so I'll probably just go with the 92-up set-up.

The second pic is before i had the exhaust done.

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