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Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:30 am
by Money pit Beretta
Man what is it with Beretta's and deer?
Wow, guess no one does hammer and dolly work anymore.
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:37 am
by SummitBalt08
Looks great! I see you have a 7th gen Malibu also in the 3rd pic haha
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Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:50 pm
by 88_GTU
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.
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:41 am
by felixGTU
Very good looking GTU. I just wish mine looked this good. Which GTU is going for the calendar picture?
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:20 am
by 88_GTU
I'm going to try to get the white one in the calendar. The black one is still in pieces.
J
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:59 pm
by 88_GTU
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
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:36 am
by felixGTU
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?
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:02 am
by 88_GTU
I dont have any plans to paint the plenum. I've powdercoated the upper and lower set for the black car tho:
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:11 am
by DOHC_tuner
Nice! Boost it!
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:12 pm
by Littlee08
GTU was my favorite and yours are BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:53 am
by 88_GTU
Thanks for the comment!
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:08 pm
by 88_GTU
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.......
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:20 pm
by 88_GTU
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
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:38 am
by MY91GT(Z)
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
Re: My 89 GTU
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 11:17 am
by 88_GTU
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.