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What do you think?

Man, I love that. I couldn't keep eye off my sexy baby car. lol The car handle is pretty good. I'm really like my new car look now.

The wheels look good ,but it needs to be lowered it looks like a 4x4.

I agree. Drop it a couple inches and youll be set. Are those 18"

They look really good man! Like the style!

not bad...like the style but im a 17" fan...

WOW!!!! those look REALLY good palsut!!!

That really help set off your car! Nice choice in wheels and definately THE BEST looking SE around! lol not the fastest but definately the hottest!

look a ton better than the 3 spokes lol

Wow, I really like those. When you showed the picture of the rims while back I didn't like the wheel itself but since you got them put on your car it looks really good. I do agree your car looks a 4x4 or should I say a donk car.

Very nice. One of the best looking GPs around.

Clean palsut, nice job.

Lower that baby ! Put off some other visual mods for that for sure. Maybe invest in getting them chromed !! That would be sweet.

Sick

leave it to you to get rims that exactly match your cars color lol

looks great man , perfect fit imo. u need some nice center caps and i agree on the lowering

Paslut what size tires are you running on those rims?

Thank you for your nice comments everyone.

I agree about it need lower but I'm afraid it will kill tranmission? I remember I read some thread about they have problem with tranmission during lower? I'm not sure if I want to do that but I will get new struts and spring in 2010 project plan. Mine is over 108K milages and very rusty. I think my strut is broken on left rear. I measured it. The both front is good size. They are 2 1/2 inches. The right rear is 3 inches. The left rear is 2 1/4 inches. It is kind weird that my rear struts are not even. Do you think alignment cause that? I did have my car alignment because my right side is way off.

Chico: paslut? I'm not female lol. It is palsut. My tires size is 245/45/18.

MAC GTP: I'm working on to get Pontiac center cap on this wheel. I have clear silcone so I'm going to try one wheel only. If it is fail then I will get smooth center cap from same company.




01GTshaner: They do have chrome but I brought silver paint from my local area seller for $300.

http://www.liquidmetalwheel.com/static.html

Afternoon pictures kind blow because it is too much sunny.

perfect for your car man, look icredible, i want a set lol

A Drilled / Slotted rotor kit with red calipers would be SLAMMIN !!!

And i still think lowering would be amazing !! The more i look @ it the more i like the painted .. chrome would still be wicked.

Good job man, your car is one to be looked up to!

I like the non chrome look on this one, looks good with the paint, but lowering springs are a MUST with this car, palsut ill honestly if you had lowering springs, it would be one of the best ive seen on the web.

I concur ..

These new amazing visual upgrades for 09 are definitely going to take away the heat from your 3.1 !! HAhaha someone had to say it

Keep it up man

Palsut (sorry about the spelling)lowering your car 1 1/2 to 2" should'nt bother your trans. just get the right struts (AGX's) and you'll be fine ,I've been lowered for 4 years without a problem I do use pogo washers and offset poly upper mounts though ,

I'm planning to get F-body brake set up and big rotor next year. I'm not sure it will look good on red calipers? My color theme is silver/black. I'm thinking silver or black calipers.

I like chrome wheel but silver paint wheel look hot. It is almost 100% perfect match on my car paint.

Chico: No problem. Just joking about my wrong name spelling. That's good to know. I guess someone might drive too hard cause tranmission break or something. I will try to get my car lower next year. It will take time to save some money. I'm going to get AGX too. This year will be my appearance body work and interior work.

definetly silver calipers.

Looks good, definatly lower it.

looks good buddy!! cant wait to see the pontiac center caps on there tho,that gonna look pretty sweet

NIIIIICCCEEE

4x4!

Looks really good, nice choice of wheels.

I like em but I like lip too but nice Palsut now lower it!!!!

I'm thinking leave black center cap alone. I know my Pontiac center cap is not fit. After look that pictures that it look not that bad than what I thought.

I'm will start lower thing next year. So I will make list to start.

So what product(s) I need?

KYB AGX adjustable struts. Do I need add strut mounts plate from this site?
https://www.zzperformance.com/grand_prix/products1.php?id=397&catid=138

SSC Lowering Springs
https://www.zzperformance.com/grand_prix/products1.php?id=454&catid=138

Do I miss everything else?

well if your rear struts are as bad as you say, than you may want to start to lower it sooner.

Nice Palsut, I do like the wheels. I like how it doesn't scream aftermarket but more like maybe its some sort of special edition grand prix.

Anti pogo washers too.

Thank you everyone. I will have tire shop take a look at my struts if need to replace because my car is shaking at 35-65 mph. I will bring it over tomorrow. If yes then I guess I have no choice to replace oem strut parts. Aftermarket parts is too way much. Maybe I will leave my car park rest of summer to save some money to start lower it.

I don't feel like make other thread.

I got GM exhaust tips but one problem that it is not fit. It is same size as my exhaust pipe. My exhaust is GMPP exhaust system. I thought it is same size as my current exhaust tips. I guess it is my fault for not measure it instead thinking it will be fine as long it is gm parts should be work. I guess not. Bummer. It looks hot. I guess I will have to return it back and order 3 inches tips on ebay that should fit my exhuast pipe.





wash/wax job

This car is super hot. Lot of people/neighor telling me "nice ride" or "nice car" while I'm doing wax job behind the building lol

I give it wax for whole body, flip's tint tail, and everywhere. I use rain-x wipe to make my glass shiny too.

Enjoy the pictures. It might be not best pictures because I'm at my dad's apt. I forgot bring my camera so I borrow his camera. Boy, I'm worn out. I have been working on it for 8 hours. It is worth it for make my car sexy again.

When you put on the new tips, please don't make them stick out so far.

You can take these tips and have them welded on at an exhaust shop.

palsut if you want to sell your current tips when you replace them, keep me in mind...ill take em..

I thought I need big size to weld it. I didn't know same size pipe can weld like that. I guess that's good new.

Believe me, I'm not trying make my exhaust tip stick out too far like ricer or whatever. It is same size as my current tips and new dual tips. I did remove both of them and try push it all way as I can. It is still same.

Take the new tips to a cheap muffler shop and have them weld the new tips on there. It will be cheap, and they won't stick out and look stupid like the ones on there now do.

It shouldn't cost you more than $30 or so to have someone weld the new tips on, and you can sell your old tips for more than that.

BLEWGTP: I will keep you in my mind if I want to sell it.

Weld it might work but it is still same size to stick out.

See example. It is all way to pipe and still same as my current tip.

What did you use to paint your grills silver? I used Krylon Fusion and mine chip & flake all the time.

I didn't paint it. Body shop paint for me. All I know it is GM galaxy silver paint from GM body shop. They still look good. I have tiny chip from road stone but it is not hard to notice.

I think you should find the first pic location and take a pic there again with the new wheel setup! On the gravel, then get back to us.

I can't because there is ton of flea market on that spot. I took that picture during winter season which flea market is closed for season. Now, they have all crap stuffs on it. Sorry.

Now, I will have lot of raining this WHOLE week. That's reason why I need to wax mine. It has been nearly year since I have done that.

Front shot


roof shot


SD wing


rear shot


close up shot


side shot


tail shot


still clean car


My car is only one have nice wax job. All neighbors' cars don't have anything nice water spots like mine. I guess they are not wax person lol

I always wondered what those rims looked like on a GP. Looks good.

Anything looks better than those terrible 3-spokes. I had them too. They're awful.