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21 years old here and I am on my 5th pontiac! What can I say, I just keep coming back for more!
Bought a 96 Grand Am SE when I was 16, totaled the car when I was 17 and got a 99 Grand Prix GT. Kept that for a couple of years and then got a 2001 Aztek Sport. Gave the Aztek to my fiance last July and got a 06 G6. Then about a month ago the Aztek started having gasket problems around 80k miles so I gave my fiance the G6 and I took ownership of the greatest of them yet the GXP!!!
Has anyone added aftermarket audio to their GXP yet? I find the bass to be rather weak compared to the G6, anyone else notice this? I may go check another GXP just to be sure that it isn't something wrong with my car.
Cheers!
Ryan
In human years I'm still young enough to slam a basketball (but old enough to think of my 501k)...
Some time ago (oh, back in early 1998, I guess) I ran my 1997 GTP at Maxton-Laurinburg (North Carolina) in an ECTA sanctioned top speed event. If you live anywhere near this venue and are serious about a safe and legal opportunity to test how fast your GXP (or any other car) will go, I highly recommend this as the best possibility East of the Mississippi. (More information / link below.)
Point here is that with my S/C 3.8 GTP and only a 3.5” pulley, I was right at the speed limiter at the 1 mile mark (from a standing start) where the timing is done. My best speed was 126.761 mph – an E / prod record at the time - coasting through the end of the speed trap, with the motor disabled by the limiter.
If you have never done anything like this, it is a unique experience. Many of the participants (and their vehicles) are very interesting - and many will be helpful to anyone there for the first time.
I found it very interesting, at the time, that I had previously run 95+ mph in the quarter, and it took nearly another three ‘quarters’ to hit 126 and the limiter in my ’97. It took a lot longer to build the second 60 mph than it did the first 60! Running on the highway at 80 or so and then punching it, can certainly bring up 100 pretty quickly, but only the most powerful cars keep accelerating at a really brisk pace beyond 120 or so. And IMHO the public roads in the US are not the place to try this . . .
But I would be very interested in seeing results from anyone with a GXP and with access to such a venue as the unused runway ECTA uses . . .
- Ray
Addicted to Torque – and speed!
FYI:
http://www.ecta-lsr.com/faq.htm#q09
I don't drool, however.
My gallons worth
My brother is an electrical engineer and insists it's the OnStar doing this. He explained the whole works to me but I really didn't understand it. He explained to me about the microphone in OnStar, etc. Do you really believe that GM would admit it was OnStar? I don't. The problem is that I don't think that OnStar is compatible with the Monsoon Speaker System. I had the Bose in my 2002 GTP and, of course, OnStar, no problem. I don't think keyless entry has anything whatsoever to do with this. Also, if you don't renew OnStar they certainly wouldn't be monitoring your car. If you pay for the plan, then your car is being monitored. thanks for your input. Have a good weekend. Chats1
- I got 23mpg in my last tank of mixed driving.
- My service experience with the dealer I've been using since 1999 has been excellent. They are very good and never make excuses. (In fact they submitted a TSB to GMC based on info I provided on my GMC Canyon - their algorithm for the outside thermometer is slow)
- My 2005 GXP has been good to me; my only nit is the trim piece around the sunroof I didn't want buzzes. That'll get fixed in my next service.
-The A/C button doesn't bother me a bit\
- I've only seen one other GXP in my neck of the woods - silver. Mine is Dark Cherry & I LOVE it! :shades:
On page 5-23 it says the operating temp should be
82 C -93 C
I have had a 1988 taurus and put a cooler in it and never had a tranny problem but that year of car had many of the there tranys were falling apart. I am thinking its because of the cooler temps the trany was running under all the years.
Now I have this V8 stuffed in this front drive performance
car, tranny temp might be something to think about. I'm not saying its going to break down tomorrow but over time if you want to keep the car it might be something to think about.
Remember cop cars have trany,power steering ,engine oil cooler on them .
The tranny used by Cadillac could handle the V8 torque and some. It was used in the Bonneville GXP, but it shares a platform related to the DTS'. Perhaps it doesn't fit in the GP, or being beefier has a price that GM couldn't afford. I just hope that you don't have to afford it...
ps: For those complaining bout this GP and comparing it to Maximas/BMWs/G35's; at MSRP you have a bit of an argument -but for the price I paid on my GXP - Not one of them is even close to the value or raw fun...
I don't think Pontiac is going anywhere. The line will get smaller, but it's all part of the Buick/Pontiac/GMC lineup. Buick gets the upmarket mellow, GMC gets the fancy trucks, Pontiac gets the more youthful exciting cars -- all in one showroom. The Grand Prix isn't going anywhere for a couple years at least. Have you looked at sales figures for the car? It is in the top 20 month in and month out.
Continue to dig the GXP. MPG keeps going up as the engine breaks in, and so does the power! Holy Cripes this thing is fast.
By the way, I just went over 2000 miles on my new GP. Should I change the oil early? A friend told me it was out of date to change a new car oil too early, because it was special oil with abrasives in it.
In spite of the Solstice being such an attractive car, it won't make buy any other Pontiac. What puts me off about them are those coarse OHV engines. I don't want to hear about any explanation of how modern those OHV engines are: they still sound horrible, lose steam when revved and are quite heavy, no matter the gimmicks added to them lately.
I don't know what Bob Lutz was drinking when he said that he wanted to make Pontiac GM's BMW line-up.
Mind you, I own an '02 Bonneville SLE.
P.S. The cure for the Hiss is proper positioning of the right foot...
Still loving my 2005 GXP.
http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Daily_Edition/Daily_Edition_May_30_200- - 6.S173.A10476.html
- Ray
Just back from driving 700+ miles in 2 days . .
You would think that knowing that this vehicle would be spending quite a bit of time at the pump, GM should have included a cap holder on the inside of the gas door. Does anybody else find that strange? Hate to let the cap dangle on the paint, look pretty silly standing there holding the cap during refill. Has anybody come up with some clever solution? Short of cutting the tether that is...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/rayainsw/GXPresizeP1070229test17xtopost.j- - - - pg
My GXP.
Photobucket (one of several free services for saving digital pics) does not reduce the size of photos, in my experience, as much as Snapfish does - that is the one my Daughter uses.
Enjoy,
- Ray
Happy driving - or taking pictures!