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Nice Stuff... Now I wont be able to sleep while I wait for your next post
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1987 GN 235ci, forged pistons,steel main caps,ARP everything Crank & rods ground smooth and shot peened,Balanced 50/50,restriced cam bearings, high flow centre main oil galleys. high flow front cover, race ported big valve heads,speedpro 204/214 cam, PT70 Ptrim , 72 lb siemans injectors, extender extreme alky chip, 4" intake, LS1 Maf. Translator plus. ported throttlebody,Mease plenum, EGR delete race ported and welded intake. port matched to felpro 1200s, SMC alky , ESP Front mount, F body rad, TA girdle on the Diff, Atr bar, Boxed control arms, Stock ported headers and THDP, Blaa blaa blaa Quote:
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Thanks for everyone’s nice comments
……This is the BOM. The bill of Materials is used to keep track of parts used in the manufacturing of the vehicles. A GNX on paper . If parts are changed in Form Fit or Function then a change in the BOM track this event. If you could see the entire BOM it is over 250 items long. The next installment will be a picture of prototype turbo shield. |
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This is a prototype turbo shield
. This shield was not made at ASC and was given to me by the gentleman working with me from McLaren. I do not know the origin of manufacture. It is hard to tell from this pictures but some of the slots in the shield are longer them the production version. The overall shape was carried over to the production shield. The GNX was also cut into the production version. This part was painted gray and you can see in the picture from the inside of the part, that a sliver of material was added to make it longer. |
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you should post pics the "hunt" line lock bracket-its almost oem
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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nice-i got mine too
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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yes i will use new bolts and re paint that before winters over
sorry so ugly but its been with me for a few years now pics
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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Yes a GNX PPG Pace car
This is something that I almost forgot
. I was going through some of my boxes in the basement looking for material to add to this thread and I came across this. Yes it is true we built a PPG pace car. This is a copy of the fax that authorized us to start building the vehicle. I wish I had a picture of the finished vehicle but do not….sorry . I do remember that it did look cool with the lights. |
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how about the ever ellusive astro roof x
any info or history about that subject?
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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The only vehicle I know that was modified at ASC tech center was GNX 33 the founder Heinze Prechter car (that was just sold). ASC had many franchise facilities that installed sunroofs in any vehicle. There may have been a vehicle modified at one of these facilities but you could have taken any vehicle to one of these outlets and had one put in. This is possible. Sorry that all I know on this subject.
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any word on how many t-top gns had the gnx rear suspension mod?
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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T-Top Vehicles
No GNX that was manufactured for prototype or productions were built using a base vehicle with the T-Top option. All the vehicles came identically equipped to our facility before being modified. Now there were several prototype T –Type vehicles built for testing
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GNX Jacket
I assume everyone is aware of the GNX jackets available when you purchased your vehicle….but did you know that members of the core team received this embroidery inside their jackets
. One of my bosses at the time gave me mine. GNX Jacket on e- bay $2000-$4000? Embroidered for your involvement PRICELESS!!!! ![]() |
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Hi X Ray
I'm really enjoying your " show and tell " thread. I was wondering if you could tell a bed time story. During development, was thier experimenting with different combinations on the motor that were radically too big or too small ( ie turbo , stall, gearing, ... ) and almost made it to production or tried anyway knowing it would never make it to production? Do you remember the first time you had a chance to test drive the final approved version of the gnx ? What was your first impressions ?, At what point did you decide 'I want one' ..in white. Any " Dukes of Hazzard " drives that the guys at the shop don't know about? My apologies if I'm off topic . Thanks for sharing, looking fwd to your next posts. Steve.
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I spun it .
Let me start with the " Dukes of Hazzard " …that reminds me ……we started production of the vehicles and were having an issue with the speedometer bouncing between 45-55 miles an hour. It was my JOB to take the vehicles out and test them
. These vehicles had a wide range of horsepower when first produced. Some were a bat out of hell new, and some took time to break in. I was driving to the freeway (remember this is my job ) and when I took a left to go to the freeway I spun it out (over 360) while accelerating in the corner. Needless to say it scared the *&&^*^& out of me. This was the fastest one I had been in and it had significantly more horsepower than most. There was no damage to the vehicle only to my driving ego . We did eventually change the location of the speedometer cable in all the production vehicles to correct this issue. |
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sweeet- sig material
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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Great story X. Keep em coming.
( I bet the gnx'rs are out in the garage now looking for a flat spot on the rubber.)
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![]() Factory Turbo'd 1980 Monte Carlo 1 of 706 made for export - metric LC8 to LC2 conversion, Stock turbo, stock injectors, stock I/C, 212/212 cam, LT1 springs, 2800 D5, 12-bolt, hotwired Walbro, adj fp reg, K & N, 3" Kirban dp ported stock elbow, TT street chip, Scanmaster 2.1, Turbosmart, Powerplate, Air bags, Bettie Page air freshener. Pics, Vids and stuff Speedy Stevies 1980 Monte Carlo Turbo Website
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Kirban did reproduce the rear suspension and sell it to the public, so it is possible that there are quite a few T-top cars with the GNX rear suspension. He just means that your car did not receive it from the factory.
Actually 3-4 years ago, at a car show in Woodridge, there was a GNX clone with T-tops, even had a numbered dash plaque and everything.
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my car war one of the original test cars
i know all about it and had mine before he sold to the public kirban sells yes-reproduces no i helped install my own 7 years ago.........
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I'm like the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt, I'm a surprise:they never see me coming. 87 GN GNX suspension t-top CAR Member #1 OF 2 Quote:
all stock block and heads with 42.5 inj-adj f/p reg- 3in atr external gate & d/p- 6765 bb turbo- 3200 tcs billet 9-11 converter- front mount intercooler-maf trans 4in -ATR headers |
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Sorry to get off-track here, but 6-b-kwik, that PPG Pace Car is a Buick Skyhawk. A production Skyhawk T-Type would have had the 1.8 Turbo four. The Reatta did not make production until 1988.
X Ray, I find it intriguing that PPG would make a special GNX. PPG's previous cars have been highly customized versions of production cars with custom paint to ply their trade. At the time (mid '80s) PPG went out of their way to promote these wild creations in poster and ad form. Not one pic shows or mentions the PPG GNX. It may have been produced for 1 local race series and sold, who knows? I'm not doubting its existense, just would like some more info on it. BTW, keep the artifacts coming! It's cool to hear about this stuff from someone on the inside. ![]()
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Pace Car
More info…the vehicle was used in the Indy Car Series and was used for several years as it was serviced at McLaren engines more then once. The vehicle way equipped with the usual PPG upgrades required for their events including a roll cage, big brakes, fuel cell and external Weaver oil pump. Sorry as I do not have pictures of the vehicle but I’m working on it ….if I get one I will add it to this site. Regards Rick
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