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Originally posted by Derk2000:
I've been reading this post, and today I finally saw a Grand Am w/ the ram air hood.
I took a closer look and found:
"Ram Air V6" badging
Ram Air hood w/ the ports fully closed off w/ black plastic 
What gives? They say it's ram air, but they don't actually have ram air? That's garbage IMO. 
That is because the "Ram Air V6" is not from the Ram Air Hood... It is from the front airway just below the front center of the hood...
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Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
That is because the "Ram Air V6" is not from the Ram Air Hood... It is from the front airway just below the front center of the hood...
Ah...If I had a chance to look under the hood, I would have scouted that out. Thanks for the info. Glad to know they're not just jerkin' chains.
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Hey guys. I noticed you guys were discussing the Grand Am SC/T. From what a friend of mine who works @ Don Massey Buick/pontiac says (also owns a 99 grand am gt with a Eaton Super charger on it), they only made 2 or 3 of the actual "SC/T" cars to take on the road for PR reasons. The one that Dan saw had around 80k miles on it. The SC/T was never FULLY produced. However, there are only 2 EATON superchargers on Grand AM gt's in the state of colorado. So that tells you the exclusivity of it. BTW... I did race him @ Bandimere speedway @ the IDRC Import Challenge and have slips. he ran a 14.1 @ 5280ft above sea level (pretty quick).... he also forgot to turn off his traction control his best ever i think he said was a 13.4
hope this helps....
peace out....
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Well guys come to find out he was talkin out his a$$. Its just a ragular old GT and its not crap. BUT he does have a Grand Pix with the 3.4 Supercharge. I saw them both last night. Thanks
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Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
Well guys come to find out he was talkin out his a$$. Its just a ragular old GT and its not crap. BUT he does have a Grand Pix with the 3.4 Supercharge. I saw them both last night. Thanks
It's a 3.8 liter actually, and that thing WILL spank you...unless he spins his tires.
240hp, 260ft-lbs torque on the series II, 260/280 on the new Series IIIs...  too bad they're UGLY now...
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Originally posted by mavrock:
too bad they're UGLY now...
Now???  
When did they look good. (a few RWD versions excluded  )
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Originally posted by mavrock:
Originally posted by SVTCuervo:
Well guys come to find out he was talkin out his a$$. Its just a ragular old GT and its not crap. BUT he does have a Grand Pix with the 3.4 Supercharge. I saw them both last night. Thanks
It's a 3.8 liter actually, and that thing WILL spank you...unless he spins his tires.
240hp, 260ft-lbs torque on the series II, 260/280 on the new Series IIIs... too bad they're UGLY now...
The Series II is actually a 240/280 and the Series III was originally meant to be 280/280, in the concept car, but they decided to cut the HP for several reasons:
1) Because SLP produces a current Stage 3 GTX package for the Grand Prix GTP that pushes 270/280 and a 0-60 of 6.2, 1/4 in the mid to low 14's I believe. If they produced a 280x2, they would have had to use the same modifications that SLP used to produce the car stock in its Comp G package (180 deg thermostat, 3.5" pulley, chip, cat back exhaust, don't know the pipe config, etc). The Comp G's, btw, are automanuals and already pulling those numbers stock, 6.2 and ~14.4-14.6. SLP would have lost a lot of business (-;
2) Because the front axle, I'm told, wore out too quickly in road tests with that much power. Don't know why 10-20hp makes that difference, but who can say.. it's a pontiac ?
3) Pontiac loves to put out its cars in measurements of horsepower per model per trim. Starting with 175hp in the Grand am, moving up to 200hp in the Grand Prix GT, to 260hp in the GTP, to 280hp in the new Bonneville, to 345 (or however many) ponies in the new GTO, etc.
Also, the Pontiac ATX's are not slushboxes. Their motors are aging, old school, 12V gas guzzling kittens, but their trannies aren't too bad. I got my Ford/Mercury 170hp/160ft\lb slushbox stomped by a lower powered and heavier 150hp\159ft/lb Grand Am ATX slushbox by at least 4 feet. Performance shift is a neat thing, plus those buggers have a lot of low end power and pull hard during shifts. 1/4 mile would have been a different story I suspect
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