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 Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:58 am
Quakes21 I have to admit, that is one mean looking GTO! I like the chrome shoes you have on it too, not too big, but still classy. The paint job does it justice as well. I rarely see GTO's in that type of red and that are kept up that good, they usually are yellow or just plain gloss red and dirty. I'm sure the roar of that engine strikes fear in a lot of people and their se-r's and what not. 3nodding Thank you! I don't usually do big rims, because of weight and pushing the rotational mass further outward. 18s would probably look better, but they'd also make her slightly slower, and the ride a bit harsher (she's supposed to be the cruiser I take girls out in). The funny thing is, the new ones look smaller than the stockers because the spokes are inside "dish" style, as opposed to the stockers flower petals going all the way to the outer portion of the rim, but they're both 17s. The "deep dish" look also makes her kinda look like she has "Hotwheels" wheels. The engine roar is meaty enough, even with the stock exhaust after the long-tube headers and cats. No drone, and quiet enough for people to sleep when driving normal, but also loud enough to enjoy when dropping the hammer.
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:59 am
"Rats?" What do you mean, "rats?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:51 am
It means the same as "crumbs", "golly" (in a bad way) or "oh? sad ", closest american I can think of to traslate would be, "gosh darnnit!"
I was basically expressing my empathy for you for when the guy drove away with what was now your lunch money. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:14 am
Oh, I was afraid you were saying "rats" because you wanted me to lose. I'm so relieved! I was all, "Why does he not like me? I'm nice... aren't I?"
But now I know it's not that. Phew! smile
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:16 pm
I'm not a fan of overly large rims either, save that for suv's. But the rims with the larger lip, such as yours, look alot better than when the spokes are at the edge. It also lowers the possibility of the face of the rim scratching up against curbs and what not lol.
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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 5:31 am
If ricers see this charging up behind them, they better move out of the way!  Went and took this tonight / this morning while the roads were dead.
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:55 pm
I have a question for the Australian guys, since I couldn't find the answer on Google. Maybe you guys will have better luck. All that chassis code garbage talk got me too curious, and I noticed that while Jenny has a "VX1" VIN, she has the 6.0L engine that was on the VZ Monaros their final year or something. But those guys have ZX1 VINs (see VIN here: http://www.autoline.com.au/vehicle/1246600.html ). That advertisement also confuses me, because it says the car has a 5.7L. I'm puzzled, because a GTO decoder thing says that the V in VX1 is because it's on the V2 Monaro chassis/body-type (VIN decoder: http://ultimategto.com/cgi-bin/statsexplorer.cgi?year=2006&f1=vinmatrix ). My car was built and imported in '06, when they opted for the stronger engines and whatnot... so what's the deal here? I'm lost. Does this mean my car is built on a craptastic platform or something?
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:21 pm
You have good taste in cars! Nice photography, too. Did you have some professional pictures done?
I have a few professional photos of my Straman Stealth, on the road course at Memphis Motorsports Park last June.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:03 pm
All my pictures of Jennifer were done by me. I'm nowhere near a pro, however. I've only done four car commissions (two dealerships, a car show, and a friend's).
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:05 am
In the darkness of the cold early morning, Jennifer and I were on our way to the gym so I could work on dropping some of the weight I gained over the holidays. Rolling up to the 4-way stop, I see some HID lights to my right. I didn't think anything of it, since I was just getting over my morning grogginess and already on my way. Turning left, I continue on to my destination. But as I drive on, I see the fancy car roll up next to us and keep even for a few moments. I look over, and barely through Jennifer's window tint, I see some skinny looking Asian guy that's probably somewhere around my age. When he sees me look over he zooms forward ahead and I see the rear of an Infiniti G37, with the little "S."
"Oh come on, you can't be serious?!" I thought to myself, then spoke to my baby. "I know it's early sweetheart, but I think it's a good time for you to have a nice luxury breakfast of fried rice."
There was a stop sign a bit ahead, so I flash my foglights at Infiniti Boy a few times and turn off the traction control while rolling a little bit onto the throttle to catch up. The guy stops and waits for me to pull up and stop next to him. But right when I stop, before I could prepare to brake torque, he just mashes on his accelerator pedal and starts to take off. Instantly, I react and roll onto the throttle to go after him. I hear his tires make two chirps as they loose a little traction while going over the crosswalk before Jennifer's engine gets loud and her tires burnout through all of first gear in a continous screech. Damn the cold weather!
We rush up to the G37's rear bumper when it's time for the upshift, and with a slightly long chirp Jennifer blasts past as we blaze through 2nd gear. The road was slightly curved, and the guy in the Infinity had the "inside lane," but it didn't help any in easing the rapage! I keep on it until it's almost time for 3rd, Jennifer feeding the G37 more of her exhaust. We're a bit over 80, and the Infiniti's HIDs are a distant glow in the rear view mirrors.
I'm totally awake and a bit shakey with adrenaline when we come to the red light at the next intersection. Infiniti Boy catches up, and I roll down the passenger-side window to give him a thumbs up, and am greeted with a blast of cold air. But as he comes up to the light, he doesn't look over at all, and hastily makes a right turn. I sigh, and we sit there alone at the intersection until the light turns green. Looks like the both of us had a good workout this morning!
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:43 am
I got a copy of Jennifer's GMVIS, the equivalent of a birth certificate for a GM built car.
VIN: 6G2VX12U66L810366
VEHICLE BUILD
Merchandising Model: 2VX37 - 2006 GTO COUPE
Gross Vehicle Weight Rating : 4491 lbs (2037 kg)
Order Number: JWDNDZ
Shipping Date: 06/23/2006
Build Plant: 66LV
OPTION CODES
AH5 - Front Driver Seat, Power 8-Way
AH8 - Front Passenger Seat, Power 8-Way
AK3 - Front Seat Head Restraint
AK5 - Dual Frontal Airbags
AQ9 - Custom Bucket Seats
A88 - Seat Headrest
BQS - Hood With Scoups
B58 - Floor Mats
C60 - Air Conditioning, Custom
C95 - Lamp, Roof Courtesy & Reading
DL6 - Mirror Outside Remote Control, Electric
FE2 - Suspension System, Handling
GS9 - Axle Rear 3.46 Ratio
G80 - Limited Slip Torsen Rear Differential
JL9 - Antilock Brakes
K30 - Cruise Control Automatic
LS2 - Engine, 6.0L V8 SFI
MX0 - 4-Speed Automatic Transmission
M32 - Automatic Transmission
NP5 - Leather Wrapped Steering Wheel w/ Radio Controls
NU4 - California Emission System, LEV2 Plus
N40 - Power Steering
PZ9 - Wheels, 17x8, Aluminum QWZ - P245/45ZR17 W-Rated Tires
R6J - Customer Dialog Network
R6P - Premium Paint
R8E - Gas Guzzler Tax
R8K - *******************************
R9N - Leather Seat Trim SLM - Sales Stock Orders
T43 - Spoiler, Rear Deck Lid
T82 - Headlamps Auto On-Off
U1X - Radio, AM/FM Stereo, Seek/Scan Multi CD, Clock, ETR HPS, Auto Tune
U77 - Rear Window Antenna
VG7 - Bumper Standard Impact 2.5 MPH California
VG8 - Vehicle Label - Notice to Buyer
V73 - Vehicle Certification U.S.
YF5 - 50-State Emissions
1SZ - Option Package Discount
71U - Spice Red Metallic
81I - Interior Trim Anthracite
812 - Trim Combination Leather
VEHICLE INFORMATION
Merchandising Model: 2VX37 -2006 GTO Coupe
Warranty Start Date: 08/08/2007
BARS Order Type: 70 - Retail - Stock
DELIVERING DEALER
Hilltop Pontiac-Buick-GMC Inc.
3230 Auto Plaza
Richmond, CA 94806-1932
(510) 222-4141
Selling Source: 16 - Pontiac
Site Code: 23145
Business Associate Code: 157870
Service Contract: Yes
Branded Title: No
Warranty Block: No
PDI Status: Paid
ON STAR AND XM SATELLITE RADIO INFORMATION
Vehicle has no associated On Star or XM Radio information.
APPLICABLE WARRANTIES
36/36000 BUMPER TO BUMPER LIMITED WARRANTY
Effective Date: 08/08/2007
Effective Odometer: 77 miles
End Date: 08/08/2010
End Odometer: 36077 miles
72/100000 SHEET METAL COVERAGE RUST THROUGH LIMITED WARRANTY
Effective Date: 08/08/2007
Effective Odometer: 77 miles
End Date: 08/08/2013
End Odometer: 100077 miles
96/80000 FEDERAL EMISSION CATALYTIC CONV. AND PCM
Effective Date: 08/08/2007
Effective Odometer: 77 miles
End Date: 08/08/2015
End Odometer: 80077 miles
36/50000 CALIFORNIA EMISSIONS
Effective Date: 08/08/2007
Effective Odometer: 77 miles
End Date: 08/08/2010
End Odometer: 50077 miles
84/70000 CALIFORNIA SELECT COMPONENT
Effective Date: 08/08/2007
Effective Odometer: 77 miles
End Date: 08/08/2014
End Odometer: 70077 miles
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:20 am
My Blog On the way to school this morning, Jenny and I were minding our own business in that empty area on I-80 between Vacaville and Fairfield when a trio of 240SXs fart past us (silly TOONer kids like to call them "Silvias"), a black, red, and white one. I sighed and wondered how people could actually think that they sound good with exhausts that loud and droney. But I notice the white one's brake lights light up and he slows down until he's next to us. "Oh, come on! Please, not today." I say aloud. But lo and behold, I hear him rev his engine and "pshew... fart... pshew... fart" he shows off that he has a turbo with a blow-off valve to me. I look over and roll my eyes with a shrug. Weakly smiling, I hold up three fingers. He nods with a middle finger as a reply. Sliding the transmission down from D to 2, and turning off the traction control, I take my foot off the gas until Jenny drops herself down into 2nd gear. By now, the other the red one lines up with me in the slow lane to my right (I normally drive in the 2nd lane of the highway) and the black one is behind the white one. I wait for someone to honk his horn once we start cruising around 60 mph, but nobody does, so I start doing the three-honk start. Beeeep... beeeep... FAAARRT! Mother ******** in the white started before we were supposed to! Reactively, I punch the throttle and slide the shifter back into D. RRRRAAAAHHHHH! Jenny pushes me back into the seat as we give chase. We totally leave the red and black ones behind, and by the time we hit 3rd his front bumper is at Jenny's hips (rear quarter panels). After the short shifting pause, she continues to scream and pull away. The overspeed alarm chimes at 100 mph, and I check my mirrors as I get off the gas. All three are lengths and lengths behind. I start to get back into my normal driving groove, but a quick check in the mirror shows white and red trying to charge up again. I drop her shifter down to 3rd so we can get ready and when they're a length or two behind, I mash on the gas again and accelerate with them. This lets them pull up ahead a little since they were already accelerating through their powerband as they caught up, but I timed it right so that once the white guy's door was aligned with Jenny's front, we matched speed and just blew by him again. The red guy wasn't as fast, so he didn't even pull up next to us by that time. But at least this time around, I got to hear both of their silly little blow-off valves when they shifted. Sorry fellas, no ricer fly-by for you! To end the nonsense, I switched into the same lane as the white one, since he was the fastest of them, and flashed my hazards in his face since that's what ricers do. I kept on it until we hit around 120 mph or so, and then just got back in the 2nd lane and set the cruise control back to 65 mph. By now we were approaching the area of Fairfield where there's a decent amount of traffic, so no more racing... thank God. They ended up passing us again and I gave them a smile and a peace sign... but all they gave me was a mean-mug and finger. And ricers always say V8 domestics don't have any top-end power? Stop reading Super Sport or Import Tuner, your cars aren't that fast. And if it matters any, the black and white ones were the hatchbacks with the flippy lights, and the red one was the last generation one with the angry looking lights (I think they call it a "Kouki").
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:18 pm
Millhouse... your first name wouldn't happen to be Derek would it?
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:04 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:27 am
Millefune I have a question for the Australian guys, since I couldn't find the answer on Google. Maybe you guys will have better luck. All that chassis code garbage talk got me too curious, and I noticed that while Jenny has a "VX1" VIN, she has the 6.0L engine that was on the VZ Monaros their final year or something. But those guys have ZX1 VINs (see VIN here: http://www.autoline.com.au/vehicle/1246600.html ). That advertisement also confuses me, because it says the car has a 5.7L. I'm puzzled, because a GTO decoder thing says that the V in VX1 is because it's on the V2 Monaro chassis/body-type (VIN decoder: http://ultimategto.com/cgi-bin/statsexplorer.cgi?year=2006&f1=vinmatrix ). My car was built and imported in '06, when they opted for the stronger engines and whatnot... so what's the deal here? I'm lost. Does this mean my car is built on a craptastic platform or something? I heard a while back when they first came up with the idea of exporting the Monaro's. that they were actually going to redo a lot of the car and just keep the same body style, The claimed that it wasn't up to American standards. So I wouldn't worry about it your if anything is an upgrade of the VZ. Plus I'm sure they'd have to change the VIN a bit considering they car turned from a Holden to a Pontiac, And you do see the Pontiac's running round here quite a bit so maybe they did it just so you can reference them better. Also love the Story's dude, always nice to see the little tuners get what they deserve. biggrin But I gotta say one thing, I read the on with the bloke and the 350z you said you rev the engine before you switch it off, That's probably not the smartest thing to do. Yeah it might help the battery but the damage it can do later on is pain. I don't know if the damage is as bad with fuel injection but all in all it's really not good in the long run.
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