KF300183 <------ 89 black TGP leather/sunroof, security lighting 42,XXX miles. (Georgia)

Damn, My Garage is Naked! Bring my car back...I'll pay you double.

Matt, I'm glad you guys got the car. I would never have sold it to a non GP person. Dave from Ga. Club GP, said you guys would baby it like I have. I trusted him, so the car was never offered to anyone else.

Take care of it and enjoy. You'll have a hard time ever finding one in that condition.

Rick

Thats funny!

so how did the race turn out?

Look all this advice is great but you need to go to ebay right now and buy that electric turbo. Bolt it on and now you have a twin turbo. What ever you do, don't lift your hood and spill the beans. You'll have 205 hp from the factory TGP engine plus another 100 hp. from the bolt on electric turbo= 305 hp twin turbo. You can't looooose! Good luck and please post the results of your twin turbo 0-100 time. I'm betting you're in the 8 second range.  SERIOUSLY though, if he's an automatic GT without alot of mods, you should take him easier than you think. Its all in the launch.

""I think the real reason that TGPs aren't really worth anything is that we are FWD!! ""

There that perception thing again. They are worth something and more than you're giving them credit for. Maybe its a Geographic thing. I too have owned 2 TGPs a red one which I sold last year in good condition with 116,XXX or so miles on it and the black one I have now. The red one sold in 11 days for $4500. It would have gone more quickly but the person that bought it had to get bank financing as well. I agree that the FWD is a major liability in the percieved value of these cars but they aren't taking the value hit that I sense has been your experience. You got a great deal it sounds like. That was the exception not the norm, not in my area anyways.

We've had this discussion before and I for one believe he'll have a hard time getting $9K for it. He should be able to get a premium buck for it though. I considered selling my 90 Black TGP before and we went on and on about the value of these cars. We all have TGPs, of course $9K sounds like alot but you can't buy them anymore! The cars are worth what you can get for them. If you lower your standard and sell your mint low mileage TGP for $4500, then you gave it away in my opinion. If you get
$7500-$8K for your low mileage mint TGP then you're setting the standard of what these cars are and should be worth. I was offered $6K for my mint black TGP 4 weeks ago. I really considered selling him the car, but I hooked up with the SEGPA (Southeastern GP assoc)  met alot of great people, showed my car at a local car show with them and really started to appreciate the car again. They were really into the TGP. I'm like "its just a TGP" other people are like "Shit that's a TGP" See the difference? Its the same difference in $4500 and $7500-$8K.

$9,000 firm? He knows the car's worth it...we should too.

Looks great! Please post when they're avail.

Thanks
Rick

Thanks, I just use a 1 step wax called fast wax made by Presta products. It can be purchased from body shop supply stores. I keep the car in the garage and it isn't driven daily so its pretty easy to have it ready for shows.

I don't have a 3" downpipe yet. It was placed on by mistake, when I joined the SEGPA (southeastern grand prix assoc) It asked for current mods in one section and future mods in the next. Somehow the future mods were translated to current mods. Sorry for the confusion.
I'm actually waiting on Shane ( Redzmonte) for his 2 1/2" down pipe. It seems to be as much as can be fitted in there.

Thanks
Rick

Thanks,
I thought the same thing but there dosen't seem to be the 1st hint of oily residue in the intake and some believe alittle vacum pressure is important.
I do have a crank case breather filter from APC if I want to change but this car is still brand new...well sorta. I mean it has only 67K orig miles and those pics don't do it justice.

I saw your post about making an intake and thought, great. He's gone and made what took me forever to find. Not to mention I bought mine and only used 1/4 of the entire contents. It was for a 95 Mitsubishi eclipse cold air intake. I only used 1 small section,  but it was a bolt on application.No cutting at all. Sounds like you made the same thing for probably alot less.

Keep it up, I'm waiting on the down pipe results. I'll be your 1st customer for one.

Rick

I went to a car show this past weekend and met some great guys from the Southeastern Grand Prix Assoc. They took pics of my car and added them to the web site. Some of the mods listed were future mods but they were listed as current mods. I have most of them but no the Jeff M. crossover yet. Anyway take a look. http://www.segpa.org/members/r_young.shtml

Thanks
Rick young

without cat is the way I would prefer it. Just the bolt in downpipe under the car, not the flex pipe coming off the turbo. I already have a 3" cat on the car with reducers to the stock exhaust. I would like a 3" but if you're making 2 1/2  in mass numbers then I'm in for a 2 1/2"

Thanks

I'll be interested in a 2 1/2" stainless or jet coated down pipe.

Its funny how I found myself looking for more ponies in the TGP here and there wasting time with this and wasting money on that when I've already owned a chipped TGP before. The car was way quicker than stock. So after playing with the exhaust, and intake I went ahead and got another chip from Jeff M. Wala! There's the torque I was looking for. Now the car
roasts the tires from a dead stop where I could barely get them to chirp from a dead stop in stock form before. It goes from mild to raising hell in the blink of an eye. It really is the one mod out there that you can feel a
SIGNIFICANT increase in torque, horse power and drivability. My advice...
If you're getting bored with the performance of your TGP, Chip it! You'll love it again.

Looks nice, Problem might be on rainy days. It's wide open down there.
You get into heavy rain and the water is bound to be sucked right up into the turbo. I ran a custom cold air intake on my red TGP and it even held a little water. Have you had any problems in the rain?
How for does it go down?