Vehicle Owner

Member ID: scottbowen

Location: Clendenin, WV

Vehicle Info

1996 GMC Safari

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed100mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

Interior

  • GlowShift Gauges 
  • Recaro Seats 

Exterior Styling

Car Audio & Video

Ratings

    • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.

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scott’s GMC Safari
“Ferrari Safari”

  • Currently 4.3776 /5 Stars.
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Ferrari on the outside, but Safari on the inside! See page 2.

                               scottbowens 1996 GMC Safari

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March 1st 2009: Just had some tune up work done on the engine, rotor button, distributor cap & a chemical cleaning of the fuel injectors. Incredible difference; may need wheelie bars...just kidding. & now when I stomp down on it, instead of the standard sulfur type smell common to GMC catalytic converters, it smells like burnt gunpowder; I thought it was my imagination or wishful thinking. But other people have noticed it too. May have something to do with the fact that the catalytic was changed when we added dual exhausts.                      

To answer a few questions; The grill - the Wolfeman & I made it out of stainless steel mesh & 3/8" stainless steel rod. Behind the grill are a couple of horns off of a Porsche, not quite the right sound, but it is still is not what people expecting to hear coming from a van.

 

The Ferrari prancing horse emblem is from Ferrari, bought it on eBay!

The body kit is from Stillen.

Thanks for looking!!! 

 

 

In the begining,...  

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and LET THERE BE ROCK !

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I drive it almost every day, even to church! The van is All Wheel Drive, it has over 270,000 miles on it, original engine & original transmission. No major repairs other than to replace the head gasket. The air conditioning compressor has been replaced twice, the water pump twice, altenator once. A rear half shaft has been replaced. That's about it other than routine maintainence.

Under the hood it has a K&N air filter, and added dual exhausts, I had to move the spare tire from under the van to make room for the extra pipes, the resonators make it sound like a GT racecar, it absolutley GROWLS when I get on the gas.

The wing has a diffuser on it and it really pushes the rearend down, you can feel it start to push down at about 40-45 mph. You can actually see it 'hunker' down to the road as I get up to speed. I have also added a rear anti-sway bar, between it & the spoiler, the handling in the curves has improved tremendously.

Page One: Exterior

Page Two: Interior & Sound System

Page Three: Odds & Ends

Page Four: Thanks! & Suppliers

Page Five Ice Storm

 

 

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rmogerbr  

Posted by: rmogerbr

11/09/2009 05:41AM

Great ride!!

white demons  

Posted by: white demons

11/09/2009 12:34AM

hey u got a nice ride

Ryker_92  

Posted by: Ryker_92

11/08/2009 06:15PM

Thanks for the rating on my new car. Your van is outta control!"From haulin kids and dirty, to red like an F430"

Vincycharma  

Posted by: Vincycharma

11/08/2009 05:25PM

Hey man, wicked ride 5*****, great work. Thanks for cchecking out my project samurai...

DXTREME2003  

Posted by: DXTREME2003

11/08/2009 03:16PM

haha thats awesome 5*

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Vehicle Owner

Member ID: scottbowen

Location: Clendenin, WV