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I apreciate your interest. My monte is my main hobby and if you are checking this out, it is probably your hobby too. Please enjoy and feel free to copy ideas that you find here. This page has grown over the last year and a half. Parts of my page i have dedicated for basic information and reference both for easy access for myself and for others like me. I hope you find this all useful. Please let me know if there is anything i might be missing or could add to better improve the page.

I would like to thank all my family and friends for all their support in my obssion!

Index:
Pg 1 Intro
Pg 2 Engine Drivetrain
Pg 3 Suspension / Handling
Pg 4 Exterior
Pg 5 Interior/Sound
Pg 6 Install, How To Section
Pg 7 Basic Performance Ideas
Pg 8 Projects, Stats, and Bragging rights
Pg 9 Concept Cars
Pg 10 Cool Pics
Pg 11 Performace Work (Dynamic Performance)

Here is a quick list of what i have done:

Exterior__________________________________________
Lighting:
-New Lumina Tail lights
-Red front side markers with amber LED's
-LED turn signals
-LED brake lights
-AUX Driving lights
-High beam conversion for Low beams
-Silverstar Turn signals

Styling:
-Rear wing
-Custom paint tail
-Chevy bowtie on side of the car
-Stub antenna
-Strobes in Headlights
-LED's in grill

Handling:
-17" Enkie MM2 Wheels
-Yokohoma AVS ES-100 245/45-17 Tires
-Red brake Calipers w/ Slotted Rotors
-DOT 4 Race Brake Fluid
-Energy Suspension Poly Sway Bar Bushings
-Front and Rear GMPP strut tower brace with ZZP brackets
-GMPP Rear Tubular Trailing arms
-Eibach Pro springs
-KYB GR-2 Struts

Interior_______________________________________
Seating:
-Upgraded Sport Leather Sport seats
-Seat Heaters and Massagers Driver, Passanger and Rear
-Custom Power Passenger Seat
-Al Seat belt guides

Electronics:
-Auto-dimming Mirror
-Radar Detector
-Aeroforce Interceptor OBD2 gauge
-Integrated Ionizer in AC vent
-AC-inverter
-Aux 12V Power Source in Center Console
-Integrated Switch terminal Controling (Radar Detector, In Car Neons, Aux 12V, Driving Lights, Amp remote, ABS, Ionizer)
-Laptop
-Custom Stand
-DHP Power Tuner PCM programer (Digital Horse Power)
-GPS Moving Nav
-DVD/MP3/MPG/WiFi enabled

Sterio:
-JVC SH-55 Head Unit 200W (Custom Paint)
-JVC 12- Disk CD Changer (Carpeted in black)
-HP IPAQ MP3/MPG controler
-Laptop Audio Input
-12" MTX Sub In Sealed enclosure
-Tweeters
-Infinty Reference Series 5 1/4"
-Lightning Audio 3 way 6x9"
-DHD 7 Band Passive Eq
-Pioneer 200W amp
-Misc 100W amp

Styling:
-Silver and Black Trim (Dash Cluster, AC Vents, Center Console, Glove box, Speaker Grill, and Steering wheel controls)
-Blue LED Dash Cluster bulb swap w/ Neon accent string
-LED in Shift indicator
-Neon under Driver, Passenger, and Rear seat
-Custom Short Shifter, Knob, and Boot
-Racing Pedal Set
-Mag-light, Shovel, and Med-kit mounted to trunk lid
-Full size spare added (Custom Painted to match wheels)
-Full set of tools and hazard Triangle

Engine_________________________________________
Air Intake/Exhaust:
-Fender Well Intake version4
-Port matched & Polished Throttle Body, MAF sensor, Upper, and Lower Intake Manifold
-2.5" Exhaust: High flow cat, Magnaflow muffler, Glasspack, twin Stainless rolled style tips.
-EGR delete with cover plate and retune
-EVAP solonoide delete
-PCV system removed
-Airpump removed along with plug in exhaust

Cooling/Fluids:
-ZZP modified 180* thermostat (ZZPerformance)
-TB Coolent bypass
-Water Wetter
-Castrol Syntec 5W30 Oil
-L67 Injectors

Tuning:
-Fans, Shift points, Injector remap
-Gov move from 118 to 170mph
-Spark and Fuel curve optimized
-and much much more

Misc:
-FFP Poly/Al Engine Mount (Fast Forwad Performance)
-FFP Under Drive Pulley
-H.O. Alternator
-Optima Redtop battery
-Autolite #103 Single Plat plugs (two heat range colder)
-Custom Ground Kit
-Neon Hood Light

Maintanace:
Rebuilt trany, New rotors, sway bar bushings, tune-up plugs wires, fuel filter, water pump, ac compressor, Alternator, timing belt, coil pack, TPS sensor, Battery, PCV, Intake gaskets, injectors, O2 sensor, fuel filter. These cars with the DOHC engine require maintanace, some say they require much more then others. I have found it is just an aquward/time consuming engine to work on. If you cant do the work yourself, it will get expensive.(as with any car) If you follow my writeups and check some of the link i have listed, you should be able to save some $$$.

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