Hea guys, I'm Nuptup. I've been hanging out on the forums for a while, I did a member introduction a while back, but this is the first time I'll be sharing pictures of anything. I have finished most of the things I want to do on the car and all of the cosmetics have been done, so I felt picture day was a good idea. I'll be making a post soon in the Showcase when I go get some nicer pictures done with my photographer friend. For now, here's my cell phone's best in an over-lit parking lot and some information on what all I have done to her so that the Showcase post can just have eye candy.
Year: 2006
Model: G6 Convertible
Trim: GTP
I purchased the car from my parents at considerably high mileage (201k). IT had been decently maintained to keep it road worthy with no major drive-train work being done. Still drives good enough for me.
Here is everything and anything I can think of to mention in the hopes that someone finds it interesting, or at least as just a record for everything I’ve done to the car for a history of its life.
Exterior:
Interior:
Performance/Handling:
Things I have done so far not including things above:
Year: 2006
Model: G6 Convertible
Trim: GTP
I purchased the car from my parents at considerably high mileage (201k). IT had been decently maintained to keep it road worthy with no major drive-train work being done. Still drives good enough for me.
Here is everything and anything I can think of to mention in the hopes that someone finds it interesting, or at least as just a record for everything I’ve done to the car for a history of its life.
Exterior:
- Halo Projector Headlights
- Stock Taillights
- Original glass all-around (Plan to get a tint at some point)
- Stock Panels/Bumpers/Etc (Might do a body kit later on if/when I get my life and finances stabilized.)
- Gloss Black Paint (Minor Chipping, want to get this fixed and maybe wrap the car one day. But that's a pipe-dream lol.)
- Stock GTP Rims (Looking for some nice rims, might end up getting an adapter to go from 114.3 to 110 bolt pattern for more availability.)
- Sumitomo HTR Tires
- Personalized Vanity Plates
Interior:
- Kenwood DMX 7706S Touchscreen Radio [Replaced Factory Stock Radio] (Amazon)
- Metra Axxess ASWC-1 Steering Wheel Control Interface (Amazon)
- Metra 70-2103 Radio Wiring Harness For Malibu/Equinox/G6 2004+ (Amazon)
- Metra 40-GM10 GM Antenna Adapter (Amazon)
- Metra 95-3302 General Motors DDIN 2004+ Dash Kit (Amazon)
- BATIGE USB 3.0 and 3.5mm Flush Mount [Replaced Cigarette Lighter] (Amazon)
- Gauge cluster from an 09.5 or 2010 with replaced LED's
- Random Custom Fit Floor Mats
- Seats and interior panels are all stock.
Performance/Handling:
- Stock Intake w/K&N Filter (Want to get a CRABS, but Lampoon has been gone since before I got here, and my e-mail was never returned from the website.)
- Stock Exhaust (Currently has the Convertible stock exhaust with the smaller and restricted pipe, going to be replacing it by following Mark's Instructions.)
- Naturally Aspirated 3.9l V6 (Nothing we can do forced induction-wise, so nothing planned here.)
- No Tune (Might get a WAMS down the road, but don't really feel like filling up with premium.)
- Replaced all front end suspension and bought a Megan's Racing strut brace like these.
Things I have done so far not including things above:
- Replaced Serpentine Belt
- Replaced Wiper Blades
- Refinished Headlights to clear them up some
- Pulled Dent from rear bumper
- Replaced Heater Core
- Fixed Blend Door
- Got Some New Tires
- Fixed Rear Driver’s Side window regulator with help from here
- Replaced tail lights with some from junkyard
- Replace Gauge Cluster and steering wheel buttons with 2009.5 or 2010 to get DIC back using this guide
- Changed LED's on Gauge Cluster from white to red to match existing LED's
- Update 3/26/2020 Below
- Fixed Power Steering Leak
- Fixed Coolant Cross-Over Pipe Gasket Leak
- Replaced Water Pump Like This
- Struggled to get car to not overheat, paid GM to fix it. Could have done it myself with the help from here and here, but I just wanted it done.
- Fixed my wiper sprayer with this guidance and replacement lines from the junkyard
- Fixed my transmission leak, now it just slowly seeps which i can live with.
- 12/27/2019: Purchased from parents @ 201,978 miles
- 12/28/2019: Titled and registered
- 1/1/2020: Drove it for a joy ride new years day and noticed it was at 202,024 miles
- 1/1/2020: Cry because I missed a legendary 202,020 miles chance for 20,20,20,20,20…
3/26/2020: Finally a vehicle I can say that I trust!- 5/1/2020: Got it to be reliable after replacing another power steering o-ring.
- Purchase or Fabricate my own CRABS Intake Setup
- Might steal inspiration from Torbinator and Tommy and paint my interior pieces (Steering wheel and door handles, etc.)
- LED Lights all around exterior
- Paint the engine cover
- Figure out how/where to run wires for back-up camera (Kind of gave up because it's way more work than I wanted to do. Can't find nice place to run wires from License Plate without taking off rear bumper, which I can't seem to do because of a weird screw/bolt alignment... UGH)
- Source new seats or get current reupholstered due to wear
- Take car to Dyno and get the horse-power numbers before taking it to the exhaust shop to swap in coupe exhaust then taking it back to the same Dyno to get a before and after horse-power number so we don't have to rely on our butt-dyno's anymore and have some actual numbers. (I saw so many threads where someone did the swap but didn't have any numbers to back up what their butt-dyno said, and I wanted to be able to provide that math.) Guide Here
- Touch up the mechanical portions of my roof mechanism according to this page