Recent content by DSM

I'm going to guess no. He just makes circuit boards, he doesn't do any gauge restoration or repair work.

If you are using the factory tach you probably know it's not very accurate, and over the years probably has only gotten worse (or has crapped out altogether). Greg at Cajun Tach Shop https://www.cajuntachshop.com/ was able to take my original tach and create a new replacement circuit board...

We managed a few fall cruises, but now the reality of Michigan winter has set in. I have some plans for the winter and will update this post as they evolve, but for for now it's quiet under the new Covercraft cover. In case anyone is wondering about the banner hanging over the car...and at...

In September we finally made our first car show and took home an "Outstanding" award for our class, getting beat out for first place (and rightly so) by the Catalina parked next to us. The Catalina was spectacular!

I won't go into a lot of detail here because it's been covered to death before, but my original inside rear view mirror was shot so I replaced it with an Impala SS auto-dim mirror with built in-map light which I upgraded to LED bulbs. Anyone one with a t-top G-body knows how bad the interior...

Despite the low miles, the original tie rod ends and idler arm were worn out. I replaced those with some Moog components I had left over from a previous Grand Prix project, and added a 36mm F-body front sway bar, S-10 urethane bump stops, and a set of Monte Carlo frame braces. I also added...

I still have a ton of work to do to bring the underhood up to par with the body and interior. I've done a few things so far. First, the blower motor was really noisy and had a nasty vibration, so I took the opportunity to replace it with a new Delco unit. The HVAC sticker was pretty tired...

In an earlier post I mentioned I had added the remote passenger mirror. The mounting bracket for the mirror "joystick" and the trim bezel proved very difficult to find and this set actually came from a parts car in Canada. Fortunately my brother lives Calgary and was able to meet up with...

I've had the car on Michigan Historic plates since I bought it, but I never liked how those plates looked on the car. The white/blue just felt out of place. Fortunately Michigan also allows you to use "year specific" plates in lieu of Historic plates, which for 1983 means a '79 issue plate...

I'm still on the lookout for some NOS fender emblems, but in the mean time I refurbished the originals.

I had some Sony Xplode 4x10s, brand new in the box from 2003(?) sitting on the shelf.... so those went in the back. I wanted to retain the original head unit, but add some power, so I added a Kicker KEY200,4 DSP amplifier between the head unit and speakers. Everything was done using adapter...

Picking back up where I left off....while the car was apart for paint I went ahead and yanked the dash to replace the speakers. I really didn't have a choice as the originals were toast. The replacements are Infinity REF3022CFFX.

By late August I had the car back in Michigan. At this point I hadn't put the emblems back on.

We managed to save most of the original paint in the door jambs and trunk area since it hadn't been destroyed by the Florida sun. But I did order reproduction door jamb VIN data stickers through Kirban Performance.

The rear glass on GPs with the vinyl top get a black-out band around the outside which corresponds to the thickness of the top. Again, I wanted it to look like it never had a top from the factory, so I had the rear glass replaced with a reproduction window which I got from Kool Katz auto...