A little sportier? Maybe?

[Last Indian]

As I stated before, I’m an old school guy. So I tend to go back to, & use what I like to enhance a car to my liking. I like old school wood steering wheel & modern cars don’t really lend themselves to such things with air bags & steering wheel controls etc… The same holds true for gear shifts, peddles & so on. Or does it?

 

2003 monte LFX swap!

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[RebelRacer99]

Those pedal covers look Awesome, the gear knob too.

 

[Last Indian]

Aluminum sill plates, these were the first set I made. I have since mode different ones.

 

[Last Indian]

These are the new sill plate I built.

 

[Robert]

When old school meets new school! Those sill plates give me serious fisherbody vibes—really cool look. How much heavier is that accelerator pedal compared to the stock plastic one?

 

[Last Indian]

When old school meets new school! Those sill plates give me serious fishbody vibes—really cool look. How much heavier is that accelerator pedal compared to the stock plastic one?

Sorry, I don’t know what fishbody is? The machined aluminum pedal is actually a little lighter by feel, but I’ve never weighed either one.
I actually thought you guys might find a real wood wheel in one of the newer type cars interesting, but I guess that went out with the muscle car as well.
Here’s a few others of the FWDs I owned. He picture with the three GP are red, white & black , not my blue (Indian) as I also owned a black one for awhile.

 

[Robert]

Meant to say fisherbody, autocorrected it to fishbody lol. Is the red GP a TGP or just a GTP? cant tell from the back besides the wing which looks like a 91-94

 

[Last Indian]

Meant to say fisherbody, autocorrected it to fishbody lol. Is the red GP a TGP or just a GTP? cant tell from the back besides the wing which looks like a 91-94

Robert, the red one was a GTP 3.4 NA.
That said I have a question about the W-body tech main page, the history of the 1997-2003 Grand Prix. Just a observation, but there are several statements that are inaccurate. Sorry, but they’re just not. What’s up with that? The “97”-“03” GP was the seventh generation, not the forth. Also it was not built on an updated platform! It was built on a completely newly engineered platform called MS2000. Now all the W platforms were built under the umbrella program GM10! This was a program name as well as the first platform, “82” to “96”. “97” to “05” was the W2 (MS2000).This platform was engineered in Detroit & built in the USA! Then the W3 “06” to “16”.

Additionally, the GTP (supercharger) was most definitely available in “97”!

First Generation GP – “62”-“64”
Second –“65”-“68”
Third – “69”-“72”
Forth – “73”-“77”
Fifth – “78”-“87”
Sixth – “88”-“96”
Seventh – “97”-“03”
Eighth – “04”-“08”

 

[gs_geoff]

My 88 Skylark has the "Body by Fisher" sill plate

 

[RebelRacer99]

Does your steering wheel still have the airbag, or has it been removed? If it's still there, has it been deactivated, of is it still armed?

 

[Last Indian]

Does your steering wheel still have the airbag, or has it been removed? If it's still there, has it been deactivated, of is it still armed?

No! I removed the steering wheel air bag completely & disconnected the power from both of the air bags, deactivated. I also removed the idiot light from the instrument panel. I bought a spare junkyard air bag, blew it up so I could use the fixture plate to make the new center section of the new wheel.

Air bags are, once again a government thing & they honestly don’t work unless you’re to stupid to put on your seatbelt! If I’m wearing my seatbelt do I really need a brick racing up at my face at 500 hundred miles an hour? Yes that’s the actual speed they travel at, so I don’t think so! Better yet, if they are so great why has NASCAR never implemented them? FYI car seatbelts came from proven NASCAR results.

Here are a few pictures of the steering wheel build. The wheel was reduced in diameter as you will notice in the pictures.

 

[RebelRacer99]

No! I removed the steering wheel air bag completely & disconnected the power from both of the air bags, deactivated. I also removed the idiot light from the instrument panel. I bought a spare junkyard air bag, blew it up so I could use the fixture plate to make the new center section of the new wheel.

Air bags are, once again a government thing & they honestly don’t work unless you’re to stupid to put on your seatbelt! If I’m wearing my seatbelt do I really need a brick racing up at my face at 500 hundred miles an hour? Yes that’s the actual speed they travel at, so I don’t think so! Better yet, if they are so great why has NASCAR never implemented them? FYI car seatbelts came from proven NASCAR results.

Here are a few pictures of the steering wheel build. The wheel was reduced in diameter as you will notice in the pictures.

It looks really nice

 

[Last Indian]

It looks really nice

Thanks!