OFFICIAL: What did you do to your Alero today? - Page 90

Oldsnut · 08-05-2018, 09:37 PM

There were 5 total at the show. Both were parked behind the Marriot hotel.

[ion] C2 · 08-24-2018, 10:59 PM

Alero's back to being my daily. In the middle of finalizing my fuel tuning for E54 since that's what's somewhat readily available from gas stations here. Better fuel economy than E85 and basically the same octane equivalent so whatever.

Still waiting to have things tuned properly and powerfully till the new intake manifold/75mm TB/intercooler/BOV are installed. And when I have money to do so.

Even so, people always trying to race but they just can't compete. It's funny rolling around lowered, tinted, on Forgelines. People are curious and quickly find out there's more to this car than it seems. It's fun to have the afterfire between shifts too.

Boom!

Papa Rad17 · 09-13-2018, 12:46 AM

Admins have my IP blocked at work. JASPER Engines & Transmissions so I'm not on much, but it's certainly nice to see there is some activity around here still. I still have the intrigue running strong and dreams of another 5sp alero.
Any chance you could look in to it? I can't get one via ipod, or anything that runs through our servers. Was there some bad blood in the past maybe?

Homegrown- What the heck??? On that new motor build?? and I know with my 2.2, same exhaust header back, once I switched to the 4-2-1 header from the factory manifold the sound inside the car was terrible. Never got wrap on to see if it helped. Glad to hear your still hanging on to it too.

Oldsnut/oldsnut's old lady looking good in the f500's!!! What ever happened with baby blue's franken 500?

oldsman, sorry to hear, but life happens. Can't wait to see the gold day 'finished' one day.

Ion, one day I'd like to line up the SS with you. I'm sure that I'll end up looking at those big, ugly, tail lights but hey, there's no replacement for displacement. and I don't have anything extra done, bone stock.

The intrigue is now my daily, the SS is going to sit at home for now with 2! car seats installed. I don't mind, I still love the ol car. Just changed in some fresh amsoil last week 194xxx. Damn slow leak on the coolant crossover is driving me nuts. I see a lot of alero's around, all beat to crap. It makes me sad. One day... one day...

[ion] C2 · 09-15-2018, 02:47 PM

My turbo manifold flange to the head bolts are breaking. Sigh. Need to extract and redo using Inconel studs and nuts, and make a bracket to hold the turbo, ideally.
My boost controller bracket broke again, so I made a new alternate design and put that on.
I finally installed an air filter after years with only a stainless screen mesh (a properly sized one with adequate open air %)

Bone stock doesn't mean anything - you can go buy a car that runs 10s if you have the money to. Taking a car you like and making it perform far beyond its original spec, now that's impressive. And yes, there would be no competition with the Chevy SS. Too bad I'm in Phoenix and you're in Indianapolis, unless you want to make a road trip and check out the sights and smooth roads of the southwest.

Papa Rad17 · 09-16-2018, 10:07 PM

I would love to make the trip, but that's not going to happen any time soon for me. Just like that extensive work to turbo something is just a dream. So far, while there are of course things I would like to do, the SS is the first car I have been happy with from the factory, in pretty well every aspect. While it's not one I ever seen on the roads around here, I would like too more to make it my own. It's a little more difficult with all integrated electronics on these newer cars, and the price tag is higher. I'm sure in the future when money and time become more available I will get something to truly make my own. Even though my last alero was a little rough around the edges, I took pride in it and enjoyed the work I had done. But man, as nice as it sounds... I'm getting too old for some of the crap on the floor, or leaning into the engine bay all day.

[ion] C2 · 09-17-2018, 12:06 AM

For sure. I wanted to get an SS.

I'm tired of working on cars so I try to have other people do the labor, but lately it's me again.

tw0123 · 09-17-2018, 08:16 AM

I hear what you both are saying.... Mine's been done mostly by myself simply because i can't afford to payanyone to do the work... In turn my car is going on 7 years and still no where near done... Sigh... Eventually...

zzyzzx · 09-26-2018, 10:58 AM

Drove the Alero for the last 2 weeks, and in that time period I replaced the battery (which was 4.5 years old) and noticed that the lower door speaker on the right side now sounds distorted. Otherwise the car went all over town and to New York and back just fine.

Oldsman · 01-16-2019, 10:21 PM

Lets see......nothing has been done except for pcm work. Mainly due to my back surgery then wife had surgery for gall bladder and tumor and then to top 2018 of i had surgery again to have a tumor removed.......2018 = bad effing year period. But now its 2019 and im working and hope to have car done sometime this year.....hope. So i wont be going to nats thanks to 2018.

However i bought tristen his first car...........an its an 01 Alero GL with 82k on it..... And yes corners are cleared already and my old 8k HID are in it. Ill get some pics this weekend.

[ion] C2 · 01-17-2019, 01:53 AM

Finally got my manifold back after 8 weeks of it at the machine shop waiting for the surfaces to be milled flat lol. Installed it, should be good to go for once in its life with absolutely zero vacuum/boost leaks.

... and then I have to make a new manifold for a bigger throttle body sometime. Lost my welding buddy, working on finding a new one.

homegrown · 01-17-2019, 12:49 PM

I'm still (somewhat impatiently) waiting to get a call saying that the new motor has been installed and tuned.

Papa Rad17 · 02-12-2019, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

I'm still (somewhat impatiently) waiting to get a call saying that the new motor has been installed and tuned.

wow! completely new or another re-build? Happy to hear you're keeping the car alive!
To you and Oldsman, hope all is well! Life seems to keep getting in the way of lot.

homegrown · 02-13-2019, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Papa Rad17

wow! completely new or another re-build? Happy to hear you're keeping the car alive!
To you and Oldsman, hope all is well! Life seems to keep getting in the way of lot.

Pretty much a new build. The shop that built my hybrid motor a few summers ago did a piss-poor job. It leaked oil like a sieve and every oil change looked like someone emptied a bottle of glitter.
But this is the last straw for me.

tw0123 · 02-14-2019, 11:55 AM

Fingers crossed this one holds up the way it should for you Matt!!! I need to get my car out again this summer, she sat on jacks all last winter waiting for my new headers to be installed...

zzyzzx · 04-26-2019, 10:45 AM

My key FOB stopped working, but I got it working again. Exactly how I describe here:
http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35560

zzyzzx · 07-01-2019, 10:00 AM

Found out that the driver side mirror is now broken exactly the same as the passenger side was. I fixed the passenger side this way:
http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38207

homegrown · 02-21-2021, 01:13 PM

Just a small teaser....

Young Gun · 02-22-2021, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

Just a small teaser....

Did you run a pipe down below? Just cut holes down below? Looks nice!

Edit: Is the Maf in there+IAT?

homegrown · 02-22-2021, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Young Gun

Did you run a pipe down below? Just cut holes down below? Looks nice!

Edit: Is the Maf in there+IAT?

The box basically just has a scoop. The IAT is pinned into the updated LS1-style MAF, which has an IAT sensor built-in. It's a bit cleaner this way, I think.

[ion] C2 · 02-21-2021, 01:27 PM

What kind of strut bar is that? Custom?