2014 Caprice ppv mod list

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Re: 2014 Caprice ppv mod list

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The polyurethane bushings would be a good mix between street and all out track. Solid metal bushings give so much cabin noise and harshness.
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Monday March 21st I was trying to install the g8 only inspection cover. Made sure fuel lines and wiring harness was out of the way, but managed to still hit the fuel line. 180 dollor towing ride and a 20 dollar repair later and she back running like normal. We cut the fuel line at the damaged area and pressed a new gm fuel connector on. Today I’m gonna be changing all the tires on the car and replacing the harmonic balancer and serpentine belts. Will be posting pictures tonight or tomorrow of that. Cars back home safe that’s all I care about. Pictures are from the tow truck ride.
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To anyone it may help. Does your left and right front window pillar plastic trim sag or have a gap? I took a look in mine out of curiosity and found that the last police station had bent the tabs. All I had to do was push the tab back out and ever so slightly bend them up. Now both of my pillar trims look brand new. I hope it helps someone out there with huge gaps like I had. All you have to do is push behind the metal clip with a butter knife or flat head and in my case bend upward.
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So today we got the car up and changed all the tires. Got them all mounted and balanced. And got the old original tires off.
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Then we replaced the harmonic balancer and the serpentine belts and ac belt, all oem parts.
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Lastly drilled out the rest of the holes and installed the g8 only inspection cover to cover the hood for the fuel pump. While we were doing the tires we saw the front brake pads were really thin so I ordered some ceramic brakes from bosch. Gonna get them installed sometime Monday hopefully.
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Re: 2014 Caprice ppv mod list

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I guess your balancer had the infamous wobble?
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I do a lot of highway runs from 130-153 when I’m lucky and it didn’t like being at 6,000 rpm for a minute at a time
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So guys today finally got the car up and changed all the brakes. They were really down to their last leg. Me and a buddy were at the car until 11 pm so glad we got it done in time. Replaced the front and back with copper free ceramic pads. Didn’t have the time to take any good pictures but here’s the car in the air.
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Then after the brakes we changed the transmission filter and fluid. His father did a full scan of the car and no warnings came up other than a trunk light warning and a turn signal bulb warning that I replaced yesterday but didn’t clear the code. The car is on new tires new brakes and all new fluids and filters. Gonna be driving from west Michigan to Phoenix Arizona Wednesday to move feeling good that there’s nothing more to possibly do to get the car ready.
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