Mods On The Cheap

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As you may know I recently bought a ’98 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP for $800. I left the car mostly stock for a long while, but the idea of having a little supercharger whine finlly got the best of me.

I recently went to a swap meet nearby and picked up a Spectre cone filter for $5. Soon after returning home, I decided it was time to play a little with the GTP. I removed the stock airbox and hose clamped the filter for the time being until I can build my own cold air intake. Soon after getting all of this complete, I took the car for a drive and discovered the biggest holdup on my car was the stock airbox—it wasn’t getting the proper amount of air to enjoy all of the possibilities! The car had gone from “ho hum” to “yahoo!” with only five dollars!

Now that the temperature has risen and the snow is long gone, I will be looking to do much more work on my vehicles, and look forward to doing many more things to the GTP. Hopefully it will all be done on the cheap, modding the car correctly and keeping the car running safely the entire time. How about you? Have you ever made a modification on the cheap? What was it and what did you do?

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Posted at 1:56 am in 1998, Grand Prix, GTP, Pontiac

Comments

simon_r_gris
May 12, 2009 at 12:17 pm

I would bolt a blower on my hood for 10 bucks.

bbccaprice89
May 11, 2009 at 7:08 pm

my whole car is a mod on the cheap! lol! the local paper even did a story on how i built the whole car for less than 3,000(so far).

pttransamdriver
May 11, 2009 at 6:12 pm

you can’t tell from the pics but up close you can, the stripes on my car are from a Krylon can, I painted and clear coated the whole thing myself for under $250.

FordRulesAll
May 11, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Good find the Spectre intakes work best in my opinion, can’t wait to see what you have instore.

retroman
May 11, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Put ram air on my TBI Spirit for only 5 bucks and a trip to Wal-mart.

___nes___
May 11, 2009 at 11:13 am

The best one I can think of right now is my hot rod bucket style seats that I got for $10 (just for the new leather) after the leather was in all I had to do was remove the head rest and paint the caps primer grey!

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oldscoob
May 11, 2009 at 10:38 am

of course. All problems are cheap if thinking of performance. unless its a sideways supercharged..anyway. Every car on earth has these “fixes”. It is a matter of knowing them, and seeking stuff necessary, not a brand name.

bustedwheel
May 11, 2009 at 7:45 am

I picked up a leaf blower at a yard sale and plumbed it to my intake with Zip ties and Duct tape. Only problem is it is electric, so I can’t drive very far from my garage.

Kidding.