Hello everyone!
It's been forever since I've made a post on an actual forum! Long time reader, second time contributor but given how much time I spend on here, it felt appropriate to begin to share the journey of my recently acquired 05 ABP GT Wagon Limited.
I found this car on FB marketplace in January and watched it for months before reaching out to the seller to see if this was in fact still for sale. Long story short, I purchased the car with my "Biden Bucks" for $2500 and drove it home to the other side of ATL. My intention was to let the car sit for a year or so and slowly work on it (ha!) while I continued to drive my Stinger GT daily.
Funny how things change. The car market is completely crazy right now and I not only got to walk away from my Stinger lease with no out of pocket but the dealer cut me a $3k check as well. So as it would seem, I needed to get the wagon up to DD duties ASAP. The current mods are as follows:
When I purchased the car: Tuned for ~340whp, because automatic.
FP Green Turbo Perrin turbo inlet Cobb EBCS ID1000cc injectors DW450lph fuel pump Grimmspeed TMIC Perrin ELH Cobb catted DP Custom 3" catback exhaust Magnaflow mufflers (for now) BC Racing coilovers Whiteline F&R sway bars + endlinks
Purchase state: The car has a known 5EAT issue with shifting super hard 1>2 and sometimes 2>3. Unfortunately, the car is on it's 3rd 5EAT with the same issue and rather than continuing to figure it out, I have a SpecB 6MT swap scheduled at the end of Nov. : Picking up the entire swap + misc parts from a 5MT donor car locally for $2750.
The car had been sitting under a tree for well over a year without so much as the door being opened and the dreaded sunroof drains had clogged causing a water leak in the interior. Step 1 was to strip the interior down to bare metal, dry it out for a few weeks and clean everything with diluted bleach + steam cleaner while I waited to pick up another carpet set. Took this time to sound deaden random parts underneath the carpet.
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