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GNREGISTRY ID:
BGN00002A - Richard Suddick
E-MAIL: rsuddick@satx.rr.com
CLASS: Modified Show Car
PART A - OWNERSHIP: I bought
BGN00002A new on December 10, 1987 from Spires-Douglas Buick in San
Antonio, Texas. The day I took it home, it had 5 miles on the odometer.
My odometer today (9/16/2004) reads 2643 miles. However, these
twenty-six hundred miles are recorded on an electronic odometer that is
part of a custom, upgraded instrument package from Performance
Instruments (see details below under modifications). The original
odometer read 90,255 miles at the time this replacement was installed by
Cavendar Buick in San Antonio about five years ago. (I still have the
original Buick instrument pod showing this mileage.) Thus, the total
current (9/16/2004) mileage is 92,898 miles.
PART B -MOTOR: The motor is
the original one with many modifications all done professionally by a
Turbo Buick expert, and Master Mechanic, Roy Caeo, at Cavendar Buick.
All receipts for labor for installation of below items are available at
Cavendar Buick. The engine was modified to develop a much higher level
of street performance without affecting overall drivability. Here is a
list of the modifications:
1) ATR's driver's side stainless steel header and cross-over pipe, both
ceramic coated; stock (stainless steel passenger side header is ceramic
coated).
2) ATR's 3" SS down-pipe with external waste-gate.
3) ATR's 3" SS cat-back dual exhaust system.
4) Iron CNC ported heads by Champion with their largest available
stainless steel valves.
5) ATR's modified matched stock ported intake manifold, with EGR tower
removed.
6) 42.5 lb injectors (009’s) with Casper's custom injector harness and
fuel pump hotwire kit.
7) Walbro 307 fuel pump.
8) ATR’s billet adjustable fuel pressure regulator.
9) Casper's Volt Booster, 3-Bar MAP Sensor and loom for TurboLink boost
sensing feature.
10) Jay Jackson's 62 mm ported & polished Throttle Body.
11) Three inch cast aluminum, black powder-coated up-pipe.
12) LTI MAF and MAF Translator from Ram Chargers; three and one-half
inch black powder coated intake air pipe along with a very low
restriction, “Big-Mouth” 17-inch air filter canister.
13) Custom made, massive (22 row) stock location all aluminum
intercooler Fitted with a custom aluminum scoop under the front bumper.
14) Performance Instruments’ GNX+ Instrument Panel, customized further
with a faux carbon fiber instrument gauge backing panel; instruments
include a VDO electronic speedometer, a three inch tachometer, a 30 psi
boost gage, oil pressure gauge, plus volt meter, fuel level, fuel
pressure, and engine temp gauges.
15)Ram Chargers’ (Bob Bailey) custom PROM chip, designed to maximize
power output from all of the above.
PART C - TRANNY: The
transmission and rear end are original stock. All running gear has had
regular service and functions perfectly.
PART D - SUSPENSION:
Suspension upgrades include:
1) All four upper and lower control arms with 1LE bushings.
2) Front and rear Bilstein shocks.
3) Eibach Pro Kit, Rally performance level coil springs front and rear,
powder coated gun metal gray (this lowered car approximately 0.75
inches).
4) Energy Suspension's complete front end rebuild kit with all
poly-graphite bushings.
5) Praise-Dyno Kevlar Brake's front pads, stock rotors.
6) Buick aluminum rear brake drums with extended "soft" shoes.
7) Buick aluminum bumper supports added.
8) All the Kirban body and frame bracing kits added.
9) GNX wheels (Pontiac Black GTA’s) from Classic Industries with custom
Buick Tri-shield center caps.
10) Four BFG Comp TA, Z-rated tires, 245/50/16, now with about three
thousand miles an them.
PART E - BODY & PAINT: The
exterior was painted at Gunn Buick’s Body Shop in 1997, at a cost of
approximately $3000, and is in beautiful condition today. The interior
is immaculate with one relatively minor wear place on the carpet next to
the gas pedal where the throttle foot rests. Trim areas have been
upgraded in a tasteful manner with specialty items from Buick-
from-Hell.
PART F - PERFORMANCE:
BGN00002A is very fast but has never been raced on the track.
PART G - OTHER: This is probably one
of a very, very few Grand Nationals or Turbo Buicks that were made from
1984 through 1987, in which a complete documented history of maintenance
and mechanical work receipts from a Buick Dealer exists from 1987
through the present. This history is maintained at Cavendar Buick, San
Antonio, TX. Cavendar bought this Buick Dealership from an intermediary
owner, Gunn Buick (who painted the car), who in turn had bought it from
Spires-Douglas Buick (the original dealer). The original Dealer Badge
from Spire-Douglas is still on the trunk lid. The changes in ownership
of this Buick dealership are included in all computer records of
customer vehicles of each successive dealer retained at Cavendar Buick
today. About 84,000 of the current ~93,000 miles were put on the car
before 1997, while it served as my daily drive-to-work vehicle (and I
loved that twice - daily commute because of that). BGN00002A has always
been garaged. |
