what's up youtube it's your boy carvings from reg
and welcome back to the channel y'all and y'all know who this is
damian bro what's up he was in the corvette series man i blew his mind with that card
all right so uh today we're in his g8 and we're going to do a little review
we finna go ahead and do some pulls we're going to do some yeah we're going to go crazy
yeah so i don't even want to talk to mother let's just go ahead and get into it
all right going right into it yeah let's get right into it right into the action so
what would be like your pros and cons uh pros and cons so there's a lot of pros in my opinion
obviously i like this car a lot so uh pros i mean it has 450 horsepower which is a lot of 415 415
450 horsepower 415 pounds of torque it's not like no 600 supercharged anything crazy like that but
i mean it's nice though uh that's a pro i like how it sounds the v8 i prefer v8s over anything
in my opinion but that's just my personal opinion um that's a pro another pro is uh it's there's a
it's a two-door i mean uh four-door so we got you can fit more people on the back um a con though
i'd say if i had a con it'd be like it is a little bit heavy you know since it's a four-door
so it's a little bit heavier than like say a corvette or camaro or something like that
but um i thought that's like pretty much the only con um one more pro i could think of is
it is pretty reliable i mean i got i'm running at like 150 000 miles right now
and it's never really like my engine has never blown transmission has never blown
nothing like that nothing everything's oh yeah yeah oem everything everything original yep so
i've had like a few minor problems like uh like my power steering leaks and like stuff like that
but like nothing that's crazy yeah that's i mean 150 000 miles though like that's pretty good to go
yeah i'm saying yeah so it seemed like it's you know reliable y'all so if y'all wanna if y'all
interested in this g8 then go ahead and get it and what's the difference between the regular
g8 because you have the gxp this is the top of the line thing so what's really the difference
between the gxp and the in the regular g8 so these are a lot more limited than the like the
normal gts okay and they do have a little bit more horsepower okay um bigger ng uh yeah is that ls3
6.2 ls3 and i think the gt's have an ls2 but um this one has i think like 50 or 60 more horsepower
it's a lot more rare and i think there's only like 1800 of these
so they're definitely hard to get and um the gxps they actually came with manual
so the gts and all the other ones they're all automatic only but the the gxp did have some
manuals it was like 846 of these made but yeah that's a one major difference right um yeah
right here okay
you can feel the torque yeah
now that you know pontiac is you know discontinued you know i'm saying i feel like that sucks what
you think yeah i wish they had it i wish they didn't um discontinue pontiac because they did
make some good cars no they definitely did but um they did make a newer version of this car but with
chevy and that's discontinued too it was a chevy ss actually but um yeah chevy they made a chevy ss
which is pretty much the same exact car like same specs 150 horsepower 450 pounds of torque
everything's the same but i they only did it for three years i believe 2014-2017
but yeah i wish they did uh continue to make pontiac cards because they're definitely some
that definitely made some good cards oh yeah yeah by far pontiac made some some great cards
you know you got the am you got the gto you got the g8 you know so now i wish i would have kept
them around for a little bit longer but you know as far as like maintenance like uh every year
um how much do you spend with me it's fiona talking about it no i don't mind at all
so we got the the fluid changes the oil fluid um it's not that expensive it's like every other car
probably like uh i don't really keep track of it like [ __ ] like probably like 400 a year
if i were to guess but um i feel like i spend more money on like car detailing like car soap and like
other [ __ ] like that or like you know i didn't like modification little small modifications to it
anything but um maintenance wise probably like four to five hundred just like every other car
you know it's nothing like a lamborghini where it's like ten thousand to do the oil
change or something like that oh yeah and then as far as like the seats you guys like you know
as i say before on my channel i'm big i feel real comfortable
um nice leather seats they're both straight up you know feels good for me looking down
i'm like okay got a little features they got the um they got heated seats in here also um window
controls yeah it's actually in the middle it's not on the door like other cars so that's different
yeah and then uh yeah and then of course you got the stick i don't know how to drive a stick yo
um you gotta teach him i know i gotta get him i'm a car enthusiast channel and i don't know
how to drive a stick so don't judge me you know what i'm saying i never uh i don't know
like i guess like before i used to talk [ __ ] on sticks because it's like all right
i was like what's the point of like doing all this and all that but then like that's understandable
because you know the truth is automatics are faster that's the truth like if you were to
go a manual on automatic automatic would win every single time computer is always faster
but in my opinion the only reason why manuals like manuals are starting to die out but my
manual still exists is just in my opinion they're more fun like i like to feel more in
control of the car yeah you're driving it yeah yeah see that's the thing it's like you know
me being in a manual because i had gotten a couple of uh manual cars it
seems fun you know what i'm saying like how the transmission feel how the way it reacts
it feels like you're actually in control of the car see when the automatic even though you have
manual mode it you still not really in control of it you know what i'm saying because if you
i don't know like if you just yeah i know what you're saying yeah you know what i'm saying
it's like still automatic because you could still shift through the gears like yeah but it's just
not the same feeling like when you shift it down or you know what i mean yeah yeah it's it's not
the same feel like when you were shifting you know you could feel it like you know yeah you can feel
you know kind of pulling back a little bit so i think that's kind of fun and also you could
downshift it too so like if you had some loud ass pipes when you were in a tunnel downshifting you
hear it that that's dope i ain't gonna lie that's one thing about manuals that's this dope but what
would you like so for the people who want this car what would you say like like is something to
look out for like when you buy this car like it could be good or bad um i know there's a few um
things to look out for um one thing that i've heard i haven't even done it myself but
it's to get a dod delete um it has something to do with the lifters something like that i haven't
gone too much into it but i know like i'm in a few of funny g8 pages and they always mention to get a
dod delete and uh what is it for people something it's something for that okay to be honest i don't
really know that much about it but i know um it's something to make it more reliable or something i
could be completely wrong but i just know pontiac g8 owners are always like you need to get a dod
delete it's something to do with the engine and the lifters basically okay um but yeah there's
that um like minor things too i've seen this on every single like g8 the seats right here
they fall off like the seat right here the seat adjuster it comes apart so what i had to do is i
get a a like a i screwed a sheet metal um screw in and just screwed it right into the metal so
that's why there's like a screw right here but it stays in okay but literally every single g8
these little seat adjuster things they'll come right off okay um i've heard of headliner
coming off too but mine luckily mine hasn't come off yet but i've heard of that too um
that's about it yeah that's about it yeah just some minor mining minor cosmetic little problems
or whatever but that comes with every every car so if y'all interested in this car man
you know i say go buy it what do you think yeah i would definitely go it's hard to find one in the
bay area but if you could find one definitely get one uh yeah they're amazing cars they're
pretty rare too so yeah they're rare because you got the gxp the top of the line yeah um yeah bro
in the bay area though they'd be taxing like a [ __ ] like oh yeah come on bro i already know yeah
you know that and then and then like sometimes i wouldn't even want to dress like buying one of
these type of cars in the bay area you know that's what they do the festivities exactly out of state
though it's crazy you can find these like hella modded out like cammed even supercharged sometimes
for like under 18k i've seen supercharged g8s for like go for like 15k in like some random state
like pennsylvania or some [ __ ] but it's crazy people out of state will just sell them for like
super cheap oh that's crazy but um i out here you know how it is yeah muscle car scene out here is
pretty big like even like for old ass like 5.0 fox bodies because i must think i'm trying to raise
oh that mustang trying to oh they know hey one thing when you put these gopros out and
stuff they'd be trying to they're like oh he must be shooting a video so we're
trying to see what that thing does that's a shelby too yeah [ __ ] i don't think i got a
chance against that i'm not gonna lie yeah oh yeah i don't know it's a newer one too
it's nice though this is nice little shelby thing
we gonna see what this car do y'all
it's those ships bro
it's the shifts that thing is manual transmissions is crazy yeah that's that's why that's why you
know what i'm saying yeah it's crazy bro like that feeling you know what i'm saying like i'm
not even in the driving seat but it's the feeling you know i'm saying that adrenaline
they're definitely not as easy to launch as an automatic or automatic you could just take off
but um a little bit tricky when you launch it but on the freeway it's fun for sure oh yeah
all this clear open road and stuff so i want to ask you always ask everybody this
did you race anybody in mexico and what was your top speed in mexico
in mexico let's see i think my top speed was around 120 130 nothing crazy okay
okay yeah probably like 120 130 i never pushed it to the limits like that but
i've raced my boys uh z06 okay and this is e06 so you know yeah he got me i'm not gonna lie
you got me but uh that's the only that's the only race i've done in this in mexico okay yeah mexico
man this is this is crazy and then you did any mods for this yeah
so i did um i got magnaflow mufflers on them on the exhaust i got an x-pipe that's that's all um
basically so i i did those two that's just exhaust but um that's all i have for like
actual performance wise and it's not even that big of a performance change but for um
like cosmetic changes i did the tail lights uh it's just the taillights basically okay yeah
i didn't change it up too much it's pretty much damn near stock okay like you couldn't
you wouldn't be able to tell the difference any any of uh future magic playing on doing
future mods i'm probably going to keep it stock but like how it is but i do want to
make it louder because it is a little bit too quiet okay but yeah i want to get those like
little um the bubbles or whatever it's called crackle bops crackle pops yeah
so you want to get some crackle pops y'all so that's gonna be in the future
it is digging it up
this thing get up 415 horsepower
any sushi and [ __ ]
you trying to sushi some [ __ ]
yeah you you can hear it back there like it wants to yeah but yeah honestly i say
i would say muffler delete maybe if you wanted to do some headers yeah headers would be crazy that
would kind of make it and then maybe it might do that a little chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp
chomp yeah yeah you know oh that's if i out of cam it'll be hella choppy too yeah yeah cam yeah
but cams you need like you need a whole kit yeah you need a whole kit and then you need a tune too
so yeah but yeah that'd be crazy on the g8 i know there's a few gxps that have superchargers in them
in the bay area and they're [ __ ] they're crazy dude damn so and they have the sunroof i forgot to
mention it that's nice and then how's like how's the sound system right now um yeah it's good um
obviously i don't have like a so what is called like if anything in the back to boost it right but
but just stop like just start yeah it's good it's nice okay it does the job yeah and it has
is this touch screen too no it's all it's all um you just touch it but the thing is i added
bluetooth it didn't it doesn't come with bluetooth that's what this thing is for uh-huh so i added it
yeah this is basically ox okay so oh i mean yeah this is the ox right there and it plugs
into here so i can get bluetooth like that oh yeah cool yeah because it's nice though for how
old is this car it's a 09 for a 09 i have you know that screen and stuff is okay it's gonna go crazy
but yeah um that's a that's the one thing i just needed to have uh bluetooth in this car uh-huh so
but it's only like this is like probably like only like 20 bucks
there's nothing you know yeah nothing too crazy but yeah um another con if you want to
like you can i guess you can say this is a con it doesn't have a backup camera no backup here no
backup camera but i mean it's a oh no it's oh no yeah so i'll give it the benefit of the doubt that
yeah you know what i'm saying so i ain't gonna have like it didn't have like all that technology
camera died y'all but he was saying that we were saying that you know
technology back at 09 they was probably introducing it anyway so it all really
mattered yeah i don't really mind too much either it's like it's fine yeah it's all right
yeah i'm saying like it's just something small or whatever all right y'all the camera has died again
yeah so we're going to end the video right now because it's a little too hot so uh like i said
before y'all go follow him on ig 6.2 damian yeah if he does if he decides to do any mods or
want to do anything else to the car he's going to post that all that on your uh instagram that's his
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