welcome to wacky Wednesday's where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner, this is my 2004 Pontiac Grand Am fresh
from the scrapyard, my scrapyard daily driver, this car has a 3.4 liter v6 comes
with a four-speed automatic transmission with overdrive
the engine was carried over from a line of GM minivans in the late 90s it shares
the same basic body as the Oldsmobile Alero and Chevy Malibu from that time
this car came optional with abs and traction control, but this does not have
either of those, I don't know any of the history from previous owners or anything
like that or even how long it's spent in the scrapyard, but it seems like it was
involved in some sort of front-end collision since the body up
here has been replaced, it came with a sunroof which is functional everything
on the engine is functional, the transmission is in great condition which
is really surprising given that it came from a scrapyard, all of the suspension
however was very poor, when I got the car pretty much everything was worn out or
torn up and the steering wheel and all of the alignment was very very off, power
windows, power mirrors, power locks, when I
got the vehicle they didn't have a key for it,
so they ripped out the ignition put this one in so you can't lock the doors when
you're not in it, features are kind of bare-bones,
temperature controls are real basic, you know fan intensity temperature mode and
comes with this nice leather covered shifter, the seats are almost
bucket seats but they're very worn out they're a little bit uncomfortable to
sit on, the emergency lights which broken and so sometimes when I turn my turn
signals on they don't work, brand new the car made a hundred and seventy
horsepower and 200 foot pounds of torque I'm not sure how much it makes now, it
has cruise control the cruise control module is installed but nothing is
hooked up into these buttons and the buttons themselves are broken, so there's
no cruise control technically, and the horn doesn't work, I don't know if it's
not hooked up or if it's just broken but windshield wipers work, turn signals work
for the most part it's got automatic headlights which comes in handy because
I do a lot of my driving at night, I'm missing some panels like I've got a vent
cover missing here, we've got a fuse box over here there's another one on the
passenger side which is missing its cover, the adjuster knob on the passenger
seat is broken off, but the parking brake works, the transmission works, everything
pretty much works, pretty roomy in the back seat which comes in handy for car
seats and we've got some damaged trim in here
no big deal, the defrost on the back window works,
however only the speakers in the front are functional, we've got fog lights that
don't work, but the light dimmer works let's take a look at the engine, this is
the 3.4 litre 3400 v6 as they call it GM used this engine in a lot of its
minivans in the late 90s, and so when they came out with the Grand Am they
stuck it in here, so far the engine is functioning perfectly which I'm really
surprised by for coming out of a scrapyard, I haven't
replaced anything on the engine, I did have to replace the cooling tank
it had faulty threads and was leaking coolant, and the battery that was in the
car when I got it was a bad battery and it wasn't even the right kind of battery,
but we got that sorted out, we take a look under here, the reason I believe it
was in a front-end collision is that the condenser is bent inward it's kind of
hard to see but yeah the condenser is beat to crap,
so for history of how I got this car, I used to own a 2015 Chrysler 200 I used
that as my daily driver it was our only vehicle, but in June of 2018 I was
involved in a car accident, I was going through a light and woman in a Chevy
Silverado ran the light, hit me right on the passenger wheel, it sent the axle
into the transmission broke the transmission they totaled the car,
insurance was taking too long to settle everything and I needed to get back to
work, so my grandmother found this car at a scrapyard, she bought it brought it to
me and like I said the suspension was in terrible shape,
I fixed most of it I still need to replace the struts, I fixed most of the
suspension I haven't had to do anything to the engine, power steering works, the
brakes work, I am missing a fog light down here, I hit a small animal coming
home from work one night and it tore out the fog light, but I'm surprised with how
well everything on this car works for coming from a scrapyard
it packs a pretty good punch, gets me where I'm going and if I really need to
it'll zip pretty quick, and like most Pontiacs it's got a pretty
wide body, huge engine bay, it's got these wheel wells that are extended a little
bit, so it's definitely inspired by their more performance vehicles but it's
definitely not made to be a performance vehicle, hopefully one day I will finish
fixing this suspension and maybe get the car painted, you can definitely probably
call this thing a beater but it's been my daily driver now for over six months
and I'm very happy with it, normally when you find a vehicle at a scrapyard it's
got a ton of problems from engine to braking to everything else, so I really
lucked out with this vehicle, well that was this week's video and to
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