Justin: Hey everybody, Justin with americanmuscle.com here with Nina and her 2007 GT.
You've actually had a good head start on this car.
You've had it for a little over a year now and it's looking pretty rad so far.
Tell us about some of the mods.
Nina: Well, I have a couple of visual things on it right now.
I have the Cervini's Cobra R Hood, and the Roush front bumper, and of course, the Gen5
tail lights - you can't go without those, and a couple of MMD parts, just miscellaneous
things here and there.
I definitely want to get a little more power out of it.
Justin: Absolutely.
We were talking about some of your goals here before we started this video.
We've got a good game plan in mind.
In addition to the power, you also want to help out that stance, correct?
Nina: Yes, definitely.
She's a little bit too much of a monster truck for me right now, so I've got to get her a
little lower.
I want to do something with the exhaust, a little something extra.
I have the ATAK on it right now from Borla, but I'm definitely somebody that likes a little
bit more bite to the bark.
I need something more there.
Something's missing.
Justin: Very cool.
All right.
I think we have a few parts in mind to help Nina in her journey, of course.
We're going to get you out of here.
We're going to get to work on the car.
We'll bring you back in when we're ready to Dyno this thing and see if you like it.
Nina: Great.
Justin: One of the things Nina is most excited about here with her build is us installing
a brand new set of SR Performance lowering springs onto her 2007.
The one and a half inch drop thanks to the SR springs is a great solution to get the
car down a little lower.
It's going to look a lot better and handle a lot better in the process.
Budget friendly spring, they get the job done, and they ride great.
She's going to be using her stock dampers now.
This thing's actually pretty low mileage considering it's a 2007.
Of course, you always want to make sure you have your spring compressor on hand before
getting started.
Believe me, it's one of those things where if you spend a few bucks more and get a good
one, you'll definitely thank yourself in the long run.
We're doing the springs here on Nina's rear of the 2007 right now.
I wanted to point something out, something that maybe a lot of you guys at home already
know, but maybe some of you guys aren't aware of this.
When installing a progressive set of rear springs, you want to make sure the tighter
group of coils here goes up towards the top.
You don't want to make the mistake of installing them upside down.
Just wanted to point that out.
We do have one more part to install here before wrapping this thing up underneath, so let's
get to work.
Well, guys, this is what they call a little bit of a speed bump here.
As you can see, we have a busted bolt coming off the bottom of the stock manifold here
that connects to the midpipe.
This is a result of working on cars here in the northeast.
They tend to get a little rusty underneath.
Even though we had this thing soaking in PB Blast all day long, I had my breaker bar out
here and I just proved to be a little too much for this bolt.
We do see a little bit of a silver lining in here, guys.
We actually already talked to Nina.
We told her we'd like to upgrade her stock manifolds in place of the Pypes Shorty headers.
That's what we're going to install.
They're going to work perfectly with that Pypes offroad H pipe that we already have.
Best of all, it's going to sound good, it's going to look a little better under the hood,
and it should fix our problem in the process.
With that last bolt, we are officially wrapped up with the H pipe here underneath Nina's
car.
Really excited to see how these things are going to sound with the Borla ATAK axle-back
that she already had on the car.
We've got a couple more parts in the performance category before we get this thing over to
the Dyno, so let's get to work.
Of course, what would a build be without a brand new cold air intake.
It's something we always do here on our build segments.
Here it is, brand new C&L in place on Nina's three valve.
I've used a few C&L's in my days here at American Muscle.
They always fit great.
They perform as expected.
Best of all, they're made right here in the U.S. of A.
In addition to the cold air we are going to bring the Bama Performance team in here.
They're going to write a brand new v2 tune for this thing.
We have one little part to do left here on Nina's build, something small, but it's something
she really wanted to do.
Let's check that out.
Well, guys, with the performance and suspension stuff pretty much wrapped up here with Nina's
build, we do have one more appearance part to throw on before we get her car moved over
to the Dyno.
Full disclosure: these builds are usually more performance oriented, but you can't help
but throw a little appearance at the thing from time to time.
Nina wanted to go with these MMD GT350 style quarter window covers here in matte black.
Should flow nicely with some of the black and red themes she's got going on with her
car.
The best part is it couldn't be any easier to install.
I'm going to get to work finishing up this install, then we're going to get her car moved
over to the Dyno and see if this three valve's putting out any more power.
Let's talk about these numbers, girl, 253, 268, about what we expect out of a bone stock
roughly 3 valve automatic car.
With the mods, now the car's making great power, 280, 286.
That's a gain of 27 horsepower over those baseline numbers, 27 horsepower throughout
the curve and 21 foot-pounds of torque.
That's awesome.
Nina: I love it.
I can't complain.
It's awesome.
Justin: There you go.
I guess there's really only one more thing to do.
You want to go for a drive?
Nina: Of course.
Justin: All right.
All right, guys, we're out in Nina's '07 here.
Finally we got this thing out on the road.
Sounds great.
I think you would agree with me there.
Nina: Yes, I love it.
It's awesome.
Justin: Are you happy with the stance so far?
Do you like how the car's sitting?
Nina: I love it.
The stance is awesome.
It feels really extra smooth driving it, too.
That's awesome.
Justin: Yeah.
We used your stock shocks and struts which sometimes you can do, especially with a car
like this that's low mileage so they're not beat to hell.
Nina: Yeah.
Justin: They're not all blown out, obviously, and the car rides surprisingly smooth.
The car is an auto, of course.
With getting rid of the cats, sometimes you experience some drone, especially at the cruising
RPM or speed that we're at now.
I'd say, I think you'd agree with me, there's no drone whatsoever.
Nina: Yeah, I don't hear anything.
Justin: It's whisper quiet.
I know.
Nina: Yeah, it's pretty quiet in here.
Justin: Why don't you lay into it a little bit and see how it feels.
Nina: Sounds good.
Justin: All right.
Feels pretty healthy.
Nina: Yeah, it's very smooth, like I said.
It feels great.
Thank you so much.
Justin: All right.
We've got some right handers here.
Why don't we take these turns and see how the car feels now with the new springs.
Feels pretty healthy, huh?
Nina: Yeah, it's really, really smooth.
I'm honestly surprised at what a big change it is.
Justin: Absolutely.
For just doing springs only, the car definitely feels like it's handling a lot better than
it did before, I'd imagine.
Nina: It is, it definitely is.
Justin: Well, guys, there you have it.
Nina's obviously stoked with how the car turned out.
Overall, we killed it.
Thanks again.
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