My name is Garrett, I just purchased a 1996 Pontiac Comp T/A (#91, hardtop, auto, 18k miles), and wanted to register/say hello since I'm sure I'll be spending a decent amount of time at this site.
I'm 26 years old as of yesterday, and moved from Mass to San Diego a few months ago after getting my masters degree in fire protection engineering. To be honest, I don't have much experience f-body cars...but I love all things fast, and just about anything with wheels and a motor.
Before I moved from Mass, I owned a '00 Ford Lightning for two and a half years, and lightly modded it to run a 12.9@106.8mph.
I started racing motocross in 1996, won the New England (NESC) 250cc Amateur Motocross Championship in 2000, and got my AMA Pro Motocross license in 2001.
Last year I purchased my first streetbike as a graduation gift to myself (a 2002 Honda CBR600F4i). Since then I spent about $1,500 in mods to it...but the bike was stolen from outside my apartment last month. While that sucked pretty bad, its actually the only reason I now own my Comp T/A (after settling with my insurance).
Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself, and was hoping you guys might be able to point me in the right direction towards any information available about Comp T/A's (websites/owners groups etc), or could tell me what mods are worth doing.
The only "mods" the previous owner told me he did was a K&N panel filter and a Superchips programmable tuner. I have a feeling he messed with the settings on the tuner since the car has chirped 2nd gear for me a few times (which I like), but the car seems to rev too long/high in 1st gear at WOT, so I'm going to at least pull that shift point back a bit.
Lastly, has anyone installed a shift kit in their auto tranny? I would like to, but want to make sure the trannys can handle them reliably. Thanks guys. Hope I can contribute something back.
I'm 26 years old as of yesterday, and moved from Mass to San Diego a few months ago after getting my masters degree in fire protection engineering. To be honest, I don't have much experience f-body cars...but I love all things fast, and just about anything with wheels and a motor.
Before I moved from Mass, I owned a '00 Ford Lightning for two and a half years, and lightly modded it to run a 12.9@106.8mph.
I started racing motocross in 1996, won the New England (NESC) 250cc Amateur Motocross Championship in 2000, and got my AMA Pro Motocross license in 2001.
Last year I purchased my first streetbike as a graduation gift to myself (a 2002 Honda CBR600F4i). Since then I spent about $1,500 in mods to it...but the bike was stolen from outside my apartment last month. While that sucked pretty bad, its actually the only reason I now own my Comp T/A (after settling with my insurance).
Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself, and was hoping you guys might be able to point me in the right direction towards any information available about Comp T/A's (websites/owners groups etc), or could tell me what mods are worth doing.
The only "mods" the previous owner told me he did was a K&N panel filter and a Superchips programmable tuner. I have a feeling he messed with the settings on the tuner since the car has chirped 2nd gear for me a few times (which I like), but the car seems to rev too long/high in 1st gear at WOT, so I'm going to at least pull that shift point back a bit.
Lastly, has anyone installed a shift kit in their auto tranny? I would like to, but want to make sure the trannys can handle them reliably. Thanks guys. Hope I can contribute something back.
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