Now that the body was in righteous order it was time to shift focus and tackle the next task at hand. Eibach springs were installed on all four corners to bring the altitude of the entire car down two inches closer to Mother-Earth.   KYB Struts were then installed to smooth out the rough LA roads. High Rev Motorsports was then called upon to supply one of their upper strut bars to tie the front end together under hard cornering conditions. Now with the car sitting were it belonged it was time to replace the factory no frills wheels with some Racing Hart CP-035 18" white wheels shod in a 225/40/18 Sumitomo skins.
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 Now what good would a car be that couldn't go as fast as it looked so Jeff decided that the tired Grand Am could use a lil pep and opted to yank the 2.4 DOHC having it completely rebuilt and bored .030 over and add some JE Racing jugs to boost the compression.  Eagle was the rod choice at hand, to ensure the jugs stayed in the straight line at all times. To insure that the engine received ample O2 Jeff decided a 3-angle valve job and porting and polishing the factory head was in proper order along with a cold air intake system. Not wanting to take a chance on expelling spent gasses a Borla Pro XS series dual exhaust was in order. To ensure that not one single pony escaped between the motor and tranny a Centerforce dual friction clutch was then installed.
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