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Old 06-22-2020, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by keith k View Post
The entire underbody on that car is a little frightening ... look close and you'll see where they stitched in bits and pieces of floorpan patches, too.

Another thing I found interesting... the PHS for the car shows the HD Radiator "option". Generally that only appears on cars that were M21/3.73 equipped, because the heavy duty radiator was mandatory with that combo. After the first few months of production Pontiac started charging extra for it, even though the trans and axle ratio were "no charge".

Yet the car has a COX (3.55) axle instead of the COZ 3.73. I've seen other factory axle screw ups on these cars, so who knows...., but this car has enough "thrown together" elements that the axle isn't as easy to dismiss.
True. Mine is a 03C build and it has the HD radiator, M21 and COZ rear. The radiator was extra charge.

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