my 2015 thread on my 95 Pontiac Parisienne

Pat,that is a beautiful job you did to your wagon.The reflections are amazing!

Looks fantastic Pat!!

buickestate wrote:

stewzer55 wrote:

I envy your roof rack strips, I need new ones.

I have the ones off the ratmaster stored away somewhere and they would work on your occ. that said they were put away pre the accident and my memory isn't what it was prior

I'm interested, Customs and Importing to the US would be a pain, how often do you cross the border?

at least once a month

My hands and forearms now look like I tried to wash a dozen wild cats, but I got new plugs and wires on the wagon now. I was still having a missfire and some stumbling/hesitation once the car warmed up, I read up  all I could find on this subject here and on the other forum. I noticed that most say to stick to AC Delco wires and plugs on the LT1, and to use a tiny dab of dielectric grease in the boots/wire ends. I knew that my wires were only 3 years old.I had earlier replaced the plugs and wires in 2012 when I brought the wagon home, but I did not use delco wires and plugs. part of me did not want to believe that my three year old wires could be the cause of my missfire/stumbling , but they weren't delco brand wires. My plugs were only a year old and were delco. I put in all new plugs checked the gaps, put in new wires. I found that one wire's casing has some rub wear but not through the casing, and two of the wires on the passenger side had swollen boots at the opti from all the oil the old opti/timing chain cover had sprayed on them in the past three years. All 8 of the plugs looked clean and had normal wear, they could be cleaned and reused but I still replaced them.

Well the engine runs great no more missfire or hesitations, it's like a whole different wagon. the wagon is now a lot of fun to drive much like my 94 rms. I'm still not sure if it's the AC Delco brand wires and plugs that made the differance, or that it's just new plugs and wires......

Sounds like those new wires did the trick but I don't know if the manufacture had anything to do with it.Glad its running like a LT1 should.

buickestate wrote:

the newest mod, thanks to Nick Danger

Well the use of US pennies as a block off on the manifolds did not last long. A fellow forum member told me this had worked well for him on his car. US pennies have a zink core, and it's melting point is less than the temp my manifolds reach when highway driving......and the car got loud all of a sudden







thanks to Tim Swink I got an NOS GM set of block off plugs

today I fixed up some of the old clear coat on the driver's fender that had been sun baked in southern Georgia, some sanding, some base coat and a good coating of clear





and since I had base in the gun

it does look nice..

buickestate wrote:

Well the use of US pennies as a block off on the manifolds did not last long. A fellow forum member told me this had worked well for him on his car. US pennies have a zink core, and it's melting point is less than the temp my manifolds reach when highway driving......and the car got loud all of a sudden.

That may have worked if they had further explained that not all pennies are the same. The U.S. penny was changed from mostly copper to copper plated zinc in 1982. You would have to use ones dated something before that to have some assurance that they would live.

Your NOS GM block offs look suspiciously like Dorman replacement oil pan drain plugs (which are more commonly found serving that purpose).

today I cut and buffed the fender

I tried to avoid taking pictures that show the flaws in the paint, but if you look close at the top of the driver's side fender in this picture you can see the baked and missing clear coat, and the small dent just below the top of the fender in front of the wheel well.





this is what the original hood was like back in 2012 when I first picked it up in Jacksonville fl

mounted the painted mirrors today, the black plastic mirrors were ok, but i had one that no matter what I used on it wouldn't stay black and turn grey with in hours. Besides Pontiac would have body coloured the mirrors if they had made these....

the front passenger fender has been an issue ever since I bought this wagon, the original was bent up and hammered out So I fixed up a local used fender off my part's car but with in months of painting it some rust returned..... and now two years later thanks to Joe T I got a brand new fender and it will be replacing the rusted one that's on the car.

the original bumper has taken it's share of bumps and scrapes.







so I pulled one of my spare bumper covers and started tinkering





found a few battle scars under the cover, leads me to think it wasn't the original cover this wagon left the assembly plant with







looking a little cleaner now

I've been busy, see if you can spot the new mods

Badging on tailgate is new.

Superior Finish wrote:

Badging on tailgate is new.

yes, it's the 3D printed badging

Looks good, and the body side molding sets it off. Also gotta say you did a fine job making it your own. Nice work Pat.

Where did you get the belt line moulding from? Like the 3D printed badges!!

brokecello wrote:

Where did you get the belt line moulding from? Like the 3D printed badges!!

Right from Trim Guard, they are local to me and I believe they supplied GM with the Impala ss door spears, it came black and I had to scuff and paint it body colour

It's looking great!!