Monte Millenium Generations Club and 2KMC both have there 2008 Monte Carlo Calenders up and ready for sale at Cafe' Press!

If your a member or just a fan be sure to check them out!
They make great Christmas Gifts to that Car Crazy Monte Carlo Fan or just a car nut!

Get your "Knights of the Millennium" MMG Monte Millenium Generations Calender here: http://www.ca...ium.201515250

and Get the the 2KMC 2000MonteCarlo.com Calender here:
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Well wouldn't ya know it,Cold weather in the 30's and ready to go to an after Thanksgiving Day gathering and the battery in the car is crankin' sloooow. Ut Oh!
Checked the cables and terminals and all seem good.
Damn!
I can't blame it though,It was six years old starting on seven. I should have changed it sooner.But you know you always tend to overlook the battery until it's to late.
One day it's fine ,The next day Poof! Nuthin'
It was a good excuse to try one of those Optima Yellow Top batteries I have been seeing advertised and talked about.
Maybe a good idea since Kim wants to put in a better sound system in the near future so she can play all those CD/s and let the neighbors know she's coming a mile down the road.
So we'll see if there really worth there weight in Gold.
Damn things are heavy too that's for sure!
Who ever designed the area where to put the battery in a 6th generation Chevy Monte Carlo SS needs there head examined!
It was mostly just wire cables in the way.
It looks big enough where it is but is still a tight squeeze in there specially if you have big hands but with a little jockeying around did finally make it in it's hole.
The battery tray was a little caroded but not to bad,Cleaned up ok.
I'll replace that in the spring and have it powdercoated red with some other parts I am having done.
Well It's one more part I won't have to worry about over the Winter!
I hope!

It's been a great year to work on the Mrs.Monte Carlo SS!
We got a lot done to it this year and more plans on the way.
We just wanted to Git'r Dun as much as we could before Winter moved in.

I ordered and installed the last piece to the puzzle in the handling department with a rear BMR Strut Tower brace and brackets last weekend and finally got a pic.This with the front Strut tower bar and front & rear SLP Swaybars and BMR Lateral arms with the KYB AGX adjustible gas Struts and Eibach lowering springs will finish off the suspension and handling modifications for it as it handles like it is on rails with NO body lean during my recent sp1rited driving adventure.
I think the wifes nerves from our moutain ride have finally come down to near normal. She found out the passenger side brake pedal needs to be fixed as it doesn't work at all! hehehe :D

So what's next will be determained next year.
I already know she want a new Stereo system and she might buy that herself.The trunk does look a little empty.
Some bigger wheels and tires are being considered as well.

When the car gets older I will consider bigger engine mods like getting it bored out and Ported heads,A bigger Cam so I can install a Turbo or Supercharger But these are in the far future unfortunatley.Probably when I take over the car for myself.

But the Company I work for is moving out to Madison Wisconsin after it was purchased last year and any new mods will have to wait till I find another form of work in N.H.

But the wife loves the car and isn't planning on a new one till the New Camaro is finally on the Showroom floor,Then I will take the Monte Carlo. Unless I buy the Camaro ;)

Just a couple Car Crazy folks!
Kim & Jim

Well what seemed like it took an eternity and a day to order,arrive and be delivered to the body shop and then prepped and painted was finally done a couple weeks ago.
Now I don't have to worry or listen to my better half asking me did they call and say "it's finished & ready yet?"
Uhhh...No Honey,Sorry,Not yet.

Well it was another item well worth the wait and Kimber was like a little kid at Christmas time opening presants when she first saw it parked outside at the Autobody shop.
If she said "Oh My God" one more time I was afraid he might actually show up and say what the heck do you want now! lol

Well they did a cracker jack job on it to and came out very nice.
She is really happy with it and that's all that matters .
Thank God for that! Oops There I go now! Sorry Boss! hehe! :D

I am not a big fan of Ram Air style hoods and there are only a few different versions for the 2000-2005 Monte Carlo's.
Personally I prefer Cowl Induction style on any Chevy myself. But unfortunately no hood manufacturer made one for our year of Monte Carlo SS, Kind of strange I thought.
But Kim really liked it and wanted a new style hood for a long time so decided to order it anyway.

After the paint had time to seal and harden I wanted to add the finishing touch and put on some Ram Air decals of the side of the scoop.
After receiving them they just looked kind of small & cheap looking,So I tried a different graphic seller, They were larger but still not what I was looking for.
I looked up OEM style emblems & decals for earlier GM Ram Air hoods or whatever but came up with about the same result,
I wasn't exactly sure what I was looking for.
But I'll know when I see it.

A week or so later I came across some custom raised and polished stainless steel Ram Air letter emblems and a Camaro SS scoop grill on eBay.
BINGO! That's the ticket laddie!
I found what I was looking for! (even though I had no idea what that was) :D
They were pricey & not your $7.99 Joe decal shop decals or plastic fantastic factory emblems, But then again,You get what you pay for!

I knew these Polished stainless Ram Air letters would go nice with the SLP polished wheels,So added those to lightly accent it a bit.
Kind of like jewelry for the car.
So that about does it for the exterior unless we get some new wheels & tires in the future.
My bank account will be sure happy about that! It sure needs a rest! ;)
If your wondering where I got the Hood,
You can check them out here.They might have one for your car or truck!
Peter is great person to talk to and work with!
http://www.mpd1.com/

Not much happening here tonight in Cow Hampsha or TV so I thought I would just type whatever comes to mind and ramble on.
As I type I do have the Laguna Seca Sports car race on Speed TV.
I am not much of a Prototype Sports Car fan, More of the lesser powered GT racecars that they race with them,To bad they spend most of the coverage on the Prototypes, I would rather watch the Ferrari's Lamborghini's Vette's Mustangs Vipers and Porsches go at it.
I wonder what happened to Jaguar and Aston Martin?
There gone...huh. To bad....

Actually I would rather watch FIA World Rally Championship racing. Man I miss Speed TV covering that.
Those little four wheel drive cars like Citroen C4's Mitsubishi Evo's and Subaru WRX STi's doing over 100 mph flying through the air on skinny dirt roads through the countryside. Those dudes are either Crazy or have Iron balls!
They have my utmost respect!

F1 is well, Just not doing it for me anymore.
I'll probably watch the race in Brazil Sunday to see which rich spoiled brat wins the 2007 F1 Championship.

Besides that I have been thinking of what else to do for our Monte Carlo SS.
Thinking of a Big Brake kit to put on the car but then I will have to buy bigger wheels and tires for them to fit.
If we do I most likely won't go bigger than 18's. Bigger than that and it would start to look kind of like one of those Jada DUB City toy Die-Cast cars and we don't want that.
When they get To Big they look kind of silly.

Trouble is wheel style and tire choice,We like the white lettered tire look (Hey I'm Old School!) but don't see any that size with the raised white letter's.
I've pretty much covered the Suspension & Handling Modifications for it and just ordered the BMR Rear Strut tower brace just to make it complete.
The next Mod I know will be the cars Computer (PCM)

I had started to customize my 1994 Silverado but I kind of lost interest in it and stopped and put all the time and money into the Monte. It was just more fun to do.
Maybe I just need to go out and get a Bessy #7 or another car ;)
I know the wife has her heart set on either a Cadillac CTS or the New Camaro coming out in 2009 sometime.
Hmmm... That is a ways away still, Ahhh decisions decisions!

My girl and I bought the white 2001 Monte Carlo SS pictured new back in the fall of 2001,It was our first new car together.

Our 2001 SS has only around 49,000 miles on her now and looks as good as she was on the showroom floor up at Banks Chevrolet Cadillac in Concord New Hampshire.
It's driven everyday and not garaged in winters.But always kept clean!

It has an Aluminum and Polycarbonate CAI Air box and Corsa Cat Back exhaust with a Magnaflow High-Flo converter and Hogan downpipe with U-Bend delete are really the only slight HP mods for the engine.
Will be getting a reprogrammed PCM for it in the very near future either from Milzy's Motorsports or ZZ Performance.

There are a few handling & brake mods like Speedbuilt Strut tower Brace.
Drilled slotted counterbored and plated brake rotors.
BMR Trailing and lateral arms.
SLP Sway Bars
KYB AGX Adjustible struts with Eibach lowering springs and a host of other mods to put on.
But we just wanted it basically to look and sound different than other local Monte Carlo SS's around our area.
I hate looking like I have something everyone else has.
So stock is not an option!
Well we think I succeded in that department as there is not another white one just quite like it in these parts anyway.
We sure are known now in town and around the area as it turns heads everywhere we go and always starts a conversation with other Car Crazy auto fanatics !
We meet a lot of cool people! And a lot up at New Hampshire International Speedway during the race events as well with a lot of Monte Carlo owners in the parking lots from all over.
It's really fun to chat and see everyone elses car and what they have done to it!
It's always an ongoing project though to make it a little bit better.

Below is our webpage where we keep a few pics and links on for easy access when I am looking for something for our Monte.

Hey have fun with what ever you drive! Chevy,Pontiac,Ford, Dodge,etc...It doesn't matter, Just have fun and enjoy and let the Good Times Roll!
http://home.c...t/~jimid8tor/