Been looking for a while but cant seem to find any around here. If you know where I can pick up a set, post it up...

webracin

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2001 Grand Prix GTP
ZZP HUB 3.2 3.4, ZZP 8 Rib conversion, JC 3" DP Gen 2 cat & U-bend Delete, Accel Super Stock 8mm wires, DHP 1.5, 180* Thermo, Throttle Spacer, SS Intercooler, ZZP Fuel Rails, SLP CAI w/K&N Cone, Dynomax cat back, ZZP Tranny.

2000 Grand Prix GTP Daytona K&N, Flowmasters

If you find a set, let me know. Ive wanted some for a long time now. Ive almost contemplated seeing if I could make some.

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Scotty Hall
Bartlesville, OK
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
It whines a lot, but I like it.

The only limitation you will ever face in life is yourself!

count double for me. doesnt PFYC still have them?

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2001 GTP street car- GT45 turbo,Stage 4 Intense turbo cam,FMIC,150 wet, double roller timing chain, Diamond forged coated pistons 8:0:1, Diamond piston rings, cryoed L32 connecting rods, Cryoed crank, Clevite77 main bearings, Clevite77 cam bearings, Clevite77 L32 rod bearings, ARP Everything, Intense/meizere true billet Flexplate, Custom UIM, Intense oil pressure kit, Cometic 4 layer head gaskets, OE-R lifters, Cryoed L67 block, ATI turbo dampner, MUCH MORE, 6 more to choose from ASE Certified

They may, but personally, if I had the room and time to do so, Id rather see if I could fab some up. Some 1/8" thick x 1/2" wide aluminum strips I think would work well. The problem there is the curvature of the roof and welding it all together.

Next would be fiberglass and probably the best alternative, but then you got all the mess, jigs, amount of time and so forth.

Id have to see a car in person with them to see what alternatives there would be.

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Scotty Hall
Bartlesville, OK
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
It whines a lot, but I like it.

The only limitation you will ever face in life is yourself!

i want one too! i think they would look bad on my monte carlo!!!

I have a plaster mold of them, cause at one time I was considering making them from carbon fiber. Don't know if that mold still exists though.

I had also thought, when I do the drag car, the roof rails would look more like the real roof rails on a NASCAR, and would be made form some aluminum angle stock.

~F~

See I thought this too, but could never figure out how one would maintain the curvature of the roof using that. It appears that the straight up down part of the rail seems to be tilted inward a little, but that could be perspective too, Ive never seen them up close.

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Scotty Hall
Bartlesville, OK
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
It whines a lot, but I like it.

The only limitation you will ever face in life is yourself!

has anyone had any experience molding urethane/silicone/rubber type stuff? perhaps they could be molded out of something like that? not sure if that's paintable though.

There was talk about fabricating some, but someone suggested if GM ever heard about it they would bring down the law on the patent of the roof rails. As long as you dont sell too many, I wouldnt worry about it.

My cousin has a anniversary edition GT with roof rails, I told him 100 bucks and he said take them, but I have to talk to my uncle, the owner of the car first... The only problem I see is that it might leave marks on his car when I take them off and I'm afraid of that.

If you look at salvage yards or know anyone that rebuilds cars, I would ask them, my other cousin who rebuilds said he's worked on a few with roof rails and would have taken them off if he had known at the time. Just keep an eye out for wrecked cars... I usually go to QCSA Auto Auctions! for my area, then I click on the sales inventory and look for grand prix's.

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2001 GTP 14.09 @ 100.46
1999 Ford SHO For Sale $3500

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Here's a 2001 wrecked edition gt in Bartlett, Ill.


2001 Pontiac Grand Prix - 183951 - QCSA Auto Auctions


If you really want roof rails, you will find a way to get them... here's the phone # for the place its being sold at... Doubt they will take them off but these places have taken stuff off cars before.
Phone (847) 931 - 6725

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2001 GTP 14.09 @ 100.46
1999 Ford SHO For Sale $3500

www.iawbody.com