[From nobody Sun Oct 10 22:46:28 2010 X-Apparently-To: loeryder@swbell.net via 216.252.101.66; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:07:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [205.188.144.208] Authentication-Results: mta118.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=aol.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 207.115.36.60 (EHLO nlpi031.sbcis.sbc.com) (207.115.36.60) by mta118.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:07:01 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [205.188.144.208] Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by nlpi031.sbcis.sbc.com (8.13.8 inb/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2Q36dn7017449 for <loeryder@swbell.net>; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:06:39 -0500 Received: from RLShreve@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.10.) id 5.c4b.1139d8bd (48624) for <loeryder@swbell.net>; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:06:58 -0400 (EDT) From: RLShreve@aol.com Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:06:58 EDT Subject: 20TA/Syclone/Typhoon - From my Projects Album To: loeryder@swbell.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1174878418" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5127 X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Length: 1716 -------------------------------1174878418 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 20th Anniversary Pontiac TransAm For 1989 Pontiac wanted to build a special series car to celebrate 20 years of the TransAm. What they wanted to build was a roadable copy of a race car that used a turbocharged V-6 engine. The regular production TransAm used a normally aspirated V-8. The job of productionizing the race car fell to Prototype Automotive Services. Rather than install the engine in a separate facility, to cut costs the plan was to trick the production line the car being assembled has the normal V-8, rather than actually a V-6. The turbo engine would need to be prepared in a facility separate from the Van Nuys, CA assembly plant, and there were other special parts of the car that would need to be completed in that facility also. General Motors people can build hundreds of thousands of cars, but building 1500 they had never done, and were not quite sure how. To plan all this PAS called on associates Bob Marianich, Tony Cassani, and myself. We worked out the system flow, and designed the facility. Bob Marianich built the facility in City of Industry, CA. I wrote the processing and specified all the tooling for the car. In addition I trained the key plant personnel to build the car. Between January and April 1989 1550 20TA Pontiacs were built. I also wrote the Quality Control procedures for the car, and it proved to have the lowest Warranty costs of any GM product that year. After the 20TA series, the City of Industry plant was shipped to Shreveport, LA and became the GMC Syclone plant. Following that the plant was shipped to Pontiac, MI to produce the Typhoon and Sonoma GT. T97J1710.pdf Russ Shreve rlshreve@aol.com ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. -------------------------------1174878418 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUS-ASCII http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; cha= rset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>20th Anniversary Pontiac TransAm<BR>For 1989 Pontiac wanted to build a=20= special series car to celebrate 20 years of the<BR>TransAm. What they wanted= to build was a roadable copy of a race car that used a<BR>turbocharged V-6=20= engine. The regular production TransAm used a normally aspirated<BR>V-8.<BR>= The job of productionizing the race car fell to Prototype Automotive Service= s. Rather<BR>than install the engine in a separate facility, to cut costs th= e plan was to trick the<BR>production line the car being assembled has the n= ormal V-8, rather than actually a V-6.<BR>The turbo engine would need to be=20= prepared in a facility separate from the Van Nuys,<BR>CA assembly plant, and= there were other special parts of the car that would need to be<BR>complete= d in that facility also.<BR>General Motors people can build hundreds of thou= sands of cars, but building 1500 they<BR>had never done, and were not quite=20= sure how. To plan all this PAS called on associates<BR>Bob Marianich, Tony C= assani, and myself. We worked out the system flow, and<BR>designed the facil= ity. Bob Marianich built the facility in City of Industry, CA. I wrote the<B= R>processing and specified all the tooling for the car. In addition I traine= d the key plant<BR>personnel to build the car.<BR>Between January and April=20= 1989 1550 20TA Pontiacs were built. 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