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Old 12-12-2005, 12:45 PM
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Here are a few pics of my spring swap. I was realy surprised how easy it was. This was my first time changing springs. It all comes down to tools. I used the crane spring tool, a moroso spark plug air hose kit, and a pro form valve seal tool.
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921's?
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just out of curiosity, why are you changing springs when you still have stock exhaust manifolds?
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Could be a old valvetrain, and he is doing it for "insurance" reasons. I know a couple people that broke vavlesprings with a stock cam, and they went with double's to prevent that from happening again.
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Cause I have a set of kooks with off road pipes and cutouts sitting in the garage. And a ls6 intake, F2 TNT kit and a bunch of bolt ons. The car was 100% stock till a week ago when I bent a pushrod and decided to do everything all at once. Here is a pic of the pushrod.
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Here are 2 more pics
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Aw man, those tools take all the fun out of spring swaps
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I like that valvespring tool. I made my own.
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"Spring Swap" and "FUN" should never be used in the same sentence. Hopefully in another month or 2 I will be able to get it on the dyno and tuned. Then the fun will begin. Now that I think of it the real fun will begin after I change my clutch after the dyno tune. I bought a whole clutch and hydralic system b4 I bent my pushrods.
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i love the crane valve spring tool. money well spent
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Originally Posted by Griswold
just out of curiosity, why are you changing springs when you still have stock exhaust manifolds?

just out of curiosity, how do exhaust manifolds of any sort determine what type of valve springs you need/want?




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