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Old 04-22-2012, 10:51 PM
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Nice car!
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the exhaust is actually a little funny..

it had the much famed LT's-ORY-loudmouth set up.. and i took it off to try to quiet it down a little bit, and for the testdrive i just put a bullet style muffler straight on to the Y pipe, and as funny as it is... the car has never sounded so good! and its so much quieter than before!
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Congrats on getting your car back on the road! As we have discussed before, we have very similar builds and wait times to get our cars going. I drove mine a total of 2 miles last fall for testing/shakedown reasons. Was too late in the year to get it fully insured and inspected before the snow came, so it sits in my garage again awaiting full Kooks exhaust treatment.

Looking forward to seeing you power numbers as we have such similar setups. We may not reach peak hp numbers, but power under the curve is most important anyway!
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Nice car man, sounds awesome. I like how you shaved the nose emblem, it looks clean.
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good looking car i like the wheels.
that black van in the pic makes me feel molested just looking at it lol spooky
Old 04-24-2012, 06:54 AM
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congrats man. I'll bet you'll appreciate that car now even more than before. All that hard work paid off - and it looks and sounds awesome.

I bought my latest trans am WS6 back in 2010 - and I have been "correcting" it since I got it. Still sits in my driveway with about 2 summers worth of parts / problems to shake out.

Awesome stuff!
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and now it wont start. no fuel pressure

racetronix fuel system,
Old 04-26-2012, 11:14 AM
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Wow that monster van is pretty awesome got any more pictures!?

No but seriously that looks good. I can't imagine not being able to drive my car for 6 years. We are going on 3 years for the car we are building but that a completely different situation.
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hehe.. i should be able to find some pics of the van, really evil looking thing. old 6.2l diesel and manual,

driving the camaro was just awesome.. last years i always got a new reason not to drive it. but mostly it was because i did not have money do to it.. when i started modding it i was single and lived @ my parents house, but for most of the time i had my own home and family..

but now i am single agen.. so i dont have any excuse to not drive it this summer
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Originally Posted by Thule
but now i am single agen.. so i dont have any excuse to not drive it this summer
Now no one can get mad at you for loving your car
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i really do thank you guys for the good comments,

friend of mine found alot of old pics, that i thougth i had lost with my old computer,

2006, just bougth the car and bougth a loudmouth cat back, 10spoke's and SS wing rigth away. and planned to install one after another



but then the clutch went burst after just.. few days



i imported a ls7 kit, and installed it along with the new wheels, installed the loudmouth few days earlyer, took those pics rigth after the install on my way home



the next day.. the motor spun a bearing.. took it out to see what had happened





this was in the end of the summer, so the plan was to fix the motor before next summer.
during the winter i started getting more sirius about this, and sold my dayle driver and started to purchase stuff for my all new motor









early summer 2007





then i installed the motor, installed LT's and ORY, bougth new black Zr1's and added the SS wing, and planned to put the car on the road agen



but that just did not happen i drove it few miles for testing.. and then it was back in the garage.

and this is probably where the car started to be just a project, i had moved in with my ex wife and had enough else to think about

and from there.. fall 2007 the car was basicly just a hobby, something to do on weekends,

painted the undercarrage



painted the car






started to finish of the motor, and put the car back top gether





first of the suspension parts arriving




brand new ECU
Old 04-28-2012, 04:18 AM
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and nitro








seats






motor finished




racetronix



suspension, diff, bushings, paint. sandblast and more










torq thrust M's


T/A door panel not in yet


and now.. almost ready




thanks all! hope you enjoy
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Bravo, looks great !
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Awesome build. Where is your nitrous bottle?
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thanks, the bottle will be in the sparewheel section
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damn, the engine spun a bearing at 31k miles?!!? but i looks like you put a lot of hard work in it and it came out amazing
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Originally Posted by tones2SS
Looks and sounds great!!
^^^ this ^^^
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What seats are those and how much modding had to be done to get them to fit?
Old 04-28-2012, 11:17 PM
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thanks all,

those seats are from a srt4 neon, they can also be found in the srt vipers, they are not a direct fit, alot of cutting,


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