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Old Dec 16, 2012 | 12:41 PM
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Wow I have never worked on a car like this before! I like rust free!!Name:  IMAG2107.jpg
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what a awesome starting point!!!!!!!
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Old Dec 19, 2012 | 11:02 PM
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Ok got another video for you guys please let me know what you think and give me your good or bad feedback!



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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 09:50 PM
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Wow!!! Nicely done on the video. Your shop rocks! What is that yellow tube? An exhaust fan or vacuum system? I am looking forward to watching your build.
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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 11:59 PM
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Wow. Very jealous of your shop. I can tell by the other car, and your shop this car is gonna be a show stopper. Cant wait to see the finished product. Definetely be following the build.
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Old Dec 28, 2012 | 12:16 PM
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Wow!!! Nicely done on the video. Your shop rocks! What is that yellow tube? An exhaust fan or vacuum system? I am looking forward to watching your build.
Thanks for the interest hope to figure out how to keep the videos coming as well. the yellow tube is a fume extractor hooked up to a fan in the attic very nice to be able to weld and exsaust the fumes as your welding. this brand is called plymo vent, nederman is another brand. I have a friend that has a couple for sale if your interested.
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Wow. Very jealous of your shop. I can tell by the other car, and your shop this car is gonna be a show stopper. Cant wait to see the finished product. Definetely be following the build.
The shop has only taking me 22 years to get it to this point it definitly did not happen overnight. Thanks for the interest and please keep following the build it is going to start getting good soon!
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Old Dec 29, 2012 | 01:00 PM
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I has been a interesting to sat the least progress has been a bit slow had a big scare with my wife and after a few trips to the hospital thinking my wife was having a heart attack! big scare and still have along way to go to get things back to normal but still attempting to make some progress.
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not a whole lot of progress more like the opposite of progress!
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Old Dec 30, 2012 | 10:53 AM
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WOW.... Amazing. Looks like you have put in plenty of time and effort.
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Old Dec 31, 2012 | 01:53 PM
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WOW.... Amazing. Looks like you have put in plenty of time and effort.
Thanks for the interest. Yes I Do have alot of time so far but much much more to go. It will be getting to the good parts soon so stay tuned in for more.
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Well looks like we finally made it to the mock up stage! starting to fab up some parts and pieces trying to figure out ride height,motor placement,and firewall mods. to be done.
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What the hell did you do to that intake?
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Old Jan 2, 2013 | 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike94ZLT1
What the hell did you do to that intake?
I have no idea what your talking about? this is a stock ls6 intake.
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Old Jan 13, 2013 | 08:05 PM
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We have been trying to get the front drive accessories done so we can get to mocking up the motor and tranny .Name:  IMAG2188.jpg
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still waiting on a couple pulleys and spacers but almost there should have plenty of room for ex. now
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Old Jan 14, 2013 | 09:46 PM
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Made another video please check it out and let me know what you think!
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Old Jan 14, 2013 | 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by E.rodz
Made another video please check it out and let me know what you think!
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good work, but that dude has to pull up his pants LOL!
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good work, but that dude has to pull up his pants LOL!
Thanks things are starting to come together now. Stay tuned in for some .progress soon!
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making some progress getting some brake brackets fabbed up rotors by R1 concepts making progress now.Name:  IMAG2221.jpg
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kicking it old school plasma cutting freehand no cnc. grinding and more grinding.Name:  IMAG2207.jpg
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Old Jan 25, 2013 | 08:28 PM
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progress has been slow still plugging away but lots of distractions lately.finished up the front brake brkts. these were cut out freehand with a plasma cutter then ground smooth no laser or water jet here.trying to get a new web site up and running and getting a azzz kicking.Name:  IMAG2223.jpg
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almost finished the drive accessories still a couple of details to work out yet. this should give me plenty of room to run the headers forward.Name:  IMAG2240.jpg
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next stop firewall cleaning and filling great another project for the grinder.
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looks like it is about hole filling time! ye frickin haw. this is not one of my favorite jobs by any means but it must be done for progress goes on.
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oh crap that idea went really wrong looks like I made more holes and these are alot bigger!
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 02:14 PM
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got a bit more work done on the car fabricated a fan shroud for the new radiator.
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started fabbing some more parts out of a old electric panel any guesses on what they might be?Name:  IMAG2321_zpse612f1fc.jpg
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