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Old Sep 14, 2005 | 09:35 PM
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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 04:04 AM
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cool conversion get us some better pics those suck but we get the idea
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 01:45 PM
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Nice! See ya around Katy. Hopefully I'll be driving my conversion soon...
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 07:31 PM
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Good job, nice conversion. I hope to have more pics of mine soon.

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Sweet conversion. what size is that intake pipe? it looks a lil small in those pics.
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Sweet conversion. what size is that intake pipe? it looks a lil small in those pics.

looks like a 2 1/2
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Old Sep 17, 2005 | 08:55 AM
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no its is 3" to match the maf inlet and outlet.
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i think it looks smaller cause of the reducer from the tb well looks like a reducer. sorry bout the assumption it was 2 1/2
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looks good
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I have a 91 Camaro with a stock 02 ls1 yank 4000,went 11.60 all motor then hit the juice only went down to 11.20 problems with rev limiter limited me to high tens my buddy stevo346 can back me up on this!!!!Car is light
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good info, so i should be somewhere around there with my combo, i know im losing a ton with a stock tune and no headers but it still should run good
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 03:35 AM
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how hard was the swap? I want to do one badly to the 84 I have but seems like a major pain to get finished.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 12:28 PM
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research and getting all the parts you can before you start are the main things
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 02:39 PM
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man marine02ss's camaro is freaking awesome it is artic white with an ls1 and all tubular components, tubular bmr k-member, tubular a-arms, hell his whole drive train is from an ls1, his rearend, his tranny his driveshaft...he has bilsteins all around..soon to be replaced by qa1's...his interior is from an 02 camaro the dash, seats, center console...it is one nice 3rd with an ls1....your car is sweet regal i like the wheels on it
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thanx, i still have a few things to iron out and get rid of my "z" pipe and manifolds and ill be good
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Hey Regal get a 93-97 LT1 1Le INTAKE Elbow put your maf it look nicer IMO
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Nice conversion! How long did it take you to get it done?
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took the shop about 3 weeks from start to finish. first crank no probs. it was a great job all around
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why the 4.8 heads?
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had the 6.0 valves put in them , but mostly it was for the compression. i didnt want to have stock 6 litre compression
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