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Old Jan 6, 2007 | 10:47 PM
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also spent a few hours behind a blasting cabinet. really great thing to have if your a neat freak.





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Looks good! Did you take any pictures of the motor mounts?
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yes. right now tho im just using wooden mock mounts. works very well lol.
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nice. keep up with the pics man. im loving this.
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yea I fell like I live at the bead blaster. I just did the whole suspension on my RX7 holy.
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yea I fell like I live at the bead blaster. I just did the whole suspension on my RX7 holy.
yea dude they are great but **** it takes alot of time.
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Looks great...Can't wait to see some pics or vids of it ripping up the streets
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why is it this guy is always at the top of the list his swap sucks and he isn't doing it right
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why is it this guy is always at the top of the list his swap sucks and he isn't doing it right

there is no wrong way to do it.
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there is no wrong way to do it.
I can tell you of some ways that cause a person to have to do more work though! ha ha
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why is it this guy is always at the top of the list his swap sucks and he isn't doing it right
Great first post.
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why is it this guy is always at the top of the list his swap sucks and he isn't doing it right
what a loser.
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was the camaro you pulled the engine from an automatic? if so, what are all the parts I need to switch to a t-56? i have a 01' vette engine that came with an auto tranny and i'd like to swap in a t-56 instead, will I need a new harness and pcm?
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man you can say what you want be he just wishes he had someone like me working on that car I could make it happen I mean hell the guy is useing blocks of wood for motor mounts
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man you can say what you want be he just wishes he had someone like me working on that car I could make it happen I mean hell the guy is useing blocks of wood for motor mounts
He's just mocking up the engine mount location with the wood blocks.
Pay attention, you may learn something. Punctuation usage would be a good start.
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man i need to invite that guy over to my garage one of these days
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Originally Posted by kansaschity
was the camaro you pulled the engine from an automatic? if so, what are all the parts I need to switch to a t-56? i have a 01' vette engine that came with an auto tranny and i'd like to swap in a t-56 instead, will I need a new harness and pcm?
i just wired up the sensors into the harness lol. if anything i wont have reverse lights. if you have a general understanding of wiring you can figure it out tho. its quite simple.
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I can tell you of some ways that cause a person to have to do more work though! ha ha
one way is spelled h-i-n-s-o-n
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