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Old 11-06-2011, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawn @ VA Speed
don't let him fool you-he banks alot of money
you should know... youre where most of it is goin
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Old 11-06-2011, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawn @ VA Speed
don't let him fool you-he banks alot of money
Thats good ****...talked to Chris Esterly today...
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Originally Posted by Blown06
...and run GM power
shhh... the service department still thinks there is a Mod motor under the hood. He doesn't want to hurt there feelings
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Pulled the rear end out, got new brackets on the way to fix the alignment issue
Started tearing down the front end so I can make a new intercooler pipe and fuel tank

Going to make a new tank 3 gallons and move it to the driver side.

Gonna order a set of 500# injectors, waterman 19gpm fuel pump and some other little stuff.



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Was the car pulling to the right? Looks like you are building a rocket Phil!
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Yeah, When I made the adjustments to the LCA, the rear end was not quite square in the chassis. I measured it and it was off just enough to give it a slight pull.
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Old 11-13-2011, 09:22 PM
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What size is your current/old fuel cell?
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What size is your current/old fuel cell?
I've got 3 or 4 fuel cells. I think they are all 2 to 2.5 gallons. couple are long and narrow, couple are square.
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Do you feel safe running a fuel cell under the hood? Hasn't there been a few safety issues with this lately?
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Old 11-14-2011, 07:58 AM
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Do you feel safe running a fuel cell under the hood? Hasn't there been a few safety issues with this lately?
Yep, its drag racing and **** happens.
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Old 11-14-2011, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
Yep, its drag racing and **** happens.
Putting something around it or the turbo to protect it?
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Originally Posted by Nitroused383
Do you feel safe running a fuel cell under the hood? Hasn't there been a few safety issues with this lately?
I'd be willing to bet 90% of the nitrous street cars under 10.50 have them.
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Originally Posted by ryarbrough
I'd be willing to bet 90% of the nitrous street cars under 10.50 have them.
The turbos exhaust wheel coming apart is the safety issue, nitrous cars just melt pistons, lol.
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Originally Posted by black98ws6ta
The turbos exhaust wheel coming apart is the safety issue, nitrous cars just melt pistons, lol.
I dont have one of the "effected" turbos. Those turbos seem to have failed in the 1st couple hits.
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Originally Posted by Phil99vette
I dont have one of the "effected" turbos. Those turbos seem to have failed in the 1st couple hits.
I understand, I was speaking to the guy I quoted about the fuel tank. Making it aware a few of the turbos were coming apart.
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No kidding, Ive been awake since 7am Saturday morning. Totally forgot about that nonsense.

I guess I need a few more hours to catch another wind.
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Slowly coming along...


















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Looking Great Phil!

You know what this means dont you?................
















You get to put the passenger seat back in

How much weight do you figure you lost with all the cooling system and what not?
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Those are some heavy duty *** brackets WOW.
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just a suggestion, but it would strengthen up the control upper brackets, if you would weld in a gusset all the way around the axle tube end and main housing inside the diff. area
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