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Old May 20, 2009 | 10:32 PM
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The end of last month...... so after a long 3 day jam session of putting a ez street drag radial 68 ss camaro together im at my bosses house and we are enjoying a nice sunday afternoon on the river with jet skis steaks on the grille couple of cold beers i let his son drive my car to the store well and he loses it and curbs the holy hell out of my car.

sad facts on the damage took out passenger lca, bends the phr, and destroys both passenger rims the axel tube and housing in the process....... so i give my neighborly state farm agent a call. he sends an adjuster out and the guy is pretty cool races with my boss! so we work our magic and get up $4200 the put the car a 58% damage its all suspension and wheels so...... im gonna drop the 3.73s lakewood lca's phb and t-a eibach springs and 17x8 and 17x9 cragers well it was a decient setup good for 1.86 60ft.

but the good news qa1 coilovers for the front qa1 shocks for the rear 15x5 and 15x10 weld prostars with 275/60/15 mt drag radials. new 10 bolt with 3.42s 4.10s and moser axles and diff girdle cover are here aswell as my bmr adjustable phb, lca, subframe connectors with that cool trak pak torque arm that moves it away from the tranny and tranny crossmember and oh yeah a bottle

asoon as this damn rain stops im gonna put this **** togther waiting a week now on the weather to straighten up


F*CK YOU Ms. Nature
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Old May 20, 2009 | 10:39 PM
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I feel your pain on the rain. I am on the westside of jax and theres nothing like have water front property when it wasn't originally water front.lol. best of luck man.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 11:22 AM
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That sucks dude, but at least your making out on it.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 11:53 AM
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Yeah bro, sucks it happened, but guess it was meant to be so you could get some new goodies on there, good luck with the install
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:16 PM
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Bummer on the damage, but as mentioned you're making out okay.

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Old May 21, 2009 | 07:47 PM
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Sucks about the damage bud. But atleast your making out on it. I had a similar incident happen to me last year. I had a carport fall on my ss during a rain/wind storm and it scratched the **** outta it. Well I ended up getting a 5k paintjob with custom flames for next to nothing....
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Old May 26, 2009 | 08:39 PM
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well damn Andy, talk about falling into a bucket of **** and coming out smelling like roses, we need to get together for a beer sometime bro
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Old May 26, 2009 | 08:47 PM
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glad to hear you made out
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well damn Andy, talk about falling into a bucket of **** and coming out smelling like roses, we need to get together for a beer sometime bro
hell yeah yes we do how far are you from orange park? i want a shot at that formula of yours lol

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Old May 30, 2009 | 10:08 AM
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hell yeah yes we do how far are you from orange park? i want a shot at that formula of yours lol
from orange park, about 5 min, as for the formula, well she needs a Doc tune and prolly a clutch, still ridin on the original LS1 clutch, lil bit soft if ya know what i mean, been tryin to scrounge up money for gears and a tune from doc and let them install my gears since i have never done it
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Sunny as all get out today, everyone enjoy their Saturday! I'll be wrenching.
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