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Old Aug 10, 2013 | 09:17 PM
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I want to paint my engine bay so bad, but the engine is in the car so it will have to wait.

Looks good!
Ya I dont recommend spinning a bearing just to paint the engine bay.
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Old Aug 10, 2013 | 10:21 PM
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Looks good Doug but you ain't leaving any work for the winter lol
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Looks good Doug but you ain't leaving any work for the winter lol
Oh I wish haha building a forged 370, got a couple guys bringing their cars to work on over winter. Have a 69 Camaro to finish up also a 96 M3 LS swap. I have my hands full
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Yeah you do but it's fun work, I would like to see your car when you get it finished up sometime oh that welder is still going strong
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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Old Cast Manifold meets New Stainless V Band
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 09:38 PM
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Old Cast Manifold meets New Stainless V Band
How's that cast tig up lol?
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Old Aug 20, 2013 | 09:49 PM
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how did you tune your tu2 cam in hp tuners? im having trouble tuning mine. im pulling around 11" vacuum at idle. if you could share some of your info that would be awesome
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how did you tune your tu2 cam in hp tuners? im having trouble tuning mine. im pulling around 11" vacuum at idle. if you could share some of your info that would be awesome
This was my first car I've tuned it took me about 10+ hours to get it to idle where I wanted. Tons of reading on HP tuners forum picked up Master Efi Tuner which helped. And another member called me from TX and helped me understand what needed to be done. Also You need to make sure your injector data is correct also are you SD? MAF? I could ask a thousand questions. Where are you having troubles?
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Yes im in sd. My injector data is correct im just wondering how you tuned your airflow tables to account for the larger cam. My timing is all over the place and im having tons of knock at idle. It backfires and has absolutely no throttle response. My afr isnt hooked up but im guessing its lean. Just wondering what tables you messed with to tune your cam
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Yes im in sd. My injector data is correct im just wondering how you tuned your airflow tables to account for the larger cam. My timing is all over the place and im having tons of knock at idle. It backfires and has absolutely no throttle response. My afr isnt hooked up but im guessing its lean. Just wondering what tables you messed with to tune your cam
I would say something else is wrong because even when I had a stock tune it ran fine just was rich. Sounds like cam timing. Have you flashed it back to stock and see if it runs alright? I changed ve, idle trims min pulse width etc .....
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Got the motor in Friday fired it up and sounds great way more oil pressure than the last one. Also more compression 162-165 per cylinder old motor was 153-155.

Also got my turbo back again with a new PTC 9.5" converter. And got the trans refreshed
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Bout ready to go 9.50s now ain't ya lol!!!!!
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Old Aug 22, 2013 | 08:26 PM
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Just got these in today Christmas in August lol


Will be driving again tomorrow just waiting for my case of ams oil and ill bolt the Turbo on check the tune and give it another shot
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Friend showed me a video of this car the other day, glad I found the build thread! Awesome car, keep up the good work! One of these days I'll get to do my stock block project.
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Looking good man! Just saw you had a build thread on here. Glad to see it will be street worthy again shortly!

I currently have mine all ripped apart and will hopefully be in the reassembly stages all day tomorrow (Friday). Maybe even have it running again for the end of the weekend. I'm not letting this damn 5.3 die until it REALLY grenades!
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Looking good man! Just saw you had a build thread on here. Glad to see it will be street worthy again shortly!

I currently have mine all ripped apart and will hopefully be in the reassembly stages all day tomorrow (Friday). Maybe even have it running again for the end of the weekend. I'm not letting this damn 5.3 die until it REALLY grenades!
Thanks man def pumped to start driving it again.
Your making some quick work with the tear down. If you need some help text me and ill swing by.
And with your mild tune and lower boost its not going to explode anytime soon lol before the end of the year I say lets crank it up 20+
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Friend showed me a video of this car the other day, glad I found the build thread! Awesome car, keep up the good work! One of these days I'll get to do my stock block project.
Thanks it definitely keeps me busy though.....
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