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Old May 31, 2013 | 10:24 PM
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Im slingin this link everywhere, sorry if you see it on other forums too, but I'm pretty pumped. Ive never had anything I thought was nice enough for a writeup. I was "interviewed" at the 2012 lsx shootout in indy last year by a writer and photographer for theblock.com; well alot of time went by after the race and I didnt hear anything so I thought maybe they changed their minds on posting it. Well a few days ago, the writer emailed me the rough draft to look over and said they would post it very soon. Heres the link to the final version.

https://theblock.com/news/chevy-s-10...-turbo-project
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Old May 31, 2013 | 10:46 PM
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Very nice!
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Old May 31, 2013 | 11:11 PM
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wow. great article. happy you got some recognition man.
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 12:44 AM
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Congrats...that's one fast s10
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 06:27 AM
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Congrats Chris...makes all the time and sweat well worth it...
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Congrats
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 06:47 AM
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To a fellow s10 guy...congratulations
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 07:48 AM
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congrats man.very nice
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Congrats man thats a awesome article!!!
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 10:36 AM
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Congratulations, very nice write up!
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Old Jun 1, 2013 | 12:45 PM
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Congrats!!! Nice Truck
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Very well deserved. Congrats.
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Awesome truck, inspired me to build my turbo setup that I'm putting together!
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I saw a small blurb with a picture in Car Craft Magazine a few months back too. congrats!
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Cool little truck you've got there, but I'm curious how you got your hands on the intake? Looking around a little, there's not much out on the internet about it yet, just that it's new.
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Congrat's (again) Chris. Smokin, last I talked to him, Chris works @ LPE as a fabricator and assembler.
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Very cool man...tell us more about that intake...that is one slick set-up!

Do you put a lot of street time on it as well?

Congrats on the article! Very well executed car...super clean!

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Awesome man, love your truck. I watch your YouTube videos all the time for motivation.
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Originally Posted by SMOKINV8
Cool little truck you've got there, but I'm curious how you got your hands on the intake? Looking around a little, there's not much out on the internet about it yet, just that it's new.


I work there, as an assembler/installer. They were building it for a project and wanted to test it and I showed some interest in putting it on my truck for some realworld testing. It works very well, clears up alot of room that you would otherwise need to mount an external IC and reduces the chargepipe length greatly. Plus it looks badass.
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Originally Posted by silver_82
I work there, as an assembler/installer. They were building it for a project and wanted to test it and I showed some interest in putting it on my truck for some realworld testing. It works very well, clears up alot of room that you would otherwise need to mount an external IC and reduces the chargepipe length greatly. Plus it looks badass.
more details and pics of intake please
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