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Old Oct 24, 2015 | 09:39 PM
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Wow, well to be honest, I thought Martin WAS Tick for a long time, so it wouldn't surprise me if he opens his own deal, like Tooley did back in the day.
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Old Oct 24, 2015 | 10:19 PM
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Tick was around long before Martin, but they focused mainly on in-house builds, not internet sales. Martin boosted that. Jonathan owns Tick.

But Martin is opening his own shop from what I understand.
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Old Oct 26, 2015 | 08:24 AM
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Anyone know if Martin and his new company will be a LS1Tech sponsor? I would assume so, but figured maybe the big wig moderators would know.
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Old Oct 27, 2015 | 12:08 PM
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I haven't heard anything, but that would go through IB first before it got to the moderators.

Not that I'm a big wig moderator, just a little guy here.
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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 04:55 PM
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I haven't gone anywhere guys. I'm still here.
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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 05:03 PM
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Yeah, I thought Martin WAS tick performance, as well. Lol. Good to see you are still with us, Martin.
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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 05:59 PM
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No, I did not own nor have I ever owned Tick Performance.

Jonathan and his dad run and own Tick Performance and they gave me a great opportunity to grow and I learned a lot while I worked there.
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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 06:01 PM
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Congrats martin!!

all you guys are great!
Cant go wrong with either!
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Old Nov 12, 2015 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by JimMueller
I read in another thread that Martin is no longer at Tick, so unless one of the other Tick staff members check this thread you might want to contact Tick directly.
We still monitor the forums, but we encourage anybody with questions about any of our products to email us directly: support@tickperformance.com
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Old Nov 19, 2015 | 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by ls1 1990 VN
Nice smoky exhaust, valve guide issue! nothing impressive about your vid clip
Originally Posted by sbf
i thought it was steam from the cold outside
Originally Posted by Matt@Tick
It's steam.
This was forever ago, but I just noticed this exchange. First, that's a pretty inane comment to make. Hello from the Puget Sound where it rains a lot and gets cold...ish... That's steam on a cold-start after a good hard rain (see how wet the ground is, that's your first clue!). 4,000 miles later, still no oil smoke when I drive it every day and run 10s on the weekends. Sorry to make you look like an idiot.

In fact, here's a video I shot while doing a leak check of the nitrous system I had just plumbed. Nice warm, dry summer day. No "oil"/steam. And yeah, I'm the fat ugly guy in flip-flops.

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Old Nov 19, 2015 | 06:40 PM
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Glad the car is running so well for you Nate!
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Old Nov 19, 2015 | 07:55 PM
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Martin, website isn't working man! well attest not for me. says 404 not found
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Old Nov 20, 2015 | 03:54 PM
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Unfortunately it is not up and running yet. You'd be surprised how much a good website costs like the ones that Tick, BTR, Vengeance, TSP and many other vendors have on this website.

Hope to have it up and running by the beginning of December, if not a little later.
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Old Nov 20, 2015 | 05:03 PM
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Good things come to those that wait.
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Old Nov 21, 2015 | 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Martin Smallwood
Glad the car is running so well for you Nate!
That makes two of us. Of course, I've sprayed it now...so now I'm thinking...gosh, maybe I should get bigger headers and a nitrous specific cam. Good thing I'm really, truly broke and can't pay to change anything up. I need to just leave this combo alone and run it for a while...
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Old Oct 18, 2016 | 06:48 PM
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I'm running bone stock 2004 lq9 never even had heads off. I'm using the single plane gmpp intake and carb. Will these SNS cams work well carbed and stock 10.04-1 comp? I'm looking at the stage 2 cams and I run a pg and 3400 converter through 4.10 gears
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Old Oct 18, 2016 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by jaybuller
I'm running bone stock 2004 lq9 never even had heads off. I'm using the single plane gmpp intake and carb. Will these SNS cams work well carbed and stock 10.04-1 comp? I'm looking at the stage 2 cams and I run a pg and 3400 converter through 4.10 gears
I'm curious to know this as well as I will have 3.73 rear end and a 2800 stall in an otherwise stock LQ9 with LS6 intake.
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Old Oct 19, 2016 | 11:22 AM
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Honestly a custom grind would work best for applications with a single plane intake manifold.

I've used the SNS Stage 2 LS1/LS6 grind in carbed/single plane 5.3's with good results, but a 6.0 will require a little bit of modifying in terms of valve events to optimize from the specs the SNS Stage 2 has.
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