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Old May 13, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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as the title says im almost done and ready to hit the drag strip and street this weekend. got my exhaust on today slp lm1 got sick of my true duals too low to the ground and i missed the old lm1 so i got it all new again ypipe also and new tires and rims prostars with mt dr 275 60's. Tomorrow i have to do my intake gasket to fix a rear oil leak ive had for a while and delete egr then onto a new opti to fix my high rpm miss and it will be all rapped up. here are some pics of the the progress! this will be the first time the car will have been out of the garage in a year, had a couple bad years of work or lack there of but now im back and loving being able to afford to do stuff to my car!








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Old May 13, 2010 | 08:37 PM
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lookin good...cant wait to see her goin
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Old May 14, 2010 | 05:50 AM
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me too man, i hope to get a video at the track in the next week or so and hopefully get a pass on the juice and break into the 11s now that i shouldnt have that terrible miss fire.
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Old May 14, 2010 | 11:12 AM
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Love the car, what was the old exhaust set-up?
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Old May 14, 2010 | 11:27 AM
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thanks man, i had strait pipes to dual flowmaster single chambers it sounded good but just was to low to the ground and a pain in the *** to get out my driveway
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Old May 14, 2010 | 10:17 PM
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got the intake gasket done today now tomorrow morning i will get the opti in and finally start her up! then! here are some pics from today





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Old May 15, 2010 | 10:47 PM
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Nice car. I like the color.
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Old May 17, 2010 | 06:02 AM
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^thanks I loved the color the second I saw it the first time and had to buy it and it still looks pretty good for the year but it mostly sits in the garage!

But this weekend turned shitty after i installed my opti that i picked up off a member that had it for sale they said it had 10k on it so i figured why not they only wanted 90 bucks for it. I figured it would be a 50/50 chance that it would actually work. Well you do get what you paid for no start up for me this weekend. Car turns over back fires and would huff out the intake as i stopped cranking it, it never did that before and it ran with my old opti just not very good.
So long story short i will be buying a dynaspark this week!
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:13 PM
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well i decided to go with the msd opti and it showed up today so hopefully this weekend i will actually get the car to run!

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my msd opti just took a ****
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:30 PM
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what color is ur car? It looks awesome, good luck with the new opti install. I just went through that crap and glad its over
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:36 PM
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it is cheanne red excuse my spelling of that! and i really hope this will be the last opti i have to buy i decided on this one because its rebuildable thats really my main reasoning and the shaft bearings are better than stock so hopefully all goes well
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:42 PM
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yeah good luck man car looks awesome, i wanna change the color of my car one day its just so damn expensive. Im currently livin at my parents so i really have no tools or anything to do my own car work so i had the opti and waterpump replaced at a friends shop and it set me back a grand with labor and parts. I hope this oem unit lasts a long time. I got it straight from the dealer with a buddies company discount.
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:56 PM
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wow man a grand for an opti install thats rough I change those out on my car in like two to three hours but i dont have much of an accesory drive on mine all i have is an alt to the balancer and no air pump so i just drop the balancer and remove the wp and good to go! I thought 500 for the opti was alot
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Old May 20, 2010 | 12:43 AM
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damn ur lucky, yeah i have everything still on my car its my dd. My opti was 505 my water pump was 160 and install was 400 definitely could have put that money to better use, but oh well car runs good now. Ill be happy when i have my own house and can start workin on the car myself.
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Old May 20, 2010 | 02:54 PM
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for sure man its nice to have a work space for your car. That was alot for that opti its insane what the dealers charge for these parts now adays. When i went to true duels i got rid of all of my rear mounts for the exhaust and went and got them new from the chevy dealer the mounts with intake and valve cover gaskets was over 200 bucks wat a rip oh well we live we learn dont throw away stock parts!lol
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Old May 21, 2010 | 08:55 PM
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so today i got my new opti in. Finally the car starts but I have some new problems i am throwing two multiple cylinder missfires and also a new one that i havent seen yet po200 injector circuit open i checked all the plug wires and i have no arking when running in the dark and i checked the wires for the injectors and the are connected correctly maybe some one can point me in the right direction on this cuz i am clueless
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Old May 24, 2010 | 05:07 PM
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went and looked at it today and #6 and #8 were crossed and #2 had a bad plug wire now all my issues are fixed and the car runs great! then took it for a ride and made a full throttle pass and no more high rpm miss or break up so finally i have my car back and running rite now its time for the a trip to the drag strip to see if she will hit 11s on the juice!
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hell yeah man its looking good! what are the specs on the motor?
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hell yeah man its looking good! what are the specs on the motor?
still stock motor man
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