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Old Feb 8, 2008 | 10:14 PM
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after about 4 months of pinchin pennies and workin on this car it finnaly runs..so happy no oil leaks and everything is correct.. ugh so much work and money but i guess it was worth it...
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The first startup is always a nice moment What have you done to it?
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nice job! like krill said, whats been done to it?
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Hey are those your fords you have wrecked in your sig? Hey whats up krill its Julian from Cz28!
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The first startup is always a nice moment What have you done to it?
had the motor down to a shortblock while it was still in the car, got the heads and intake worked by a local guy, swaped out the hotcam for a little more aggresive cam, NSA comp-promags,melling select oil pump, gmpp guideplates, ls7 lifters, comp hi-tech pushrods, crane dual valve springs, homemade x-pipe dumped at axle, 30lb ford injectors, and a madz28 tune. still alot of things a want to get done including a 12 bolt, just dont have the coin right now.
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Originally Posted by 97LT1
Hey are those your fords you have wrecked in your sig?
haha lol

Hey Julian wzup? Great hungover here today..

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had the motor down to a shortblock while it was still in the car, got the heads and intake worked by a local guy, swaped out the hotcam for a little more aggresive cam, NSA comp-promags,melling select oil pump, gmpp guideplates, ls7 lifters, comp hi-tech pushrods, crane dual valve springs, homemade x-pipe dumped at axle, 30lb ford injectors, and a madz28 tune. still alot of things a want to get done including a 12 bolt, just dont have the coin right now.
That should be a nice performance upgrade, what cam did you put in?
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haha lol

Hey Julian wzup? Great hungover here today..



That should be a nice performance upgrade, what cam did you put in?
rather not talk about cam specs here in chicago we dont race, we hustle
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