1badzee

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I'll be donating at the end of the week.

LT1_Fireman

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I can hardly wait for this to get going,I have been waiting since this thread started.

krayzie7th

Donation sent. I cant wait to have a home for all just ltx people. WOOT!

bricez28

ill be donating as soon as the money gets into my paypal

Fastbird93

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Guys, It WON'T be going up tonight. I just got home after a 5 hour drive on just a few hours sleep, in a RENTAL car from Ft. Wayne. Popped the motor in my Vette last night, thrashed the valve train pretty good. So I had a pretty sleepless night (tow didn't happen til' almost 3:30). I've still got to get this rental car to the airport and get home, so I'm out until about 10 PM tonight it looks like. After that, I'm ironing my uniform and going to bed. I'm going to start downloading everything and installing it all tomorrow night.

Fixxer99TA

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Ddddaaaaaaammmmmmnnnnnnn Fastbird, how did this happen?

lt1noob

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oh damn, sorryto hear dude...

97Z28LT1

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Wow that sucks. I don't have a paypal account, but I gave the money to one of my friends that does and he should have sent it today.

hyperzone

sorry to hear that man. no problem though, we've gone this long... I think we'll survive a bit longer.

lt1noob

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yeah id rather he takes the time to sort out the problem with the vette before getting the forum running, just unfortunate it happened .

Fastbird93

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The vette thing is sorted out. One of the local guys in Ft. Wayne is in the process of pulling the heads so we can check the short block and see if I trashed it also. Essentially what happened was I was racing Call911 and giving as good chase as I could, and wasn't paying attention and hit the limiter HARD at full throttle top of third gear. Got into fourth, and at 4500-5000ish RPM the car just jbucked really hard once and went dead. The cam gear sheared off from the cam taking all three bolts and the dowel pin with it. According to the guy with the car, there's a lot of metal everywhere, a few mangled pushrods, and at least 5 exhaust valves STUCK open. Yeah, I tore it up good. I'm getting ready to download some pics and I"ll post them up for those wanting to see.

So, I'm running on nothing right now. I think I still have tomorrow night off in which case I have to make a line lock kit for a Vette guy and get it ready, then I'm going to hit the website running. More to follow.

Fixxer99TA

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As much as I hate to look at dead LTs/LSs

We are going to have to see the pics now....

Fastbird93

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First inspection it looked ok.


Joe modeling my new custom pushrods:


Metal floating around:


What's missing here???


Found a couple of them.

Fixxer99TA

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Damn dude, that motor straight up ate those bolts....

Ouchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Fastbird93

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The suck factor is I'm going to drop at a min about $1500-1700 to get the new setup in and on provided teh short block is ok. That's money that should have gone to the LT1 car.

Outta here for tonight, will hopefully have website progress tomorrow.

krill

OO ****, sorry to hear that

1badzee

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I needs to get me some of them flexible pushrods for my next setup... I kid. Sorry to hear/see that man. I hope all is well and you get that bad boy up and running again!

cgroh89

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Holy Crap...... Just wow....


Hope theres no short block damage

Fastbird93

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Meh, if the short block is trashed, my biggest worry is the turbo's. I'll refi the car and use the extra to pay for a new big fuel system and shortblock.

Toronto_LT1

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^^ damn! sorry to hear about your motor. hope everything goes well for you.

...can't wait! i'm so excited about LTxtech.com!! is it too late to make a donation??