Who's down for some wrenching?! Southside!!
08-05-2009, 09:36 AM
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Worked with ttranssam (Joe) yesterday. He's a cool dude with a nice car. Got a good amount of stuff done together yesterday. Thanks for letting me come out and wrench with ya. Good times and again nice car.... can't wait to see what it's gonna put up when you're done!!
08-05-2009, 03:31 PM
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Exactly. I used to have guys stop by all the time at my shop. I have a tool or 2 that I let them use,
it's just that none of us know anything about LSX's. We work on stuff older than most of you guys.
I just don't have the room to let guys leave their stuff here. All projects have to be quickies.
Some of us just like working on cars. Doesn't matter if it's mine or not. These new cars take a rocket scientist
& us old guys don't have a clue. When I 1st got my shop it was damn near every week someone was doing something.
Now it's mostly complaining about RT 66 or our wives!! This week I helped a guy on his trailer,
and a couple of weeks ago a guy used my blast cabinet. Other than that, I work on my junk only most of the time.
It was always racers helping racers. Hell, they didn't even have all the tuning shops.
We did everything and figured it out ourselves or ran like crap, until we did.
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08-05-2009, 07:06 PM
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Exactly. I used to have guys stop by all the time at my shop. I have a tool or 2 that I let them use,
it's just that none of us know anything about LSX's. We work on stuff older than most of you guys.
I just don't have the room to let guys leave their stuff here. All projects have to be quickies.
Some of us just like working on cars. Doesn't matter if it's mine or not. These new cars take a rocket scientist
& us old guys don't have a clue. When I 1st got my shop it was damn near every week someone was doing something.
Now it's mostly complaining about RT 66 or our wives!! This week I helped a guy on his trailer,
and a couple of weeks ago a guy used my blast cabinet. Other than that, I work on my junk only most of the time.
It was always racers helping racers. Hell, they didn't even have all the tuning shops.
We did everything and figured it out ourselves or ran like crap, until we did.
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I fell old already then lol. But like I said I don't mind helping people out at all. I love doing it and learning new stuff everyday. I think it's just fun to hang out with new people and just chill out and do something. As I stated before none of my friends like to do **** anymore so I'm down to meet new people and wrench on some other ****.
08-05-2009, 08:36 PM
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ha, well at least your not on of the idiots that ask to help and just end up watching, and thanks for helping drop the trans on my arm...lol. yea you gotta help with the heads and cam now...today i took the heads to have the valve seats cut and started to clean all the shitty undercoating off.
08-05-2009, 08:45 PM
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and eric, nice to know your still alive
...too bad your girlfriend wont let you answer my calls
dude we useto be good friends
, please snap out of it and come hang out...
...too bad your girlfriend wont let you answer my calls dude we useto be good friends
, please snap out of it and come hang out...
08-05-2009, 09:45 PM
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Ain't that the truth. At least they figured out the problem! And Joe ... I didn't let the trans fall on your arm lol. It didn't even fall you ******!
It's all good. I'll be there whenever homie. Just let me know a little ahead of time if you can so I can find a sitter! If you don't end up doing it this weekend let me know too cause I can definitely find sitters for next week and what not.
08-05-2009, 09:47 PM
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Oh and Joe I think I'm definitely going to try my luck with some of those Ebay headers and see what's up. I was looking at the older threads on it and some people have luck with them and others don't. I'm thinking about doing it when I get some cash for sure!
08-05-2009, 09:50 PM
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haha...jus ****** with you man...so im gunna start the thread soon...prolly sunday for the count down polluter+heads+125shot dyno number guesses...im hoping 520 to 550 hp with 560ish tq...
08-05-2009, 09:52 PM
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yea i heard the earlyer ones had problems with fitment but now there a little more common and i think a guy from this site bought the company that makes them...
08-05-2009, 09:54 PM
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Haha! I'll be there for sure.... well I'm about 90% sure I will be lol. What time you gonna be there until? If I can come through next week before the tune or whatever I'll bring my springs and shocks through and maybe we can fix them up. I wanna get this lowering kit on. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so.
