Iowa Fastest Cars?
07-20-2009, 01:00 PM
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going to start tearing into the camaro tonight. hopefully will have the motor out by wed. ill post pics of the carnage. depending on how bad she is ill think ill de-stroke her to 3.75 and .060 over to get around a 12.5:1 388. should be good for around 600 hp
07-20-2009, 04:54 PM
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hey blacknsingle, or any one for that matter, i have seen 2 supras in the past 2 days. i saw a yellow one on saturday, it had a wide body kit and no wing. and i just saw one tonight at a gas station, it was black with black wheels with a chrome chrome lip, and had the big rainbow wing. both of these i saw in boone
07-22-2009, 09:01 AM
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i prefer out the top rodney lol. i know its slower but this way i can check things over while im tearing into her. like i found out that the intake manifold bolts were barely tight, the oil pressure gauge had the wire ripped out,the injectors were in not so good shape, blah blah blah the list continues. anyways all i have left is to pull the motor mounts and disconnect the tranny and she is on her way out.
07-22-2009, 04:00 PM
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Well at least we have this much straight: Rodney likes it on the bottom and Dave likes it on top.
Seriously sorry to hear about the motor Dave. Hope it's an easy fix.
Seriously sorry to hear about the motor Dave. Hope it's an easy fix.
07-24-2009, 12:08 AM
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got the motor torn apart. #6 connecting rod bearing failed on me. scuffed up the connecting rod a bit and looked like it might have gotten the crank but it was hard to tell could just have been bearing that got melted to it. the cylinder walls looked good but going to take the block into the machine shop and have them do a once over on it just to make sure.
07-24-2009, 12:16 AM
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oh if the crank is bad and needs milled down im just going to cut my losses and put the rotating assembly up for sale. im sure someone could use a forged bottom end that would just need a connecting rod and to mill the crank. think ill take the motor .040 over and make a 385 out of it now 
07-24-2009, 05:34 PM
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today on 141 at one of those stop lights by the 35/80 mix of ****, i saw what i think was a gmmg camaro. it was black with the red ss hood scoop. and it had the 425 h.p. on the side of the scoop. and it had 18" cragers on it. it looked pretty sweet. but it didnt have hockey stripes.
07-24-2009, 07:42 PM
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He dyno'd 475+ hp at the crank and 403 rwhp on Rippie's dyno-jet.
07-25-2009, 01:54 AM
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If anyone is interested, my home town of North English is having its Fun Days this weekend. There will be a car show on Main Street from Noon to 3pm today (Saturday July 25th). I won't have my LSx Car there, but instead my 1979 Formula, but thats beside the point. Anyways, if you have nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon, come drink some beer and check out some cool rides in good ol' small town Iowa.
07-26-2009, 01:02 AM
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wait a minute does anyone know if dave spaulding has a brother thats a lawyer because i went over to my buds house and his father had a guy with the last name spaulding over we got to talking and he commented on my SS and mention that his brother had.... im trying to put these two together
07-26-2009, 11:39 PM
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hey ohtwo, (brian i think the name is) i hope i didnt disappoint you with my little accelerating quickly from porky's, shes no H/C/Nitrous car but she does alright 
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07-27-2009, 08:38 PM
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Seems like the place to go on Wednesdays is Bennigan's on Merle Hay, good turnout the last several weeks.
I haven't been out to Porky's Pub for a little, it was disappointing when I did.
I haven't been out to Porky's Pub for a little, it was disappointing when I did.
07-27-2009, 10:15 PM
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well i dont know if this last weekend was a fluke but there were so many cars that when i got there at 7 i had to park in the grass. there were 2 rows deep in the grass.
