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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 01:47 AM
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got better pics?
What would you like pics of? I took a shitload during the prep to get the block out of the car.

Then I went camera crazy with pics...lol
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Anything. I love the 70-73 body style.
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Sure! I love whoring my cars





Before we started the pull
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Nice ride. I think you have room for a few more gauges on the dash!
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very nice spaz
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Damn Spaz nice ride. Ya with all those guages looks like your gonna be flying a damn plane. Dont forget to wire up the eject button
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Haha, alright in my defence I was not the one who did that, they were already there when we bought the car. And I plan on chaning that anyways..
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hell no, dont change it. Each gauge knocks off 1 second of e.t right? ohh wait its not V-TEC
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The new motor has something like v-tec
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you putting another big block in there?
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What does it run?
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you putting another big block in there?
Most likely a low compression 427 BBC.


She ran a 12.1 at 110 on street tires and through a nuked converter, bad carb and a bad trans.


UPDATE: got the old 468 out, i'm going to clean it repaint it and put it up for sale along with the old rear.
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oh snap guess it won't be out for months
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It shopuld be done in a month and 1/2
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Hey Spaz, its SoK Monello from CS.

Nice car! Looks like a lot of time went into making that thing. Hope to see you around.
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