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01-25-2008, 07:44 PM
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Bad news, Good news I paid Mike @ Accurate Engines a visit today to pay the balance on my engine rebuild and he gave me some bad news. Seems JE hasn't made my pistons yet that he ordered a month ago. 
And then came some good news. He was talking to a guy about his up-coming full page ad for some car magazines as I was carrying in my intake to show him and he asked if I'd like to have my engine in his ad. Not as good as the whole car but I'll take it.....
And then came the other good news, he said he was ordering a different brand piston that would be just as good that would be on their way ASAP.
And then came some good news. He was talking to a guy about his up-coming full page ad for some car magazines as I was carrying in my intake to show him and he asked if I'd like to have my engine in his ad. Not as good as the whole car but I'll take it.....
And then came the other good news, he said he was ordering a different brand piston that would be just as good that would be on their way ASAP.
01-26-2008, 09:46 AM
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Luckily I'm not working to a deadline this year like you are Ellis! And I have plenty of stuff to do to the car to keep me busy while I wait for the engine to get completed. Other than the body parts that are welded together, I will have taken this car completely apart & re-assembled it with new parts when I'm done. 
01-26-2008, 09:51 AM
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Luckily I'm not working to a deadline this year like you are Ellis! And I have plenty of stuff to do to the car to keep me busy while I wait for the engine to get completed. Other than the body parts that are welded together, I will have taken this car completely apart & re-assembled it with new parts when I'm done.
It is worth it as you come down the long stretch. It has been a year since you and I started taking it back apart!
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01-26-2008, 11:13 AM
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It seems like shops in the Seattle area are disliked by JE. I had a similar problem 2 years ago when I was doing some work up there. Got Fedup because I've ordered pistons from JE myself, and have never taken longer then 2 weeks..... Called Schmidt, they had the pistons and an entire shortblock from SCRATCH (With custom JE Pistons no less), DONE in 1 week having NONE of the parts in stock.... I have someone in Yakima to freshen my engines up, but I refuse to have anything built in the Northwest anymore.
What happened Arron?
What happened Arron?
01-26-2008, 12:00 PM
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Luckily I'm not working to a deadline this year like you are Ellis! And I have plenty of stuff to do to the car to keep me busy while I wait for the engine to get completed. Other than the body parts that are welded together, I will have taken this car completely apart & re-assembled it with new parts when I'm done.
Should be interesting seeing the car when you get her all back together. As **** as you were with the old sleigh Im sure there will be alot of little details to check out.
01-26-2008, 12:45 PM
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Thats kinda cool though. You had a trial run with the old car and could see the things you would do different but they were already done and worked fine so there wasnt any motivation to change it. This time you can do all those things the way you wanted to the first time and then some.
Should be interesting seeing the car when you get her all back together. As **** as you were with the old sleigh Im sure there will be alot of little details to check out.
Should be interesting seeing the car when you get her all back together. As **** as you were with the old sleigh Im sure there will be alot of little details to check out.
That is bad ***..
01-26-2008, 01:16 PM
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Thanks, I have a ton of time into that thing. It started out as a rusted out but original truck. Then the guy who owns it bought a back halved S10. We put the ****** cab on the S10 frame and I built the bed from scratch (the stake pockets and fenders were store bought). One of these days we''ll get it on a dyno and see how much power that 6-71'd, AFR'd, 355 makes and get it tuned right.
01-26-2008, 01:59 PM
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I just sold a 62 ******. 4x4. it was in awesome shap only rust was the bed, and driver side floorboard. It was a fixerupers dream truck..
sorry for the thread highjack. Im done now lol
sorry for the thread highjack. Im done now lol
01-27-2008, 09:40 AM
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You're as bad as Elllis....
Tis true, and I have upgraded or changed most of the things I /we didn't like. Should be interesting if it all works. I still need to bite the bullet & upgrade to a 10 pt cage....
Thats kinda cool though. You had a trial run with the old car and could see the things you would do different but they were already done and worked fine so there wasnt any motivation to change it. This time you can do all those things the way you wanted to the first time and then some.
Should be interesting seeing the car when you get her all back together. As **** as you were with the old sleigh Im sure there will be alot of little details to check out.
Should be interesting seeing the car when you get her all back together. As **** as you were with the old sleigh Im sure there will be alot of little details to check out.
01-27-2008, 02:37 PM
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