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Old Jul 14, 2005 | 07:22 AM
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i managed to brake the bolt that holds the harmonic balancer hub on. Its broke in the crank, the bolt is a stage 8 and its a callies crank so im not gonna try the drill and tap method. im also thinking of having it freshend up with TNT rings, new bearings and cometic head gaskets.... who do you recomend?
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i managed to brake the bolt that holds the harmonic balancer hub on. Its broke in the crank, the bolt is a stage 8 and its a callies crank so im not gonna try the drill and tap method. im also thinking of having it freshend up with TNT rings, new bearings and cometic head gaskets.... who do you recomend?
Give us a call, we'll take care of it.

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Old Jul 14, 2005 | 10:07 AM
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mike did inspector12 help you get that q.m.p car back together before you sold it? or better yet, did you buy an LT1 from a guy for the heads and the block was for a friend?
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mike did inspector12 help you get that q.m.p car back together before you sold it? or better yet, did you buy an LT1 from a guy for the heads and the block was for a friend?

Yes & Yes. The heads were for a LT1 I had @ the time. I sold the shortblock to Firehawk#07. I work @ Icon now as you can tell by my sig.
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cool, ill give you a call. btw im the one you bought the motor from, and no my pos is still not running...
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cool, ill give you a call. btw im the one you bought the motor from, and no my pos is still not running...
Damn, small world. We'll work something out.
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Go see Icon, I can vouch for Mike work, he pays a lot of atention to detail and does awesome work. Hes bult some mean *** LT1s and brought a lot of Lt1 cars back from the dead.
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