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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 12:05 PM
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Man....some of those pictures bring a tear to my eye. My old LT1 just would not stop kicking. At 80k miles that car got a set of home ported heads and a 306 cam and Six Speed swap. Then at 110k miles I put a 175 shot on it. Then, I sold the spray and put on an old S-trim at 130k miles. The short block finally said get bent Jeff and took a crap. Then I built a 383 stroker. Unfortunately after 3 years of building that car I sold it like a jack ***. I still miss her

I also miss being at Texas and living the College life style. My god if I could only do that forever!

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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 12:19 PM
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Thats not old school.. 95_ws6.. THATS old school!
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 12:22 PM
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I remember that car putting down near 400rwhp with home ported heads and a 306 cam at MTI with like 90K miles on it back in what, 01? Good running car, I saw it for sale on Corvette forum couple years ago. The white TA and Vette were clean too. But the Z28 you have now is much cleaner than the 95 ever was, 95 was a budget brawler to the T
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by White_lightning
Thats not old school.. 95_ws6.. THATS old school!
Let's detail the history for the folks at home....

Year 1993 : 84 Mustang (what a beater) but it had spray and I was 16!
Year 1995: 95 Forumla A4. That was fun, I think the only car I've had with a warranty
Year 1995: 94 Acura NSX (wasn't mine but you couldn't tell)
Year 1996: 90 5.0 Mustang with TFS Heads/Cam/Intake and Spray (fun!)
Year 1998: The infamous 95 WS6 car with a Hot Cam and Spray!
Year 1999: The R/T Spirit, test pipe and intake 235 front wheel HP!
Year 1999: 96 LT4 Vette with Borla
Year 2000: Galant VR4 with exhaust. (turd)
Year 2001: 95 Z28 A4, then six speed then ya know (above)
Year 2003: 3000 GT VR4 (big turbos and exhaust but didn't feel fast)
Year 2003: Supra Single Turbo (FAST) (had another Galant VR4 then a 02 Acura TL for a few months)
Year 2006: 02 Z28 (slow for now)(My F250 has the same amount of mods as my Z28 which is exhaust, intake and programmer)

Damn....that's a lot of different cars. I think I even forgot a few.

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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 12:33 PM
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I remember that car putting down near 400rwhp with home ported heads and a 306 cam at MTI with like 90K miles on it back in what, 01? Good running car, I saw it for sale on Corvette forum couple years ago. The white TA and Vette were clean too. But the Z28 you have now is much cleaner than the 95 ever was, 95 was a budget brawler to the T

Blue Collar, Blue Collar, how many people out there build em like that anymore? I sure don't. LOL but I should.

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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 01:18 PM
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Blue Collar, Blue Collar, how many people out there build em like that anymore? I sure don't. LOL but I should.

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Man I still post on CZ28.com time to time, Neil350, mainly just there for the videos and stuff people post up. Other wise it sucks, only a couple know what their doing, rest just make the rest of us LT1 guys look bad.
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 01:32 PM
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Old school for sure. It looks like you were bolting on your intake right after you got back from Mardi Gras .

Speaking of old school, that Strim you bought from Jason had some shipping mileage on it. Jason Short bought it from Bobby Simpson, and I remember when Bobby had it on his "Mean Green" car way back in time.

I think Neilish and I missed the "college lifestyle" going to UofH .

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Hehe. Old School from 1993? Heck, my first project car was a 1962 Ford Fairlane 500 and then I graduated to a 1966 Dodge Dart GT (318ci). Then 1976 Bobcat, a '77 Pinto, a '78 Mustang II (V6), a '76 Dodge Monaco (V8 400ci 2bbl), a 1980-something Honda Civic, and then finally to a new 1987 Toyota pickup. I got most of my mechanics skills keeping those older cars alive (and killing a couple permanantly, like when I glued one of the cylinder heads on the Fairlane with high-temp sealent because it had a bolt broken in the block ). I think the most I paid for a car back in my teenage years was $700 (for the Celica). The others were all less than $200 to purchase and ~$100 to get running again (or not in the case of the Fairlane which ran for about 20 miles before blowing the head gasket/red Permatex and didn't have enough power to move worth a crap).

Old school isn't even fuel injected in my world for the most part.
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 96-speed
Old school for sure. It looks like you were bolting on your intake right after you got back from Mardi Gras .

Speaking of old school, that Strim you bought from Jason had some shipping mileage on it. Jason Short bought it from Bobby Simpson, and I remember when Bobby had it on his "Mean Green" car way back in time.

I think Neilish and I missed the "college lifestyle" going to UofH .

Ryan
(Mardi Gras beads) To this day, I really don't know why I was wearing those in those pictures. Seriously....but that's what made college so awesome, sometimes, nothing made sense.


(on the S-trim) No kidding. Somebody, somewhere is using it right now. So that makes 4 cars? maybe more
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Originally Posted by 96-speed

I think Neilish and I missed the "college lifestyle" going to UofH .

Ryan

Meh, is what you make of it, I had some fun here towards the end, wasnt like Austin or A&M but I think in the end, made some good friends and had some good times.
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Hehe. Old School from 1993? Heck, my first project car was a 1962 Ford Fairlane 500 and then I graduated to a 1966 Dodge Dart GT (318ci). Then 1976 Bobcat, a '77 Pinto, a '78 Mustang II (V6), a '76 Dodge Monaco (V8 400ci 2bbl), a 1980-something Honda Civic, and then finally to a new 1987 Toyota pickup. I got most of my mechanics skills keeping those older cars alive (and killing a couple permanantly, like when I glued one of the cylinder heads on the Fairlane with high-temp sealent because it had a bolt broken in the block ). I think the most I paid for a car back in my teenage years was $700 (for the Celica). The others were all less than $200 to purchase and ~$100 to get running again (or not in the case of the Fairlane which ran for about 20 miles before blowing the head gasket/red Permatex and didn't have enough power to move worth a crap).

Old school isn't even fuel injected in my world for the most part.
vince.. we said " old school" .. not prehystoric

vince:" this one time.. i was racing this triceratops!!!"
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by CySevans
Hehe. Old School from 1993? Heck, my first project car was a 1962 Ford Fairlane 500 and then I graduated to a 1966 Dodge Dart GT (318ci). Then 1976 Bobcat, a '77 Pinto, a '78 Mustang II (V6), a '76 Dodge Monaco (V8 400ci 2bbl), a 1980-something Honda Civic, and then finally to a new 1987 Toyota pickup. I got most of my mechanics skills keeping those older cars alive (and killing a couple permanently, like when I glued one of the cylinder heads on the Fairlane with high-temp sealant because it had a bolt broken in the block ). I think the most I paid for a car back in my teenage years was $700 (for the Celica). The others were all less than $200 to purchase and ~$100 to get running again (or not in the case of the Fairlane which ran for about 20 miles before blowing the head gasket/red Permatex and didn't have enough power to move worth a crap).

Old school isn't even fuel injected in my world for the most part.

Dude, to a lot of these guys anything with a cap and rotor is old school HomePorting your heads? Welding up your own 4" exhaust (yeah it took 3 tries) cutting your springs (god forbid NO!). More of that is blue collar then old school but sometimes they are one in the same my friend....kinda like using glue instead of head bolts that is just awesome. I've got one for ya though...

In High School we had a dry kit system we created just for rent cars. Yes, it had a lighter plug in for power, all the wiring went through the hood cowl and the Nitrous was run dry into the PCV orifice.

Yes sir! Instant Ghetto power!
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Originally Posted by White_lightning
vince.. we said " old school" .. not prehystoric

vince:" this one time.. i was racing this triceratops!!!"
Prehystoric? Is that a derivitive of pre-hysteria? I think that would only apply if you were born in the 50's and lived naked and free through the smoking 60's.

Prehistoric for vehicles would be the steam powered cars of the early 20th Century. Weren't you concieved in the back of one of those?

j/k, of course.


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Lash the valves?
Set the distributor?
Timing light?
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Timing light?
Huh?!

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Think its a flash light/alarm clock combo
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No amount of college life style would make me miss owning an LT1..
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Originally Posted by _Zac
No amount of college life style would make me miss owning an LT1..
Touche.... but have you ever ported a set of heads? Done a first of it's kind 6 speed swap? Broke some ground with LT1 Edit? Not saying you haven't done any of that or couldn't if you wanted too! BUT I did all that in that car. I must say...I miss the old days
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Originally Posted by jeffstar
Touche.... but have you ever ported a set of heads? Done a first of it's kind 6 speed swap? Broke some ground with LT1 Edit? Not saying you haven't done any of that or couldn't if you wanted too! BUT I did all that in that car. I must say...I miss the old days
Nope, but I've replaced opti before and that was enough..
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Old Nov 8, 2006 | 08:59 PM
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Nope, but I've replaced opti before and that was enough..
Ok...well quit frankly...you've got me there LOL
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