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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 12:42 PM
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so i was just watching xtreme 4x4 right now and in the begingin the were giving info on gen 3&4 motors
and proceeded to mention that some gen 4 motors came 3valve

damn tv shows giving people incorrect info


also there doing a 5.3 in a blazer on horsepower tv right now
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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 12:47 PM
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Lol calafornia and being behind in the times. I saw a thread about this earlier this morning. But yk. Eastern time
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now they just showed a h3 hummer pan and called it a camaro oil pan on horsepower tv
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Lol calafornia and being behind in the times. I saw a thread about this earlier this morning. But yk. Eastern time
where is the other thread lol?
i kick my gf off my computer so i can rant about it as im watching lol
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Haha. Idk. It was labeled under like gm 3 valve of something lol. Apparently a miscommunication on the show but someone did say there was a prototype for the ls7 that had 3 valves. But they canned it
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I watch that this morning too. Big ol WTF on that one.
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yeah i dunno about those shows sometimes. some of the cars theyve built that should go fast with the parts that they put on end up running like ****.
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that oil pan looked like doo doo.
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