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03-29-2013, 12:51 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Location: Hamilton, Mercer county
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Originally Posted by Featherburner
LS6 is LS6. With a drill and lots of self tapping screws and RTV anything is possible.  |
OK, thanks for clearing that up. I would think though, that the chambers in the cylinder head hanging past the end of the deck would have me loose some compression, should I just use duct tape and RTV to account for that? Use the duct tape as a mold, if you will....
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03-30-2013, 10:34 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Parts on the car! The shelf looses some value!
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03-30-2013, 10:59 PM
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Mongo the Meet Coordinator
Join Date: May 2008
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You aren't gonna paint the frame?
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repo bigals turd gen and part it out to a loving home
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03-30-2013, 11:10 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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I wasn't planning on it, but I am going to be verbally berated unless I do. Engine is probably going to come out soon so I will pull the sub, strip it down and then have my cousin do it for me. May fix and paint the firewall too, if I think I have time.
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04-01-2013, 08:44 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Got the other shock bracket cut off tonight. Decided to weigh the parts before/after.
Old setup weighed 87.2 lbs (for both sides), shock bracket, old end links, upper and lower control arms, shocks and springs.
New setup; 62.8 lbs, Using Speedtech tubular lower control arms, SPC uppers, AFCO coilover shock, Hyperco springs and Keiths upper shock bracket
I will also soon be doing some LS1 brakes with some aluminum hubs, so I should lose a few more lbs from that too.
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04-02-2013, 07:57 AM
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NJFBOA Supporting Sponsor
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If the car loses weight that leaves more room for deep fried hot dogs for lunch with the JSP crew!! Win Win!!
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04-02-2013, 08:43 AM
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Admin.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JSPERFORMANCE
If the car loses weight that leaves more room for deep fried hot dogs for lunch with the JSP crew!! Win Win!!
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did you miss the deep fat fryer being installed in place of the back seats?
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop
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04-02-2013, 08:52 AM
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NJFBOA Supporting Sponsor
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So deep fried hot dogs ANYTIME??!!??!!!
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04-02-2013, 08:56 AM
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Power Member/NJFBOA Bookie/Moderator
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^ Now this is a build I can get interested in. 
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Originally Posted by LS1ow
Good. He microwaved my phone 6 years ago, i hope his intake erupts.
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04-02-2013, 09:17 AM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JSPERFORMANCE
If the car loses weight that leaves more room for deep fried hot dogs for lunch with the JSP crew!! Win Win!!
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Should lose another 250lbs or so in the near future.
The deep fryer is on order, now I just need to fab up a splash shield so I don't get burned while driving around corners
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04-02-2013, 09:28 AM
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NJFBOA Supporting Sponsor
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What about the pizza oven so we can have some sicilian too?
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04-02-2013, 09:41 AM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Pizza oven may be a bit of an engineering challenge. Maybe we can integrate using the heat from the exhaust to heat some bricks or something, imitate pizza that has been on the grill? And sicilian makes sense since it is square, less wasted space in the cooking area
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04-02-2013, 10:07 AM
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Admin.
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And the obligatory soft serve machine in the trunk and chocolate sauce dispensing side pipes?
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The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand. Or so I have read.
Feather-light suspension, Konis just couldn't hold. I'm so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors.
Hey everybody, it's good to have you on the Baba-too-da-ba-too-ba-ba-buh-doo-ga-ga-bop-a-dop
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04-02-2013, 10:12 AM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Originally Posted by BonzoHansen
And the obligatory soft serve machine in the trunk and chocolate sauce dispensing side pipes?
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I guess I should get those Doug Thorley headers that Kevin posted, for the chocolate sauce. I don't know if there is room for the soft serve machine though.
Last edited by PolarBear; 04-02-2013 at 10:12 AM.
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04-03-2013, 07:26 PM
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Co-Founder / Site Admin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PolarBear
I don't know if there is room for the soft serve machine though.
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What kind of poor attitude is that? Xzibit would make it fit!
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04-03-2013, 07:35 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Originally Posted by Tru2Chevy
What kind of poor attitude is that? Xzibit would make it fit!
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I guess I don't need a passenger seat. Best effort to get it in the car!
Headers have arrived! 
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04-05-2013, 10:05 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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I got the other side shock bracket welded on now and the suspension mocked up but the bolts I originally bought for the lower shock mount are too short, so I have to buy some new ones. I also decided I am just going to hit the bare metal with some rattle can paint for now. I have too many other things to buy to worry about getting the sub frame blasted and painted nice right now.
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04-06-2013, 01:14 PM
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Meet Coordinator
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You need to make room for a waffle maker 
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04-06-2013, 02:09 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PolarBear
I got the other side shock bracket welded on now and the suspension mocked up but the bolts I originally bought for the lower shock mount are too short, so I have to buy some new ones. I also decided I am just going to hit the bare metal with some rattle can paint for now. I have too many other things to buy to worry about getting the sub frame blasted and painted nice right now.
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How gross is the subframe now? Rust and dirt or grease and undercoating?
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04-06-2013, 02:34 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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It's not too bad, some of the factory black is still on it, light surface rust, some power steering fluid cuz one of the hoses leaked. Joe is going to clean and paint it now because I wasn't going to, lol.
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04-06-2013, 03:32 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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Gotcha. Undercoating is a bitch if you are blasting it.
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04-06-2013, 04:47 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Ok, David is painting the subframe now. The rest of the cast will look like crap, but not under the hood
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04-06-2013, 04:51 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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He's not happy with it, it's too shiny.  "I'm going to put another coat on it to dull it out some"
Last edited by PolarBear; 04-06-2013 at 04:51 PM.
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04-06-2013, 05:06 PM
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Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla / Admin
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What paint is he using? Did he reweld the seams while he was at it?
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04-06-2013, 09:48 PM
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Ebearnezer Scrooge/Power Member/Lips
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WildBillyT
What paint is he using? Did he reweld the seams while he was at it?
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I would have been the one to re-work the seams. If he or Joe hadn't done the painting I wouldn't have. It was too much and I didn't feel like doing it. Now that it is done it looks really good.
The paint was Eastwood Chassis Black. I thought it would be really nice, but its waaaay too glossy. I didn't care what it looked like, but he couldn't get it how he wanted it  so when he went to the store to get paint for the engine he got what he liked for other car, and it turned out REALLY nice. I think it was semi-flat black? He went over everything again and it looks great.
A few things happened today
Then this;
Then this;
And finally they are going to look great together;
Not to worry, that balancer/pulley has to be replaced with another. The LR4 looked terrible. It was COVERED in grease/oil, I honestly didnt think it was going to turn out that well, but I was pleasantly surprised. I got the aluminum pretty clean with some scotch brite and some "mag" wheel cleaner with the acid in it. I would like to to be brighter and less stains, but I would have to take all the cast stuff off, then bead it and then clear. I can live with it like this for now. I have sooooo much other stuff to do now and that is low on the priority list since now everything else is going to look like crap next to a clean/painted engine and sub-frame. I have to clean and paint everything else that is going in the engine compartment and on the engine.
Joe and I also contemplated putting Mike's engine in my car instead, not like he'd know for a while 
Last edited by PolarBear; 04-06-2013 at 09:52 PM.
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