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Old 02-20-2015, 06:17 PM
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My posts have been few and far between lately as I've been working on the truck as much as possible when I'm not in work and work has been crazy lately.

That said, she's back on the road as of today and drives AWESOME! I got it back together enough for inspection on wed, it failed for a bad steering linkage balljoint (which I hadn't even looked at during the whole rebuild) I fixed it today and it passed! So I took it for a few mile drive on some errands and holy SH|T does this thing have some power! And it doesn't even have a chip yet! Just stage 2's and the s366 running on a stock PCM. It made almost 30 lbs of boost on flat ground, unloaded at about half throttle. I can't wait till the chip comes in now!

Ok, time to get back to work on interior trim and such. Pics and more stories to come soon.

Driving the truck about 2 hours tomorrow though and looking forward to it very much!
 
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Yeeaaa baby!!!! Dang...I gotta go out and get to work lol

Thanks again for the manifold.it worked just fine...them bolts were stuck man"!!! The air chisel got er dun!
 
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Old 02-20-2015, 07:32 PM
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Glad you could put it to use, bud. Yeah, that's what 200k miles as a plow truck does I guess. Sure you don't want the other one?

And yeah, with your new sticks and that s400, you'll definitely have your socks blown off!
 
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I sure see why you junked it ! I think I'm good with one. I have a nice enough pass side .

Hopefully one of these days I'll feel the POWA!!

Which tuner did you go with in the end..I can't remember. When will you be getting it?
 
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Old 02-20-2015, 07:46 PM
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Good to hear JP. I've gotten pretty used to the power now but oh boy do I enjoy it. Do you have a egt gauge on there. It's probably something your going to want to keep an eye on
 
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Old 02-20-2015, 11:55 PM
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Good for you JP!!! I'm glad it is running good for you! You have done a fine job on this whole build and you deserve it bud!
 
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Congratulations on having a "new" truck to drive JP. You've done a lot of nice work there. We need some new pictures though!
 
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Rock on!! I gotta get my butt in gear. I work M-Sat about 12 hours a day, have grad projects to work on, a little 3 year old who is needing more and more daddy time, We are moving into our new house this weekend and have two big shows the next two weekend and there goes Feb! I thought I'd have injectors and HPOP done at least by Jan. The $$ is just sitting there in the bank waiting to be spent....sigh

Anyway, enough about me!! Congrats dude! You and Aaron are motivating me! I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead. LOL!!
 
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The $$ is just sitting there in the bank waiting to be spent
Well....since you won't be needing it for a while, you could just send it right on over to your neighborhood hillbilly ( that would be me ) who will put it to good use. Don't want it to sit there and go bad or mold or anything
 
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Rock on!! I gotta get my butt in gear. I work M-Sat about 12 hours a day, have grad projects to work on, a little 3 year old who is needing more and more daddy time, We are moving into our new house this weekend and have two big shows the next two weekend and there goes Feb! I thought I'd have injectors and HPOP done at least by Jan. The $$ is just sitting there in the bank waiting to be spent....sigh Anyway, enough about me!! Congrats dude! You and Aaron are motivating me! I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead. LOL!!
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Well....since you won't be needing it for a while, you could just send it right on over to your neighborhood hillbilly ( that would be me ) who will put it to good use. Don't want it to sit there and go bad or mold or anything
see what you've gotta do is send the truck AND parts to your neighbourhood hillbilly (that would be Bill ) and ittl all be ready for rre. Although I guess on the other hand your neighbourhood hillbilly may not get his chit done lol
 
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Bill can tow it to RRE behind his 5er to give to Byron! LOL
 
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see what you've gotta do is send the truck AND parts to your neighbourhood hillbilly (that would be Bill ) and ittl all be ready for rre. Although I guess on the other hand your neighbourhood hillbilly may not get his chit done lol
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Bill can tow it to RRE behind his 5er to give to Byron! LOL
GEEEEZ! I was looking for a hand out and you guys have me working for nothing! How did that happen so fast?! LOL!
 
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Glad to hear you are driving it. Di you put it away before the white crap stated falling?
 
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GEEEEZ! I was looking for a hand out and you guys have me working for nothing! How did that happen so fast?! LOL!
oh c'mon Bill. You know you wanna
 
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You know what Nick? We should clone Bill, then he can get a lot of work done! (for all of us, LOL)
 


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