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Joined: Nov 2003
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From: Phoenix, Az
age does it every time!!!
I think it's cause he turned 40 and he is trying to get over the shock. I hope he doesn't become sedintary and just sit in his easy chair and deprive us all of his wisdom and more importantly letting us know how the project is coming. Selfish just won't cut it scouder, so get over it and talk to the ones you love.
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You guys crack me up. Motor will be back together this weekend and ready to put in the truck. I put it on hold for a few weeks waiting for my son to get here for the summer. He is 16, and is interested in nothing but computer games so I thought it would be fun to let him help me go over everything and maybe get some performance in his blood. "Horsepower,...the Anti-game". I hope that's the way it works. I couldn't afford the C6 that I want to put in it, so I bought a stock clutch and am putting the NP435 back in for temporary. After that its just little details for a while until it's ready to take for a spin. I should be able t drive it a little by the end of August. I'm still watching you guys every day so I don't lose touch, and to keep learning from you.
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Joined: May 2004
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From: Montana
Dude......I just looked at your gallery, you are my icon! That has got to be the nicest job i have seen in years. The way you ran that exaust is perfect sure beats wrestling with the inside of the frame. I have to ask what you did to clean up the engine bay.
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Originally Posted by Ratsmoker
Which C6 are you looking at Brain? I hope the NP435 hold up. Never seen one break though. The clutch is bound to slip though.
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From: Evanston, WY
Originally Posted by EgoMan
Dude......I just looked at your gallery, you are my icon! That has got to be the nicest job i have seen in years. The way you ran that exaust is perfect sure beats wrestling with the inside of the frame. I have to ask what you did to clean up the engine bay.
Cleaning up the engine bay was fairly easy. I moved the battery and solenoid to the back of the truck, and ran all the wiring to be as invisible as possible. Once I add the master cylinder and nitrous solenoids it will clutter up a little, but shoudn't be too bad. I'll post more pics as it starts coming together more.
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The round tubes aren't really ladder bars as such. I wanted a solution to the wheelhop problem on the highboys, but I didn't want to have anything conflict with the natural arc of the rear axle travel. I looked at the problem, and it seemed to me that the top of the lift block is already positioned by the spring. In essence, the spring acts as the top link of a 4-link setup. So what I did was just add the missing lower links. I positioned them so that they would follow the axle through it's arc without conflicting with it, yet position the bottom of the lift block so it couldn't "swing" fore and aft under acceleration or braking. Obviously I haven't had the chance to test it yet, but it looks too simple to fail.
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