bluegrassz

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Im from kentucky, about 2 counties north of tennesse on I-75.

I didnt think I would be in the north east region. Let me know If im right. If I am is there anyone else from kentucky on here?

jobryan26

Yep your in the right board.

NuBird

yes Kentucky was the 13th star on the confederate flag FYI, be proud to be a southerner, aka southeasterner lol

bluegrassz

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talking about an old post. lol.

Welcome to the board. Glad to see another kentuckian.

NuBird

well I'm gald to be here, there needs to be a KY board lol JK the majority of the cool thirdgens in KY are in louisville and lexington, the rest of them are rotting in trailer parks, nothing against trailer parks but you know what I mean.... poor things.. I bought my 91 z28 from a drunk mexican (nothing gainst mexicans either) for 700 bucks, thats the only benefit to living in KY, the right person will give you a sweet car for a small wad of cash.... shhhh its a secret

bluegrassz

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Yeah, Ky is not too bad a place to live.

I see you are runnning a 383 with vortec heads. Do you have any track times yet?

I have been trying to get a ky thirdgen car club going for the lexington & South east region. Over at ky F-bodies most are 4th gens.

NuBird

no track times yet, its in the painting stage at the moment, I built this car from scratch, all SPOHN suspension, and I'm making it a TransMaro, I'll get pics here in a couple weeks after the paint (bright platinum metallic) is done. But I have driven it out on the back roads, and the thing is wicked, and its got 11:1 compression. I really reccomend the vortec heads, I don't think you want anymore on the street, and my engine is borderline street lol. I just wish I had the money when I built the engine to put a TPI back on it but as far as carbs go, DEMON is about the best around, holley sucks compared to them. If you do get a car club going count me in, I need to be in one, and we need to get rid of the ******* the is polluting our society lol oh yeah how big is london?

bluegrassz

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11:1 on pump gas with iron heads? Thats cutting it close. lol.

London is a good size town. Not a big as Richmond, but its not too bad. It is right on I-75 so traveling is ok. The town is growing by leaps and bounds. I do the Addressing for 911 here in Laurel County, so I get a birdseye view of how many people move into the county.

Here is a site that me and a few guys are trying to get together. It had been down for awhile and we need new members.
Click Here

The main thing we would like to have some get togethers. To talk, work on cars or swap parts. We are kinda small right now.


Oh yeah, not trying to be dumb, but were exactly is Eminence?


wayne

NuBird

eminence is the highest point between louisville and lexington, its in henry county, one of the poorest counties in ky. Henry county is like a little KY, on the west side its flat, on the east side its big hills because of the river. 12 miles north of shelbyville off I 64. It runs pretty good off pump gas to my surprise, due in large to the long duration cam, I was gonna go with 244*@.050 just to play it safe but that would put the powerband in the 2 million RPM range and thats not good for a long stroke engine, and the timing took a little tuning too....long story

bluegrassz

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I kinda figured the cam helped bleed off some pressure.


Yeah, I know the general area. I would guess that you are between 2-3 hours away from London. It take about 3 hours to get to louisville.

NuBird

yeah take mountain pkwy to 64 then to shelbyville and you are there, are you off the pkwy or 75? Yeah it bleeds off some pressure down low until the engine speed catches up with it at about 3000, at about 3500 I heard a little pinging but I got a lot of it tuned out, some octane boost won't hurt, better than deep frying a piston or 2 or 8 lol

bluegrassz

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Yeah, I-75 runs right through Laurel County. I live just 3 miles out of the city limits. Im about 6 miles off I-75. Also the Daniel Boone Parkway now named Hal Rogers Parkway runs close to my house also.

I need to do a head/came swap sometime. Right now I have a Th350 trans I need to rebuild and install. Im getting rid of the 700r4 so I can race at the local track. The Th350 will be stronger and the gears will be closer.

We have London Dragway which is a 1/8th mile track, but on T&T night you can run 1/4.

NuBird

when is TnT? and how long is the shutdown, 300 feet? lol jk the city of eminence was going to let an IHRA sanctioned strip be built outside of town, but they backed out fearing that more drugs would be introduced into the area.......if they only knew that this little town is like a little columbia lol

bluegrassz

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T&T is every friday night.

Check out www.londondragway.com and you can find out about the track. It is a NHRA sanctioned track.

I here you about little columbia. The police are bustin meth labs around here left and right. Not that its a bad place to live, but I beleive it is everywere now a days.

NuBird

eastern Ky is a wonderful place to live, but everywhere you go there is some wacko doin some bad stuff, but that kind of road most always leads to either jail or death, hopefully death just to get rid of them lol

bluegrassz

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Have you got any pics of your car? Did you build your 383 yourself or have it built?

NuBird

do a search on a transmaro ....its mine and you will find pics of it there......I built the 383 myself.....I'm suprised it hasn't locked up yet

bluegrassz

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Yeah, I have seen pics of it on the board. Good looking car. I hope to build a AFR headed 383 this spring backed by a TH350 trans. I think I will build both myself.

NuBird

you will love the 383, trust me

rickm 75

you all are right,not many 3rd gens around here.i currently have a 86 z28.plan on an engine swap soon as i get the money,by the way i dont live but about 30 miles from bluegrassz.i also no where eminence is, my dad lives in trimble county.when i go to his house i go through eminence to get to his house.

NuBird

trimble county is awesome, lot of rabbits, and you know its wabbit season, Lets go blow some up. And speaking of blowing, I would like to mention Eminence

upandcoming

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another kentuckian here

bluegrassz

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What town do you live in?
Welcome to the board.

bluegrassz

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Great to see you here. Welcome to the board.

upandcoming

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ashland

rickm 75

brodhead

bluegrassz

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Yeah, we use to run in the crash up derby down there. I was through there a few weeks ago. I saw a 67-69 camaro body setting at a shop right at the 25-150 split. It was red without doors on it. We were going to Lancaster to pick up some wreck cars to rebuild for my friend.

bluegrassz

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Are there many thirdgens in Ashland?

badgta

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"looks around" damn where did all these ky people come from all of a sudden? where have you been?

NuBird

these dudes visited my friend in Shelbyville KY he works at Advance auto parts. They said they were from trimble county and they are on thirdgen.org, and they wanted to see the Transmaro, is it one of you guys? I got to track em down, they new my SN and everything about my car

upandcoming

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well I know of around 7 gta's , abunch of camaros,and a few firebirds

rickm 75

well it was me that was at advance auto parts in shelbyville . i was visiting my dad in trimble county,so on the way home i decided to order some parts for my 86 z28 , if your buddy`s name is chris. i also bought a dash pad from him.

NuBird

YEAH! He did sell a dashpad! whats up dude my name is Josh lol

badgta

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trimble county?...... does anyone have a map?

NuBird

2 counties NE of Loo Uh Vul

rickm 75

hello josh my name is rick.

formulated

Louisville here just moved back to good ole ky from detroit mi... Im in need of a firebird parts car so i ya know where one is hit me up.

NuBird

come out to henry county and look behind the trailers, they're everywhere

formulated

Whats my chance of getting one thought .Where is henry co at?

badgta

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WildmanDRL

Call Carvers in Clarksville, they used to specialize in f-bodys before they switched to hondas. They may have some stuff still around.
812-283-4568 2100 Coopers Ln. Clarksville, IN

NuBird

I went to carvers, they don't have anything left but stuff like taillight lenses and such, I was dissapointed cause you used to get stuff like 5 sp conversions from him, henry county is between louisville and lexington, biggest metropolis in the county is eminence which has a pop. of 2300 and they are either drunks or crackheads, its a pretty funny town

Wadebryant

Greetings from Lancaster, KY where f-body ownership (running or not) is a better investment than a 401k.

NuBird

ok hows about everyone on here meeting up at either clay city or beech bend in a couple months when the tracks open? 1/8 mile tracks are everywhere but I still thihk those are for **** burners, My car doesn't get goin until the 1/8 mile point.....damn **** burners

pondriver

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FYI. Fun night at Beech Bend has been changed from Saturday to Friday. That sucks

badgta

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me and bluegrass are in the middle of some serious engine workings........


he's working on an afr headed 383 while i am in the midst of a ls1 t56 blower setup conversion..........

i think wee will be out of comission atleast til may or june.....

but look out after

hey nubird, didn't you get my pm?

bluegrassz

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I just dropped the heads off to be milled yesterday. The bottom end is done. It is just a 350 at the time.

transporter

Hey WildmanDRL, I'm right here in Jeffersonville also. Maybe I'v seen you around.

NuBird

you sent me a PM? Uh Oh..........I disabled my notification thing.... I prolly got like 800 ............ok so summer time lets all go to the track? I'm not expecting to beat you guys I just have never raced a car at a track ever, never had the chance cause all the 1/4 miles are 2 hours away from me, but hey, I got a car that deserves some track time especially since I spent a year and a half building the thing, I'm hoping for high 12s, then I will be satisfied, *** I hope it does it, if It doesn't I'm selling it

bluegrassz

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I have a track here in town. Its www.londondragway.com

We can run 1/4 on friday nights. Its mainly a 1/8 mile track, but I run the 1/4.