You guys might want to get this months Chevy High Performance Magazine, it has a feature on stage20's car. A lot of great pics and notes about the car. Definately one of the cleanest and best executed LS swaps anyone has done...and it doesn't hurt that its brutally fast too.

Congrats on the magazine feature TJ! Your car is what inspired me to do the LS swap.

 

Good job tj

 

Thank you is all I can say. It means a great deal to know what I work hard for others appreciate.

 

It takes an incredible car to get a magazine feature.

Nice!

 

Awesome job TJ! It was nice meeting you at the track a few months ago

 

Can someone scan it and post it up please?

 

YES! i rememeber you, guy with the long name.

thanks.

 

LOL A good friend of mine says hello too; Andrew Knudsen, has a primered 63 Nova and lives in Crestview. Ring a bell!?!?

 

What month is "this month"? April? May?

I don't subscribe, but I'll pick up this edition if I can find it.

 

oh yea, andrew used to hang out back in the day when my car was 6 different color blacks. its been a long time since ive seen him, but ive talked to him on the phone a few times over the last couple of years.

 

im on the back page of the april issue. half page pic of me doing a burnout, showing you whats comming next month.

the feature is in the may 2011 issue.

 

Congrats buddy!

 

congrats buddy, of course I remember breaking the top secret news to you


Glad you got a several page feature, even better it was a complete surprise to you.

 

Thanks. I'll look for it.

 

Yeah I work with him on Eglin AFB, He's a good guy. He says you're the reason that he's gone down the LS path for his Nova now, he's got a 6.0 LQ4 going in right now as we speak!

 

i sold him the block about 5 years ago now. it was a rebuildable core.
its been a while.
andrew and his wife are good people. i do not know his sons name. i havent seen him since he had the baby.

 

the coolest thing about the whole experience is, in this world, i am a NOBODY. no high end shop built my car, noone put in a word, i dont know a sole. nothing on my car is powdercoated or polished. its all spray paint and zip ties.
i sent a couple pics of my engine in to them for "royal purples slickest engine award" and it was going to be a half page pic if i won.
well the pic i sent wasnt large enough and by the time i got a big one the contest was over.
henry said if i could get him a nice size file pic of my car he would put me in the RIDES section.
sent in my pics and he said if i could get to bowling green for the LS fest, he would do a full feature on my car. pretty cool stuff.

dream come true. it may not seem like much to some folks, but its nice to know that even a nobody in this world can attract someones attention.

 

They are good people, his son is a little over 2 years now and his name is Camden, they have another boy on the way and should be here around June/July time frame!

 

Congrats man! That is an awesome story too.

I am looking forward to getting that issue

 

Fuggin awesome man, I was stoked when I got into Hot Rod because I asked where we can buy replacement license plate lights lol!