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Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Old 08-04-2008 | 05:26 PM
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Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Just curious if anything is going with our peeps besides selling parts like crazy it seems.

Car projects?

Big life changes?

Anything!!!!(minus offering something for sale!)

Old 08-04-2008 | 05:39 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

how's your thirdgen going tim?



I don't see anyone on here doing anything at all besides selling off thirdgens and thirdgen parts. No one wants to hang out anymore so I stopped posting stuff to do.
Old 08-04-2008 | 06:38 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

I just got my block back from the machine shop... and since Im selling my stock heads I have something going on.

Steve once I get my car rolling and yours I hope to see you up at Applebees and Coaches Corner.


Kevin
Old 08-04-2008 | 07:12 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

ive been helping my bro work on his truck. we got her runnin now so my car goes under the knife next.

heres a vid of it- http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_1...htm?tc=1119283
Old 08-04-2008 | 09:59 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

I deleted my air tubes off my car and did a complete tune up...it's running great!
was a pida though....still in search for some restoration parts and then some...but i'll drive it from time to time...been to couple of car shows in Lemont and Lombard a few times...

moving soon (yeah again)...I don't recommend anyone to move into Briarbrook apartments in Wheaton!...I learned my lesson!

oh yeah Steve Poz...pm me when you can...later..
Old 08-04-2008 | 10:20 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

got the 6 speed in and think I have vibrations from the harmonic balancer so that might need to be replaced. Nothing else is going into the bird getting ideas for the nova
Old 08-04-2008 | 10:52 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Good to hear from some of you!

Maybe we could throw together a BWW meet again this year, you down dave? Have not seen you in a while.
Old 08-05-2008 | 09:15 AM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

I have a bit of a project going on posted it in the midwest forums....
Never know where to post. I'm in DeKalb so close to the suburbs but just far enough to still feel midwest lol. Anyway the thread is here

I'm in buying mode more than selling. which reminds me, if any has or knows of a complete 98-02 z or SS thats totaled and for sale...lmk want an entire car for doner.
Old 08-05-2008 | 01:41 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Well ive been sort of busy on my dads camaro we put 4.10 gears, sfc,adjustable panhard bar, panhard bar relocation bracket crane cams 1.6 rr on and some fabricated aluminum valve covers , I would deffinatly be down for a meet sometime i still have not met any of you guys
Old 08-05-2008 | 03:55 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

BWW FTMFW!

Elmhurst seems like a pretty good location for most of us still.
Old 08-06-2008 | 03:13 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Originally Posted by xpndbl3
how's your thirdgen going tim?



I don't see anyone on here doing anything at all besides selling off thirdgens and thirdgen parts. No one wants to hang out anymore so I stopped posting stuff to do.


I asked what you were doing, not what you are not doing.
Old 08-06-2008 | 10:48 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

I'm doing more breaking stuff then racing.

So far this year, I've broken two T5s and two rear ends. The first rear end stripped 7-8 teeth off the ring gear after a 3-4 shift on the front straight at Grattan in June. We put in a spare 3.73 4th gen rear that I'd bought for $150. The next day the T5 broke in practice at the same spot on a 3-4 shift. See ya, 4th gear.

At Autobahn Country Club in July, my MSD box crapped out on Saturday and then Sunday during qualifying the T5 crunched and locked out of 4th gear. I ended up running the whole race in 3rd gear and it stayed together for me to grab 3rd place.

Just this past weekend, I was at Road America and the pinion nut backed off during the race while I was trying to chase down the Mustang in 3rd place. I nursed it around for 4 laps until it got so loud I thought it was going to come apart. Turns out, I did at the right time, the pinion nut only had 3-4 threads holding it on at that point. That caused the gears to eat into the Auburn on decel. Good bye to one good set of 3.73 gears and an Auburn posi. At 6pm, We started stripping down a spare 3.42 4th gen rear end I had bought for $100 and for some reason the right axle wouldn't come out. We had to beat it out with a hammer. After that we looked closer and the right axle tube was bent forward almost and inch. So, we decided to do a frankenstein rebuild. We tore the carnage rear end down, took it over to the hose, sprayed all the metal shavings out of it with a hose, then took the guts out of the bent housing and put it in the good housing. We finished it up at 2am and woke up at 7am to put it in the car to make 8:20am practice. Buttoned the car up, ran it through the gears on the jack stands, gave it a clean bill of health, took it out for practice. The car seemed down on power, but I figured it was just the 3.42 gears since it made me come out of the corners at lower RPMs. Took it out for qualifying and after 6 laps, the car popped twice coming on to the front straight and shut off. I coasted it into the pits and it wouldn't re-fire. I figured it was in the valvetrain. I'm shifting it at 6800RPM on a stock crank and stock TBI balancer (thank god for Eagle rods and ARP rod bolts ), but the heads are still stock except for Comp beehive springs and Harland Sharp roller rockers. I pulled the dist cap to see if the timing chain or crank broke and it was moving, but it seemed to be skipping teeth. I pulled the dist and half the teeth on the dist. gear were worn away, which took out 3-4 teeth on the cam. So, we were done for the weekend.

In conclusion, don't build a race car unless you like sleepless nights and cashless days...

PS- racing on stock parts blows and don't believe Comp Cams when they say to use a melonized distributor gear with a hyd. roller cam. ALWAYS USE BRONZE.
Old 08-07-2008 | 10:55 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

I'm down for BWW at some point. Always good food.

Hopefully I can work on my car shortly, Not much time left before Indy in sept. Though at this rate I'm not sure if I'll drive the car there simply because I won't have had enough seat time to see if it will be reliable for the trip.

I got my *** kicked by a power steering line on a J/Y car. Tried to get the line of a J/Y car because the replacement line is $90 and the line on my daily driver has sprung a leak; really big leak at full lock.

Perhaps my daily driver woes will make me fix my GTA. It would be nice to drive it again.
Old 08-08-2008 | 10:49 AM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

hey bill if you can't drive your thirdgen out there to indy then you can borrow mine as long as i'm included in the trip ha!


i'm down for anything so far...we been having awesome weather these past few days! We need a get together soon...

Steve Poz has this small get together at this hotdog joint up north on sundays ..would be a good idea to check it out!
Old 08-08-2008 | 12:58 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Im up for a BWW meet if we cna get a decent showing. In the meantime I was trying to get the Maro done for that Indy event but it doesnt look good now. Turns out that the motor wouldnt start because of low compression. Im getting 40-60 psi on most cylinders while cranking and 0 psi on one!!! So I gotta tear the engine apart find otu whats screwed up, finish putting the interior together, and paint the car to make it looks somewhat presentable by then...probably not going to happen.
Old 08-08-2008 | 01:27 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

Originally Posted by Frozer!!!
Im up for a BWW meet if we cna get a decent showing. In the meantime I was trying to get the Maro done for that Indy event but it doesnt look good now. Turns out that the motor wouldnt start because of low compression. Im getting 40-60 psi on most cylinders while cranking and 0 psi on one!!! So I gotta tear the engine apart find otu whats screwed up, finish putting the interior together, and paint the car to make it looks somewhat presentable by then...probably not going to happen.
Thats sucks..... I just got a tpi intake to port, and the 601 heads Im porting should be done early....2011.....hurry up . Are any of you guys getting together soon? Im in for it!!!!

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Old 08-08-2008 | 02:38 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

The powers that be shall talk it over... expect a post in the next few days with some info.
Old 08-10-2008 | 06:58 PM
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Re: Anyone doing anything BESIDES selling stuff?

OK here is some new pics
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/nw-i...show-july.html
Old 08-10-2008 | 07:11 PM
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Here is some more update info.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/nw-i...ally-come.html

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