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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 06:20 PM
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Sounds mean!

What's your plans with it?
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Old Jul 20, 2011 | 01:43 PM
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Sounds mean!

What's your plans with it?
This truck is my true daily driver. Tired of all the headaches that come with carburetors and distributor ignition systems. So I took my 383 out and went back to fuel injection. I plan on going to the track a few times a year and drive it on the freeway back and forth to school. I basically will be using it all over the place.
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I found a port on the intake that wasn't plugged when i recorded that vid. So with it plugged, it sounds a lot better. The cam sounds better than expected
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Old Jul 20, 2011 | 04:40 PM
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What cam are you running if you don't mind me asking. I have a LS3/408 sitting in the garage with a pretty healthy cam and I haven't yet been able to install it. Your setup sounds pretty nasty.
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Sure its a PatG spec'd 231-239 114+2. I told him this is a true daily driver so Its pretty small for the cubes. I will post up another vid tonight with a healthy idle
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Old Aug 7, 2011 | 01:47 PM
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So the past couple of weeks have kicked my butt. Should have been on the road two weeks ago but because of a bad ground connection, I have had nothing but problems. With the ground fixed, it fires every time and I got to run it up the street. Still only has a start up tune, so Monday I will get exhaust built, and hopefully soon after that, I can get it to the tuner.


‪Finally on the road...‬‏ - YouTube
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That thing sound bada** good job on the build
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Old Aug 7, 2011 | 03:34 PM
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That thing sound bada** good job on the build
Thank you!
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Old Aug 7, 2011 | 04:17 PM
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Sounds realllll nice man, can't wait to hear how she runs when you got it tuned up.
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