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Old Aug 29, 2009 | 11:15 AM
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Damn, I just caught up on the last two days progress. Congrats on getting it running. THe truck sounds good... What cam are you running?
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Old Aug 29, 2009 | 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by colekill
agghhh, ******* sweet!
Damn right!! Who needs a dipstick that's in correctly!!

Originally Posted by twolow02fransen
what size tires are you running? its a 2/4 drop correct?
Small for now...265's. However the rear quarter panel fender's have been cut and widened by an inch or so and I can fit 325's I think without them touching the fender on full compression of the suspension. Pretty freakin if you ask me!!
It's hardly noticable unless someone has a trained eye but the rear fender is flared! I should take a picture or if...

Originally Posted by thunderwagen
Congrats on getting her running Frenchy.
Thanks you Yank!! So do I win our bet? Mine's up and running before yours ever ran right!!

Originally Posted by nightrunner
he doesnt even know what drop he has. its a "custom drop". a real driver knows whats in his car.

jfwy spoolin
Who needs to know like that!! Yeah I think it's either a 2/4 or a 3/6. Other than the DJM control arms the rest is custom, drove it to the gas station two nights ago and I felt like I was in a sports car...fugger handles!!

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Damn, I just caught up on the last two days progress. Congrats on getting it running. THe truck sounds good... What cam are you running?
Thanks man, 218/218 .608 114LSA
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Old Aug 29, 2009 | 03:32 PM
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Small for now...265's. However the rear quarter panel fender's have been cut and widened by an inch or so and I can fit 325's I think without them touching the fender on full compression of the suspension. Pretty freakin if you ask me!!
It's hardly noticable unless someone has a trained eye but the rear fender is flared! I should take a picture or if...



holy **** 325 thats fukin huge
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Old Aug 30, 2009 | 01:00 AM
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sounds good
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Old Aug 30, 2009 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by nightrunner
a real driver knows whats in his car.
in case you didnt catch it, that was a fast and furious quote. betcha cant guess who said it

just messin'
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Old Aug 30, 2009 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by nightrunner
in case you didnt catch it, that was a fast and furious quote. betcha cant guess who said it

just messin'
Lol, only thing I remember about those movies is Jordana Brewster or however you spell her name!
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Old Aug 30, 2009 | 06:46 PM
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Mines been running. Just no turbo stuff on it.
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Old Aug 31, 2009 | 07:45 PM
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wow, looks and sounds great, now get it tuned!
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Old Sep 3, 2009 | 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Spoolin
Lol, only thing I remember about those movies is Jordana Brewster or however you spell her name!
she has a name???
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Old Sep 4, 2009 | 12:50 AM
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Truck is at a off-road Baja racing shop that I found locally to me getting the exhaust done. Since I've had some really bad experiences with Speed shops the last two-three years I kinda did some research and when I went down to his shop I put the owner through the third degree to see if he stands by his work and actually convinced him to do the work himself instead of his employee's!
Seen a little bit of his work on some chassis and roll cages he built for some customer's, as well as the exhaust systems and so far it seems like I'm in good hands. Verdict will be tomorrow or at the latest Monday but he asked me to stop by his shop tomorrow to chat about some final routing idea's as well as reworking the tranny cross-member for road clearance issues. Should be a clean, performance oriented set-up when done so we'll see if I got lucky and found myself a good shop.
Rough idea of it will be the LT's will meet at an X-pipe, then head too two set's of Y's where there will be two cutouts which will run out before the rear tires on each side. When cut-outs are closed the Y's should meet into a 2 in 1 Magnaflow muffler and dump over the axle. Should be 3" piping from start to finish on all pipes. Might be over-kill on the N/A set-up but it should prove to be handy when it's seeing boost and Nitrous.


Oh and I know how you guys are picture hungry...I don't have any of the truck but I did go out last Saturday night with some of my neighbors!!
I finally got a couple pics that are "decent" enough to share!
All of them with adult content will be excluded because there are minors on this site!!

We rented a party bus and headed to a "fancy" (aka rediculously expensive cover) club in Downtown L.A. Here's some of the group...few girls are hiding behind the guy leaning on the stripper pole!!



Guy on the right is the inspiration for the Character Russel in the cartoon movie "Up"! His name is Russel too!!



There was alot of girl on girl action on the bus ride! They like to have fun!



Some of my neighbors, one on the left named her kid after me!! I'm also his godfather!



"MMMMmmmmmmm...sounds good, I think I'll have that" (Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber)



Unfortunately I didn't make it very far into the night and passed out at the club... Made a rookie mistake and drank a 1/4 bottle of Cuervo in an hour. Hadn't been drinking in such a long time I got alittle carried away!
Ahhh well, there's always next time!

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