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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 08:37 AM
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Well, i feel like i have a good combination now
Some of you know i had a 5.3 bored 30 and a GT-42 turbo. Something went wrong in the engine it was making a noise i could not live with.
So i was talking with Mark (turbogibbs) about it and he agreed to build an engine for me. Then all of the decisions had to be made. I'm not really a guy that does what everybody else does, so we decided to bore my block and stroke it to get some extra room in there. Put a nice cam with a slight bumpity bump to it and a new PI 3200 converter.
The engine loves the GT-42 now and the stall seems to compliment everything very good. I was out tuning early this morning and got everything in line to 8#. This freakin thing ROCKS .
Unlike the old setup off the line (read from a redlight) almost instant boost i can't wait to see how much my 60' improves.
Looks like Mark did a good job .
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 08:42 AM
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Congrats Curt, one of these days you'll have to take me for a ride in it.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 09:07 AM
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More cubes and that stall will definately get rid off alot of lag. You need to get back to the track now Curt.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 09:38 AM
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Cody...next time you get over this way give me a yell, we'll go for a spin.
David...i am anxious to get to the track. I've had the engine in a little over a week, when it gets a solid 15# tune i'll be there
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 09:54 AM
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Did you get the indicator for the trans figured out?
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 11:11 AM
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glad to see you got it back to running curt.....
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Vince @ FLT
Did you get the indicator for the trans figured out?
Yeah, thanks for the help, works just fine now.

Thanks Bud88fan whats the skinny on yours?
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 11:45 AM
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8#'s cool. Glad your liking it. I got to go for a ride.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboGibbs
8#'s cool. Glad your liking it. I got to go for a ride.
Hey, I was about 2/3 of the way to your house on 65N...but it was 6:30am.
I figured the cops would be at Talladega..didn't see any.
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 01:50 PM
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You need to post up some pics of the truck, underhood in particular.
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