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02-10-09, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 90lxcoupe  yea its a good time... where are you in CT? i just landed a job in windsor | i am from lebanon/windham area. you should come down to the berlin turnpike with the car sometime this summer we all go up its a good time. keep us updated, its coming along great |
02-10-09, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 5.SL0W i am from lebanon/windham area. you should come down to the berlin turnpike with the car sometime this summer we all go up its a good time. keep us updated, its coming along great | Ive never had my car at the pike, but i've been there with my truck before, that place HOPS is the sh it. Since i work within 20 minutes of there now i'll definitly be stopping by. Anyone ever go to Mark's cruise in gramby?
As an update, i called Tube Chassis Designs in Hanson, MA and its going to go there on saturday to have the Tq. boxes fixed and through the floor subframes put in and possibly putting a cage in depending on how much my Tq boxes are going to set me back. Im getting excited for the summer. |
02-10-09, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 5.SL0W i am from lebanon/windham area. you should come down to the berlin turnpike with the car sometime this summer we all go up its a good time. keep us updated, its coming along great | What he said. |
02-10-09, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by 90lxcoupe Ive never had my car at the pike, but i've been there with my truck before, that place HOPS is the sh it. Since i work within 20 minutes of there now i'll definitly be stopping by. Anyone ever go to Mark's cruise in gramby?. | ive never been to marks but ill probably go this summer. the pike is a total blast. |
02-20-09, 10:23 AM
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So i brought the car to the Chassis shop last saturday and here's what im having done
-Through the floor subframes
-Adjust Pinion angle
-Fix Torque box damage
-Driveshaft Safetey Loop
-Custom 8-point roll bar tied directly into the upper torque boxes
So last night i get a phone call and an e-mail... here are the pics, the upper passenger side box is ripped about 2 inches from the body, he said its close to the worst tq box tear on the upper that he's seen in a while.
enjoy   the white blur is actually a Quarter, he put that in so i can guage how bad the tear is. 
Pics are kinda ****ty quality, but he's gonna try and send me some more tonight or tommorow i think. He hasnt started the bar yet, but the frame connecters are mocked in and ready to be welded and it should be all done by sunday
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02-20-09, 11:05 AM
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Ouch. Oh well, sounds like you're getting ready to cut it up anyway. Sounds like a fun build!  |
02-20-09, 11:26 AM
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yea it will all be better than new when its done, John(my chassis guy) told me that had i kept driving it the rearend would have completly ripped out |
02-20-09, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by 5.SL0W ive never been to marks but ill probably go this summer. the pike is a total blast. | Been to both the Pike and Marks. Marks is fun, but tough hitting traffic trying to get there (for me anyways) and not to mention with my new work schedule it's almost impossible. The Pike I usually try to get to, but this past summer I didn't make it out a lot.
This year I should be up there!
Sucks about the tq boxes, but nice your getting the chassis done before anymore damage happens. |
02-20-09, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 25thmustang Been to both the Pike and Marks. Marks is fun, but tough hitting traffic trying to get there (for me anyways) and not to mention with my new work schedule it's almost impossible. The Pike I usually try to get to, but this past summer I didn't make it out a lot.
This year I should be up there!
Sucks about the tq boxes, but nice your getting the chassis done before anymore damage happens. |
Marks is a nice country ride for me, i usually go through agawam to get there, and now its litterally 2 minutes from where i work.
Ive known the tq boxes would need attention since i put solid bushings in the car, so i was well prepard for this, just didnt expect it to be thatbad haha |
02-20-09, 03:23 PM
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To bad I don't have any before pics of my torque boxes. They were a little worse I think or at least as bad. Not to hard to fix though make sure he welds every point they meet the body. |
02-20-09, 03:28 PM
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i have the trick flow plate kit on my car right now. im carb'd and my kit is good for a 300 shot. was $470 i think shipped from summit. im also building an R block but the size stroker im not sure yet. was gonna do 347, now im planning it more with the machinist who has built a ton of solid rollers like ill have. planning on 7500rpm shift point, 630-ish lift, and ported RHS215s from the same machinist and 250-300 shot on a nitrous controller. aiming for the same compression. once i start gettin more parts ill post a progress thread. good luck with the car and keep us updated on the spray idea. |
02-20-09, 05:14 PM
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If i ever get real serious with nitrous on this car(more than a 200 shot) im gonna look into this new launcher software that NOS has. Its like the Big Stuff 3 of nitrous controllers from what ive read on it so far. |
02-26-09, 08:12 PM
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I know no-one really reads these days, so heres some pictures of what ive been doing for the last 2 weeks |
02-26-09, 08:29 PM
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Hibernation Station 
These are your torque boxes...
These are your torque boxes on drugs...
(the white blur is actually a Quarter, the UCA mount was about 2" from the floorpan) 
Rollin in style to Tube Chassis Designs 
Cage  
Thru the Floor Subframes  
Lower/Upper Torque Boxes  
Modified Competition Engineering Driveshaft Loop 
New (no)cat-back  
Innovate LC-1 Wideband Guage 
Digital 6 
Nothing to do with my car, but i got some new ink. 
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02-27-09, 05:59 AM
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Here's a little clip of the exhaust open through the x-pipe YouTube - Heart attack
345 cubic inch SBF:
$10,000
Stepped Bassani headers and 3" X-pipe, No Mufflers
$1000
Starting your Street/Strip car and scaring the sh it out of your mom...
Priceless 
If you watch close, when i rev the car the camera moves a little bit, which is funny, cause the camera was sitting on the hood of my subaru with no one holding it... badass haha |
02-27-09, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by 90lxcoupe Here's a little clip of the exhaust open through the x-pipe YouTube - Heart attack
345 cubic inch SBF:
$10,000
Stepped Bassani headers and 3" X-pipe, No Mufflers
$1000
Starting your Street/Strip car and scaring the sh it out of your mom...
Priceless
If you watch close, when i rev the car the camera moves a little bit, which is funny, cause the camera was sitting on the hood of my subaru with no one holding it... badass haha |
LOL best is your mom's reaction |
02-27-09, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 1991vert LOL best is your mom's reaction | Yea, it was pretty ****ing funny, chris, im gonna need your welding skillz this weekend for my exhaust hangers, i'll call you later tonight. |
02-27-09, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 90lxcoupe Yea, it was pretty ****ing funny, chris, im gonna need your welding skillz this weekend for my exhaust hangers, i'll call you later tonight. | i wont be around tomorrow and it's supposed to rain, but i work 5-2 sunday so let me know if that works |
03-02-09, 12:02 PM
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so put the dynomax mufflers on and took the car out last night, the car sounds pretty good, its a little quiet for my taste, but it should get louder once the mufflers break in.
Towards the middle of my drive the band clamp on the drivers side decieded to loosen up and the muffler fell off  which was pretty sweet, the funny thing is that i hung the mufflers with a coat hanger till i could get hangers welded up, and the coat hanger kept the muffler from completly falling out, but my $15 clap failed |
03-02-09, 01:39 PM
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lol nice cant wait to see it this summer |
03-13-09, 10:12 PM
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Looks great man! Those subframe connectors look very similiar. Do you have anymore pics of the cage and subframe connectors?? Torque box's look at better now, might have welded up the top a little more. Thats where you have a lot of pull on the floor. Glad to see you tied the roll bar into the upper mount area. Keep up the good work and more pics please! |
03-30-09, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by customfabwork Looks great man! Those subframe connectors look very similiar. Do you have anymore pics of the cage and subframe connectors?? Torque box's look at better now, might have welded up the top a little more. Thats where you have a lot of pull on the floor. Glad to see you tied the roll bar into the upper mount area. Keep up the good work and more pics please! | My chassis guy did a nice job fixing the torque boxes, he told me that he wasnt going to seam weld the boxes that werent damaged because the floorpans are heat treated from the factory, so when you reheat them while welding, you are weakening them during welding, so i guess its a 6 one way half dozen type of thing in his eyes. I shouldnt have any problems with the bars tying the upper tq boxes and the subframes supporting the lowers
I will get some better pics of the bar, i took the interior out a few weeks ago, then got some crazy virus for two weeks, and i finally got to paint the cage this past weekend, I ended up using POR 15 and just brushing it on, it came out pretty decent, and that stuff is pretty tough, so i dont think i'll have to worry about it flaking off.
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04-03-09, 12:20 PM
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coming along great, cant wait to see it on the pike |
04-03-09, 01:44 PM
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yea mabye if it ever stops raining around here |
04-03-09, 02:13 PM
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Pouring out right now. I might take mine out again Sunday though. It's addicting after you drive them once, you need to drive them more and more.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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