I know how you feel. Try waiting a year and a half! I hope you don't have to go through that.
Turbo Project Updates???
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Melting Slicks
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From: Jackson MI
Originally Posted by evltwin
I have the car! During normal driving it is the same as before, except the gas mileage is better. It has great accleration when you get into the boost. A 30mph jump seems instantaneous. The turbo sound is wicked. Its like a warning to whoever is next to me. Overall I am very happy. It looks cool, sounds cool and kicks butt.
So, when are you taking it to the track???? I'd love to see the timeslips for that car.
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From: Ne
Originally Posted by mn_vette
So, when are you taking it to the track???? I'd love to see the timeslips for that car.
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From: Sierra Madre
Originally Posted by evltwin
I have friends that are corvette entusiaists. They are going to the track this weekend, but my kids are keeping me busy with teeball, soccer, softball, etc. I probably won't be able to go. I will do it sometime this summer. In the past I have run the 1/2 mile shootout at the Great Sandhills Race (similar to SilverStates). I would like to do that this summer, but I will have to rely on someone else dropping out because it is full. When I get some numbers on the track or the shootout I will post them. HP said they would start marketing the kit in a couple of months.
Sounds great, have you posted any pictures or videos yet?
glenn
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From: Sierra Madre
Originally Posted by evltwin
I guess I am not able to do attachments. Do you need to become a supporting member to do that? I am willing to but just have not had the need to attachment photos or video in the past.
You don't have to be a supporting member, but I do believe you have to have a web page to link your pictures/videos for it to work. I believe their is a forum to assist you on this or I am sure one of the gurus will help you out here shortly.
BTW...did you lose any of your accessories installing the Turbo?
Thanks in advance,
Glenn
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From: Ne
Originally Posted by GM_96LT4
evltwin,
You don't have to be a supporting member, but I do believe you have to have a web page to link your pictures/videos for it to work. I believe their is a forum to assist you on this or I am sure one of the gurus will help you out here shortly.
BTW...did you lose any of your accessories installing the Turbo?
Thanks in advance,
Glenn
You don't have to be a supporting member, but I do believe you have to have a web page to link your pictures/videos for it to work. I believe their is a forum to assist you on this or I am sure one of the gurus will help you out here shortly.
BTW...did you lose any of your accessories installing the Turbo?
Thanks in advance,
Glenn
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Melting Slicks
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From: Jackson MI
Well, I'm on my 3rd or 4th week of "It'll be done by Friday". Waiting for my mechanic to get my engine back in one piece. It's not all his fault. He had the bottom end together and then he noticed a big gouge in the deck surface so he had to take it all apart and surface it and put it back together. Now he's worried about my hub slipping and making the timing stuff come off since I'm using a rear mount distributor, so he's machining my hub to put a keyway in it. Then he was missing parts, my fault, I forgot to bring the nuts to the head studs out to him. So now the bottom end is back together, the hub should be machined and we should be on schedule to have it finished by this friday.
I really hope we can get in on the dyno this weekend. That would make me really happy. I'm just getting frustrated. Ok, I'm done venting now.
I really hope we can get in on the dyno this weekend. That would make me really happy. I'm just getting frustrated. Ok, I'm done venting now.
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From: Ne
Originally Posted by mn_vette
But was it worth it??
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From: Ne
Originally Posted by GM_96LT4
ttt
just checking back in and seeing if you had a chance to post the pictures?
anxious to see your setup.
thanks in advance,
glenn
just checking back in and seeing if you had a chance to post the pictures?
anxious to see your setup.
thanks in advance,
glenn
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From: Sierra Madre
Originally Posted by evltwin
If you were asking me the answer is no. I will be happy to e-mail them to you tonight if you want. I tried to figure out the picture thing and apparently was too stupid to do so. But since I know how to use e-mail I will be happy to send them to you. Post or PM your e-mail address.
That would be great, please email them to:
glennmatthew@earthlink.net
I am getting impatient with my own project. I have a new 383 (built by TJ) w/ a t-trim & greg's water/alky injection kit to be installed but my shop is just too busy at the present moment.
I can at least live through the rest of you guys.
Thanks again,
Glenn
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Originally Posted by evltwin
If you were asking me the answer is no. I will be happy to e-mail them to you tonight if you want. I tried to figure out the picture thing and apparently was too stupid to do so. But since I know how to use e-mail I will be happy to send them to you. Post or PM your e-mail address.
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Originally Posted by Fozzy_Bear
I'm willing to host them for you if you would like. Just send them to me at
robert.defazio@pobox.com
robert.defazio@pobox.com
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I didn't know what kind of bandwidth this would need, so just to be safe, I resized them to be a managable size. The originals were much larger.
Here they are though. I can't remember seeing a job that looked this good. WOW.
Here they are though. I can't remember seeing a job that looked this good. WOW.
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Originally Posted by evltwin
Thanks for putting those up. Out of curiousity how do you resize the pictures? I knew they were too big but my lack of skills prevented me from doing anything about it.
http://www.pixvision.com/
It has an edit tab with a resize button.