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Oct 10, 2004 | 10:18 PM

panchop

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my first engine actually started...

I know it's old hat to some of you guys but the first engine i ever built fired up today and sounded great. had it on an engine stand to run it in. I built it at my buddies house so he could look over my shoulder and "make sure i didn't screw up anything to expensive first time out".well it ran like a top and i did a little dance and gigilled. (kinda funny looking being done by a 46 year old tattooed, 250#, 6'4" goober) cool man. wish my tranny would arrive so i could drop it in the 65. Oh well. BBC up next. just had to share.

Oct 11, 2004 | 12:10 AM

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Oct 11, 2004 | 06:12 PM

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Congratulations, Greg. We're all goobers inside! Celebrate the moments.

Nov 2, 2004 | 01:26 PM

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ITS ALIVE!!!! Muwahahaha

Congratulations! I'm hopeful mine will fire up... when I get it back together

Nov 2, 2004 | 04:49 PM

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I get the same feeling every time I fire up a new engine. It's like giving birth to a new baby!

Nov 2, 2004 | 05:38 PM

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any pic's or update's ???

Nov 2, 2004 | 08:42 PM

panchop

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i'll be putting the whole shebang back together next weekend ,(evidentialy sometime ago I promised my wife to take her somewhere nice this coming weekend, dooohhhh) new tranny, new shocks, new engine. etc. cut a deal with a guy to have him build me custom SS headers and sidepipes but i will probably wait a week or two to have that done. hopefully the car will feel and sound way nicer. I'll post plenty of pics when i am done.