Looking good, Mike!

Well just made it home from a 4000 mile road trip. Yep, 4000. 2400 from Pleasanton Ca to Texas, north route, Texas to home south route. The car, well Shes hurtin for certain.

The Hooker/Holley LS i installed after SEMA last year is a complete bust. The headers were so low, we found cracks in the tubes (In Texas of course) and it ran full rich the whole way home. Not knowing this was the problem, we ran outa gas in the middle of nowhere in north west texas (at mile 260 and was getting up to 400 per tank). Had the complete good fortune of an empty flat bed come by and towed us to Amarillo. Thank goodness it was only a gas issue. My MPG went from 23 to 16. And thats a longass drive.

Gonna do a write up on the trip like i did last year. It will be in open discussion, but I wont mention Charlie, hes a handful.

Great people, great driving great time. Shi__ty weather. Two friggen hurricanes. one in Utah (roof caved in across from where we were stayin) and comeing into Fort Worth. Rained each day. But the show was better than last year.

More to follow, but i've been away for 11 daze and time to spend some time with my lovely of 28 years.

Your new mid-length Hooker headers are on the way!

Keith- Custom Works Performance

Keith - tell us more please

Wish I could have come up from Austin to meet up with you. Glad you made it to and from safely. Looking forward to reading all the details.

FYI - I haven't finished my install but so far I really like the fitment of my SW headers. I'll know more in a couple weeks when the install is complete and will certainly post more pics in case you are considering them.

They are sorta training wheels for headers, ha ha. Mike keeps tearing them off, so I got him a set that won't hang so low

Can't leave "well enough" alone. Well, it wasn't enough.
After talking to a few different people, I decided to take it to CustomWorksPerformance in Chico. Keith has done me right in the past, and i'm confident he'll do the same this time. He could work with my schedule and do some other things to it as well....

DSE rear. Mini tubs. Forgelines. New Exhaust. and a couple of other goodies....Wegner Motorsports accessories kit, and too come Texas Speed and Performance heads and cam.

Here are some high quality pics
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And i'm thinking about a beige interior, though that may just wait...
Once Keith sends me more pics i'll post those up as well....

Your gonna love that rear suspension. In fact your gonna have to relearn how to drive the car. :thumbsup:



oh, what headers did you end up with?

Those changes are going to be killer. Looks like good choices on all the parts. Can't wait to see the "finished" product

Just Don't start to thinking that will move you into Green group....


Nice adds though!

Nice upgrades your car is sure changing fast

Nice upgrades, Mike. Forgelines look great, too.

Keith had worked out a "gonna take care of you" kinda deal with Hooker, so coated middies it will be...Hey thanx for all your input too, i really appreciate it :thumbsup:

Me too, but will it ever be finished? lol, parta the fun...

I thought i was "green" , seriously though, i'll earn my way there at SOME point, but in the mean time, i cant wait to get back on the track.....

Thanx Marty, yours too.....Be riding the mountains soon YEAH baby!!!!

Thanx Trey, any updates on yours?

Looking good and thanks for taking up the slack from the no go BMF and FETorino builds :poke: :gitrdun:

I dunno Jer, maybe they have good daily drivers, Dave wth? Rob, anybody outhere?

Maybe they got tired of "pro-touring" and went "pro-snoring" hahahaha:poke: X2

Headers are a challenge on the Sec Gen, I'm not sure why someone has just not yet copied a set of Detroit Speeds...The ground clearance is beyond better than any LT headers out there for the LS 70-81 Camaro.

I need to get my tubs and Q-link installed!!

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I've been off the bike for a week and it's killing me. Seems hitting your head on a tree isn't necessarily a good thing. Hopefully I will get back on the bike this weekend.

Umm, news flash, the trees will win every time. Same with concrete....Why do we do this to ourselves?

Whose headers are these? Dse's? man, what a great fit, the only others i know of with that great a fit on our cars is Stainless works...My Dynatech's fit good, but they coulda gone up an inch more, plus the collecter hit on sh!t...But those look fantastic...


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Very Nice!

Yes, Detroit Speed! I have Dynatechs on the other Camaro and the do fit well. I was really unhappy with how low they set, but man easiest set of headers I have ever installed.

Those DSE headers do fit nicely. I hope I'm able to make mine fit as nicely.

No updates on my car really, Mike. I've got an alignment coming up that I need to do. I did just get my Pypes system in and a new rear end to start building. Planning on either 3.90s or 4.10s and a Trutrack dif I believe. Plan to order my header parts soon, too. So, lots of plans and ideas but no really progress.

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And the seat, from this

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to this

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And the middies clearance now:
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So, progress at Custom Works Performance....Keith is real good to work with. On time On budget (i guess experience counts huh?:cheers:

Hopefully rear end in next week and one day closer to seat time

:y0!: Are you pointing at a spider?? Cuz they will live down there :eek:

Nice to see someone making progress on their car :D looks great Mike!! I worked on mine yesterday for a few hours.

Quite the 'adventure' on that lil road trip, huh Mike?

That'll teach you to try to escape from Cali.

lol

Seriously, congrats on the updates. :thumbsup:

I think he's pointing at a buger he just flicked and it stuct to the exhaust, not sure exactly....

I like watching yours come together Rick, good luck and a progress filled year for ya bud!!!

Thanx Skip, yeah 4100 miles on this one trip, the exhaust was bad from Hooker from the get-go, i shouldn't have "let it go"...cause now i have a weird wiring issue with my O2 sensors (causing a full rich scenerio) and i thought it was the wearing out of the headers from being too low, but it appears i hit something and tore some of the wiring loose, not sure....but after driving it 4100 miles on this trip, after about two or three dayz, i just wanted to drive it again....i guess thats a good thing. :thumbsup:

Looking good, Mike. Glad this round of mods is moving along nicely for you.

Looks like good progress Mike,your continuing to make a nice car a whole lot nicer:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Looks good guys,

Mike, your gonna love that rear set up.

Thanx Trey, cant wait

thanx, i just cant get enough

Yeah, i like a nice rear :whistling:

haaa i'll be around tomorrow and saturday.....do either of those work?

Looking good man.

not sure yet for tomorrow. Saturdaze out. You workin tomorrow, or just meeting me there? Now that i think about it, tomorrow works for me, but dont j come in to meet me there unless you need it cause i dont mind holding on to it (if its a day off kinda thing).... Lemme know,,,,,

Thanx, yours is awesome!!!

tomorrow is good for me....

I was going to ask if you got the Dana 60 yet!

:snapout: IS IT DONE YET??? :hello:

Yaaaa thanks buddy,already started tearing it apart.

Thanks again Mike.

He saved me a trip up to beat you up on your shop!! :bang:

I do want to come up and check on your link progress.