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Originally Posted by mdprovee (Post 249041)

WOW Dave,

What a turn around.. Jason always told me the car would strand me at some point...didnt know that includes daily drivers. I am sure MUNI sucked.

I am sure Jason will get it figured out soon... and we will be back driving again.

Yeah. All I really ask is that my cars don't break on the SAME DAY! :willy:

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Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 249045)

:rofl: You're going to be an alchoholic soon. Pretty rough luck! Porsche was just jealous.

Going to be? :_paranoid Yeah I have been cheating on the Porsche. And rightfully so.

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Originally Posted by gearheadgarage (Post 249062)

Damn Porsche! At least the Camaro didn't leave you stranded.....
We'll reschedule the Dyno so we can BOTH dyno our cars at the same time- should be good fun!! Perhaps a late night run back to the shop with 'em?

I thought you had enough of our sweet public transportation on the GoodGuys weekend- since yours was tied up inside. Pretty weak story! Don't bang those gears so hard and maybe the shifter will stay attached. Worse yet, I'm sure the shifter handle & repair on the Porsche will cost way more than ANYTHING on the Camaro ;)

Yeah I am sick of Bart and Muni at this point. Sigh.... Well the shifter linkage might not be cheap, but it should be cheaper than the a blown head gasket and now the work needed on the IC/radiator hose (if we go solid) and getting it back to a full 8 cylinders. Shiat. :mad:

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Originally Posted by camcojb (Post 249066)

I still don't get what's going on with that engine; it was flawless in Dons car, no mechanical issues. Had a tuning issue at one point with intake reversion and the single plane manifold it had, but the StealthRam solved that.

Jody

I don't get it either Jody. I wish I knew. It really has been problematic. :(

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Originally Posted by tones2SS (Post 249080)

Car looks great Dave! Hopefully you guys get all the issues sorted out on her soon to do the dyno. Nice pics!!:thumbsup: :cheers:

Thanks Tone. Yeah it's always something.... good thing I am going on 8 day vacation next week I guess. :cheers:

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 249044)

OMG -- Couldn't help but laugh at your story... sorry! You probably would have punched me if you were here... but it was just such a visual. You sitting in the Porsche holding up the shifter... and all the public transportation.
:woot:

You were supposed to laugh. It was just one of those days and you really have to laugh it off to stay sane. :)

Sorry to hear this Dave---keep moving forward--A guy once told me (this was during my procharger blow thru the carb dark days) that if we can put a man on the moon, that I could figure out my tuning issue. I eventually did, I just had to keep after it--slowly at times. It sucks when your daily driver takes a crap on you at the same time---

Thanks for the video and the new pics. Car really looks awesome.

Doug

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Originally Posted by DFRESH (Post 249090)

Thanks Doug. And you're right... what can ya do but keep chuggin. Yeah it's funny, I was talking to the dyno operator while they were messing with another car and he was saying he loves tuning a blow thru carbed procharged setup over the older EFIs like mine. I said I'd heard nothing but troubles of everyone I knew or read about with that setup... he said no way they are a piece of cake! Interesting...... :cheers:

Dave, I know you have referenced "Don" in some of these convos with Jody--was this Don C's (aka Mr. Toads Wild Ride) Don? Was this the motor out of his sons nova?

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Originally Posted by DFRESH (Post 249093)

Dave, I know you have referenced "Don" in some of these convos with Jody--was this Don C's (aka Mr. Toads Wild Ride) Don? Was this the motor out of his sons nova?

No, Don is a good friend of Jody's and Jody built this motor originally for Don's 69 Camaro. It was in PHR several years ago... but when I bought it it had very low miles (less than 1000) and had been taken apart and refreshened/inspected by Jody. I had no question the motor was in great shape.

http://www.camcojb.com/estel/index.htm

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Originally Posted by Flash68 (Post 249026)

But the motor also sounds like it is down to 7 cylinders.... so needless to say we decided not to dyno tonite. :mad:

All is not lost Dave. I saw this recently...

"Kramerica Industries recently announced its plans to perfect the 7 cylinder internal combustion engine which will simply be called 'Seven'. Kramerica states this is another effort on their part to reduce GBL WAMR"

Did your momma drop you?:D

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Originally Posted by WaterCooledNelds (Post 249100)

LOL man----LOL---that is freaking funny Skip. That incorporates multiple posts and multiple Seinfelds----:rofl:

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Originally Posted by DFRESH (Post 249105)

LOL man----LOL---that is freaking funny Skip. That incorporates multiple posts and multiple Seinfelds----:rofl:

Thanks Doug. :thumbsup:

As you know, its real easy to get that Seinfeld stuff into you, but its real hard to get it out of 'ya. :lol:

Like Dave said, its best to at the end of the day to laugh about mishaps like this.