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  1. tookwik4u89

    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    I just flared out the ends with pliers, and crushed the clamp down a little harder, we'll see how that works for now.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Morning Ian, fellow old guy, Damn, wish i was near you now with the bead roller, just popped a hose off at 24psi, gonna have to weld some on!
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    Cruise this weekend?

    Robbo, wont be driving to Dekalb, I do that M-F, lol, i work in dekalb at Joyce, you can stop by some day when I have the Sup, I'm, a Toyota tech there.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Got plans already but we will be at track soon! Im not much a cruise guy, too much an old man i guess, but at the track, yyyyyya.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Other changes in eng compt.......p/s res, breather t into a better looking Y...CPS wiring....maybe COP!
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Me too, its PISSING ME OFF, if there is a dry spell this weekend im on it. With my luck it will be during the Bears game. Adjuster, its on my list but HTS makes you buy 10 if they make it cuz it would be a reducer w/ hump. Im gonna remake that I/C pipe later in 3.5 and put the recucer down buy...
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    5spd to auto?

    Word, this trans has been around forever because of its reliability, Jeep bought rights to it! But when you hit em with big boost, the valve body kills your tranny, due to the heat from slow shifts.
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    5spd to auto?

    Th400 is the way to go if you want anti-lag, the only thing makes it better is you can use a trans brake. Finding the parts you need is the problem. ATI has an adapte, then you gotta piece the rest together, but its a tight fit, with some tunnel abuse required from what I hear. Theres a member...
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    5spd to auto?

    Rakk....I bought the overhaul kit w/raybestos blue plates+ had IPT redo the valve body, and built it myself, also replaced the intermediate sprague, been driving it a couple years with n/p, shifting is awesome, and the fluid still looks new, John at IPT is THE MAN!! But to have it built, youre...
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    5spd to auto?

    The one point I agree is its prolly better to sell and buy auto, there are plenty people that just gotta hear that bov between shifts. Switching to 5spd is way easier, I did it without any electrical involved. I switched from auto to manual, back to auto, because it blew chunks for racing drag...
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    I like your rims rot, and love the red. I dont have THE rims yet, going with something new in the spring after body and paint is done, I have real Bomex sides and a Kaminari rear, I like black 5 spokes w/ lip, or gunmetal, and prob some drag lites for the track, the black ones I have now are...
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    7M-GTE Ignition Upgrade

    What are your goals, there are people running 10 sec on stock rods shot peened! The bottom end is already over engineered from the factory, just replace pistons/rings bearings, shot peen the rods and have it balanced.
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    Top...Show winning Car Must see

    It looks like Barney puked down the side and Walt Disney puked under the hood, somebody show Nate!
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    Top...Show winning Car Must see

    Thats funny shit reign....remember the land of misfit toys....the toys that nobody wanted???
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Fuel pump resistor and relay, a/c stuff, I relocated the crap at the fuse box to inside of frame rail. need to do same with injector resistor. Heater valve. boost sensor.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    No lip, the flex is soft enough it really clamps down, never came loose in over 2 years., actually on the back end to HKS pipe I have a u-bolt clamp.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Empera- Yup, had a good start for a clean racer, no ABS, no TEMS, that stuff was worthless to me, then eliminated tons of other worthless crap, and it has better daily driver manners than a stocker.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    The O2 sensor is from a 2002 Rav4., Welded on a bung for it.
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    Tookwik4u engine compt makeover

    Seals completely, I've been running this for a couple years, no fumage. Then again, maybe thats why Im always forgettin' stuff, I thought I was just getting old.:confused:
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    Can't blame a guy for trying, but COME ON!!!

    Inlines died with IS300, even the cruiser is V now.