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barely gets used (thats my full can too!!) thanks - yep. sp3p's

19x10 w/295/40 front and 20x12.5 w/335/30 rear

thanks all!!

was too nice to win any awards. gotta represent the adams!!

live in southern arizona.....

yeah - the ribs suck. have about 5 hrs into the piece on mine. the side of the neck was no fun either. none of them feel great, but some areas are a heck of a lot easier to tolerate than others. my chest was pretty painful as well. everybody is different though.

nice - did randy wilson help you get that by chance??

got traded to the twins.........

some not so good news in regards to my chevelle: well, as it turns out, the car is far from done. Evidently the original builder skimped in a couple areas. I dropped the car off at Loud Pedal Motorsports in phoenix to get the carb tuned and get some dyno work done to fine tune the car. however, upon my request to look over the car for any and all issues, we found out that it looked like the guy who had the car built ran out of cash and the shop just threw the car together near the end of the build to get it out of the shop. because of this approach, we have found a laundry list of new problems. 1. Oil pan leak - with the way the motor is situated, there isnt enough room to access the pan from the bottom of the car. the k-member is in the way. thus, the motor is going to be pulled. 2. major power steering leak. the lines were installed improperly and with the wrong length on some of the lines, some have been sliced open. great. 3. there is another oil leak from the intake where it wasnt sealed properly. oh joy. 4 & 5. a leak has presented itself on both ends of the driveshaft. one on the back of the trans and one on the rear pumpkin. yee-haa. 6-9. the headers have bolt on collectors. the headers were hand made to fit the car. somewhere along the way, most of the welds werent checked and are leaking, and the primaries are leaking where they meet the collectors. on top of this, they decided to neck down the exhaust from 4" to 2.5" and use a hand fabricated x-pipe, which is only tacked together. and they used the cheapest dynamax mufflers they could find. this whole system will be redone. the headers will be blasted and fixed; we will use 3" tubing into a pre-made x-pipe and borla mufflers; when everything is fabbed up and in place, it will get taken down and jet hot coated. yippee. 10. the car has a b&m hammer shifter. however, some yahoo decided that he could design a better linkage than what b&m offered, and now you can barely get the car out of park. hopefully this can be remedied with the proper setup, as the center console in the car was designed specifically for the hammer shifter thats in there. outstanding. in the end, i'll have great, solid car. it just sucks that i have to go through all this when it should have been done right the first time. we do know for a fact that all the body and paint work was done properly, as was the suspension as i just had that finished. the electronics are all immaculate, and the interior is in tip top shape.

good news: got my chevelle almost completed!!! its back home safe in my garage!!

ok - good news. im finishing up the build on the chevelle, drop by the suspension place that is working on the car and we start up the car and notice a rather loud knocking noise from the front of the engine. first check fan clearance, we are okay there. look a little farther down and see that the harmonic balancer is vibrating pretty badly. upon further inspection, after shutting the car down immediately, we see that the belt has jumped off the crank pulley one rib. so we raise the car all the way up (added bonus of air ride!!) crawl underneath the car and guess what we see.......... the friggin yahoos that built the motor overlooked torquing down the bolts that hold the crank pulley on. because of this, one bolt was completely missing and the other two were finger tight. nice. we pulled the belt off, went and got new hardware, and after some loctite, some torquing down, and reinstalling the belt, the noise was gone, the balancer was smooth, and the belt is staying in place. i could just see me going down the road and getting on it a little bit, and seeing my $25K motor go up in smoke!!!!

yep.. playing in the muds fun too. have this for that:

3rd brake light cover needs to go.

ill probably have a aluminum plate made to go there with some custom etching to give details about the engine/car etc for shows. i bought the car without any input on the build so that was one thing that i didnt have control over. and actually - i believe its access to install the wiper motor assembly, which isnt in the car. either way, something will be done, but getting the stereo/interior/air ride finished has higher priorities than that panel.

im pretty pleased with the way everything has turned out. its got about another two weeks of work to be done. need to get a passenger mirror, new carb and get it dyno tuned for the elevation.

getting ready to finish up the stereo install, then new seats, and a complete once over of the suspension and such to make sure everything is tight. then.........adams. need to get some metal polish for the wheels, but i think i have everything else covered. once thats done, the chevelle might be getting featured in chevy hi performance magazine.

let me know if you find your money - because i think mine is right there with it. after buying the chevelle, finishing the build on the yamaha rhino, extended warranty for the truck, all-star game tickets for the game and home run derby, and the list goes on.......... thanks god i do what i do for a living. im truly blessed to be able to make sure my family is taken care of for life and have some left over to be greedy with!!!!!

i'll be working out the final details and completing the purchase tomorrow - but i have agreed to buy this: 1966 chevelle Engine / Drivetrain Details: 600HP 496 Big Block Chevy Eagle rotating assembly Dart Pro 1 Heads Comp Hydraulic roller cam and valvetrain Edelbrock RPM Air Gap Intake, Aluminum Waterpump & Quiet-Flo Electric Fuel Pump K&N Filter & Breathers Flex-a-lite Aluminum Radiator & Electric Fan Demon 850 Carb MSD Billet Distributor & Coil Custom Headers 2" Primaries 3.5" Collectors March Serpentine Billet Pulley System Art Carr 700R4 Automatic Transmission 9" Moser with Detroit Truetrac Locker with 31 Spline Axles & 3.90 Gears Suspension / Brakes / Wheels: Air Ride Technologies RidePro System with Fatman tubular control arms CPP Big Brake Kit - 4WDB Slotted & Cross Drilled Rotors Hydratech Hydraulic Power Booster Forgeline SP3P 20x12.5, 19x10 wheels Michelin Pilot Sport 335/30/20, 285/35/19 tires Other Details: Vintage Air Super Gen II HVAC Covan's 6 Guage Panel w/AutoMeter Guages B&M Hammer Shifter Optima Trunk Mounted Battery with Billet Hold Down IDidit Tilt Column Dakota Digital Tail & Reverse Lights Custom center console Goodmark steel cowl hood Smoothed Firewall Mini-Tubbed Shaved Drip Rails All new Interior, Chrome and Rubber vid of it on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0PmNGNDc0 there are some things i have to finish and change, but should be one hell of a ride!!!!!!

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never heard from you regarding delivery of the lights......

nice harley truck!! you on nhtoc??

if i had to do it all over again, theres a chance i would have picked up a f450 and laid it out on 24s. just because.

the shocks are great - a lot better than the stockers or the pro comps that were on it. thanks for all the compliments guys!!!