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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 11:35 PM
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So Chris, your gonna be mad at me. I raced my car today. Some mexicant in a turbo pickup kept messing with me on Clay road doing ricer fly-bys and hard brakes, so I decided to destroy him. Took him from 20-100 by a good 5 lengths on 9psi then 50-120 by a good 20 lengths on 18psi. He waved a gun at me the second time and tried to car jack me I guess but he was no where near fast enough to keep up with me. I normally don't road race but since IFO was rained out I had to get a quick fix.

that is all...glad you didnt get jacked though. Thank God for fast Tc's.
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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You will be happy to know that once I turned up the fuel pressure my AFR is a good solid 11.5 area
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 01:49 AM
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hey kyle look at this poop

http://www.leatherz.com/Merchant5/me...ry_Code=Gauges
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 02:14 AM
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hmmmm lots of good finds coming out of the woodworks latley.
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Nice, I know you hate the sammich adapter. Gonna put it up on top by the feed?
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 02:33 AM
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Nice, I know you hate the sammich adapter. Gonna put it up on top by the feed?

not that i dont like sandwich adapters...I just dont like yours...lol

are you talking about getting rid of your adapter? ill make ya a block if you want.
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hmmmm lots of good finds coming out of the woodworks latley.

im always finding something to post
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 02:40 AM
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Nah my sammich adapter is good. I'm gonnaa get some evo gauges and remove my radio, figure one will be a temp gauge so I'll just add it to what I got.

for those saying don't remove the radio I don't listen to it anyways, radio sucks. If it isn't xm or pandora or something along those lines I can't stand it.
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after all that bs we went through to get that radio on and working....fail....fail I say

syldrin you want an oil block?
Old Feb 2, 2011 | 04:14 PM
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I know right. The insurance just paid me for my old radio a week ago, only took them a year
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yes i do crush. i have a oil pressure gauge that i have never hooked up because i never wanted to buy a sandwhich adapter.
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is your gauge electronic (you just need a place for the sensor) or is it like the one in my pics?
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oh and how big is the sensor...all this will tell me how far apart to space outlets
Old Feb 3, 2011 | 02:53 AM
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 03:02 AM
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hahaha...nice bro...did you trade in the tc?
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cause of those pics i take back what i said...it looks good in that angle...when are you comeing over...lol
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lol gotta get this bad boy inspected and a few minor fixes, its still under warranty so crossing my fingers its just a leaking oil line and the busted axle boot... damn me and those damn axle boots hahaha it wouldnt be my car if it came already ready to rock lol
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lol
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it's an autometer and the gauge is rediculously large.
Old Feb 3, 2011 | 05:15 PM
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you mean sensor? or are you talking about mounting the gauge like i did in the engine bay?



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