Post Whoring Thread 2.0- DON'T DELETE THIS ONE

So, after four-plus years of dreaming of going faster, the last a year and a half of wanting to be supercharged, Matt's car, the Christmas car, is finally top swapped. It got it's name because it's a red car, but with a green front bumper and hood. We went back and forth on it so many times - whether we going to motor swap, top swap, or do anything at all - but finally took the plunge this past week.

We assembled the parts over the course of the past two months. Some I bought off Craigslist, some were bought new, some were pulled from a junkyard. It's got L67 heads and LIM but is running the ZZP 1" offset pulley, so we didn't have to pull the harmonic balancer. And the A/C was broken anyway so we bypassed that, also obviating the need for an L67 ignition coil bracket.

It has a pulley the size of the Liberty Bell, but it's got 20* of timing and pulls comparably to or even slightly better than a stock L67. High compression bottom end FTW.

A big shout out to Clay (CapnBreakAlot), Keith, and Dan (dsmuts) for one hell of a job done. Matt did a big ole burnout in Tim's Horton's parking lot to celebrate.

It's fun because we kept Russdinoguy completely in the dark all week as to what was going on. He was convinced Clay was putting an intercooler, ported heads, or rockers on his Buick.

I'll leave Matt to tell the full story, but here's a couple pictures:

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Old N/A heads coming off


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Working late Thursday night to put the L67 heads on



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A job well done

Or as I kept saying: being blown is better. :burnrubber0:

Lame

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You talking bout that wiper post?

What?

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re bent the metal trim at my friends house, ripped off the old crap and installed the new along with the old gutter. it got reused.

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Anyone here ever encountered sleep paralysis? Quite interesting, happened to me last night. I woke up to the TV on and some figure playing my xbox as out my door i can see a chair for the living room. Anyway the black demonicish figure playing my xbox is in the chair and as i look over it notices me. All of a sudden all the lights go dark so its pitch black as these 2 fire red eyes start slowly coming tword me. They got about to my door way at this point I'm trying to scream, move getup kick whatever and nope nada. Then it vanishes and i wake up to an awkward wimper from my mouth and everything does back to normal. Kinda scary and thats considering I luicd dream a lot (almost every night) and have encountered much worse things in my dreams and don't get frightened. Its the aspect that your helpless that's truly scary. Thought I would share, maybe someones had similar happen.

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i bet you were visited by a UFO. you been probed and chipped lol

My life is so boring, they probed the wrong person LOL

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Anyone here ever encountered sleep paralysis? Quite interesting, happened to me last night. I woke up to the TV on and some figure playing my xbox as out my door i can see a chair for the living room. Anyway the black demonicish figure playing my xbox is in the chair and as i look over it notices me. All of a sudden all the lights go dark so its pitch black as these 2 fire red eyes start slowly coming tword me. They got about to my door way at this point I'm trying to scream, move getup kick whatever and nope nada. Then it vanishes and i wake up to an awkward wimper from my mouth and everything does back to normal. Kinda scary and thats considering I luicd dream a lot (almost every night) and have encountered much worse things in my dreams and don't get frightened. Its the aspect that your helpless that's truly scary. Thought I would share, maybe someones had similar happen.

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I've had similar happenings. I still can't figure out if it actually happened or if I was dreaming, but it felt very real.

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Originally Posted by Russosaur

Anyone here ever encountered sleep paralysis? Quite interesting, happened to me last night. I woke up to the TV on and some figure playing my xbox as out my door i can see a chair for the living room. Anyway the black demonicish figure playing my xbox is in the chair and as i look over it notices me. All of a sudden all the lights go dark so its pitch black as these 2 fire red eyes start slowly coming tword me. They got about to my door way at this point I'm trying to scream, move getup kick whatever and nope nada. Then it vanishes and i wake up to an awkward wimper from my mouth and everything does back to normal. Kinda scary and thats considering I luicd dream a lot (almost every night) and have encountered much worse things in my dreams and don't get frightened. Its the aspect that your helpless that's truly scary. Thought I would share, maybe someones had similar happen.

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If I had that, I'd definitely stay away from horror movies, ghost shows, etc as those situations would probably insert themselves in your dreams

I never had that happen to me fortunately. Although something similar when I was about 12 except it didn't come in my room, only walked by and it was a pure white figure. I wasn't sleeping as far as I remember, I just remember being really scared and the next night getting walkie talkies set up in case it happened again lol

Yeah, you should have seen the day i watched incidious 1 and 2 at like 1am. Crazy dreams, plus it happened to be the ones where it feels like real life with crystal clear vision, sound, movement. Yep that was fun, but over the 19 years I've been getting them, i can control almost every aspect of my dreams now.

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whats funny is for me when i get up i get up so fast that its like i was laying down sad part is you think i would be dizzy from moving so fast but nope im full awake in 2 seconds. If that was me i would have know if it was a dream or not since i dont dream EVER.

I usually realize it right off the bat, yet to figure out how to break the trance easy tho.

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Lucid dreams rock, they are the best entertainment. Had a good one last week. I'm too old to get scared so I just hold on for the ride. Theres a cure for them but it isn't legal everywhere yet!

Idk why you would want to cure them they are awesome

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Seems like they would be awesome lol
Edit: You know, I have made it to the point where I know I'm dreaming, but the odd part is right when I realize it, I start to wake up. Every time too. What I have noticed is sometimes if that happens and I go back to sleep soon enough, that dream will continue and change slightly since I did think about it a little when I was waking up.

Needed more wrenches at work, I have a 7-18mm craftsman wrench set now that is ok, craftsman's regular wrenches are meh quality. They sell professional wrenches (which I should own since I'm in the repair industry) and I really like their professional set size 19-24mm. Just what I need for suspension work and fuel filters(had the hardest fuel filter change ever, just today). Got it for $74.98 shipped, USA made version too. Looking for more tools now, mainly little things like spark testers, blow guns, small line cutters; but also some ingersoll air ratchets. Buying all that stuff probably tonight.

Saw a great one on FB this morning.

Kyle suggested Tim McDumahan use GPF for a shift kit install.

He won't use it tho, he will just go in blind and ask questions along the way like normal.

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Hey now, I wrote that as detailed as it gets

We don't doubt your retentiveness... however it would be tough for someone like him to actually read