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[Redsdime]

thanks man

i planed on the ls1 6speed but i would much rather do this for my friend jimmy

[Dukeboy320]

Sorry about your friend =(

[Camarokid]

yah man, really sorry about your friend, but im sure hes looking down on you saying thanks, plus its a pretty cool memorial

[Br&on's Z]

Not to mention a very fast memorial!

[Redsdime]

yeah i know he likes it. he didnt have the greatest luck with cars. i told him to buy an s10 bc they run forever. but he couldnt, he was like me with cams. couple v6s and 2 v8 ones. he used to joke with me and say i hope your truck blows up bc it has 205k and runs like a champ. then he would say you need to get a lt1 out of a cam to make it go fast.

[Jesslaney09]

sorry about your friend

but good luck on the truck

[Redsdime]

thanks

we are almost ready to prime my dads truck

[Br&on's Z]

So any updates? Sorry I just can't wait for this one to get done!

[Redsdime]

just a lil cellphone pics of my dads bed. my dad and I helpped with what we could. my dads friend mark did most of the body work and the spraying. i m just getting into the body work

[Redsdime]

its all primered but dont have any pics will get some weds

[purevil115]

How about some pics of you tearing into your truck rather then some primer on your dads bed. Get on it!

[Redsdime]

bc i have to help them finish that first. then i have to get my zr2 ready for winter. i have to fix the mode door in the dash(yay! not) and fix this seal in the t-case.

[Br&on's Z]

Is your dad just going to put the same wheels back on or is he going to do more work to it? His would look good with a set of newer zq8's or some irocs.

[purevil115]

Lame with a capital L

[Redsdime]

im trying to get my dad to buy my zq8s so i can buy new ones

hey brett just come over and rip my motor out haha

[Br&on's Z]

Do you mean so you can get new zq8's or just new wheels in general? What are you looking at? And the truck is going to be all red again when it's finished right? Sorry I forgot.

[2dimes]

sorry about your friend hopfully you will make droped out next year id love to look at it in person and we can lay some tread in memory of your buddy

[purevil115]

I will gladly rip your engine out and clean the whole bay. my favorite part of the whole build.

[Kovz]

Hurry up with this project! No excuses! lol

[Redsdime]

thnks guys for the comments

br&on'sz- it will be all red on my truck, maybe buying NEW zq8s in the future

2dimes- thanks jimmy loved burnouts, he did them in all his cams and def in hes old pos firebird that he got for 300 bucks. i would love to have the truck at the show this year. even if i can get a car trailor if its not drivable. i was at the show this year, and could drive my truck bc my fuel pump is dead!, so i showed up in my zr2.

and mike i will do my best.

brett soon as it starts a send you a text a day or two before.



and i might have a semi update depending on if i can get to summit before 9

(muahhhahaha)

[Driveway Kustoms]

Quote:

br&on'sz- it will be all red on my truck, maybe buying NEW zq8s in the future

reallllyyyyy???? whatcha doin with the old ones

[Redsdime]

my dad claims that he wants to buy my rims and tires....

[Blazin00Jimmy]

how much ya want to sell them for? if dad doesnt buy them

[Br&on's Z]

So did you get your dads truck put back together yet?

[Redsdime]

im not 100% sure on selling the rims, but when i decide i will post in here

far as my dads its getting close the bed is all primed in and out and the shavers molded to the pan. we have to finsh the handle in the gate tweak the pan and dry fit


i took my headers back to get diff ones

i ll get pics soon

[lower90xcab]

why did you take the headers back?

[Redsdime]

do get the ceramics!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yours looks so sexy

[Redsdime]

wheres a good place or a good company that has good header bolts?

[VTsonoma]

ARP for anything bolt related on motors

[lower90xcab]

arp stainless are what im running....that way they dont rust....

[Redsdime]

i ll have check em out.

[MastaE1024]

done yet? lol

[purevil115]

this thread should be renamed el lamo haha. Get on it!

[Redsdime]

man you guys are pushing me ha

were getting close on my dads!

[llorracs93s10]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redsdime

man you guys are pushing me ha

were getting close on my dads!

thats cuz we need pics...hell just throw up a pic of something stupid small update, lol. I did when i re polished my fuel rails...lol

[Redsdime]

UPDATE!:
well i started the tear down guys pics as demanded!!!




well thats as far as i got.......





































































i took the the HIDS the cd player and the sub out, and put it in my ZR2 (dd)

starting fluid in case i need to move it, fuel pumps FTL


into my Zr2

HIDS

and my almost free crappy sub (e-10)

[Redsdime]

...?

[llorracs93s10]

thats all you got done...damn slacker! Maybe i should bring my truck up to you so u can look at the motor in there and myabe that will get you going faster

[Br&on's Z]

Come on man I can take the grill off of mine in less than 10 minutes!! haha I'm just giving you a hard time there's nothing wrong with taking your time to do it right.

[Redsdime]

i just took the grille out to swap the HIDS, and since i m tearing it down i dont need to put it back together...

some pics on the bed progress

my dad sanding the primer so we can bed line it today



my friend mark that is the body man, and me learning. it warped a lil


por50 ed the bottum of the bed


and the bed all mounted up.

we only get to work on it twice a week, but i think the progress is good.

and i am starting to lean to a stepside....

[Br&on's Z]

I don't know about the step side thing....I think you're truck looks a lot better fleetside. Just a thought.

[Redsdime]

thanks.... i ll prob keep the fleet, just doing this bed kinda makes me want one.

we got the bedliner done, it looks real good. i really want to do my zr2 with it. i ll get pics soon

[Forklift]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redsdime

thanks guys

the thing that keeps replaying in my mind is that when i went to his work to see it. as we were standing around looking at he said finally got my lt1 6speed. i said jimmy you becareful cause this car is going to kill you. my friend pete (truess) brought it up.

time for bed pulling the motor after breakfast at 8

a buddy of mine, Damien, wanted a 6-speed LT1 as well and got a 94 in 95 or 96. We saw him one night at Taco Bell saying how much he loved the car and that he had a few beers hours ago and was ok. On the way home to drop off the GF he did 120+ around a corner (the speedo was broken at 134?), slipped off the road, hit a ditch ejecting them both out the T-tops. She slid a few hundred feet through the ditch almost unhurt except for cuts and scratches. He hit a tree backwards basically across the neck, killing him immediately. The car kept going 500 feet snapping tees and bushes before hitting the bottom side against a huge tree, turning the car into a "V" pushing the seats out the T-top holes, it was violent. When police showed up there the GF was telling about her baby so they thought a kid might have been in the car so a huge search went underway in the dead of the night to look for her. They found out later on that she was at home with her folks and was ok.


if you need the computer that sends the signal to override the LT1's anti-theft, let me know, I have one

[Forklift]

nevermind, I guess you got the computer to override the anti-theft.

If you need any advice, let me know. Ive had my LT1 in mine for 5 years or so now. Id do a few small mods to yours as well as some more programming to help the mods. Stuff like killing the AIR intake, the TB bypass, and pulling the EGR

[Br&on's Z]

What kind of bed liner did you do?

[Redsdime]

forklift, thanks for the comments and sorry hear about your friends. i bet it was hard, and sounds like a very bad accident. I mean that day that i told my friend that he needed to be careful, is like so clear in my head. he just got his tombstone and it fits very well. It has a picture of him wearing this certain out fit he wore time and time again, and a pic of his cam too. i tried taking a pic but i cant get away from this glare.


and do you have a build thread? and i am going to do some mods i would like to do as much as i can with the money i have.

and brandon i ll have to look at the can, i m thinking morton?

[dbailey92]

4 pages and thats it? lol do you need some help? jk Good progress

[bubbagt57]

what are you doing for exhaust? throw some SLP Loudmouths on there they sound SICK with stock ported lt1 heads

[Redsdime]

i know 4 pages strong and not much going on with mine, but at least my dads will look good. we had to do his now he needs to drive it, right now hes got a rental.

exhaust hmmm i need to do some more searching, and porting the heads is a maybe for the money i have. i might get it in and running and then go back. i know it sounds stupid but i might have to for the money issue.

[GetsomeSS]

The long tubes sound like a good exaust system to me! haha I really need to start a thread on mine. And you need to get youself a heater and start working on that beast. You have the nicest and biggest garage ever and I don't see any progress!!!! And where's my damn a/c compressor! ha I'm just messin no hurry on that compressor