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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 08:50 PM
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its now a real garrett t04e 57 trim.
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 08:50 PM
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like the valvcover how did you make it you need to do a how to on that lol
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 08:57 PM
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its top secret lol. Ill make one when I work on my new valve cover soon.

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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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LOL yeah that what we tell ppl lol its clean looks good if i had an LS i would do that
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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 03:46 PM
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decided to redo my bay.
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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 04:55 PM
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so how long does it take you to redo the bay. - the shaving? i mean straight up pulling and painting? and what kinda paint you use? single stage?
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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 12:05 AM
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it was already shaved and I just repainted it with rustoleum. it only took a few hours to pull the motor and paint everything. cleaning up the motor while its out.
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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 05:57 AM
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RUSTO PAINT is awesome. i have used it many times even painted whole cars and it works awesome. Can not complane for a 50 bux on a paint job. but i dont recomend it if you are not willing to wet sand over and over agian lol......
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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 01:41 PM
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Old Apr 28, 2010 | 06:08 PM
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looking goodddd
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Old Apr 29, 2010 | 12:55 AM
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thanks man def looks alot cleaner.
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 05:47 AM
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Default Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.

love the setup! building a very similar project... was curious how much gear you have left....I have a GSR trans on my ls...with the mph you are running are you gonna have to put a ls 4th gear in soon?
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 10:48 AM
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why 2 BOVs?
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Old Jul 18, 2011 | 10:02 AM
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love the setup! building a very similar project... was curious how much gear you have left....I have a GSR trans on my ls...with the mph you are running are you gonna have to put a ls 4th gear in soon?
with the gsr tranny on 24.5's I could only hit like 112mph or something on the revlimiter of 7200 so I had to switch to a ls tranny. cars best trap was 123mph.


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why 2 BOVs?
why not.
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Old Nov 27, 2011 | 09:46 PM
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so any luck on the shaving how to? i love your VC man and did you make the spark plug cover as well? thinking of making one myself.
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