Paul I called to check on you how you been

 

it took a post about the ass holes in Huntsville to get him out of the wood work... Paul knows exactly who i'm talking about, lol

and what is the status on the van, paul?

 

Doing ok guys, had the flu for 5 days, it was the sickest I've been in 10 years at least. The wife had the flu and my daughter also.

Then I had the joy of my in laws and nieces staying with us for 2 days, during the snow since we have gas heat as back up to our heat pump unit at the new house.

Been watching football, yeah I saw you called yesterday, it must have been during the Steelers game (huge Steelers fan).

The van is fine, I have it sitting in my garage work shop and started it up a couple times through out the winter. I'm gonna put that DOHC head on probably after February some time, I save car project stuff for between Feb till Aug, aka when football isn't being played.

The end of this month 2 weeks, I will be taking my turbo off the HHR SS and getting the BNR 2871 and having a tial BOV flange welded to my Dejon UICP. Found a Tial Q BOV with bov flange kit for like 250.

^^^this is another reason I haven't started on the DOHC head on the van, just in case I ran into snags. I need the van running to have a vehicle till I can swap out the turbo's on the HHR SS.

 

sounds good man. also i told adam but for your info also i am working on getting a meet set with ga people. maybe sometime this summer so that way we can all plan ahead

 

dyno day!

 

Maybe I can get them here

 

I can't wait to get my tax return:

Brakes all around(rotors and pads)
two tires(for the front, lol, these made it 9500 miles, Damn)
Billet fuse cover, and other Billet under hood accessories(all the caps, etc.)
Hahn Catback

the rest I got to put toward getting a work vehicle... after that though, i'm done with the Cobalt and will start to get the wheels in motion on a project car... still want to keep the Cobalt, because it'll probably be a couple of years before I finish whatever car I start working on... and I couldn't do with just a work car or truck until then...

i'd love to just say **** it and throw a bigger turbo on the Cobalt, I just don't trust our transmission, its that simple... you blow one of them with a big turbo, its a $4500 fix.... and i've seen the bill

you blow a 4l60e, drop $600 get another, have it rebuilt to your needs for $800.... we don't have that option

 

To each there own, I think installing a fwd trans is easy. Mine blows I'll look for used LNF or SS supercharged (different final gear ratio) replacement and install it myself.

ZZP blew there factory trans after a full season of racing and +500 whp before they put a built one in.

 

It's not that hard. Mine took 8 hours that's with lunch. But I also had a kidney stone

 

+1 on fwd tranny>rwd....

i could do the transmission on the honda in about 3 hour's...take's around 4 hour's on my father in law's 350 3/4 ton...



so its finally starting to get warmer....i can start back on the honda...gonna get a head gasket this week and swap head's....hopefully its the top end and not the bottom (i dont have a spare block but i got 3 head's lol)


anyone see anything awesome i should do while im doing all this?

 

It's gonna be cold this weekend

 

my tails are blacked

 

i'm not arguing ease of operation, its just from a cost + durability stand point... its expensive to get a FWD transmission rebuilt for strength, their expensive enough to be rebuilt back to stock

besides, i'd just pay the $250 and let someone with a lift complete the job in a matter of hours, ground clearance is what makes it difficult... if life goes as I plan, in 5 years I hope to take care of that lift problem

 

Adam built trans on the sale section. I'm asking how much. Bullet I believe how ever you spell it

 

hey bama, the tranny is not built in fact the one im getting is new and i am getting it built lol sorry miscommunication bro lol. its costing me 1,800 to have it cryoed and my gears done in full billet ect so i hoope i see somthing good out of this .... my tranny that i am getting rid of hasa cracked bel housing on the tab to the engine, if he wants a new tranny call schrams and they have trannys for like 450 shipped ... call them ask for the lnf trans with the 3.82 final drive, i ordered this tranny, imjust building it when i get it.

 

yeah I'm pretty sure he is selling the STOCK transmission and getting his new transmission cryoed


***edit***

never mind he just posted, lol

if I could get a transmission for $450-$600... I might be on to something with this car... I had checked into getting stuff cryoed before and knew a full transmission would be around 2gs... but it should last...

either way i'm about to start working a **** load of hours(more than I really want but hey, a lot of work is better than no work) and so hopefully I can bank a lot during this time, hopefully get some relief on the hours when warm weather gets here, and get serious with a car

 

He might can help ya. O drinking made easy is an awsome show. I want to try this 1/2 glass budlight 1 **** jugermister topped 1/2 shot of bailes and chug

 

i need a tune.....ill have the extra monies hopefully this week....


can you tune the le5?

 

ive done my tranny so many fu**ing times itll take me about 5 hours lol........ with lunch ha ha ha ha ha ive put 3 trannys in my car blown two clutches and now i have the ky clutch and its great lol

 

alright guys I need to find a source for solvent based dyes...water based is no good...I don't even know where to start looking for them..

 

what do you need em for?

 

ky clutch?

 

Yep ky clutch lol

 

Le5? (I'm just going with the question theam)

 

tinting urethane...