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Chris Hodson
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APR 09, 06:54 AM
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Id like to apologize to the person who shipped me the pass key thingy. The shipping deal was actually my fault. I didnt specify a color and they put a weeks hold on it, on top of that aol was sending their mail right to my spam folder. Sorry. But im giving them a good rating and their product did the trick!
HELL YEA!!!! ITS RUNNING!!!! For some reason i decided to go down to the garage after letting it sit a few days... At 5:50 am, ive not gone to bed yet... I turned it over and OMFM it started and ran!!!! And it Was extremely loud lol. I prolly woke everyone up in a mile radiouse. So tomarrow im going to flush all the fluids and replace them. I picked up some synthetic blend 10w30. A blue oil filter the same color blue im using which was cool. And i picked up some tranny fluid and anti slip stuff to add in. So just in time! Another good thing is,,, my tranny puts out the same signal as the old one did so i wont have to build anything for the speedo to work  WOW its such an awesome day now.
Ill get video and sound up asap!!!
Thank you for everyones help on this i really appriciate all the time you guys spent with me helping me get this project to come together! ------------------
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Chris Hodson
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APR 10, 12:20 AM
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Chris Hodson
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APR 24, 04:26 AM
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I think i figured out my problem. I checked all the injector power again, i split the injectors in half so 3 would have its own fuse, then the other 3 there own also. the 3 facing the rear weren't getting juice. So i put power to them and they worked. Now I get to test it all later today when i fix the fuel line. It was loose and got messed up by rubbing on a belt. I bought a fuel filter to bridge the gap. Im excited! ------------------
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Chris Hodson
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APR 25, 12:17 AM
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I RAN! great! Its just very very loud and smells bad lol. I did run into a problem though. I seem to have a gasket leak right about... HERE!
Nothing to big to fix. IM happy to see theres fluid flowing through to it. Now i need to get all my gages working and work on the exhaust. Anyone now how to hook the oil pressure sender up to work?
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BobadooFunk
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APR 25, 05:34 AM
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wow! happy to see you 99.9 percent done!! looks good and you were right about detail!
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Chris Hodson
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APR 25, 07:51 AM
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THANKS MAN! Im happy to see someone finally post something lololol. I get to work on the cts and oil pressure sender today! weee. I took it for a spin around the block, no burnouts or anything but when i felt somewhat sure nothing was going to fry i put my foot into it a bit, and WOW. That feeling right there totally justifies the time and money put into this project. These cars should have came stock with 3800's.
aside from all that... my breaks are all sorts of shittay. I dont have my e-break hooked up but i have new pads all around and everything is freshly bled. Someone told me the e-break has something to do with this, true or false?
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LAMBO
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APR 25, 02:33 PM
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Ogre's cave has a good writeup on how to adjust the rear brakes. Where in Iowa is Le Claire? You're giving me the itch to get my swap finished up. ------------------
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Chris Hodson
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APR 26, 01:45 PM
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LeClaire, 10 min from bettendorf, 20 from davenport. You should scratch that itch lol. Davenport is where i eat the most rice if you know what i mean.
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clok1966
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APR 26, 02:56 PM
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Nice thread, love all the pictures. I'm doing the 3800SC swap sometime in the near future and all this was good reading. Just wanted to say thanks for the pics and the info, and LOOKING GOOD!
clok
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Legacy
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APR 26, 07:16 PM
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Don't think the e-brake has anything to do with the brakes not being all what they should be,, i've never had an e-brake on minein the 5-6 yrs i've owned it,, not sure if you need brakes anyway right?? -i mean,, don't they just slow ya down or something? hmm,, maybe i'll check that theory once MT swap is done! 
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