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  1. Catbox

    Exhaust pipe kits from @mazon/ eBay

    Yes. We have used two kits from Eastwood and two kits from DNA on ebay / Amazon. Wherever you can get the best deal. For the raw steel systems, we just used barbeque black spray paint for corrosion resistance. This is what was first put under my son's '49 truck, then he finished the tailpipes...
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    Harbor Freight Table and carts

    I built my main shop bench in my apartment garage a long time ago. It was purpose built to fit the nose of my '72 Chevelle under it as it was a super shallow garage space. I squeezed all I could out of that tiny space many years ago. And I still have the desk.
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    73-80 454ci spec questions.

    Zombie thread revival. As many know, I started bone stock. Not even the lid was flipped until we got started with it. First came a cobbled together 2-1/2" exhaust as the one on the truck was basically falling off. Like the muffler dropped as the boy was driving his Ma around in it. Flowmaster...
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    Radiator Shroud

    Paint detail the words that are on it with white.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Cleaned the bed out and Junior took his quad out to his girlfriends house to ride. Now the transmission pops out of 3rd gear. Choices have to be made soon. Fix the trans I don't like with snap rings and shift forks. Or start the conversion to 4L80 I have. Hmmmm....
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    Recommend Me a Reliable/Budget Serpentine Kit

    I pulled the set up off a 1992 V8 Camaro. It cost $80 out the door with the alternator and power steering pump on the brackets. I am all over the factory setups as well because you can find them everywhere now.
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    Current project 1953 3100

    The green on there looks great! What are the plans for it?
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    LED Shop Lights That Last??

    I do not have 8 foot bulbs. But I do have many many of the 4 foot single tube fixtures from Harbor Freight all over the garage. They seem to have lasted for at least a few years inside the garage and mounted up under the eaves of the house in front of the garage. For about $20 each, I will keep...
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    What new tools have you got lately?

    I got a chance to use the new to me old Skilsaw the other day to cut a pair of plywood sheets in half. Dang'd old thing works like a champ and even has a sharp blade on it still.
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    489ci tow build...

    Do the simple things to yours as I have done to mine. It will behave like a different truck. Even with the little tiny cam that is in it. Another thing on the L-29 vs PP heads. The L-29s have a 235cc intake port where the PPs are 200.
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    489ci tow build...

    I may opt to install a spare set of the L-29 Vortec heads onto this engine before we retire it from service. Here is a photo showing the 100cc chamber of the Vortec that is much smaller than the 119cc of the peanut port. Bolting these on should bump the compression up a full point from the stock...
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    489ci tow build...

    The 454 that was mostly stock in my '79 would barely turn its own tire over with me dumping the clutch. Enter some simple to do mods and it is a totally different engine and far more powerful. The engine in the truck was replaced with a factory rebuild in 1990. Total 100% stock old feller...
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    489ci tow build...

    My guy. What are the current specs of the 454 in your truck? Everybody skipped that part of the process.
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    My truck has been sitting so long with gravel in the bed that there are weeds in the gravel now. I need to get that cleaned out...
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    Got it all finished up and heading home at the ripe hour of 12:00am Monday morning. Here is the first drive-by as he headed on home with the full system in place.
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    One side all finish welded and ready to go under the truck. Burning up the floor doing the newtron dance again! Both tail pipes finished and they match pretty well too! The exhaust kit came off Amazon and was like $155 shipped after coupon applied! I also gave the ends a quick slash cut to...
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    All that stuff took place on Dec 26th. For the next stuff it happened on Dec 29th starting at 4:30pm or so. Already dark. And raining again. For the plug wires, I ended up doing the Frieberger way of separating them with zip ties. I didn't take a photo of that as it was late on Sunday when that...
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    Putting plug wires on #5 sucks as well... So cute and suckass for any kind of power. This should do for any level of power he puts in the engine bay.
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    Putting the number 5 bolts in on this set of headers, sucks. Watching and day dreaming about the new noise... Now its time to weld the muffler to the head piping... Max is getting pretty good at this exhaust and muffler fab stuff. Even though he dislikes it being outside in the winter very...
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    Here we have Max showing us how much he likes working in the driveway in the rain. Hmmm. This is one of the reasons he wanted to get this all done up. There is a significant hole in one of the crappy muffler shop mufflers that are under the truck. He made an effort to plug it, but that lasted...
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    Paul's 1972 Truck...

    Tard-o didn't even post a photo of the cool work we did. He comes over for exhaust work and we end up doing all kindsa shish to his truck. New thermostat, heater hoses, rear 2" drop shackles, and different headers. Then we were able to get the new 3 inch pipes connected to the header collectors...
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    Huck's daily - 2005 Z71 crewcab

    Damn fine work sir. All the voodoo required has me using a diff guy and paying his prices.
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    Loss of one of our members, ole mtnmankev

    Good mojo to his family and friends.
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    Quinn 8" needle nose pliers - Pinch da fug

    Yup. After my first set of Knipex pliers, I don't use others.
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    Old man constantly asked to drop his truck.Any stock height C10s left in the world??

    Mine is stock height. But looks like a mini truck here...

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