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Good Morning everyone!
« on: November 04, 2011, 06:45:37 pm »
Hello, and thank you for allowing me in. Some of you may know me, others may not, so I'm going to speak a few moments here, and then open the floor for questions.

First of all my name is Kelly, I'm 31 years old, married, and a GM guy. Not only has every vehicle I've ever owned been GM, but I work for GM, indirectly. This is a (long) list of what I've had over the years:

(3) '65 Nova 2-door hardtops
'87 and '88 V6 Camaros
(2) '02 Z28 Camaros
'72 Cheyenne shortbed
'04 Silverado reg cab shortbed
'74 Chevelle 2-door (not as bad of a car as one might think)
'69 396 Caprice hardtop
'75 454 Silverado 3/4 ton
'98 and '03 ZQ8 S10 Ext cabs
'04 Impala
'97 and '01 Malibus (What? They can't all be nice cars  :icon_lol: )
'96 Sierra POS 2500 diesel (stupid clackmasters)

Anyways, yeah. I'm a GM guy. I have endless amounts of useless GM knowledge, dating from the '50's to present. I don't dare buy another make of car, as I don't want to spend the time researching everything over again.  :scaredjanine:

The current toys are my 99% stock, low-mile, '02 Z28, and a '98 S10. The Camaro has gone a best of 14.13 @ 98.96 at RMR, with only an ORY, trans tuning, and some cheap traction mods. That's WITH my 300lbs of sweet-sexy man driving. A little fuel and timing curve tailoring should net me the 13 I'm after, and then I'm pretty much done modding that car. The '98 S10 is a project I'm building to go real fast. Like 200+mph fast. It will be powered by two different turbo'd LS engines, in order to run multiple classes at Bonneville. So far that project has proven to be quite the learning experience.  :crazy:

If you're bored, or have any questions, feel free to post up.

Thanks!

-Kelly
« Last Edit: November 06, 2011, 05:44:27 pm by The Kelly™ »
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2011, 07:10:49 pm »
Bored..........J/K. Hope to be able to go out to the salt and see the S10s maiden voyage.
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2011, 07:19:22 pm »
Thanks Derek, I hope you can make it out. I'll probably need all the help I can get out there.  :rofl:

-Kelly
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2011, 07:44:36 pm »
Welcome to the board Kelly!
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2011, 07:48:06 pm »
Thanks Jeff!

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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2011, 08:15:34 pm »
Welcome
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2011, 09:51:59 pm »
welcome aboard sir :)
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2011, 01:54:57 pm »
Yay The Kelly™
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2011, 02:41:49 pm »
Welcome!

The SS looks like it could kick your ass, the WS6 looks like it's coming over to do it!

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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2011, 03:54:59 pm »
Thank you Gentlemen.

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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2011, 06:35:07 pm »
Welcome!  pics of anything? :)
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2011, 06:43:15 pm »
:)
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2011, 10:00:01 pm »
Welcome fellas.
...Quoted by Nuvey "this what happens when you loose a bet against an SS".

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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2011, 12:19:07 am »
Welcome!  pics of anything? :)
LOL, yes pics of everything... You asked for it.  :rofl:







































I know, random post, of random pics, but hey whatevs.  ;)

-Kelly
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2011, 09:04:33 pm »
Some salt truck engine work done tonight. I pulled the coolant plugs and cam bearings out of both blocks, in preparation of getting them cleaned and crack checked.









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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2011, 09:20:41 pm »
Both blocks are now bare. Now they can go to the machine shop.  :wootwoot:



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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2011, 10:33:11 pm »
My block next? still need to pull the coolant plugs and cam bearings out of mine.
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2011, 10:37:06 pm »
Great work Sir!


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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2011, 08:58:44 am »
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2011, 06:35:20 pm »
My block next? still need to pull the coolant plugs and cam bearings out of mine.
Sure! When do you want to knock the bearings out? I can bring over the tools.

Thanks for the compliments guys!

-Kelly
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« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2011, 09:38:29 pm »
Not sure. We'll talk about it on Saturday.
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« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2011, 09:50:28 pm »
Not sure. We'll talk about it on Saturday.
Sweet!

-Kelly
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2011, 03:30:18 pm »
Worked on the hub and rotor assemblies for the salt truck today. I took '96 Impala SS rotors, removed the wheels speed sensor reluctors, pressed out the studs, drilled, counterbored, and reamed the wheel stud holes, and pressed in new 5/8"-18 x 3" wheels studs.  O0



-Kelly
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« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2011, 03:22:26 pm »
Very nice. Looks good.
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Re: Good Morning everyone!
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2011, 04:15:08 pm »
Im much happier seeing this hub than the other plan-
Looking good, you know where to find me if you need a hand, lets get that v6 pulled and sold!