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Buddy of mine had a new Firebird when was there... He walked a couple miles to school a lot. haha.

I use only certified organic 100% free trade leprechaun grease. In all seriousness, I use what is in the grease gun. I think it is just a general purpose bearing grease in there.

To be honest, there are times I wish it was all still stock aside from the fuel system upgrade and a small tuner like a edge or smarty. Though, when I reflash my truck back to stock with a smarty it is quite doggy by comparison. I really like the setup now with the 62 and 125 sac injectors, although it does get a bit hazy at times which some attiribute to the SAC injectors. My old 2000 5sp drove really nice with the HX, RV injectors and an Edge chip. If I were to start over from a stock auto truck, I would probably end up about the same place I am now or I would have a adrunio controlled turbo like Nick has. If I were starting from a stock manual, I would probably stick with the stock turbo and just put bigger injectors in due to turbo cost. However, doing all the upgrades at once can feel expensive. Trans is expensive, but every auto or clutch will need rebuilt eventually. Air is expensive and needs injectors to go along with it along with some chip or programmer. I've done it as parts have worn out, so it wasn't so bad. Trans needed redone, so I overbuilt it a little, injectors were missing so I replaced them and the turbo at the same time. My outlook on the truck is different than most though, as I want fast enough to negotiate traffic with ease, but I don't want to be breaking too many parts long term. A note on injectors, there are a lot of different injectors and each manufacturer seems to make different stuff. Some are dirty, some are cleaner, some have 7 holes, some have 6, some are honed, some are VCO, some are SAC, all of them run differently. Recently there has been some interesting discussion that has changed the old rule that big injectors mean poor mileage. I know TFaoro has been getting great mileage with his twins and sewer pipe injectors. With the new features on the Adrenaline and potentially the Smarty UDC, it might make more sense to go to larger injectors than one would traditionally for a given amount of air available.

That is making a hybrid HX35/40. I haven't done it but I do have one and I am not sure the procedure for the swap. Not a bad turbo, but it isn't my 62 by a long way.

Hy vs hx is the exhaust housing from what I recall, not compressor.

True, it aint a cr. However, if I can exactly tune it rather than some level or catcher... Id be happy. The quad has interested me in that regard.

Well. I guess that means I am getting a pro eventually. Question is if I should sell my S03 now or not... should I be looking at the smarty or that other brand?

Nick, you need to drive my truck with the 125s. I think injectors only do so much. At least, how I understand it, injectors give you the potential to flow more fuel. The fueling is still governed by the vps internals. Am I wrong there?

Mike, you touch on a very valid point. The electronics and ecm of the vp trucks may not be able to do what we expect from the cr udc

Aside from the mystery klunk and moog, your truck ain't bad. It ain't shiny, but meh. Heck, folks look at my truck and don't think there are twenty teeth in there betwixt all the occupants anyway.

Sad. Prior to me, back before the state got on the school for requiring more credits than a masters degree for a B.Sc... Back then, summer field session included a very rigorous machine shop time of a couple weeks. Likely early 2000s that changed. Yep. I am back in the Rockies and free of the south! Thanks for the compliment. Your truck is sweet also quite fast and and very very clean.

Fair enough. I think they gave us 3 days back a few years ago. Still, I didn't know much of anything.

Aren't they still doing summer field session? And give me some time, I gotta get them cleaned up and working first. Theres at least two decades of dust on them.

Nice. (still working on that video for you by the way, probably this week) What I really want to work up to is a larger lathe and knee mill. I have a list of stuff that I want to build.

Thanks. I am not sure what projects they are going to take on, but it should be fun to learn on them.

how bout now?

So I picked up some lathes recently. I haven't used a lathe for about 10 years, and never anything as old as these. The grey one is a 1935 South Bend 9" workshop lathe. The blue one is an Atlas/Craftsman 618 6" lathe. The craftsman didn't come with a full set of change gears. The South Bend is pretty complete. Other misc tooling and whatnot were included, and both are in very good shape aside from needing a cleaning. The photos are when I pulled them out of the truck, tooling and the other parts aren't shown.

+1 to all of the above. Also, are you estimating fuel mileage from the odometer and hand calculating it? The overhead panel MPG calculator is not in any way reliable.

I agree with Tyler. I would love a UDC, but I doubt it.

Want.

Makes me wonder about my ATS trans... It can lockup like a beast sometimes.

I ment mabe full of water or crud if you got some bad fuel. I doubt it is the regulator, but it could be possible. And yes, on mine the spring is on the sending side. Ive never had mine apart though. Mike is right too. The gauge could just be messed up.

I have fought this issue from the t.v. cable side. I sometimes wonder if I have mine right. I currently have it set at wot=max tv travel. It seems to work well, but I dont know if it works as well as it could.

Well, one big one... Water seperator full? Filters full? Air leak on suction side? Pressure regulator spring obstructed or stuck?

just a guess. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I hit a rather large bump yesterday and now it wanders like it did when I was down a ball joint.