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    Girdles are for Fat Ladies

    Has anyone tried making a S1 bottom end more like a S2 ? That is to say, milling the S1 block to accept 4 bolt main caps at#2 and#3mains (just like a S2). The obstacles that I see here are the oil pick-up hole in the block at the #2 main and the dipstick hole into the side of the block at the...
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    Dyno Time ??

    Somebody on this web or another BUICK website was trying to organize (chassis) dyno time in the SW Ontario area... sa the post recently. Don't know if anyone has organized that yet .. if so, I'd like to know more (time-place-$/hr-available tuners etc..) Also, have had a local shop...
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    Evaluation Time

    Gotta love Yankee enginuity .... and more specificaly ... US Aftermarket Performance manufactures and distributors. I know we have some "Local" dealers .. but my experience has been that the locals bring in most of the trick stuff from south anyways, and they more or less treat a Beeuyak like a...
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    E testing in Ontario

    Any local yocals have their TR's or GN's E tested in Ont. recently ?? Questions galore ??? What shops are the most FLEXIBLE ? and whats going rates ? Does removing the EGR and cannister cause BIG (or any) problems passing ?? Any critical info. aside from the normal... clean oil, new...
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    Dblr rolller vs gears

    I looking for opinions on cam drive systems... Dble roller chains versus gear driven.... Pros and Cons- Someone said that the gear drive units make a lot of noise that creates probs. for knock sensor ?? On SB Chevs the gear drive noise sounds fine. Will the gear drive set up control the "cam...
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    New Parts (new product request)

    hummmmm parts I'd like to see (more available and lower priced) Top of my list - FORGED CRANKSHAFTS. Stock dimensioned, forged and /or billet steel crankshafts ... at something less than twice the price of a V8 bowtie crank in the same material. I priced SCAT, and CROWER and found that...
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    Hi-po mechanics/mach. shops

    Another northern lite here .... enquiring about other northern (Ontario - Toronto-Guelph-Cambridge-Kitchener area) V6 fans that may have had good or bad experiences with area performance shops and/or auto machine shops .... as it would apply to GN's and hi perf. V 6's. I'm working towards a...
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