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How many of you guys daily drive your LT1?

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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 01:04 AM
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How many of you guys daily drive your LT1?

Im talking the guye with the big cams and high stalls. How many of Daily drive your car and in what kind of conditions? If you drive in snow and such what do you do to prepare for such things?
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 01:57 AM
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Well, unfortunitly i have to drive in the snow sometimes now.

1. All i do is put about 6 coasts of wax during the summer, and 2 right before winter.. i like wax .

2.Then just make sure your tires are snow and mud rated.

3.If you've never drivin a f-body in the snow, i sugest finding yourself an open area(parking lot) and when it first snows go out there and just feel it out see how it handles.

I've drivin alot of cars and nothing quiet handles like a f-body so be careful. I think the are perfectly safe in the snow as long as you don't try and drive like it's the summer time. Just baby it, and you should be ok.

And for my final .02 i sugest buying a cheep beater car and store your car in the winter.. thats what i'm going to end up doing this winter.. :-) my baby gets to sleep this winter!
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 02:32 AM
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I too would also like to hear more about how the heads/cam/stall cars are to drive. I only have 63k on my near stock car, and something breaks every 5k or so.
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 03:01 AM
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yea well its actually a 99 s10 with sandbags in the bed but it is lowered with bigger sway bars front and back so it handles pretty good.
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 07:39 AM
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I do....I drive it about 500-600 Miles Weekly...
Check out what I have done in the sig, its got
everything, bigger motor, bigger stall, bigger cam, supercharger

And I love it.
Thx,
Claude
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 10:45 AM
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I daily drive my car.. Im in FL though so its like summer all year.. except for the rain.. .the only thing that sucks is the gas mileage.. other wise i have no regrets..
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 10:55 AM
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Daily driven in GA with no A/C, heads/cam and stall. No issues here
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 11:17 AM
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Spinner - that is the coolest avatar EVER. Final Fatnasy owns me

Yea I dont have a stall or heads or anythin, but I do concede and say that the CC305 made the car worse for daily driving, not by alot tho. My gas mileage really really blows now, and apparently there isnt enough vacuum for the brakes, so they kinda suck.

It may not be the best car to sit in during traffic, but I still love it.
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 11:20 AM
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I drive my 94 everyday across the moonscape streets of Houston.

It's out of commission this week while I wait to get time to redo the rear brakes, but that's just normal wear that you would have on any car.

It hasn't given me any major problems so far (knocking on wood), but most everything has been replaced at one point or another.
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 12:29 PM
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I drive mine every single day. Big heads, big cam, and a pretty harsh clutch (sorry, no auto), and BFG drag radials. I drive it in all weather (no snow here).

I really think drivability is relative. The car is reliable, and blast to drive, so I consider it to be very drivable.
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 12:32 PM
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Originally posted by Spinner
Daily driven in GA with no A/C, heads/cam and stall. No issues here
Anyone that drives their car in Georgia in the summer with no AC is a loon....
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 12:35 PM
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Originally posted by bruecksteve
Anyone that drives their car in Georgia in the summer with no AC is a loon....
The price you pay to go faster steve
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 12:37 PM
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The price you pay to go faster steve
So is it about ready?? I want to go for a ride!!
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 01:05 PM
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Soon, real real real soon. Gonna put it all back together in a couple weeks
Old Jun 22, 2004 | 01:30 PM
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I daily drove mine for a while then after a 3 months it was fun but i want to keep a week end car, that and was affaird of the people in houston bashing into it. but i had no a/c,heads,cam,gears,stall, and gutted. you get the hang of no a/c after a few weeks in in stand still traffic when its a 100 degrees out.



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