Lansing area MODFEST 2004 - May 15th
01-25-2004, 07:03 PM
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Lansing area MODFEST 2004 - May 15th
I wanted to announce that I will be having Modfest 2004 at my place on the weekend of May 15th, 2004. We'll be working on two cars at once, non-stop, for as long as we have cars to modify.
I need volunteers who will help out as both technical resources, safety stewards, parts hounds, pizza grabbers, hot dog cookers, mechanical assistants, and slot car pit crews.
If you have something you would like to modify on your car, this might be the day for you. Potential projects could include:
Intake swaps,
1LE or Corvette brake retrofits,
Cat-back exhaust systems,
axle swaps & rear suspension upgrades,
torque converter swaps,
Powdercoating & plenum porting,
Header installations
stereo installations
I need volunteers who will help out as both technical resources, safety stewards, parts hounds, pizza grabbers, hot dog cookers, mechanical assistants, and slot car pit crews.
If you have something you would like to modify on your car, this might be the day for you. Potential projects could include:
Intake swaps,
1LE or Corvette brake retrofits,
Cat-back exhaust systems,
axle swaps & rear suspension upgrades,
torque converter swaps,
Powdercoating & plenum porting,
Header installations
stereo installations
01-25-2004, 08:55 PM
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If everything goes as planned..i will be doing Long Tube headers, and LS6 intake on my 99. Would be great to have some experienced people help out. Would also depend on if a welder was around to weld the exhaust into place.
01-25-2004, 10:17 PM
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Originally posted by 1989Formula
If everything goes as planned..i will be doing Long Tube headers, and LS6 intake on my 99. Would be great to have some experienced people help out. Would also depend on if a welder was around to weld the exhaust into place.
If everything goes as planned..i will be doing Long Tube headers, and LS6 intake on my 99. Would be great to have some experienced people help out. Would also depend on if a welder was around to weld the exhaust into place.
01-26-2004, 11:14 AM
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Originally posted by Eddie95Z28
This sounds like a cool idea... Do you have a garage or is this outdoors? .
This sounds like a cool idea... Do you have a garage or is this outdoors? .
See this link to a web page that I wrote in 1999. In the last four years, I've gotten a little farther in terms of finishing off the project. In fact, I was painting just today! I should have the walls decorated in time for the modfest. About the only thing I will not have done yet will be the floors. I need to pay off a home improvement loan first, then come up with the $3900 necessary to finish the floor. This garage is sort of my "Z06 Corvette" that never moves.
Building the ultimate garage
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01-26-2004, 04:55 PM
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If you want to wire a standard 230 Volt outlet (the ones used for electric stoves, electric dryers etc) I could bring a MIG welder.
Originally posted by ws6transam
I "might"have a welder guy that could come over to do professional welds, but he charges $50 an hour straight time. Should I check on it, or does anyone else have a MIG/TIG that can do welds? I have a small oxy torch that could be used to tack stuff together, but I'm no expert by ANY means!
I "might"have a welder guy that could come over to do professional welds, but he charges $50 an hour straight time. Should I check on it, or does anyone else have a MIG/TIG that can do welds? I have a small oxy torch that could be used to tack stuff together, but I'm no expert by ANY means!
01-27-2004, 09:52 AM
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Shooting for 14's are we?
Originally posted by ArcticYT95TA
If someone wants to bring a Vortech supercharger, and FMU for a 2003 Ford Focus SVT, I would be more than glad to let you install it on my car for no charge.
If someone wants to bring a Vortech supercharger, and FMU for a 2003 Ford Focus SVT, I would be more than glad to let you install it on my car for no charge.
01-27-2004, 11:56 AM
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Originally posted by Rodrigues
If you want to wire a standard 230 Volt outlet (the ones used for electric stoves, electric dryers etc) I could bring a MIG welder.
If you want to wire a standard 230 Volt outlet (the ones used for electric stoves, electric dryers etc) I could bring a MIG welder.
Already got it covered, I just don't have a welder to plug into it! I normally use the 30A circuit to power my converted ceramics kiln, which will soon be my new powdercoat curing oven, once I finish repairing the temperature controller.
The oven goes from zero to 400 in about sixty seconds and the two-zone thermocouple controlled temp controller will hold temp to within one degree C (in theory, anyway!).
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03-10-2004, 11:39 PM
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I worked on the garage all day today, and finished up the handrails to the upstairs. It's lookin' pretty darned good for the weekend! Now, I just need to start working on that stroker engine, after I get done figuring out taxes and fixing that leak in the roof. 
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