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dang that sucks man. i dont have tint yet on this truck but my last truck was a classic and i use to get pulled over all the time and the couldnt do anything about it cuz classics dont have tint laws lol
but i know a few people that will do the inspection thing so ill be good cuz i dont have any cats on my truck and im about to have limo tint to lol

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Actually, in 2003 they got rid of the grandfather clause for pre-'88 vehicles. I had an '87 Caprice for a daily that I bought partially because of that law, but it's nil now. :(

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really? i didnt know that
i had a cop about to write me ticket for it sometime last winter and then he said that he couldnt do it cuz it was a classic? hmmm weird

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Well, then you got lucky that he was still oldschool and hadn't heard about the updated laws. "Classic" had nothing to do with it. It was just that pre-'88 vehicles were exempt from the tint regulations. I believe the reasoning was because they didn't start enforcing tint regulations until '88.

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how much did ur wheels run on that thing they look good

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Thankyou! I wish the paint on my house looked better. Maybe this summer i will get to that.

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Nice

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I gotta know where you got those valve covers?

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haha one of my buddies picked them up for me and i belive he got them from ebay

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Ha never thought about checking ebay for some, and I buy everything on ebay lol.
I love the look of "fabricated" valve covers, been wantin some for mine.

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yeah i like them there really clean looking... but if you get some you have to have the holes machined into the valve covers for the pcv valve and oil breather

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Want to sell that hood? That would look killer on my truck.

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nah man i really like my hood lol it looks killer on my truck... but thanks lol
cervinis is selling them cheap right now though...

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I was just looking at that, think a knock out driver would do the trick?

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YEAH I DONT SEE WHY NOT... but i just went to a local tool shop and bought a step drill bit set... one of those drill bits that looks like a cone and gets bigger the farther down you go... and i used that.. it worked awesome

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I didn't think about a step bit, I got one of them too.

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there you go lol

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Haha yeah.

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5.3l from an 06 Tahoe in my 1990 chevy

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OK here it is, 1988 GMC 2500 regular cab. 350/5.7 auto 2X4.

Got a ways to go, but I'm slowly getting there. Still need to fix passenger door windows and locks (power). Replace radiator and general mechanical fixes. Nothing too major.

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This is awesome. Do you have a documented build someplace??

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I'll second that! I keep thinking about doing this when my engine gives up or I get bored. How hard was the swap? Did your gas mileage improve?

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well i still have some work to do with the gauges so i haven't been able to tell with gas mileage since my gas gauge hasn't been working but it was mostly straight forward. my truck originally had the 4.3l v6 with a 5 speed so i had to go buy motor mounts from a v8 truck from this era and then i just used motor mount adapters and i also put in a 4l60e transmission. I would recommend trying it, my truck is a lot of fun to drive now. I don't have a documentation of the build but i do have more pictures if wanted.

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Hey new here thought I would post some pics of my 93 work in progress.