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New rims and tires look great Ryan.

And congrats on the new house.
Looks like somebody has a fence or deck to build ? :lol:

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Thanks, and yeah, that guy needs to get on it. So his wife says. :lol:

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just explain het the merits of having a strong puller to rip the old decking of the veranda with some rope and a short initial run
(hold my beer : hey all watch this)

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She'd just tell me to go get her excursion and use it. :lol:

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Love the look of those steel wheels. I tracked down the same hub caps all winter long . Put them on with my skinny 16 x 6.75? Steelies they looked horrible . Love them on the wider wheel tho. I haven't heard anything of the vet lately . What's it up to? Put into storage ? Driven daily ? Doing a long haul route to Texas running blocker for a load of coors ?

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Yeah, the wheels and hub caps definitely look better with the wide wheels. The Vette has been sitting since November in the barn. The last week in June I got it out and my brother took it to Good Guys. Other than that, it just sets. I'm having thoughts of getting back in it and making some passes before snow flies. We'll see. I've had thoughts of selling it too. I guess too much other stuff to do and too many thoughts of what I could be doing with the money rather than it setting in a barn. But then again, it doesn't cost anything doing nothing. Haha

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Ya it's tuff. You sell something it's gone for good usually. I sold a bunch of stuff when I bought this farm. It sucked but life goes on. Now that some bills are paid and business is good I see my pile of good junk getting back up again . Your rite. It costs nothing to keep something packed away for a Rainey day. I can't see your vette being easily replaced .

Does that car have a build thread anywhere ?

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Been away for a while and in see you've made some serious progress.

Nice work buddy.

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I've got to admit, I'm a little jealous of the bumpers.... I may have to do something about that at some point in the future.

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Yeah, I'd rather keep it, but it's tough for me to keep it and not want to do something to it. I've had major thoughts of taking the Cummins out of it and putting an LS in it. Redo the interior to back to an original dash configuration, and make it a street car. But, I have too many other projects, and the car runs and drives now. Yeah, I'll have to dig up a link. I know I had it on a few different sites. Plus if I couldn't get enough out of it, I'd just keep it anyway. I won't give it away. I have too much blood, sweat , anger invested in the dang thing. :lol:

Thanks Nate! How have you and the family been? Good I hope.

Thanks. I'm going to try to get a front one like this for my 76. But my money tree lost all it's leaves. :smoke:

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If you took the oil burner out and did the LS thing that sure would be cool , but then you would have to find a home for the stout cummins and we all know how much you dislike projects . Lol. I vote keep it barn fresh till ur in the mood for it . Corvettes don't go bad . Even the limited build diesel ones that Harvey earl built by hand in the basement of the factory .......lol.

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Honestly, i was going to say something about how nice the rear is... haha

how about a few better pics of that thing in paint for a dude?

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After reading your post, I had this flash of an idea. Instead of buying my friend's engine out of his 94, I could save all that money and just steal the engine and trans for the 76. :lol: But I'm not that desperate yet.

I'll try to get a few other pics of it for ya in a couple of days. It's kind of blocked in by another 6bt now. Haha

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Really diggin your build. Thanks for checkin in on mine.

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Looks great Ryan! :metal: :metal::metal:

No wonder the other projects are progressing slowly. :lol:

A buddy told me about your build. I've just finished my p pump 24v swap. But I'm having trouble with the engine had a couple questions if ya don't mind
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How are you liking the Dakota digital gauges? Do you have a boost and pyro? I've been looking into the cHx gauges with the bim modules but not sure where the additional readings are displayed?

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The factory tach position has a digital readout that you can toggle through the extra outputs. Ryan also got an auxiliary display so he can see more than one.

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Sure, no problem. Ask away.

Like Ryan said, they are dis[layed where the original tach used to be. I did get another display too. I'm not sure where I will mount it. I haven't driven the truck a lot, but I do like these gauges. I have to finish mounting my BIM modules and hooking them all up.

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The Longhorn got a room mate too. Ryan, here are a couple other pics of the back bumper that you asked for a while back.

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I've been working on diagnosing the trans before I pull it out for repairs. The only weird thing is the front servo seems to have no pressure in reverse. All other pressures are fine. Out it comes.

I've been working on getting the corvette ready to go to the track next Friday night. My youngest brother is getting married on the 29th so the 28th for his bachelor's party he gets to take the car and make some passes. I just put taller front tires on it to gain some clearance. If you like Diesel World magazine, the car wil be in October or November's issue.

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Hey that's cool. Not too many people that can say they got there diesel powered vette featured in a magazine . Lol. Congratulations !

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Thanks!

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Nice corvette! we need more pictures of that puppy. Do you have thread in the alternate tinkering area?

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I can't remember if I do or not. I'll have to check.

I put a p pump on my 24 valve. And I'm not getting fuel that I should be getting out( no black smoke.) I have a airdog165 with 1/2" line from the tank straight into the inj. Pump have done all of the AFC mods. Still nothing. I was told it needs more timing and 4k gov.springs. it's at 18.5°advanced now. Since it has been advanced it seems a little better. But not what it should be. Tinkering with the AFC. I started it up with it off just for the hell of it. It's got coal for days.. Put it back on and back to crap. I don't want to roll coal alot. But I know if there's no smoke I'm not getting enough fuel and can't make power without it. Any ideas? Oh also stock injectors and turbo hx not the hy
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Kjones, what what the pump off of? There are mods that can be made to the AFC to alow more travel out of it along with modding the diaphragm. My guess is that your fuel plate is pulled back and limiting full fuel or the AFC is to far back and not letting it fuel enough. The AFC housing is the only emissions equipment I ever liked. Set it up for a ton of fuel then dial it back till boost rises. Another thought is to ensure that you don't have a leak in the AFCs boost reference line or a faulty overflow valve (pressure valve in the return line). My 175hp pump and stock injectors would black out a lane of traffic when it had a stock turbo. 500HP has been hit with pump mods and a HX35 even though it was hot and smokey. You may want to reduce the timing a little. I ran 18-19* but always had head gasket issues even with studs and orings. 17* seemed pretty safe and spooled up a little better but power also dropped off earlier.

I forgot to add that. New reference line. And I took the fuel plate out to see if it would help. It's a new rebuilt unit that is suppose to replace the 175hp that I had which had sticking issues. I've done all the mods that I know of to the AFC. Including the diaphragm. Starting to wonder if the rebuilt pump could be the issue, as the shop has a 50/50 satisfactory with the community
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Kjones72, your timing sounds low to me for a P-pump 24v. Mine is set at 25*. I wouldn't go much lower than 23* personally. Sorry for the late response. I didn't see the new posts.


It may be too late to buy the mag off the stands now. The Vette was in Ultimate Diesel Builder's Guide October/November issue, instead of Diesel World. I had a hard time finding a copy a few weeks ago. It seems they were still on the racks last weekend though.

As far as the Longhorn, the trans should be done at the trans shop this week. Hopefully in the next two weeks I can get it put back together. The engine has developed an oil leak. I need to fix that before I put the trans back in. I haven't had time to mess with it with work and helping a friend with harvest.

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Good job on getting in a magazine.

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Today I picked the trans up from the trans shop. It should be fixed now. The engine has developed an oil leak. I need to remove the engine adapter and see where it is coming from. once that is fixed, then I can get back to installing the trans. Ten I need to finish a lot of things I haven't gotten too, to make it a daily driver. Like, mount the air compressor, tank, and leveling valve. Install and wire the compu shift mini, wire the heater circuit, wire in the cab lights, cargo and third brake lights, and check the operation of the wipers. I need to re-visit the LMC heated washer reservoir as I think that may be a nice addition too.

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I've read over both of your builds man you got all of work into your builds Ive been gathering parts and a lot of information and ideas from reading your two builds to help when I finally start actually building mine thanks for sharing all your hard work definitely show stopping attention getters

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Congrats on the magazine feature of the Vette.Very nice.

And good to hear your back on this again.

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Thanks guys!

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Same old stuff here. The truck has sat on the jack stands all winter out of the snow, ice, hail, rain, and even a tornado. Haha I've been acquiring more parts for it, and working on it when time allows. I managed to get my right and left seat belts in. A friend came over and worked on fitting the stereo to the billet radio mounting plate. He also hooked up the front speaker wires and mounted the speaker brackets I got from Bigblock73. I removed the brackets and painted them, then ran the speaker wires and reinstalled them. I also ran new wires to my cargo light and 3rd brake lights. Now I have to get a new cargo light switch to finish that. I also got my sill plates installed. Whoops, I almost forgot. I also installed my new precision push on door seals. I had to work them around pretty good with the rubber mallet to get them to fit end to end. Now the doors really shut hard but maybe they'll seal awesome. I also got the rear main replaced, and am picking up the expansion plug tonight that was my oil leak. I sent my torque converter in to get turned back into a diesel converter too. So when its back, I can get the trans put back in it. I'll try to add pictures later.

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I forgot that I also ordered a 19gal Boyd aluminum tank. I had to have them change the mounting brackets, and it has a 1/2" feed instead of a 3/8". Now I have to decide on a side marker filler, tail light bed filler, or a bed floor filler.

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Here are pictures of the new door weather stripping, sill plates installed with SS hardware, speakers, and seat belts. I also finally got my oil pan, rear main, and cam expansion plug all done. I also got a catch can for it. I think I'm going to mount it in the LH inner fender well. Now, once the torque converter comes back, I can put the trans and transfer case back in.

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Looking Good! :metal: :metal:

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Looks good! I guess I overlooked it, but what did the seat and seat belts come out of? Also, are the belts mounted in the factory hole in the b pillar?

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All looks very good!
I like the idea of side marker fill if you are wanting it hidden.