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Re: The BlackHawk

Post by 223Hawk » Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:27 pm

BLACK-HAWK wrote:A&A Corvette has the car.. they might get to it next week although my little firebird isn't at the top of their list with a garage full of vetts and a ctsV coupe...
Are the spring seats too thick?
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:53 pm

i think they were just some shaty springs used to keep the cost down when built the 1st time. an anomaly turned into a trend.. new better springs are going in on both sides
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:00 pm

can't wait to get her back! maybe hopefully i'll keep her in one piece to make it out to the 2012 rally !! :wink: :mrgreen:
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Re: The BlackHawk

Post by 96AZHAWK » Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:39 am

223Hawk wrote:
BLACK-HAWK wrote:A&A Corvette has the car.. they might get to it next week although my little firebird isn't at the top of their list with a garage full of vetts and a ctsV coupe...
Are the spring seats too thick?
Spring seats is part of the install height items to consider, would be nice to know what the springs are, what is the install height, are the seats/locators shimmed, are they shimmed too much allowing the seat/locator to move around the spring pocket... lots of questions come up when there is a failure. Normally it would be nice to trust someone to build an engine for you, unfortunately more often than not double checking everything is a good thing to do.

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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:55 am

i asked, the text message i got back was:
" Si valve springs. 600+lift. 105/135 spring pressure."
"Capital bind 650 "
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Post by DraganHawk » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:24 pm

BLACK-HAWK wrote:i asked, the text message i got back was:
" Si valve springs. 600+lift. 105/135 spring pressure."
"Capital bind 650 "

Not too shabby! Hopefully the '12 Rally will be good to go

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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:33 pm

i hope so too!
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:25 am

holly molly this hawk is stupid fast!
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:28 pm

so much for the next firehawk rally...or the one after that.... transmission blew up :( won't be getting that fixed till i get some other bills paid off 1st.... needs Vs. wants! needs won this round again
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Post by lakeratiam » Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:12 pm

Bummer............equipment failures suck........ :(
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:39 pm

on the flip side i got a skid plate for the FJ and installed!
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Post by lakeratiam » Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:11 pm

Cool...next a lift kit, bigger tires, a fresh air intake and.................... :lol: My wife wanted a FJ but when we went to look at one at a local lot, there was a nice, low mileage, unmolested, Torid Red 04 GTO sitting right next to it........................'nuf said....... :)
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Post by BLACK-HAWK » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:16 pm

lakeratiam wrote:Cool...next a lift kit, bigger tires, a fresh air intake and.................... :lol: My wife wanted a FJ but when we went to look at one at a local lot, there was a nice, low mileage, unmolested, Torid Red 04 GTO sitting right next to it........................'nuf said....... :)
it's got a 3in spacer lift/leveling kit :D other add on's are a cb radio so i can talk to other cb radios and a 10lb. Co2 tank for airing up and air tools if i ever get round to buying them. it's a low project
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Re: The BlackHawk

Post by BLACK-HAWK » Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:55 pm

finely mustered up the motivation to pull the transmission out today.... tomorrow a guy from work who knows more about the t56, transmissions and whole lot about rocket engines then I will ever learn is going to help me tear it down. so far, with a good firm grip on the input shaft and rotating it i can hear clunking gears and it locks up intermittently. fun stuff......
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Post by lakeratiam » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:10 am

BLACK-HAWK wrote: so far, with a good firm grip on the input shaft and rotating it i can hear clunking gears and it locks up intermittently. fun stuff......
Nice :roll: ......hopefully it won't be too bad. Good luck. :D
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