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    upper control arms

    you can also get camber offset upper control arm bushings from Rockauto. but just an fyi, the bushing press rentals from the autopart stores are too small. I tried swapping mine out and failed, now I'm looking at buying the whole arm assembly with new bushings and balljoints
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    schorched paint on the roof, respray decision

    So I've got a 97 burb and the paint is burned and rusty on the top, I'm going back and forth about either trying to rattle car it or to use a roll on bed liner paint. I have a friend who did his whole jeep in the stuff so I know what it looks like, but I'm thinking a flat black roof would look...
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    Need Ac help

    Sweet, that's an easy and cheap fix
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    Need Ac help

    Jimson, did you ever figure out what it was, I've got an issue where my resistor works on all speeds, but sometimes it just turns off. I don't think there's a thermal overload built into the motor, so I'm thinking my issue is a wiring issue, I wiggled a wire near the blower motor last time, then...
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    4L80E Concerns?

    I have the 4I80e behind a vortec 7400 in my 97 suburban, the guy i bought it from had the tranny reworked at 173k i bought it with 188k, and looking at the rebuild write-up it didn't need much work to begin with. he said as soon as he noticed a change he took it in because given the miles he...
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    454 vortec injector thoughts?

    I'm hoping I don't have to do that in 3 months, mine is an extra car. I think if it was my daily driver I would've bought the expensive ones. I would've just replaced the stock one that was leaking but everyone on the forums talked about how they were a bad design to begin with. That reminds me...
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    11.50's slow?

    I looked at my first drag slip on my bone stock G8 GT 6.0l and the 1/8mi ET was 8.7565 @82.11mph. I'm guessing you'd land in the high 16sec 1/4mi. so faster than a Civic?!
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    Is this a good deal?

    I've got about $5k into my '97 K2500 suburban. If it's in good shape and doesn't need anything I think a good deal would be somewhere around $1500 from a stranger, $1000 from family, $2500 sounds like "buy here pay here" car lot pricing
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    Want to put down times with my daily driver, what to do for strip prep?

    The best bang for your buck is to buy an old CBR600 for under $2k and put it in the bed of the truck. I used to take my G8 GT to test and tune night down at dragway42, pulling high 12's put me inline with LS1 camaros with intake and headers. There's always the racer dad with his kid in a 80's or...
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    454 vortec injector thoughts?

    I bought injectors (3yr warranty) off of ebay for $118.49 http://www.ebay.com/itm/281152255299?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649 I bought NGK spark plugs, didn't like them and I might have fouled them doing the seafoam thing so I bought a set of AC delco rapid fires...
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    Bunch of engine work took me from 12.6 to 14.5mpg highway

    It's hard to say around town, since it's horrible to begin with and in stop and go traffic just being light on the gas at a few red lights can make a big impact, I was getting around 9mpg according to the scangaugeII per trip to work and now it seems to be around 10mpg and sometimes I knockoff a...
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    2000 454 vortec constant problems what to do?

    I'll put that in the back of my head, I had the ICM off when i did the injector swap and didn't replace it, I hope it doesn't come up to bite me later.
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    2000 454 vortec constant problems what to do?

    I've had a 97 with the 7400 for about a year and a half, I had random stalls while driving and once while pulling my 6k# boat. check the main positive and ground leads from the battery, once i improved those the flickering and the weird electrical gremlins stopped. It could be a number of...
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    Bunch of engine work took me from 12.6 to 14.5mpg highway

    So I'm so happy about the results of my latest upgrade/repair I thought I'd share my results. For starters I make the trip from Cleveland to Cincinnati about 12 times a year and use my suburban for about half of them, and I have a scangaugeII on the Burb, so I have a good account of fuel used, I...
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    Rear view camera trigger wire?

    The 2 backup cameras that I've installed had a signal wire built into the A/V cable, I spliced it into the positive line on the rear backup light on the one side and the head unit on the other side. works like a charm and less intrusive than trying to find the right wire up on the steering...
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    How to remove engine noise from my subwoofer

    Like everyone else I'd start with the grounds, I'd also try moving your RCA cables if they run right next to the positive cable, if there's poor shielding in the RCA cable it will all distortion from the cars electrical system. the ground loop isolators add an additional ground protection to the...
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    What kind of mileage do you get?

    So I have a 97' Suburban K2500 7.4l, 195k miles, max towing setup, i get 11.5mpg running from Cleveland to Cincinnati with maybe 2 stops running 75mph. I get that same 11 running around town, and it might drop to 10.5 pulling my 4800lb boat at 65mph, but really the engine/transmission doesn't...

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