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Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin work
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10/19/08 10:57 AM
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They have been messing this old stang for some time .. 1st they had Lou make mess out of the back half and I shook my head , well.. they brought it back in and now, Ian looked at it and decided the cage was bad (  ) they cut it out and made mass # 2 out of it .. ( ) and the tin work well, I'll just say if you seen this show and are doing a car of your own,please do not follow what these clowns did ...
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin work
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10/19/08 11:06 AM
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chucks kid died in a car accident and he left the show
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin work
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10/19/08 11:13 AM
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Wow, that's sad, I stopped watching that show when they made a cluster$%#@ out of that PRO whatever Challenger. 
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin work
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10/19/08 04:27 PM
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fasteddie
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Since I (and I'm sure many others) know very little about cage and tin work, could you be more specific about what they did wrong?
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin work
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10/19/08 05:05 PM
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It's kind of hard to describe , you would of had to seen the show . but, the just tinned the WHOLE back seat area, no tub's / nothing .. they skinned the roll bar The center hoop was bent at 45 degrees on the corners and then they made a star like area of it so you looked like you were in a jail cell It was all and all --horrible
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/19/08 10:06 PM
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I did see the show and it looked OK to me but like I said before I'm no expert in cage and tin work.
One thing I thought looked wrong was bringing all the bars together in the center of the cage. It just seemed to to be a bad idea to bring all the stress to that one center point. I could be wrong about that but wouldn't it be better to spread the stress out over a larger area?
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 12:09 PM
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That was a pretty clean lookin' little car before they bastardized it.
Wait 'til it's done. They'll run a couple of passes at the track in the 13 second zone, make excuses about this and that wasn't quite right but if those items were corrected it'd be a 10 second ride, and then push it off into the corner like they've done with other projects.
Remember the joke of a black Nova they built? That was a nice car before the hack job as well. Fortunately someone saved it and had to re-do pretty much everything. The track day with it was a joke.
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 04:28 PM
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I agree with you Bigdad. It was not just a cobbled up mess, it looked like a heavy cobbled up mess. Why couldn't they get a chassis builder to do it, we might have learned something. 
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 04:59 PM
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I agree with you Bigdad.
It was not just a cobbled up mess, it looked like a heavy cobbled up mess.
Why couldn't they get a chassis builder to do it, we might have learned something.
It was done that way so they could have ample room to install the fuel cell backwards! 
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 05:02 PM
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It was done that way so they could have ample room to install the fuel cell backwards!
Haha, If I recall, didn't they pull the same gaffe on the green notchback Barracuda?
We need to start a pool on what the "payoff" will be on the 900hp turbo 'stang.
I'll guess that it'll run 11.60's
...bonus points for the pool if you guess the excuses they have for it not runnin' the numba!
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 06:45 PM
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Last show I seen on Spike was the Blown Small block Chevy in the Big Yellow S-10. All aftermarket engine, big heads, blower, duel carbs. First pass it just dipped into the 7's in the 8th mile LOL. I think they done some tuning, and it went mid to low 7's.
Before that I seen the last bit of a show, they was working on a 440 Mopar engine, it had floating bushed wrist pins. They was assembling the engine, and used a big ole Rose Bud torch heating the connecting rod red hot to assemble the pin....Those guys are total tools, its a shame Spike TV and Power block has such douche bags for hosts..
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/20/08 06:51 PM
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Ever watch those clowns screw together a motor? Atrocious!
I have not watched that show in ages, but I did like watching them remove and install camshafts. 
Clunk,  Clunk, Clunk, as they drag the lobes over the cam bearings.
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Re: Horsepower Tv on Spike this am. awful cage and tin
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10/21/08 09:44 AM
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but I did like watching them remove and install camshafts.
Clunk, Clunk, Clunk, as they drag the lobes over the cam bearings.
Yeah, thats a real good thing to show to the do it your self guy sitting at home.
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