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Old 05-05-2009 | 03:32 PM
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does that include my garage . . . .
lol whatev. I've been a good guinea pig so far

Originally Posted by Camaro Zach
haha no kidding. It has spent more time in my old driveway and my new garage than my own truck has lol
ha, this might be true about your new garage. Hopefully it's the last time for a while that it'll be sitting there
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The gears are in and everything feels good so far. Just a few miles off of the 500 mile mark for break in. I'll post some pics from Brian's install later when I have more time. Maybe in a few weeks I'll have track times as well.
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does that include my garage . . . .
The ricer is out of our garage, so now there's a lot of room....he he he
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The gears are in and everything feels good so far. Just a few miles off of the 500 mile mark for break in. I'll post some pics from Brian's install later when I have more time. Maybe in a few weeks I'll have track times as well.
sure is a different animal on the street !
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Ive ran Lucas Oil stablizer in the rear diff before.. haha it actually helped the G80 lock better when it was goin out.. put the Eaton in there about 50k miles ago and the stock 3.42s have 200k miles on them now. I just put some gear oil in it and be done.. ive mixed a few different brands before the Eaton LSD cause i didnt have enough of what i needed.

Now with the LSD its got what it needs with the friction modifier.
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Originally Posted by jakebdb56
The gears are in and everything feels good so far. Just a few miles off of the 500 mile mark for break in. I'll post some pics from Brian's install later when I have more time. Maybe in a few weeks I'll have track times as well.
You certainly don't waste any time. Just remember to change the fluid after 500 miles and let er' rip. This thread will require a picture of two black tire marks on the pavement.

Tell Zach to melt your old G80 into a paper weight and sell it on ebay.
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You certainly don't waste any time. Just remember to change the fluid after 500 miles and let er' rip. This thread will require a picture of two black tire marks on the pavement.

Tell Zach to melt your old G80 into a paper weight and sell it on ebay.
lol nice meeting you Brian thanks for getting that thing out of my shop
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This thread will require a picture of two black tire marks on the pavement
oha I'm sure it'll be done
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Originally Posted by axisT6
This thread will require a picture of two black tire marks on the pavement.
Did someone say tire marks? Thanks Brian!!



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You certainly don't waste any time. Just remember to change the fluid after 500 miles and let er' rip. This thread will require a picture of two black tire marks on the pavement.

Tell Zach to melt your old G80 into a paper weight and sell it on ebay.
ha yea, driving way out to sugarland friday night helped put some miles on it. Saturday I found myself just driving wherever to get miles on it. I'm going to probably change the oil on Friday along with my motor oil. What weight do you recommend going with? The same 80w90? I don't have time to make it up to RP to get gear oil this week, but I will definitely get some eventually. Thanks again for taking the trip out here to do the gear/diff install. We need to hookup sometime at the meets and BS some more.

Originally Posted by Camaro Zach
lol nice meeting you Brian thanks for getting that thing out of my shop
I was more happy than you were I guarantee you. It sucked not driving it for over a week

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oha I'm sure it'll be done
ha, might you film it for me? Maybe we could get me and zach laying some down in the same video. And maybe his G80 will blowup when he gets traction



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