kenny

Fail. GM ecm ftw.

Wiping your ass with a broken beer bottle > GSF500 > Katana

Shit yeah. Zip tied CV boots, driveshaft bearings full of caulk, etc etc. FTW

DSM guys are the biggest hacks in the known universe, they don't count.

Ford guys ever use knock sensor readings? Seems like us Buick guys are the only people that keep an eye on that.

Adding a girdle to a five liter seems like a moot point to me, the block itself is what fails, so why spend the extra money on machine work to have it girdled? Roll like dyno Brian - safe. You can make big numbers without leaning on it too hard.

The key to not tossing it apart is to not detonate it.

The crank will break much easier with the main caps moving. I'll use a friends car for an example, he had a girdled stock crank motor with billet mains. He beat on this motor for 10 years running 10 second ETs. It finally let go on the dyno, tossed the crank into three different chunks, nuked a piston so bad it was just chunks of metal. Even split the case of the transmission. The block was tested afterward and has since been rebuilt, the car currently runs high 9s with it. Without a girdle on that motor there is no way the main caps would have stayed in for that much abuse. Sure, he probably should have had a better crank in it (and I'm pretty sure he went to an aftermarket one this time around), but that's a lot more money than getting a stock one that will live through some serious abuse turned. As far as I remember, back then there weren't all that many options for Buick crankshafts, either. Hell, there still aren't that many. Though, with improvements brought around by people like my friend blowing shit up, stock block cars are almost in the 8s, whereas ten years ago getting into the 10s without joining the DOTC club was almost unheard of. Anyway, enough rambling - the point is without the girdle you are MUCH more likely to toss the crankshaft. Grated, that isn't really the same problem as five liters have, since the weak link there is the block itself, but with Buick V6s, girdles are the shit.

In Buick V6s the crankshaft is what gives first. A lot of the time you can blow the crank into multiple chunks and the block will still be alright. We call it the DOTC club (drove over the crank).

Girdle is for the bottom of the block. It helps hold the main caps into the block and keeps the crank from flexing. http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61470d1228308240-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-pc030228.jpg The black chunk of steel with all the studs through it. Cometic is a company that makes head gaskets that are VERY hard to blow.

I'm pretty serious about being serious right now, seriously bro.

Look, if Frankie comes in at 7:05 and his toast isn't crisp, he's going to go postal, and you know how many AK-47s he has.

Yes. It's also set to alarm out if said toaster doesn't turn on.

http://i42.tinypic.com/11c8h6o.jpg TOASTER TURN ON MUST BE AUTOMATED God I'm bored.

So I'm sitting here at work, checking out some shit with this building automation system, and these mother fuckers have an alarm output for their fucking toaster. Seriously, it says "pantry toaster". Guys, alert NASA, our toast is not toasty enough. THIS IS SERIOUS. GO NOW. HELP.

That's because they're one of the faggy sites that sold out to Vertical Scope.

They need to get some cablez up in this piece. Almost time to roll the TV out for Lolphins/Ravens

Enough to go deep 9s with ease.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ngd5l1.jpg This is my every Sunday.

lulz http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61471d1228308284-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-pc030230.jpg http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61475d1228308559-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-pc030248.jpg http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61476d1228308623-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-pc030249.jpg http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61925d1229441356-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-dscn1781.jpg http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/attachments/hybrids/61926d1229441393-new-gn-powered-mustang-project-dscn1779.jpg

I don't even want to know what you were looking for when you found that.

You break your wrist... er uh... shoot it yet?

+2millon on taking the MSF

White people are not funny.

My head hurts.