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Old 03-07-2017, 07:27 AM   #1
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I set my goal for 6 months too, its now turned into 3 years lol. Be ready for setbacks along the way.
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Old 03-07-2017, 10:01 AM   #2
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I set my goal for 6 months too, its now turned into 3 years lol. Be ready for setbacks along the way.
Believe me I know. We'll see where things fall. September is an absolute best case scenario. Things never work out for me quite so nicely.. lol
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Old 03-07-2017, 10:14 AM   #3
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Best case... I would say September?
of 2019?

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I set my goal for 6 months too, its now turned into 3 years lol. Be ready for setbacks along the way.
And some not even by your own doing. Projects like that are never going to be top's on a shops list because they aren't money makers. They are in the sense that they're rolling advertisements, but the amount of time that fabrication takes and the amount that actually gets billed are two totally different numbers.

At Speed1 we would rather do engine jobs and dyno's all fucking day than the big project cars for the money, but the reality is if you can pull two blown REW's before lunch and bill 18.4 hours for it, you're gonna make a shit ton of money. But when you spend two days building an exhaust system, you're not actually going to bill 18 hours for it. Even if you do, you're still paying someone 18 hours and billing 18 hours, where if you can R&R an engine in a day, you'll pay someone 9 hours and bill 18.... so shops generally let the big projects sit until shit gets slow.....

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Believe me I know. We'll see where things fall. September is an absolute best case scenario. Things never work out for me quite so nicely.. lol
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Do I have to be the asshole?
I'm STILL waiting for that Christopher W guy to get his 20B FC going...

Granted, he has the engine in the car, but I bagged on him like TWENTY YEARS AGO on the Evil Forum...


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I'm STILL waiting for that Christopher W guy to get his 20B FC going...

Granted, he has the engine in the car, but I bagged on him like TWENTY YEARS AGO on the Evil Forum...


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I'm STILL waiting for that Christopher W guy to get his 20B FC going...

Granted, he has the engine in the car, but I bagged on him like TWENTY YEARS AGO on the Evil Forum...


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Old 03-09-2017, 09:52 AM   #7
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Didn't he eventually, after 15 years, take it to Logan?
Yes, then he sold it.
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Myles picked the engine up from MazMart. Probably wont really be any updates till after DGRR.
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