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Old Apr 27, 2006 | 06:38 PM
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Talking It's ALIVE!!!!!!

New tranny is installed! Took it for a quick test drive and it was great. The noise I have had for the 3.5 years I have owned the car is completely gone.

I stopped by the tranny shop where my old one was today and was amazed. I did a pretty impressive job of blowing that thing apart

Thanks again to Lost Vegaz for getting me back on the road in time for MSA.


Rod.
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 06:40 PM
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Thas right young chap! Well done! Hey... take a pic of the blown apart tranny!
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 06:45 PM
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nice rod, now all you gotta do is make it to msa, should be no sweat now that the noise is gone, something like that would drive me batty
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 06:52 PM
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sweet, if only o could go this year.
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 06:54 PM
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Sweet dude. I might not be that far from mine going down the road. I got her to go put put for me . now that that trany is in, you best show in MSA, I ain't gona be there, But you can bet i got ppl there for me Remember, I got famliy out west
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 07:05 PM
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good to hear
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 07:25 PM
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Im gonna feel like a loser asking this but...wheres MSA at? California?
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 07:36 PM
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Old Apr 27, 2006 | 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by RodMoyes
New tranny is installed! Took it for a quick test drive and it was great. The noise I have had for the 3.5 years I have owned the car is completely gone.

Rod.
Would that be the baseball card noise you were having?
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 07:55 PM
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Congrats on getting your Z back up and running Rod. That's a good show of generosity from Las Vegaz too. Good stuff to see such comradry.
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 09:35 PM
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I had no doubts!!

Vegas, you 'da man!!!
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by jfairladyz
Would that be the baseball card noise you were having?
Yup That was it....

I have to say, the Z community really is a great thing to be a part of. I was sure to miss my second straight MSA show until Lost Vegas Stepped up and offered to help.

All you guys are awesome (well... almost all of you )




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Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:22 PM
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Me and Wildman were joking about how much your trip to Vegas for the transmission sounded like the story behind "Smokey and the Bandit"(AKA "The trip that could never be done"!). LOL!!! We carried on for a long time, and I came up with "Smokey and the Kia", followed by "Smokey and the Tranny". We knew you'd make it, but still had to have a little fun...



We were behind you all the way, Rod!!
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:23 PM
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There's a glitch in the Matrix
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:24 PM
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There's a glitch in the Matrix
My bad!!
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:25 PM
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Ah, you deleted it. Now my post makes no sense
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:29 PM
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i was wondering what the heck you were talking about j, now just dont delete yours and mine will make sense
Old Apr 27, 2006 | 10:39 PM
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I am so happy for Rod. Yeah Baby I was worried about that tranny, that car came from a Tweaker. See my old post about finding glass pipes in it and stuff. He called me tonight and told me it shifts like butter. Yeah.

Plus his friend got the parts he needed to get his Z up and runnin. Yeah And the shell is still there for J. And LWW, in case something goes bad with your tranny, I still got one for you too. And Skittles your parts are still here too. Just because I can't drive 1, doesn't mean I will deny any one parts. Long live the Z
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 12:05 AM
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all i can say is "less than a month less than a month and i will be back with my Z'SSSSSSSS" I have family near where you live vegas so when i get back to see them i'll give ya a call to when i can pick them up... thnx again
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 01:40 AM
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hooooray for rod, and a big kudos to vegaz!!!!! that is freaking awesome!!! what a great community this is (with obvious exceptions, of course). anyways, way to go both of you. if i didnt have a stupid court date for a BS 10 over speeedtrap tomorrow, i would have done what i could to be at the show myself.
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 01:53 PM
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Well, the new tranny worked great on the way to the shop this morning

I'm not going to have much time to pretty the car up before Sunday morning, but I WILL make it to the show!

Rod.
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 03:10 PM
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That great news Rod, I was hoping everything would work out for you. And yeah a big #ss round of hands held high for Vegas. For his righteous, and unselfish act, on helping a fellow Z brother out. I love this forum. And Rod, see you next year at MSA? I am pretty sure I will be there, along with Carl too.
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 03:23 PM
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Thanks WildmaN!

After all the hard work you've put into your car this last year or so, there was no way I was going to take the easy way out and miss MSA again this year. I was determined come Hell or high water to get that car up there under it's own steam... Partly because of the inspiration I got from you.

I really hope you make it next year.

By the way, there's another ALL Z CAR show in Temecula California the following Sunday for anyone who's going to be in the area

Rod.
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by RodMoyes

By the way, there's another ALL Z CAR show in Temecula California the following Sunday for anyone who's going to be in the area

Rod.

OHHH! I'm gunna be in Vegas next weekend! Hopefully I can convince the woman to take a longer drive!
Old Apr 28, 2006 | 09:35 PM
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OHHH! I'm gunna be in Vegas next weekend! Hopefully I can convince the woman to take a longer drive!
I don't know that that one is worth the drive from Utah Some nice cars, but I dont know about that much of a drive for it.

And Lost Vegaz, I'm hoping to be able to come get that thing by the end of the year. If thats not too long



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