Loon and Mellowness go to Hondastomper's

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This past weekend Loon and I made the trip to Kentucky to help Hondastomper put a motor in a 03 zx2, I drove up to Loon’s house Friday night and Saturday morning we went the rest of the way and did the swap. Sunday we drove home. selected pics from me and loon
Friday night @ loon’s

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Saturday
super early

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Exit 287: SPARTAAAAAAA

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I got really good at taking pics out my back window using the mirror to aim

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HAI

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california howdy

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pit stop 1: my car is disgusting

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Nashville: the city that fucked my trans

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I hit a massive(half lane) fucking pothole in Nashville, a big FUCK YOU delivered courtesy of Tenn DOT, I have a leak from it, I’m hoping only the trans got a loose seal. Anyways, we got to John’s

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the lawn monument:lol:

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please don’t be fucked…

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after we determined my car would make it back home, shit started happening

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engine/trans in

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john picking the car up:O.O:

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i put it together myself:wiggle:

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it got COLD and started raining, we put up the tarp just as it started

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most stuff buttoned up

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most stuff had been connected, it was dark and getting colder so we called it a day, notice tarp blur in extended exposure

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loon’s camera died, but I got a few pics of the ride home on Sunday
8 hours to go for me

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yes, we’re in the south. you want proof?

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We hit Knoxville, so loon went home. I still had 3-4 hours to go

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a couple vids thru some tunnels, I can’t decide whether they sound good or not with the shitty speakers on my laptop, so I’ll post them up. Note: it’s not that easy to video and drive thru a curving tunnel at the same time

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looks like a lot of fun. Glad you guys gained some knowledge of it and had a good time. Sucks to see you ran something over in the mean time going there.

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Yeah I checked the car today when I was able to get it out on a lift and it looks like the ps lines may acutally be the culprit, WHEW :smiley: time to look into ps delete

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really your going to get rid of power steering. I think that is one of the most thing’s I can’t get rid of. I didn’t have it in my old pickup for a while till I fixed it. It sucked in the mean time. That is good that you found were the leak is coming from though.

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Yea I really don’t think it’s gonna be hard to steer, I drove a 66 or 67 coronet for a while that had manual steering and it wasn’t much of a chore

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Man I wish I was there for a motor swap. Looks like fun.

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there’s a good chance mine will come out when I do mtx swap, if you’re up for a cross country road trip:)

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definately looks like you all had alot of fun aside from the TennDOT incident.

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Where you at Mellowness?

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I’m in Cherryville, NC

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I’m just glad we got done what we did. The storm front was blowing in and it went from 55 to 27 in less than 2 hours with winds blowing around 25mph and gusts of 40mph. Once I got the PS hooked back up we decided to call it quits. All John should have had left was to rebuild the passenger side axle and bolt it in, attach the radiator hoses, put fluids in it, give everything a once over and turn the key. (hopefully)

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I hear ya! Things rarely go that simple for me!

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THAT will be a trip.