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While it definitely feels like Christmas Eve to me, the unfortunate truth is Santa Clause (in this case) won't bring me my kit while I sleep. That, and he drives an 80' long semi-trailer. Hopefully everything goes off without a hitch tomorrow. Due to the delivery being on a weekday and likely mid afternoon, I might not have a lot of help unloading it. Luckily I've spent the last month or so getting everything ready so it already has a nest to settle into.

Speaking of that nest, ...

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Had a great time meeting Dave Smith at the tour.

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Welding Jig
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Cutter out of fiberglass parts
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Other parts
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Ready for shipment
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Adding parts as they came in

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Decided to go with a 302/347 Stroker

Came back from the machine shopp looking have naked

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They had to notch parts of the cylinder walls to allow for the increase piston assembly travel

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With a little help from members of [URL="http://www.capitalareacobraclub.com/"]http://www.capitalareacobraclub.com/[/URL] we got it done in fine time

Removed the engine and Transmission. Sold the the rest of the car.

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