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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 01:04 PM
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Default Memphis Street Racing 3-1-08 Mellon Tuning EVO, RIP Vette, UL Lose T/A, Slowmo TBSS..

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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 01:29 PM
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Great vid buddy...i think the vette's engine retirement is DUE

peace
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 01:47 PM
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nice vid. You have some good places to run.
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bad95killer
Great vid buddy...i think the vette's engine retirement is DUE

peace
yeah everytime rip's vette comes out it's smoking worse...he said it's just the nitrous/fuel but it sure looks like the rings aren't too happy to me....what do you guys think?
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 04:11 PM
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nice video,good run's,that silver TA haul's ***.
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 04:20 PM
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yep he's on the forum here, UL Lose is the username but he probably isn't very active. His car is very consistent and that wins most of the races.

the evo the vette and the t/a all trap about the same
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 04:32 PM
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i was expecting the EVO to whack everything off the line ,i guess everyone was hooking great that day...except for the lightning.
can't wait for your next video.
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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nice video,good run's,that silver TA haul's ***.
Nah its slow
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 09:54 PM
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on motor hehe
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Nah its slow
What size conveter?
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 10:37 PM
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3200 Vig.
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 12:12 AM
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good vid. But ya'll dont care whose around, ya'll are gonna race no matter what...
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Great runs great cars and awesome vid like always Mellon daytime races are great.

That vette was smoking baaaaaaaad.
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Mellon
yeah everytime rip's vette comes out it's smoking worse...he said it's just the nitrous/fuel but it sure looks like the rings aren't too happy to me....what do you guys think?
I say he's secretly packin a turbo diesel under the hood lol

Good vid as always - u guys sure get away with a **** load of street racing!
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 09:19 AM
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we're going to start at a different location this time and change the day...there was more traffic than usual this time.
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by TA1364
What size conveter?
3200 Vigilante Nitrous Converter. The picture pulling the wheel was on motor.
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Originally Posted by Mellon
yeah everytime rip's vette comes out it's smoking worse...he said it's just the nitrous/fuel but it sure looks like the rings aren't too happy to me....what do you guys think?
I spray the **** out of mine and it doesn't smoke at all!

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Old Mar 19, 2008 | 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Mellon
yeah everytime rip's vette comes out it's smoking worse...he said it's just the nitrous/fuel but it sure looks like the rings aren't too happy to me....what do you guys think?
yeah it looks like brit's vett is smoking bad last time i seen him run it was not bad like that at all... but it has bin geting worse.
just so you know mellon im a friend on brit's i post on nea also..
all and all that vett is still kicking *** and taking names
great video also..
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Mods on the TBSS besides the spray? I'm assuming the M3 was stock and was the TBSS spraying in all the runs or just the ones when it had the captions
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Mods on the TBSS besides the spray? I'm assuming the M3 was stock and was the TBSS spraying in all the runs or just the ones when it had the captions
The tbss has a cai and eletric fans.I never sprayed untill the last 200 feet or so and the bottle pressure was so low you could barely even feel it come on.
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