12/28/07 - The Cars in my Life- Plain and Customized
 
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I am a 19 year old high school graduate living in Londonderry, N.H. I have a 1994 V8 S10 Blazer. I used to have a 1986 V8 S10 Blazer, but I sold it because the previous owner hacked the crap out of it. Motor and rear end went before I got rid of it. I just got a 1993 Ford Ranger project. I started getting interested in cars around the 7th grade. Around 11th grade I started hanging out with more people who liked cars and trucks just as much as I did and my passion grew even more. My Uncle Greg is the only other car nut in my family besides myself. Everything I know about cars was either taught to me by myself or by my boyfriend, Billy, who taught everything he knows about them to himself. The Whipple Supercharged 2007 Ford Mustang is his. At one point I was really into imports and loved cars like WRX STI's, EVOs, Skylines, and SVXs, cars like that. But not so much anymore. Now I fully lean more towards domestic cars and trucks rather than imports. I love Mustangs, S10s, Rangers, Shelbys, Malibus, Chevelles, Novas, 'Cudas, Challengers, Chargers, GTXs, etc. you know? Gotta love 'em.

NOTE: This vehicle is the vehicle I owned when I first joined the autolog. It is NO LONGER OWNED. I can't bring myself to delete it. I am awaiting Alex & the other auto log officials to come up with a "previously owned" or "no longer owned" badge. Thank you for reading.

I love my s10 Blazer. My boyfriend suggested the name Punkin. It has the word "Punk" in it and it sounds like Pumpkin!

1986 Chevrolet S10 Blazer 2 Door Rear Wheel Drive. This truck is a work in progress. Future plans include finishing up the engine compartment, detailing it, and adding a couple more odds and ends. The interior needs to be gone through, I plan on changing out the stock seats for some nice leather buckets. I want to have white racing stripes painted on and tint the windows. I may be a girl but don't let that fool you, I love fast and powerful cars. I know alot about cars and what I don't know my boyfriend is teaching me.
The engine is a built Chevy 327 with Fuelie heads. The transmission is a built turbo 350 automatic. It dynos at over 400 horsepower. I am unsure of the 1/4 mile time right now because the track is closed for the season, I plan on running it in the spring.
The engine is a built 327. The bottom end is the factory steel crank and H-beam rods, the block is bored with flat top pistons 10.5:1 compression. The heads are old school Fuelie heads that have been ported and have had a 3 angle valve job. The valves are 2.02 intake with 1.6 exhaust. The cam is a hydraulic roller style 550 lift 300 advertised duration, very very lumpy idle. It has roller lifters with 1.6 roller tip rockers. It has a double roller timing chain, but I may change it to a noisy gear drive. Ignition is a Mallory Uni-lite distributor with Accel Super Stock Coil, and Accel 8.8mm race wires. It has a Edelbrock Victor Jr. high rise aluminum intake with a Holley 750 4 barrel. It also has the s10 v8 swap headers made by Hedman. The engine dynos well over 400 horsepower. The transmission is a fully built race ready turbo 350 with a 2800 stall converter and manual valve body. The rear end is built with a posi and 3:73 gears. The exhaust is full 2.5 inch true duals with single chamber Flowmaster mufflers. The suspension is an all Belltech drop, with springs and spindles in the front dropping it 5 inches, and springs and blocks in the rear dropping it 6 inches. The wheels are Centerline 17"x9" polished aluminum. The paint is Hugger Orange, the body has shaved door handles. The hood is a Harwood fiberglass cowl hood with a 2 inch rise. There is also a fiberglass roll pan out back.

I do not have any race times, awards, or a nice sound system yet. I plan on getting each of these though!

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As I said I plan on getting a new leather interior, white striping, window tint, a sound system, a noisy gear drive, perhaps different rims, and a new fresh coat of Hugger Orange paint.