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		<title>Long time overdue&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s actually been almost a year since I last posted on here.  I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been that long, and for people who look &#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it&#8217;s actually been almost a year since I last posted on here.  I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been that long, and for people who look at the site I apologize for not posting lol.</p>
<p>A lot has happened since the last post.  I&#8217;ve seen changed routes a little on the S10, but it&#8217;s still somewhat the same.  I&#8217;ve really expanded a lot with my tuning over the past year.  In 2009 I had tuned I believe 35-40 cars/trucks to date, but in 2010 I did just over 90 cars/trucks in just a year.  I didnt&#8217; realize it until I went to do my regular backup and looked at all my directories.  I&#8217;ve had a blast being able to tune all kinds of different setups, some of which were easy setups and some that challenged me greatly to get them perfect.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been a sponsor of HoustonPerformanceTrucks.com Forums and it&#8217;s been really great having a really focused localized forum that caters to the truck crowd.  It seems like in Houston there really is more performance trucks than cars, which is funny on multiple levels.  People out of state are probably thinking oh yeah it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re in Texas and they&#8217;re rednecks.  Us locals find it funny because the look on someone&#8217;s face when they get rolled by a truck is priceless.  It&#8217;s just a funny and empowering feeling knowing that you&#8217;re in a 5200lb. truck that goes to jobsites, picks up material, and on the way home can put a few lengths on a 3V GT with some mods.  Some may just discount that, but I think it&#8217;s impressive.</p>
<p>On another note, the spring semester has begun.  Yes, I&#8217;m finally graduating.  Nope, don&#8217;t jump to conclusions I&#8217;m only getting my associates this May.  I&#8217;ll be at UH Clear Lake in the fall, though.  It&#8217;s been a long time coming working through life and figuring out exactly what I&#8217;m to do, but I&#8217;m on the right track and have been for a while now.</p>
<p>For those whom read this &#8220;blog&#8221; for automotive posts I due apologize for the little rant about what&#8217;s been going on but in all it has been quite some time since I last posted.  Since I have quite a few other things rather organized in my life now and on a disciplined schedule I want to post more info on projects and other random things more often.  I&#8217;ll have a pretty long post soon about the updates on the S10 which will be nice.  Soon we&#8217;ll get the backhalf on there and it&#8217;ll actually look like something quick haha.</p>
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<p>Until next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>A little update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;ve been quite busy lately with school and work so I haven&#8217;t been able to do much outside of that. I do have a &#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I&#8217;ve been quite busy lately with school and work so I haven&#8217;t been able to do much outside of that. I do have a few small updates on my 6.0/L92 project that I&#8217;ll post within a week or so once school is done for the semester. I&#8217;m pretty excited about getting this semester over with since it&#8217;s been a rather busy one. I&#8217;ve also decided to change my major to CIS (Computer Information Systems) and I will be transferring to UHCL pretty soon.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually typing this on my iPhone somewhere in the middle of Alabama on our way back from Tennessee visiting some family for Thanksgiving.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134" title="phr0309-ls1-10_z" src="http://tunedbyjake.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/phr0309-ls1-10_z.jpg" alt="phr0309-ls1-10_z" width="640" height="474" /></p>
<p>I hope to make a little progress on my S10 soon too. I&#8217;ll have a project post soon describing everything, but basically the 5.3 (LM7) that&#8217;s coming out of my Silverado will go into the S10. Once it&#8217;s all operational and inspected I&#8217;ll likely make it my daily driver since it will get better gas mileage than the Silverado and I&#8217;d like to roll around in something different for a while. The S10 might actually be faster too which would be nice. Anyways, much more to come soon once I&#8217;m on winter break.</p>
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		<title>Picked up a LQ4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend Matt did me a huge favor and picked up a motor for me while he was in Dallas.  It turns out that &#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend Matt did me a huge favor and picked up a motor for me while he was in Dallas.  It turns out that I might have gotten one of the best deals on a motor I&#8217;ve seen.  I&#8217;ll get some pictures posted later, but the motor is a new LQ4 that was replaced in a vehicle under warranty.  The previous owner had 4500 miles on the clock when an electrical fire totaled the vehicle.  So basically for $500 I picked up a running 6.0 LQ4 with the updated LS2 internals that barely has any carbon in the cylinders.  In the valley the block isn&#8217;t &#8220;stained&#8221; that brownish color from oil, it actually still looks like brand new iron.  To say the least we are pretty excited about the find and now I&#8217;ll be making the swap sooner than expected.  The image attached is just a placeholder until I get some good pictures of the motor.<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-109" title="LQ4" src="http://tunedbyjake.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/LQ4.jpg" alt="LQ4" width="720" height="576" /></p>
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