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Old 11-25-2009, 08:04 AM
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Hitting a deer doing 70mph.

But you can't tell can you :P
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 08:07 AM
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My worst Monte Moment was the accident this past July. I was soooooo freakin worried my car would be totaled. Thank God it wasnt! I love this car way to freaking much!
 
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Well I could go on with my most embarassing monte moment that involves nudity and a cop.... LOL
 
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My worst- that's easy- almost blowing the car up. Tried using L36 style injector retaining clips on my L67 injectors. They "seemed" to fit OK...worked fine for four days- on the fourth, the entire front fuel log rotated off of the injectors and dumped gasoline all over the engine, including the hot front exhaust manifold! The manifold was smoking! It was really close to going up in flames- parked it a shady *** parking lot in a bad neighborhood and called for reinforcements. Got it towed home.
 
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Originally Posted by moonlitmagik
Well I could go on with my most embarassing monte moment that involves nudity and a cop.... LOL
Oh please, do tell! LOL!!!!!
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by moonlitmagik
Well I could go on with my most embarassing monte moment that involves nudity and a cop.... LOL
NICE! Not sure why it's that embarassing though... Maybe you will have to indulge us some more...
Originally Posted by chibiblacksheep
Hitting a deer doing 70mph.

But you can't tell can you :P
Yikes... Well, you are in Pennsylvania. I almost hit like 90 deer just goin' across I-90. There's one every ten feet for christ sake!
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My worst- that's easy- almost blowing the car up. Tried using L36 style injector retaining clips on my L67 injectors. They "seemed" to fit OK...worked fine for four days- on the fourth, the entire front fuel log rotated off of the injectors and dumped gasoline all over the engine, including the hot front exhaust manifold! The manifold was smoking! It was really close to going up in flames- parked it a shady *** parking lot in a bad neighborhood and called for reinforcements. Got it towed home.
lol, wow. Reminds me of my friends Talon with a cracked valve cover. Oil poured into directly onto his turbo and set the car on fire three times just trying to get it home.
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by ded548
set the car on fire three times just trying to get it home.
IDK after the first time, I would have had a tow haha
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by chibiblacksheep
IDK after the first time, I would have had a tow haha
It was within' a mile from home, lol. "We Can make It!" *Phooooffff*
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 12:05 PM
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hey, speaking of fires.... thats probibly the worst thing to happen to my LS, me & my dad replaced the upstream 02 sensor at night... it was pitch black out, and i guess we didint notice that we left a rag on the rear exaust manifold.... a rag SOAKED in PB blaster, antiseize & lots of other fun flamable stuff. drove the monte the next day, coming back i notice white smoke rolling out from the hood & fenders... so im like "OH, S***!!!" shoot down the driveway, shut the car off & pop the hood. big cloud of white smoke rolls out & i see a TINY lil flame back on the manifold... i almost passed out trying to blow it out, but i got it. i thought it was something major, and i was PISSED at the car, i took all my stuff out of it, and pushed it into my quansit hut so i wouldint have to look at it. i actually went on craigslist & started looking up nasty 4th gen monte's & other
80's GM cars for a possible replacement. i took a few days, then decided to survay the damage. then i found the remains of that rag on the manifold, and wanted to kick my own butt for being so STUPIED, but i was also kinda thrilled that i did'int brake anything
 
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Old 11-25-2009, 12:26 PM
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Mine has to be about this time last year... the day after my exploder went up in flames yes litterially was just a shell at the end. i went out to start the monte so i pump it a few times to prime it and turn it over.. (she hadn't been started in almost a week or so) so it was slow going and she pops throught the car ok try again she's just cranking cranking and not wanting to start so i stop for a second and i start seeing smoke F*/# NO NOT AGAIN F*&# NO NO NO NOT AGAIN so figuring it was the carb i keep cranking it over(suck the flame down) nope still not starting so in a frantic try to pop the hood(verry hard and no handle) yelling FU*& F*$& F&*% get the hood poped and the air cleaner i had on there is in flames(barely) so i just blew it out and went to work ...it started riight up after that

alread freaked out by what happend the day befor then that
 


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