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External dump. The hole is a black plastic peice of someting with the dump coming thru it. It's not as big as it looks.

I am glad we got back like we did also, thanks again to many people who helped make it possible. It, for sure, won't be forgotten. The weekend was awesome but it sure was a long one.

The car is a pretty decent car otherwise, equipped with Kirkey's, weight reduction, a decent turbo, fmic, vpc/afc, etc... We'll see how it does on the dyno when it gets back.

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Told ya!!! Even if that 1g was brand new off the showroom floor i still wouldn't attempt to drive it that far. hehe

Sounds like a crazy trip, and fun even if things didn't work out as planned.

Just rent a u-haul truck and a trailer and go pick the car up. But whatever you do, don't take another dsm to go pick up a dead dsm. Then you will have 2 dead dsm's.

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YOU along with 50 other people Jinx'd me. Thanks. My other dsm would've made it across country 50 times and some. :( It's all good though I suppose.

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Well, I guess now I am looking over things on my car that I gotta replace..like my upper radiator hose..hehe..it's kinda colapsing. It was a rather fun trip..the way down. And even flying..I loved it (cept when i got strip searched..ish) but meh..i'd do it again. Wanna go again cher? I know SLC is not your fav. city, but atleast we'd get it back..hehe

-A. Swift

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My first DSM ('97 GST), a buddy and i flew to San Fran. and drove it all the way back non stop 34hours, other than gas'n up and food food drive thrus. Drove through Salt Lake on the way back. Beautiful out there. It was in March. Man it was a bitch driving in their winter.

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..the plan was to drive it back fri night, get home by sat night for uni, if not we drive back, get home sunday at 6am, dyno it at elite, and then rock falls for ricer day..I guess that didn't happen huh?

-A. Swift

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A buddy of mine had a Stealth shipped to Iowa from Texas a couple years ago, I'll see if I can find out the name of the shipping company he used.

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Do you know exactly what's wrong with it? Is it just the coolant hose and other minor things. Too bad you couldn't just take the parts that you need out there, fix it and still drive it back. Hitch a ride out there with some trucker or something. I'm always looking for the cheap way out such as that but it would be a gamble in that you don't know what else could go wrong. Who know's maybe nothing would go wrong though.

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Too bad you didn't know this but I live in those apartments that are next to the AMS building thingie.

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Yeah, I thought about doing that and fixing every/anything out there and drive it back but I don't really have a place to stay and/or fix the damn thing. It might be just coolant lines, it might be a headgasket. I tried all day Saturday to make it work with limited tools in the middle of nowhere, but it just didn't want to work. I gave up, I gave in, I broke, and am still quite heated about the whole deal. I don't know what I'm gonna do about it, or even if I should ship it back. I might part it out, I might leave it there and say fuck it. I dunno, we'll see. I'm sick of it and really shouldn't have put myself in this position in the first place-my fault.

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Ahhh... I don't think i would part it out. Just chalk it up as a learning experience. I've lost out on so many money situations in life that it's ridiculous. Hang in there. Honestly, to fly there, drive it back with a u-haul rig with high cost of gas will probably be more than just finding a car carrier service to ship it back. Regardless, you still have to get there, whether you drive there or fly it's gonna cost $200-300min to get there. So if you can find a service to do it for $750, i'd say that's cheap. You probably thought about this but i'm just reinforcing the thought. Don't part it out though. Keep on doing what you originally planned to do with the car and don't worry about the bad experience you had.

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..words well spoken mr. onefastgsx. I keep telling him that..it's a minor setback, to a great start of a big project. We need more convincers..no one let him give this up..650whp is still gonna happen cher..it better! I'll help install that turbo, and everything else..you know i will too.

-A. Swift

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Thanks... we all know dsms let us down from time to time. Heck, i went thru 4 trannies on the 'ol GS-T i used to have each one costing several hundred bucks at least to fix them each. Parting it out though or just leaving it sit would be a huge mistake knowing that it may only be about $750 to ship it back. I don't even know you personally but i know a possible bad decision when i hear one. ~ Good Luck!

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Should be around $750 i would imagine. Would they be able to drive it on and off the trailer? If so it might even be cheaper.

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Ya know.. I was wondering where you lived in Chicago but I had no way to contact you. Meh... next time.

As for the car... well I'm going to pick it up on Friday. Crazy crazy spontaneous decisions that are made......but that is how life works. And it may not work so well sometimes, and if it doesn't work, I'll make it work! Thanks for the support guys and I'll see you all by Sunday at the DSMStyle dyno day because we'll get back by that time. The steam's slowly leaving my messed up mind.

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Good luck Cher!!

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*waits for the call from Cher saying that the S10 won't pull the car up with the first hill out of SLC.

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shane, in 104 degree temps, that hill BLEW ASS!!!

-A. Swift

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Don't jinx me. If that's the case, we'll drive the DSM over the hill, then trailor it down. ;)

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good luck buddy!!

Kevin