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CamTom12
08-14-2006, 04:55 PM
I had a guy down the street with a very ricey C5 (CORVETTE window sticker, chrome taillight bezels/grills, huge-ass LS1 stickers, etc. etc.) try and tell me today he had a chip for his car.

I proceeded to pull out my diagnostic port cable (mine's HPTuners) and ask if it 'looked like this?'

He said, 'huh? what's that?'

I said, 'the only way to tune these cars'

He said, 'oh.'

What I should have asked him was if it was by the same company that made the fake lake-pipes he's got on his Chevelle...
QWKWS6
08-15-2006, 05:45 PM
Reminds me of a vette owner at the track with a C4, he was asking me about my car, and asked where he could get an LS1 chip.....WOW...
NviouSS
08-15-2006, 09:54 PM
Reminds me of a vette owner at the track with a C4, he was asking me about my car, and asked where he could get an LS1 chip.....WOW...



:homer:
josh99ta
08-17-2006, 10:32 PM
I cant stand when someone asks me if I "have a chip in that thing." :mad:
CamTom12
08-18-2006, 07:02 PM
people ask me if it's a stock motor all the time

I say yeah... with an exhaust leak, bad plugs and a chip, hahahah
Firehawk 526
08-18-2006, 08:19 PM
Ppl ask me the same question, time and time again......but now I just say "hell yeah" (boltons only)!

Even as a relative newb, I can tell if an LT/LS has been internally modded!
HELLO....does it sound modded? NO!
LiquidFire350
08-19-2006, 12:26 AM
What I should have asked him was if it was by the same company that made the fake lake-pipes he's got on his Chevelle...

um, what are "lake-pipes"? :confused:
CamTom12
08-19-2006, 01:21 PM
sidepipes...

like this http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1950-1959/1950-Olds-Red-lake-pipes-le.jpg
koolaid_kid
09-15-2006, 07:29 AM
um, what are "lake-pipes"? :confused:
Dang, that question makes me feel old; fellow hot rodders never heard of them. :eek:
LiquidFire350
09-16-2006, 12:29 AM
Dang, that question makes me feel old; fellow hot rodders never heard of them. :eek:

I've always heard them refered to as "side-pipes".
koolaid_kid
09-16-2006, 08:23 AM
Well, they evolved into those ornate, shielded, fancy-dancy things with mufflers included. Those were side pipes. The "original" lake pipes were just that, unmuffled exhausts exiting on the side.
Or so the older folk tell me, not that I would know... :cheers: