It’s easier to just give you a ton of pictures then to break out every project into its own thread

Let’s start with my favorite new purchase: Magnus Dogbox

Start of the fuel cell mock up

A bit further

Almost there

Back half carpeted

With the cover on

Mocking up the side exit exhaust

Probably needs some trimming

One of the two Bosch pumps

Both Bosch pumps installed

My bling

Unblinged

Making a 1g TB adapter for the Magnus

With all the social media tools I use (Twitter and Facebook) I find myself falling behind when it comes to updating my blog.

Here’s an update on a house on wheels for T. Talon.

Previously, she was towed around on an open trailer (she’s on the far right).

It was nice having a trailer, but it kinda sucked if we ran into snow while taking her down to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

In comes the new GBC/T. Talon hauler – It’s a 24′ enclosed trailer.

Inside

After painting the walls and putting truck bed liner on the floor. FYI – Most Autozones only carry one can of this stuff at a time. Good thing we have a ton of stores around us!

The reason we hadn’t bought an enclosed trailer previously is that it would have kicked my old trucks (2003 2500HD) butt. We recently upgraded to a 2009 Dodge Megacab, 6.7 Cummings. How come we moved from a Chevy to a Dodge? Well, my Dad passed away last September and he was a HUGE Dodge fan. While truck shopping we came across this beauty you see below. I’ve always wanted a Megacab and how can you go wrong with all black? He would have LOVED this truck. So in a way, we can take him racing with us again even though he’s no longer with us.

The towing on this truck is amazing. I can’t wait to take it and the enclosed trailer down to race in Vegas this year.

After waiting patiently for about a month, my Wilwood front brake kit finally arrived from Summit Racing.

When we ordered the brake kit, we also ordered a set of scalped rotors from Speedway Motors.

Gotta love the ease of swapping out brake pads.

Here is a picture of the brakes installed. Not going to lie, they’re sexy.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 29 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 175 posts. There were 41 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was March 29th with 147 views. The most popular post that day was Four Hoosiers? Oh my..

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were girlintheblackcar.com, my blog on dsmtuners.com, facebook.com, jimsgarage.wordpress.com, and utdsm.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for dsm, flat black paint job, eagle talon, 93 eagle talon, and 1993 eagle talon.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Four Hoosiers? Oh my. March 2007
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My $170 Flat Black Paint Job June 2009
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If you let something go, and it comes back to you, it’s meant to be yours February 2007
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Fun With Turbo’s! March 2007
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My New 1993 Eagle Talon February 2007
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New year, new goals, new parts.

2010 was a good year, but I’m hoping 2011 will be even better. I’ve got a lot of room to grow with parts. I would like to click off a few low 10′s before going to a bigger turbo. But for now, here’s the upgrades currently in progress: Magnus sheetmetal intake manifold, Wilwood front brake kit (backs will probably be the same kit, just need the front set to see what will need to be made for the rears), drilled and scalloped rotors from Speedway Motors, H11/L19 head studs from Modern Automotive Performance, fuel cell, moving from an in-tank Walbro 255 to another Bosch 044, relocating the battery to the back of the car, kill switch, staging brake from CNCbrakes.com, and ARP wheels studs.

I still need to get a ShepTrans ordered too.

I’m still on the stock head and FP2 cams. We’ll see how the new setup goes before moving to a built head and bigger cams.