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BabyJesus posted:My 197bhp Honda Civic can chirp 2nd and 3rd, whats your point? Your 197bhp Honda Civic probably has a manual, and doesn't weigh 4000 pounds with 19" Potenzas on it either. Or have a torque management program that makes the car shift soft as poo poo stock so the transmission can live longer.
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The GT -> GXP leap is $15k? Seriously? What a joke. Edit: didn't realize we were talking about autotragics here.
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Oct 9, 2009 15:25
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Yesterday I put new headlamps in my car. I can now actually see when I drive at night. It's shocking.
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Oct 9, 2009 15:37
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Unclogged a drain hole at the back of my GTI. Now drying out stinky carpeting.
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Oct 9, 2009 16:12
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Got rear-ended on the freeway by a Chevy Tahoe. gently caress. (Me = 05 Chrysler 300C Hemi)
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Oct 10, 2009 01:23
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Noticed that some scrote had stood on one of the exhaust horns for a laugh and I now have three straight and one wonky tailpipes. Swore, profusely.
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Oct 10, 2009 21:37
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visionviper posted:Yesterday I put new headlamps in my car. I can now actually see when I drive at night. It's shocking. I did this today after a terrifying drive home last night where it was pouring rain and I could hardly see the road. The previous owner had put in some lovely Korean bulbs that were shaded dark blue (enough that I couldn't even see the element) and the difference is phenomenal.
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Oct 10, 2009 21:53
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Went down to work and replaced the gnarled, rusted fuel lines under my recently acquired Quantum Syncro with stainless steel tubing. There's nothing like stepping back, looking at the bottom of the car, and thinking to yourself, "Wow, look how nicely that shiny steel contrasts with the rust and lovely undercoating" and then patting yourself on the back anyway.
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Oct 10, 2009 22:19
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Fixed some scratches with Quixx and 3000 grit sandpaper, then got in, started it, and heard a rattle. Thought it was the muffler, one of the cheapest parts to replace. Turned out to be the driver's side catalytic converter, one of the most expensive parts to replace. All together now: German. Maintenance. Curse.
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Oct 11, 2009 00:23
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I replaced the oil separator and flame trap today. Well, I would have replaced the flame trap if I had one to begin with... After disconnecting the battery, I removed the intake and accelerator stuff. The Haynes manual said to remove the accelerator cable and adjust it after putting it back on, but I just unbolted the whole thing and set it aside.  Then I removed the fuel rail and all the injectors and set it aside carefully so I wouldn't damage the injector tips.  This is what a typical injector looked like. I only see one O-ring. Is this normal?  And this is a typical injector hole...  Then came off the throttle...  The intake manifold was kind of a bitch to get off. The bolts weren't very easy to get to, and there were a hundred vacuum tubes everywhere, but it eventually came off.   There's the new guy now! (Notice how I broke the long horizontal tube... oops! Its duct-taped together now, I hope it holds. I don't want to take the manifold back off to replace it!)  Installation was the reverse of removal, though I put in a new manifold gasket. I used the PCV kit from IPD so a lot of the hoses and clamps were replaced. The flame trap housing and O-ring was replaced, and I found out that my flame trap was missing entirely.  There was just nothing there. This is where it would have been...   This all took me five hours, and I need an oil change now (doing it first thing in the morning - I kind of ran out of daylight today). CornHolio fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Oct 11, 2009 |
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Oct 11, 2009 03:36
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Removed my subwoofer. It would have been cool to have something so obnoxious back in highschool, but now its just obnoxious. It's funny how once you have money to do things, you don't care about those things anymore. It was mostly just a 'see if I could do it' project, built from various eBay parts. I never really secured it in the trunk properly, and it took up too much room anyway. I guess I'll sell it and use the money to upgrade my front speakers since I blew one out. However, I do still have a power line running to the trunk. I unhooked it from the battery and taped up the ends. Any electrical devices I should install in my trunk?
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Oct 11, 2009 16:57
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FogHelmut posted:Removed my subwoofer. It would have been cool to have something so obnoxious back in highschool, but now its just obnoxious. It's funny how once you have money to do things, you don't care about those things anymore. It was mostly just a 'see if I could do it' project, built from various eBay parts. I never really secured it in the trunk properly, and it took up too much room anyway. I guess I'll sell it and use the money to upgrade my front speakers since I blew one out. Cellphone Jammer
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Oct 11, 2009 17:25
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FogHelmut posted:Removed my subwoofer. It would have been cool to have something so obnoxious back in highschool, but now its just obnoxious. It's funny how once you have money to do things, you don't care about those things anymore. It was mostly just a 'see if I could do it' project, built from various eBay parts. I never really secured it in the trunk properly, and it took up too much room anyway. I guess I'll sell it and use the money to upgrade my front speakers since I blew one out. I'd say if you had the money, get a great sounding sub back there again. Subs really fill out music. In fact, that's gonna be my project in a few weeks. 
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Oct 11, 2009 21:24
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TAG BODY SPRAY posted:Cellphone Jammer Good idea, but then it also jams my own phone. Xovaan posted:I'd say if you had the money, get a great sounding sub back there again. Subs really fill out music. It was a 12" sub, and it did really fill out the music and let me feel the music as well, but it took up about 1/4 of the trunk. Maybe something small that would give the music some depth? I don't know. I really prefer the trunk space.
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Oct 11, 2009 22:32
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So, driving home from work I suddenly hear a rythmic scraping noise, sounds horrible, gets worse when I turn. Within about 2 seconds I fear the worst and assume my diff is about to explode. Can't see anything horrid, wheels don't wiggle, I have no other option than to just start moving again and if it stops moving, it must be the diff. I manage to get all the way home, and the problem is stupidly intermittent. Finally end up hearing several enormous clunking noises and the drivers rear wheel locks up briefly in the driveway. I had a problem a week or two ago with the parking brakes while doing the pads and rotors. One hung up a little and the other refused to let go of the rotor (gouged a groove into the inside). I just adjusted them very far in so they wouldn't hang and didn't care otherwise. Well apparently one broke loose and exploded!  Popped off the rotor and everything fell out.  I should mention that about a day or two ago my ABS started engaging on dry stops, so I just yanked the fuse and decided to pull a wiring harness out of a junkyard car and some new sensors to fix it later. It seems that a shorted wire wasn't the problem.  or well, a bad sensor really was the problem.   All fixed sans ABS, traction control and emergency brakes. Winter will be a whole lot more fun this year, particularly with my horrid and aging michelin harmony piece of poo poo 80k all seasons.
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Oct 11, 2009 23:48
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Changed the oil, oil filter, and filler cap gasket on the Volvo. Also put the wife's beloved 'prancing moose' sticker on the front. 
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Oct 11, 2009 23:50
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I used a rag and dishwashing liquid to clean up the oil that spilled from a raging oil pan leak (several quarts leaked all over the underside, hot side, and down the cat and exhaust piping.) It was quite yucky and nasty, you should all be jealous.
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Oct 12, 2009 01:08
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Hypnolobster posted:So, driving home from work I suddenly hear a rythmic scraping noise, sounds horrible, gets worse when I turn. Within about 2 seconds I fear the worst and assume my diff is about to explode. Can't see anything horrid, wheels don't wiggle, I have no other option than to just start moving again and if it stops moving, it must be the diff. I've had too much scary crap happen to me in the winter due to bad tires. If you can squeeze the funds get some new all seasons like Falken Ze912's or some winter tires. Tires really are the most important part of the car. Hell, some lightly used winter tires should be cheap as hell.
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Oct 12, 2009 08:18
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Yesterday I helped pull the transmission, clutch and flywheel off my 1992 Honda Accord DX. This morning I dropped the flywheel off at the machine shop to be turned. Tonight I will return to my friend Brad's garage to assist with installing the new clutch kit, rear main seal, new transmission seals, and used transmission.
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Mr. Toast posted:I've had too much scary crap happen to me in the winter due to bad tires. If you can squeeze the funds get some new all seasons like Falken Ze912's or some winter tires. Tires really are the most important part of the car. Hell, some lightly used winter tires should be cheap as hell. I've been checking Crownvic.net occasionally for a set of steel wheels that'll fit properly, but only halfheartedly. I've gone through 3 winters with these tires and haven't died or crashed yet, although getting places can be hilariously slow/fun. If it survives this winter and on, it's getting Potenza RE960AS Pole Positions. I'll be driving panther bodies for as long as I can find them, so if it explodes 10 seconds after I buy tires, it's not too big a deal. It's a hell of a beater car. Got it for $350 and dropped in a $500 junkyard engine and it's survived to 200k thus far.
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Oct 12, 2009 16:28
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Getting ready to do a whole bunch of work. Got 4 new shocks and front brake pads for the Jeep, got front brake pads for the wife's car, and a hand pump to change the differential oil. Then all I did was put in new front marker lights.  However, I also did this: 
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Doctor Zero posted:Getting ready to do a whole bunch of work. Got 4 new shocks and front brake pads for the Jeep, got front brake pads for the wife's car, and a hand pump to change the differential oil. Turned your turn signal on? 
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Oct 12, 2009 18:31
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Just finished a smallish project on the Escort. Pulled a few more parts of the donor car, pulled off the starter from good car and found part of the housing just flapping around so now I know why it hasn't been starting. Took about 2 hours because I stripped a nut on the old starter and had to remove a mounting bracket to get the whole assembly off and then I ran out of daylight before I could put the "new" starter on the good car. Hopefully I can gt it on and all buttoned up tomorrow with no issues.
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Oct 14, 2009 00:33
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Put the transmission (with brand new seals) and selector rod together, it's now fully prepped to go back on the car. Fun fact: Thanks to the amalgamation of DIN+ISO standards, the output flange bolts on my tranny are 19mm A/F and my new locknuts are 18mm A/F. I have no god drat clue where I'm going to get an 18mm crow's foot extension.
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Oct 14, 2009 01:45
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Bought an exhaust for it so it no longer deafens me, rattles, or smacks up against some suspension bracing underneath. Yay stock style ebay catback for $145 shipped.
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I put the interior from the rear seats back, back into my car. I wanted to drop some easy weight since i was going to Englishtown raceway last weekend to get a feel good timeslip for my srt8. I pulled out 86 pounds giving the car a race weight of 4265lb (car weight 4090lb) and ran a 12.6 @ 111mph. I was happy with it for a car with just an Intake/Exhaust/Tune for power mods.
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Oct 14, 2009 03:41
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I helped my friend Brad finish putting the new clutch parts and junkyard mantran in my 1992 Accord DX. A couple small teething problems: the power steering doesn't seem to be working, and the speedometer cuts out sometimes, and when that happens the CEL comes on a minute later. But at least the car moves under its own power again!
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Oct 14, 2009 04:13
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Crawled under the car to pull out a big sheet of plastic packaging film that I picked up while driving on the highway last night. It got stuck and subsequently melted to the catalytic converter, so as I was driving today it smelled like burning plastic until the remnants burned off completely.
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Oct 14, 2009 06:38
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sbyers77 posted:Crawled under the car to pull out a big sheet of plastic packaging film that I picked up while driving on the highway last night. It got stuck and subsequently melted to the catalytic converter, so as I was driving today it smelled like burning plastic until the remnants burned off completely. I ran over a plastic grocery bag in the spring, and I smelled that poo poo for months.
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Oct 14, 2009 18:29
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FogHelmut posted:It was a 12" sub, and it did really fill out the music and let me feel the music as well, but it took up about 1/4 of the trunk. Maybe something small that would give the music some depth? I don't know. I really prefer the trunk space. They make compact Goldwood boxes specifically for sedans and they work fairly nicely from what I hear. They're about half the width of normal sub boxes. TyroneShoes in a/v really has some great suggestions if you give him a budget too.
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Oct 14, 2009 18:44
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kill me now posted:my srt8...ran a 12.6 @ 111mph Nice. That's the car you took to a trackday recently as well? I'm sure it's porky but clearly it's drat quick. How the car -- particularly the brakes -- hold up to the track?
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Oct 14, 2009 19:27
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Checked the front diff fluid after 2 months, and indeed it is not leaking (although it could probably stand to be changed).
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CornHolio posted:I ran over a plastic grocery bag in the spring, and I smelled that poo poo for months. Oh God. I hope you are wrong, but when I drove it again last night it still smelled. Hopefully it doesn't take months to completely burn off!
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Oct 14, 2009 23:02
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sbyers77 posted:Oh God. I hope you are wrong, but when I drove it again last night it still smelled. Hopefully it doesn't take months to completely burn off! It does. 
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Sterndotstern posted:Nice. That's the car you took to a trackday recently as well? I'm sure it's porky but clearly it's drat quick. How the car -- particularly the brakes -- hold up to the track? Yep, its not really set up for the strip right now. I've got too much camber in the rear to hook up as well as i could and i would have installed a 3000 stall converter to get a better launch instead of the trans/oil/PS coolers. The brakes hold up well, but I've got DOT 4 fluid and track oriented pads so i would expect them to work. I did manage to get the rears to discolor a bit my last track day so i might be a bit closer to the edge then i think.
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TrueChaos posted:I did this today after a terrifying drive home last night where it was pouring rain and I could hardly see the road. The previous owner had put in some lovely Korean bulbs that were shaded dark blue (enough that I couldn't even see the element) and the difference is phenomenal. I still need to do this and re-align them. My driver's side is pointed almost 45 degrees towards the ground and my passenger's is pointed left of center. I have no idea how I past inspection last year with it like that. I just finished changing my main fuel filter, the one just outside of the gas tank. From the pain in the rear end that is was and the look of the gas in the filter (a charcoal gray color), I don't think it's been changed in god knows how long. I'd be surprised if it's been done in the last 5 years. I also SeaFoam'd it the other day, and combined with the filter change, it drives a lot better now. It's noticeably smoother and I would get throttle delays every once in awhile, and so far those are gone.
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1988 Honda Prelude 2.0Si Ordered a new blower motor resistor, should arrive Tuesday, then I can try to fix the heater blower. I think the resistor is partly fried because the motor and the the mix control both work, but nothing happens on switch settings 1 and 2, but 3 blows, and 4 blows harder. Apparently the switch itself is a horrible bitch to replace, so I'm hoping my $30 lump of electronics will do the job. Since the weather was nice and I had planned to spend my time mucking up the dashboard anyways, I cleaned the interior. The previous owner had apparently suffered a coke-can explosion in the passenger seat, because there was a distinct spray pattern all over the back right side of the interior. Plus I cleaned all the glass inside and out, and put on new windshield wipers. I should be able to see at night and in the rain now. This also involved me sitting in the back seat for the first time - there's no way 2 full-size adults could sit back there.
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Oct 18, 2009 01:22
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Changed my oil, and tightened a screw that had come loose from my exhaust heat shield. So that's what that rattle was!
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Oct 18, 2009 02:47
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ExecuDork posted:1988 Honda Prelude 2.0Si  If mine ever goes again I'm gonna let it go, very very very rarely do I not have it on full blast anyway...
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Yeah, but it's noisy at 3, so I need to take it apart and maybe clean the fan anyways. If this fix doesn't work, I'll probably just live with it.
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