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Put a AEM Cold Air Intake on my 03 TL-S today and it feels and sound awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkAkCdxSkU0 notbrant fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Apr 16, 2010 |
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Apr 15, 2010 21:24
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Helped my little brother out with his B5 A4 today, it seems he had some strange noises coming from his transmission after he changed his oil. Naturally first thing I took a look at was his oil level out of curiosity and it was way over the max line. Asked him to point out the drain plug he took out and of course it was the transmission fluid. Not only did he drain his transmission fluid and add oil though, but he also only added 3 quarts and did not check the dipstick. He apparently thought it only took 3 quarts and couldn't be bothered to look it up. Hopefully he didn't cause any damage driving back and forth to school like that, guess we'll find out. 
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Apr 15, 2010 23:17
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allonblack posted:Car looks 1000x better. Indeed it does. 
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Put a redneck cold-air intake on my Interceptor. It's a pretty popular mod over on Crownvic.net. The airbox has a rather restrictive-looking little snorkel that sticks out behind the headlight; you pull that out and replace it with a plastic cup with the bottom cut out. I didn't think to take any pics, so here's the ones that inspired me, rehosted on waffle. I used a red cup with my company logo on it I stole from the office -- went to two dollar stores and a grocery store, and nobody had the proper cup -- but you can see how it should let in a bit more air than the stock piece:  I, too, painted mine with black vinyl dye, for a stock look, and made nice little fillets of caulk on all the edges to reduce turbulence. It's no K&N or Marauder intake, but it should help a little, right? Even if it doesn't add power, it was a fun and free excuse to get under the hood and personalize the new car.
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Apr 16, 2010 03:51
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:
 I don't like the air intake plumbing in my car. I might try to do something similar, not necessarily for any power or efficiency gains, just so I don't have to see those goofy looking pipes every time I lift the hood.
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Apr 16, 2010 04:01
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ExecuDork posted:The black paint alone has got be worth 5hp.  I also glued a bit of the neck of a 2L soda bottle on the open end of the cup to give it even more of a funnel, but ended up cutting most of it off in the fitment stage, because the cup alone is exactly the right length to poke through the radiator support. I over-engineer poo poo. Briefly considered relocating/holesawing the headlight to use the soda-bottle-enhanced cup for ram air effect, but  .ExecuDork posted:I don't like the air intake plumbing in my car. I've seen weirder. I was reading up on mods for the '96 Buick Roadmaster I was considering before getting the Vic -- it has the Corvette LT1, but goofy power-robbing intake silencers because it's a luxury car. There are detailed instructions on the Buick-driver forums on how to replace the one inline silencer with a few specific bits of sewer pipe, Home Depot SKUs given, and the other one that sits on top of the engine, you remove and plug the hole with a hockey puck or peanut butter jar lid (which just happen to be the exact size of the hole). The thread even devolved into complaining about Arlington, TX (the location of the Roadmaster factory) not having a hockey team, which would give it an extra touch of ... something, I guess. The Dallas pro baseball and football clubs are based in Arlington, but the Stars (and Mavs, but nobody cares about hoops) play in Dallas proper. The actual-effort performance intake mod for my Crown Vic is far less nerdy, and somewhat disappointing -- you just replace the intake piping and MAF sensor with parts from the '03 Mercury Marauder, and reprogram the ECU to talk to the new bigger MAF. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Apr 16, 2010 |
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Apr 16, 2010 04:22
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The rear brakes poo poo themselves on my Prelude yesterday. Everything seemed good, and then as I was pulling out of the work parking lot, I heard horrible squealing coming from the rear. I checked it out, and the pads on the passenger side rear corner only were ground down to metal. A couple years back, I had replaced only the pads on that corner (caliper on other side was frozen at the time, was replaced a while ago) but the car has gone probably less than 10k since then.  I've been driving around with metal-on-metal squealing since yesterday afternoon.Anyway, I spent lunch today driving to parts stores and buying new pads and rotors, then did the rear brakes in the dark once I got home. Everything went OK I guess - one rotor was frozen on, and had to be hammered off at 10:30pm (sorry neighbors) and a seized bolt holding some sort of dust shield on over the E-brake mechanism snapped when I tried to remove it. Other than that, no major issues. Welp, so much for doing my taxes on time. Yeah, I haven't done them yet. That was going to be today's after-work project until my brakes decided to, uh, break. I'll be up late doing that tonight, I guess.
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Apr 16, 2010 04:58
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dissss posted:Raged yet again at on-street parking: $300 excess later and its good as new: .JPG) Much better job than the previous work I had done on the other side Now to track down the culprit and beat the excess out of them
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Apr 16, 2010 05:08
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Today I changed over to my summer wheels then took it for a test drive. It was suddenly driving terribly, always veering over to one side or the other, generally behaving badly... oh wait... air. Yup, forgot to even check the air pressure on them, they were all pretty much flat. Then drove around looking for a garage with an air compressor. Took it home tried the tires again, front right one was back to how it was when I put it on. Either the man at the garage screwed up or I have a leak... yay.
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Apr 16, 2010 12:44
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Topped it up with coolant again, took it for a drive and for the first time in two weeks of fighting with it got back with coolant still in the expansion tank. Clearly washing the thing has improved its mood. 
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Apr 16, 2010 12:47
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I've been slowly giving my Yaris little improvements here and there, so here's a little photo summary of what i've been doing this past year because it really doesn't deserve a whole thread. Feel free to make fun of my egg car. Punching holes into a perfectly good car and mounting a TRD Rally Spoiler. That's worth at least 5hp right???   A pretty thick swaybar to help reduce the large amounts of bodyroll/understeer. Really made a difference and should have been stock on the car.   A pretty nice short ram intake and (not pictured) underdrive pully. Seemed to help throttle response and the car doesn't sound nearly like a high strung weedwacker now.    Out with the old, heavy steel rims and lovely stock Toyota tires. In with some decently sticky yokohamas and lightweight wheels.   Oh! And some window tinting for the hot, hot arizona sun.  Overall i'm pretty happy with my little improvements and can't wait to take the car out soon and get laughed at in an autocross or two. Conelrad fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 16, 2010 |
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Apr 16, 2010 22:20
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jammyozzy posted:Topped it up with coolant again, took it for a drive and for the first time in two weeks of fighting with it got back with coolant still in the expansion tank. Clearly washing the thing has improved its mood. Quite right. Nothing seems to improve the mood (of the auto) by a good washing and waxing, except for the pollen right now. I do enjoy the 5 hours of work doing my vehicles, but seeing the yellow haze appear monday morning. Since I'm on-call this weekend with Fuckstick McGee at the office, I'll do my quarterly "clean the trash out of the DD." Wait, this is "what did you do to your ride today" vs "what you intend to do to your ride tomorrow." The intentions are good, however. I'll play my game of "how much loose ammo is in the back-seat-game" as well.
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Apr 17, 2010 01:20
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BigKOfJustice posted:Installing a hidden DC powered camcorder to catch whoever is dumping fruit pieces on the back of my hummer at my parking spot I understand it may be bad form to bump something like this, but seriously, would possess some green mofo to dump composting materials on your humv1? The mind boggles....did you catch them ? poo poo, allow me the time to learn to combine posts...
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Apr 17, 2010 01:43
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Pulled off the stupid paper oil pan gasket that I installed when I changed rod and main bearings, then replaced it with the thick cork Fel-Pro that I should have bought in the first place. All the sudden I have a British car that doesn't leak oil. It just feel so wrong.
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Apr 17, 2010 04:12
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eddiewalker posted:All the sudden I have a British car that doesn't leak oil. It just feel so wrong.
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Apr 17, 2010 08:29
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Took it out for a better drive today to follow up on the leak, tire's retaining air for now so I'm guessing it was a screw up. Also now I'm back to stock size wheels my speedometer displays the correct speed!
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Apr 17, 2010 11:57
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Subtle but necessary change: Click here for the full 1200x1600 image.
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Apr 17, 2010 14:42
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Podothehobbit posted:I have a soft spot for little hatchbacks with tasteful and understated mods. I love it. Great looking car.
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Apr 17, 2010 16:39
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Cheap Bourbon posted:I understand it may be bad form to bump something like this, but seriously, I'm guessing it was a vegan who didn't see the humor on my Biodiesel: This truck is a vegetarian bumper sticker  It happened during spring break when there was a ton of visiting college students partying it up in our condos pool and lounge area because after that week, it stopped happening. Other cars, like ones who haven't been washed in forever had giant big dicks drawn into him so its pretty harmless.If it happened in public there's not much you can do about it, but in this case it was happening at my home at around the same time every morning which led me to waste my time for the most part. Oh well no big deal, it stopped and that's all that matters. Back to the topic, I have to do another oil change this weekend because I left my filter wrench at home when I did my oil change  . Ah well at least I'll get all the oil out of the cooler. I'll also install the new HVAC blower motor and install some trim/interior bits on the truck.
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Apr 17, 2010 18:04
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Summer tires and wheels, finally! Jacking it up by the rear diff was pretty weird, especially since my trolley jack is tiny as all get out.  .jpg) I'm debating whether or not to repaint the wheels - they're EDM WRX wheels, but I kind of like them. I'll probably have to get rid of them when I go to wider tires  I was worried they wouldn't clear my brakes (they definitely don't clear STI Brembos) but they do!
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Apr 18, 2010 03:49
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Today, I made my car my bitch. Got 3 laps on the Nürburgring before getting kicked off for motorcycles. EDIT: You can't have cameras out on the track or your insurance is instantly voided, but it went something like this...  Click here for the full 1280x959 image. Mr.Peabody fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Apr 18, 2010 |
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Apr 18, 2010 16:10
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So I'm parting out my Trans Am that I wrecked and I ran into a dilemma. Someone bought the rear end, and someone bought the front suspension and k-member. I now have a Trans Am carcass sitting on jack stands. How do I move it if I need to? How do I get rid of it? HOW WILL I RECLAIM MY GARAGE?!?     It works better than I imagined. I can just lean on the car and slide it around. When I call a tow truck to come get the shell I'll be ready 
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Apr 18, 2010 22:35
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Thought I hydrolocked my engine in my 2003 RSX Type S. I run an Injen cold air intake, which places the duct right in front of the driver side wheel, inside of the bumper. Air (water) enters through the brake duct and is good for a good increase in horsepower and throttle response. So I was driving home and it started raining like hell, lots of standing water on the road. My visibility was poo poo and I hit a puddle and the car died pretty much immediately. I pulled over into a gas station and stood outside staring at my car with my hands on my hips. I popped the hood and tried to start it. I cranked on it for a good 10 seconds and it finally stumbled to life, with a shitload of steam coming out of the tailpipe and ran kind of lovely for a minute or two. I got out and listened to the engine. I couldn't hear any knocking or anything abnormal, and there was no check engine light, so I drove off. I drove home and turned the car off and coasted through every puddle, big or small. You know you're an enthusiast when literally 5 minutes after hydrolocking your engine, the main reason you want to get home is so you can price K24 blocks. K24 block out of a TSX, plus K20A2 head makes for mad torque, yo.
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Apr 18, 2010 23:46
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Hey! Hey guys! Wanna see something gross?! I flushed my power steering fluid! (Crosspost from the BMW thread) Old PS fluid comes out  New fluid goes in (repeat about six times after starting car and turning wheel a few times...)   I used all three quarts that I bought, and the fluid was looking better but still not red. It was more purply. So I might do it again in a month or so. I'm thinking that was the original fluid, after 13 years and 182k miles. My god.
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Apr 19, 2010 00:54
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Well I replaced by HVAC blower motor. High doesn't work and my A/C compressor sorta works now. Fuses are ok, wire connections are good so I'm guessing I'll have to shuffle around the 4 relays in the system to figure out if I need a new relay or to. Good thing they're all the same relay type.
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Apr 19, 2010 01:09
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Took the airbox out of my Ranger to get rid of the small restrictive "horn" that Ford seems to put in their airboxes. Intake actually has a nice throaty roar now. Then I washed, clay barred, and waxed it. I love this little truck so much! 
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Apr 19, 2010 05:25
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CornHolio posted:Hey! Hey guys! Wanna see something gross?! I flushed my power steering fluid! My dashboard had a light for the past week showing "Brake Light"; holy gently caress my car tells me when the brake lights are blown! I took advantage of my neighbour's cigarette addiction last night and got him to tell me which bulb was out. Turns out the reason the bulb died was probably the puddle of water inside the brakelight housing. Both sides were wet, but on the right, where one of the two bulbs was dead, was about 5mm of standing water. I guess I need to get out my drill or something to keep this from happening every time I wash the car. Also, I attempted to install a cupholder. This would be attempt number 2, and it failed.  sooner or later I'll get this figured out...
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Apr 19, 2010 05:26
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ExecuDork posted:
I keep one of those cardboard drink holders from Taco Bell under the passengers seat. Way less hassle than installing real cupholders.
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Apr 19, 2010 05:30
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ExecuDork posted:Your power steering system uses ATF? Yes. So does my manual transmission. Freaked me out when I first saw it, too.
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ExecuDork posted:Your power steering system uses ATF? Taillights leaking is a common problem with your car. Mine does it too. To fix it, seal up the black strip between the yellow and red lenses with black silicone. Mask off the lenses with tape so you don't get it everywhere, and use a wet finger to work it in there good. I'm planning on doing this on mine, just haven't gotten to it yet. I'll probably go all the way around and put the silicone on all the seams I see in addition to the center strip though, just to be thorough. You can dry the lights out by removing them from the car, taking the bulbs out of their sockets, pouring out all the water you can, and then running a hairdryer through it or setting it on a heat register for a while. Due to it looking like it was going to rain all weekend (it didn't), plus other stuff I had to do, I didn't get much done. Except this. 
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A little back story: Last week I finally got around to installing the exhaust on my car that I picked up back in February. I purchased a Road/Race Engineering 3" down pipe with cat-delete and an HKS Carbon Ti Exhaust. After cutting up the Carbon Ti exhaust to fit the 3" down pipe I noticed the car smoking a bit. Only smoked under boost though. Yay DSMs! I finally tracked down another t25 and installed that tonight. Car pulls well now, no smoke and I can finally boost again. Also installed some Hella Supertones that I picked up from RallyArmor.com. Great product and worth the money.
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Apr 19, 2010 07:15
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ExecuDork posted:Your power steering system uses ATF?
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I swapped out my stock door pins for Mercedes' new AMG brushed aluminum pins. The tall, plastic black abominations were a major eye sore.
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Well yesterday I put in new Bosch H4 lights in the Miata. And while enjoying the new focused light patterns I noticed my radio doesn't work anymore.  So today I tore the radio out, reseated all the connections, and now it works again. Oh, and I magnetized all the series sponsor stickers I got from the CSC Racing open house. To much?  Click here for the full 1024x740 image.
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Apr 19, 2010 16:22
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Changed the oil and replaced the passenger side tie-rod on the e30. I was getting a little tired of the uncommanded wheel movements... I really should get around to replacing the shifter bushings too, but maybe next week.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3108195&pagenumber=17#post375684437 Update for my TT300ZX, front valence and spoiler are on, but still got work to do. DOn't worry, it's all getting a fresh OEM paint code coat when all this fitting/trimming is done.
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Apr 21, 2010 21:33
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Tried taking my exhaust off to put new poo poo on and was getting nowhere for 2+ hours. Went to Lowes and bought a impact wrench.... 5 minutes after getting back: I'm envious of anyone with a paved driveway or garage :-(
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Apr 21, 2010 23:10
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Finally changed a coil that was misfiring in my Linc LS, not at all as difficult a task as I had first imagined
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I rewired the headlights on my MG to use relays, instead of running the entire headlight current through the dash switches. Hopefully this will keep me from melting a THIRD $70 turn signal/high beam stalk. arggggg :Lucas: As an added bonus, the headlights seem marginally brighter, and the thought of running halogen lamps doesn't make me reach for a fire extinguisher anymore. edit: that last part is a lie. eddiewalker fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 22, 2010 |
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