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Got the 1600cc injectors dialed in a bit more, to the point where I can actually rev the car above 4k. Also got one of these sweet exhaust clamps. http://www.amazon.com/Torctite-Preformed-Exhaust-Brushed-Stainless/dp/B002VR756C
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New wiper blades on the Volvo. Woo. Exciting stuff I'm telling you.
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Jun 23, 2010 16:38
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Did my first piece of vaguely preventative maintenance, sanded down some patches of surface rust in the drivers door sill and went over them with some hammerite. Looks like absolute arse right now, but I'll fix it with some touch up paint one day. 
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Jun 23, 2010 17:19
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Oneiric posted:Got my new wheels on...had to roll the fenders a bit but all good now.
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Jun 23, 2010 19:05
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Replaced tstat for Pearl. Annoying weird neighbor came by and proceeded to lean on every car I own. I'm somewhat concerned for my property.
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Jun 24, 2010 00:46
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destructo posted:Beautiful, can't get enough of concave TE-73s Agreed. They look fantastic. Gorgeous Supra.
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Jun 24, 2010 00:47
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CornHolio posted:New wiper blades on the Volvo. Woo. Exciting stuff I'm telling you. I hear ya there. Got to help the girlfriend with that recently. On a related note, I tightened the AC belt on my Miata, since every time I'd cut on AC, it'd slip and I took a chance at losing power steering, among other things I'm sure, didn't really want to figure it out. God that pivot bolt is annoying.
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Jun 24, 2010 01:14
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Installed a new intake. Now my hood scoop has a purpose.  
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Jun 25, 2010 02:11
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Dropped the engine and trans back in. Still need to hook up the driveshaft, exhaust, intake, radiator, and put some fluids in it, but it should be running with the new engine by the end of the weekend. I hope. 
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Jun 25, 2010 03:57
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Seat Safety Switch posted:edit: Here is a picture. It's a pretty good job; they even fixed the crookedness of the bumper. They still have to put a missing clip on the right hand side. Now I can focus my attention on the parts of the car that matter more than aesthetics.
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Jun 25, 2010 20:05
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I learned an important lesson: never clean the throttle body on a Nissan QR25DE. Sure, two weeks ago, I thought I'd set about seeing why some of this transient pinging or weird clicking noise on light load or transition from acceleration load to deceleration load (respectively) was happening... imagine my surprise when I find that the throttle body has a nice coating of varnish on the plate itself and lovely carbon soot around the plate's closed position. Took it out today after receiving a gasket set for the intake manifold (just in case the carbon soot was all over the plenum and runners - it wasn't, thankfully) to find a wonderful coating of varnish behind the plate. Ok, cool, whatever - sparing application of ETB cleaner to the tough spots, and indirect application with shop towels to the rest of it, just like I read somewhere. Put everything back together - yes, the MAF is plugged in all the way, start it and wow, it runs! Hooray! Procedure now calls for an idle air relearn, which was easy enough. On the drive back to my apartment, though, the car was idling at 1500 RPM, and it would actually come back up to that speed. Well poo poo, I guess I didn't do the relearn correctly. Try it again. 1800RPM. God dammit. Must be the gasket - I thought I could get away with reusing it for a while. No dice? Go back over to the parking lot and replace it. A third re-learn after verifying no vacuum leaks. Success! Until I pushed the gas pedal. 1500RPM, up to 2000, down to 1250. gently caress you, car. I tried a fourth because I hate myself, but I was back to the 1500 RPM after any movement of the accelerator. OFF TO CONSULT THE INTERNET..... INTERNET CONSENSUS REACHED! Taking this engine's throttle body out of the car and cleaning it is super effective at loving up the idle for a long period of time. Alternatively, I somehow screwed up the ECU or the throttle body, each of which is an integrated unit in the vicinity of 600 dollars new. Again, gently caress you, car. I think to myself for a few minutes and eventually, without the help of substance abuse, settle on the fantastic idea of disconnecting the battery for a while. "Surely, given that a computer is involved, unplugging it and plugging it back in will fix it! That works with Dell Optiplex 960s half the time, and this is almost one of those!" I head back out in an hour, the car springs right to life, so I do the pedal position relearn, the throttle position relearn for the second total time, and the sunroof position relearn. Oddly enough, my radio presets were not lost. Start the car, let it warm back up, it idles happily during this time. Shut it back down, prep myself for doing the pedal dance one more time. Success! Sort of. It doesn't stop at 1500, but it doesn't exactly fall gracefully to sub-1000 levels, either. Ok, fine, test drive. Drivability isn't terrible, but I'm actually more offended I lost my trip odometers. Drive back up to a lit parking lot, follow the pedal dance procedure one more time and BICKETY BAM - not only does the car finally idle, it actually drops to idle more smoothly than it ever has before. So, recap: I started taking apart my intake at about 5:30pm. I finished my last re-learn at 10:30pm. That's five whole hours to correct what i'm sure was a stupid mistake in thinking this procedure was a good idea in the first place. I also have no evidence what I did helped me. I haven't heard the noises since doing it, but I haven't been able to go out and really test the conditions that cause the problem in the first place. I guess that's for tomorrow.
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Jun 26, 2010 04:09
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Swapped out the bad tires on the Escort for the ones from my parts car that were surprisingly good. It's amazing what decent rubber does for handling.
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Jun 26, 2010 08:10
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nurrwick posted:Story of woe Don't feel so bad, the last time I cleaned a throttle body out the car never idled right again and got written off 2 weeks later, right after I folded and bought a new(ly sanded down) body from eBay.  *e* Content: replaced a rear wheel bearing, couldn't find my bearing packer. Packing bearings by hand on a baking hot day with building work nearby is one of the more unpleasant things I've done in my life. jammyozzy fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 26, 2010 |
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Jun 26, 2010 10:43
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jammyozzy posted:Don't feel so bad, the last time I cleaned a throttle body out the car never idled right again and got written off 2 weeks later, right after I folded and bought a new(ly sanded down) body from eBay. Ouch... yeah I am definitely happy I got the problem fixed same day. Some of the Sentra guys on the internet were talking about intermittent idle problems for upwards of six months. Hopefully nothing happens to the car as a result of my anger at it - I tried not to hurt her as a result of her transgressions, after all.
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Jun 26, 2010 15:39
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What the hell is a throttle body relearn? Usually for Nissans you just adjust for an initial resistance reading, then short the service connector and move it. Nissan has the worst ECUs in history, nobody ever ever does the poo poo they have come up with.
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Jun 26, 2010 21:58
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I know on my old car (VW Polo) the TB had a motor on the back that held the throttle plate open, that's how it adjusted the idle. If you disconnected the battery/hosed about with any wiring the next time the ignition was on the motor would waggle the plate about re-learning where 'closed' and presumably 'roughly idle' was. My one caught amnesia or something, forgot how to close all the way and spent its time making the car idle all over the place. Then the car got written off, so I gave up trying to work out what was wrong.  E: The only two modern cars I've touched are mechanically identical, this is probably how it's done on all cars and I'm preaching to the choir.
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Jun 26, 2010 22:30
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jammyozzy posted:I know on my old car (VW Polo) the TB had a motor on the back that held the throttle plate open, that's how it adjusted the idle. If you disconnected the battery/hosed about with any wiring the next time the ignition was on the motor would waggle the plate about re-learning where 'closed' and presumably 'roughly idle' was. Yep, except it's just permanently open a little bit or something, I don't know. It's supposed to know where closed is and I know the motors move it around a little to do that. That and there are two others you have to do are the accelerator-fully-released position (just turn the car on and off a couple times) and then the idle air relearn would be easy if I had their stupid computer, but you have to do a pedal dance with a stopwatch, then start the car after a certain number of seconds in the diagnostic mode. That's the one I kept having to do. [edit to explain:] The idle air relearn actually forces the ECU to forget everything it knows about the correct readings of gasses at idle and instead forces the throttle open or shut or whatever to maintain 700 RPM, then learns what that's supposed to look like from the MAF and O2 sensors' points of view. nurrwick fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jun 26, 2010 |
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Tried to figure out why the APR direct port wasn't working (2000 A4 1.8T). Apparently aftermarket stereo installs can do something to the ECU wiring. Looking at the fuse panel, and there is no fuse for the radio. Yes, it works... poo poo.
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Jun 27, 2010 05:53
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Seems the PO of my e30 decided to splice their tape-deck stereo cables directly into the car loom instead of putting plugs on both ends. So, after I unfucked that I stuck in put in a more modern deck with an iPod connection. I have been getting a brake warning light despite my pads and rotors being fine, so topped up the brake fluid too.
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The big 180... In a WAGOVAN! (Lemons cars representing.)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_V5bPxmkQ Also, I guess that means my tenth of a mile wheel on the odometer has revolved 1.8 MILLION times. 
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I did my first Rallycross today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEbcVsBFNs Click for 1080P goodness (not my youtube account).
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Jun 28, 2010 00:19
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Sponge! posted:Also, I guess that means my tenth of a mile wheel on the odometer has revolved 1.8 MILLION times. Unless it's a positively unique odometer, the tenth wheel has only revolved 180,000 times.
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Finally dug around my beater 98 sable wagon to find out why it lost all oil pressure a year ago (I'm lazy as hell when in school). The camshaft position sensor had exploded, I found pieces of it all over the transmission and the remains still attached to the harness. The "point" on the synchronizer shaft is bent to hell so this leads me to assume the drive gear on this shaft has also sheared and spins freely. Would explain my lack of oil pressure since this whole piece of poo poo drives the pump from the camshaft. When it lost pressure it was driven for a few blocks to get back to my house since I really didn't give a poo poo about the car and excused this stupidity with the logic "Its 30F outside and the engine is still cold, what little oil still in the bearings should cushion it enough." Ford Vulcan V6, what a blast.. I need to find a replacement synchronizer assembly now on the cheap and hope the bottom end isn't fubar. Edit: Yep, missing gear teeth and the remaining teeth are razor sharp.  Click here for the full 1528x1146 image. Kotaru fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jun 28, 2010 |
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Jun 28, 2010 00:39
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JB-Welded an Allen key into the stripped hole of my manual boost controller, thus causing injector #3 to stop working.  DSM
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meatpimp posted:Unless it's a positively unique odometer, the tenth wheel has only revolved 180,000 times. Bah, you're right. Doh.
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Today I put in new horns in my car. The one it came with was puny and pathetic. The new two horns I put in to replace it sound like an actual car and not a scooter or something.  Yes it's crappy quality but it's from my cell phone. The new horn has a lot more oomph to it than the recording plays, but the original horn is about right.
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I fixed it! Found the cause of the too-high idle and too-rich fuel mix in my 1980 Civic. Turns out it was the choke cap, something I only learned existed today. The cap contains an electric heating element, and a bimetallic coil. The heater heats up the coil, causing the end of it to gradually turn in a circle, moving the choke and fast idle cam on the carburetor. The end of the coil is supposed to have a little ceramic cylinder attached to it, which mates with the actual pin that turns the cam. The ceramic thing was broked. Others have said it before, and drat it's true. Having a second car makes it so much easier to find and fix problems on the other car. My car was screwed up because of a little piece of ceramic the size of a pencil eraser, and I was unable to do a drat thing about until mere days after buying my Impreza. Only problem was, replacement choke cap is $110 (amazing enough that there are still any available), but that's pretty steep for a car I paid $750 for. I just replaced the ceramic with a little piece of silicone vacuum hose, I hope the heat in there won't be too much for it. tl;dr: gently caress U CARBERATER I WIN!
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Seafoamed the '99 M3 for the first (and second) time. It surprised me by having nearly no white smoke whatsoever on the first serving of Seafoam, so I drove the first batch off and then dosed it again. No smoke at all the second time. Car isn't noticably different, but I figured it was time for a cleaning before I change the plugs tonight. Also took our Suby wagon into the shop to get the brakes turned and an oil change (while it's there), but since *I* didn't do any work on it, it doesn't really count for this thread.
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As I posted in the BMW thread, I replaced my E36 aux fan.  Now I don't have to worry about damaging my compressor when I use my A/C.
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CornHolio posted:As I posted in the BMW thread, I replaced my E36 aux fan. Your car looks extremely happy to me without the bumper assembly.
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nurrwick posted:Your car looks extremely happy to me without the bumper assembly. Better airflow, less weight, why wouldn't it be happier?
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CornHolio posted:Better airflow, less weight, why wouldn't it be happier? Not having jaw cancer 
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CornHolio posted:As I posted in the BMW thread, I replaced my E36 aux fan. Honest question as I'm not familiar with Bimmers, but holy poo poo is that new aux fan a lot bigger than stock? that thing is HUGE
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Robawesome posted:Honest question as I'm not familiar with Bimmers, but holy poo poo is that new aux fan a lot bigger than stock? that thing is HUGE Actually that's the old one. The new one looks identical but is much blacker (and has a big VDO sticker in the corner). It's a 16" fan enclosed in a giant shroud. It's not even the primary engine cooling fan (that one's mechanical). It's for when the mechanical fan can't cool the engine enough and for whenever the A/C is running.
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I changed the cap and the rotor on my 1998 Volvo V70. This weekend I'm going to flush and re-fill the coolant and, if I'm really feeling ambitious, flush and fill the transmission.
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Took the 2K8 to get it smogged. Was fully prepped for the 'we've never seen one of these before' - flipped out the ODBII cover, and everything for them before I got out of the car to let them connect the cable. They subsequently got stuck trying to find the ignition. v vBoring Math below: I did find something incredibly odd, though, while I stood there and decided to figure my averages: 2008 B235R Average MPG: No Air, Windows Down: 30.2 Air: 29.8 3,470 lbs curb weight 5 speed auto 2000 B235E Average MPG: No Air, Windows Down: 31.2 Air: 31.1 3,420 lbs curb weight 4 speed auto Same drat routes, same drat gas, and same drat tendency to make the turbo sing going uphill. Yeah, I don't do a load of city driving, that's why they're so incredibly high - but why is the old beast happier/cheaper than the new one when it has a a lesser tranny (170k on it and just flushed), and is not affected so gruesomely by the goddamn air conditioner? Anyone who tells me 2MPG is just normal flux is obviously not paying enough attention to my obsession. Got my August '10 insurance papers. Stuck them in the cars, clearing out all of the '09 crap I had left in their respective binders. Used the ol' car dustbuster to vacuum the floors.
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bought it vv second one of these i've owned, but THIS is a 5 speed 
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CornHolio posted:As I posted in the BMW thread, I replaced my E36 aux fan. That driver's side wheel not being centered on the ramp kinda bugs me a little. I'd be paranoid of that ramp flipping over even though I know it wouldn't.
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wav3form posted:That driver's side wheel not being centered on the ramp kinda bugs me a little. I'd be paranoid of that ramp flipping over even though I know it wouldn't. I know, I don't think it was as bad as it looks in the picture because I didn't even notice it when it was on the ramps.
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Synonamess Botch posted:bought it v Wow, I haven't seen one in such nice shape in a long long time. Tell more about it.
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