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Tommychu posted:The 1ZZ was an oil-burner, but the 2ZZ to my knowledge never had oil consumption issues. I find this interesting because the 2zz has much higher compression and all that other performancy good stuff. Are you sure you aren't thinking of the ZR? I had to do pistons and rings on several of them under warranty.
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Octopus Magic posted:What more do you want out of a FWD sport coupe? It was a pretty good RSX-S competitor. The hell it was.
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Cacafuego posted:Terrible car stuff: my friend bought a used RX8 despite my advice not to. The engine exploded the other day. Mechanic says head gasket blew and it needs a new engine at about $5000. The car falls under the 8 year/100k mi extended engine warranty Mazda offers on RX8s. It's a 2007, currently at about 80k miles. The explanation is: My roommate sold his RX8 due to extreme paranoia at all times that it was about to blow up. I'm not sure I could own one without doing something unethical. I can just picture myself at 99k miles bouncing off the rev limiter every single second I drove it hoping it would pop. From what I've seen though, this would paradoxically make it run better and more reliably.
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Terrible Car: GMC Yukon XUV. I saw this last night, I think it's one of about 3 GM actually sold. It cured the need nobody had -- a convertible rear section in an SUV.  
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meatpimp posted:Terrible Car: GMC Yukon XUV. I saw this last night, I think it's one of about 3 GM actually sold. It cured the need nobody had -- a convertible rear section in an SUV. But it worked so well for Studebaker!!!  e: f,b
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Bucephalus posted:You shut your whore mouth Hay guiz, I need to move a kitchen sink/counter. If only there was a way that I could use my station wagon. Another problem nobody has ever had.
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meatpimp posted:Terrible Car: GMC Yukon XUV. I saw this last night, I think it's one of about 3 GM actually sold. It cured the need nobody had -- a convertible rear section in an SUV. That's an Envoy, not a Yukon.
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meatpimp posted:Hay guiz, I need to move a kitchen sink/counter. If only there was a way that I could use my station wagon. I'm pretty sure that picture is actually documenting the kitchen sink black market. Why else would there be a sink at a marina? Those cuban sinks are high quality poo poo man.
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Q_res posted:That's an Envoy, not a Yukon. Yep, and near as makes no difference, still an abomination.
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rscott posted:
You should get that engine checked out.
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Wasabi the J posted:You should get that engine checked out. That's the service indicator display that I did not bother to reset after I did the timing belt and water pump
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Bucephalus posted:You shut your whore mouth My family had one of those when I was growing up. It was like a pickup truck that people living in a big city weren't embarrassed to have (this was in the 60s).
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I'm pretty sure it's been scientifically proven that wagon > SUV, so convertible wagon >> convertible SUV.
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Slavvy posted:I find this interesting because the 2zz has much higher compression and all that other performancy good stuff. Are you sure you aren't thinking of the ZR? I had to do pistons and rings on several of them under warranty. Uthor posted:I'm pretty sure it's been scientifically proven that wagon > SUV, so convertible wagon >> convertible SUV. Counterpoint: 1g 4runner, Bronco, K5 Blazer.
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Tommychu posted:The 1zz had less oil capacity and cooling, and tended to coke oil on the rings much more easily during everyday use. You had to be much harder on a 2zz for that to happen.There was a revised dipstick and TSB that increased the oil level on the 1zz that helped a fair bit though. That definitely would've been before my time at Toyota. What was the revised oil capacity?
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Slavvy posted:That definitely would've been before my time at Toyota. What was the revised oil capacity? The TSB (http://www.toyotapart.com/1ZZ-FE_ENGINE_OIL_LEVEL_SPECIFICATION_UPDATE_T-SB-0134-08.pdf) says 4.2, but I use just about 5 litres (but I also run a 2ZZ filter, and I drain it hot and let it drip for as long as a cigarette takes to burn). For content, why the gently caress do I see so many Onfires with 2 spoilers? I mean the OEM one already does a good enough job of keeping the trunk lid closed when the latch inevitably fails, so there's not much point to the second one. 
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Bucephalus posted:You shut your whore mouth I was about to agree with you, but then I looked up what the "convertible" portion looked like  It's almost as bad as those Nissan ones
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rscott posted:I passed this person as soon as I possibly could
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xzzy posted:I'm pretty sure that picture is actually documenting the kitchen sink black market. Why else would there be a sink at a marina? You guys are really underestimating the appeal of taking your wet bar with you on the weekend jaunt in your Chris-Craft. Also I can definitely see the appeal of improved hauling capacity back in the days when there weren't U-Hauls and Home Depots with cheap rental pickups littering the suburbascape. 'Wagon with removable rear roof' actually sounds kind of neat even if the Envoy implementation is an abomination.
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Tommychu posted:The TSB (http://www.toyotapart.com/1ZZ-FE_ENGINE_OIL_LEVEL_SPECIFICATION_UPDATE_T-SB-0134-08.pdf) says 4.2, but I use just about 5 litres (but I also run a 2ZZ filter, and I drain it hot and let it drip for as long as a cigarette takes to burn). Looks like our service info was already updated; all the ZZ's and ZR's were listed as 4.2 and I never saw one drastically go over the dipstick markings with that amount in it.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Didn't someone in AI buy one of those, albeit an awesome tasteful one? I know at least it was something similar... http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3657581
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Cacafuego posted:Thanks for the help, an independent mechanic told me the head gasket was blown and it needs a new motor. He could only find one in TN (I'm in FL) with 78k miles and to pull the old one and put the new (used) one in it would be $5000. You do not want to use this mechanic and you do not want to buy a used (non-rebuilt) rotary. Especially for $5000. For that much you could get a professionaly built 13b monster with change to spare. Or just sink it all into a 3-rotor 
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Dr.Caligari posted:You do not want to use this mechanic and you do not want to buy a used (non-rebuilt) rotary. Especially for $5000. For that much you could get a professionaly built 13b monster with change to spare. Or just sink it all into a 3-rotor http://www.colemanprecisionrotaries.com/
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Panty Saluter posted:
It's not believable because the guy put more effort into this than GM did with the actual first-gen Escalade.
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That is an awful website... ...and an awesome power curve.
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Dr.Caligari posted:You do not want to use this mechanic and you do not want to buy a used (non-rebuilt) rotary. Especially for $5000. For that much you could get a professionaly built 13b monster with change to spare. Or just sink it all into a 3-rotor Yeah, Mazda ended up paying for the tow to a dealer and is covering a new (guessing rebuilt) motor under the extended warranty installed by the dealer. The only charges are a new radiator, fan (s), coils, plugs, wires and Brigdh suggested asking them to put in a new thermostat, plus all the labor. I'll work on convincing her to get that 13b!
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Cacafuego posted:Yeah, Mazda ended up paying for the tow to a dealer and is covering a new (guessing rebuilt) motor under the extended warranty installed by the dealer. The only charges are a new radiator, fan (s), coils, plugs, wires and Brigdh suggested asking them to put in a new thermostat, plus all the labor. As if should be. If it dies again, don't loving pay $5000 for a rotary -- rotary failure should be somewhat more tolerable because they're supposed to be way cheaper than piston motors. Cacafuego posted:Thanks for the help, an independent mechanic told me the head gasket was blown and it needs a new motor.
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:It's not believable because the guy put more effort into this than GM did with the actual first-gen Escalade. True enough, but the still picture doesn't really convey the amazing amount of body motion over every single pebble in the road. I'm guessing cut springs but who knows? G-Mach posted:At least it doesn't have corvette taillights in the rear bumper. ...which is very likely to happen around here 
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Cakefool posted:That is an awful website... My Uncle Howard is an uber-gearhead, not a web guy.
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Cakefool posted:That is an awful website...
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Cakefool posted:That is an awful website... Well, the website does help to emphasize that they are serious about focusing on rotary performance (although I am sure they could find a welder or something that could make their page a bit less geocities).
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torpedan posted:Well, the website does help to emphasize that they are serious about focusing on rotary performance (although I am sure they could find a welder or something that could make their page a bit less geocities). 
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This is one of the milder Miatas on the FB group I was talking about 
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