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Did plugs and wires on Toplitzin's new to him beater 98 Civic.
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Gave it a newer, faster, uglier stablemate. It actually cleaned up pretty well, considering. Now I’ll have to see if I want to keep it or strip it for a swap Into another shell.  
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Going through the S2000 today in prep for the 16th / 17th. I pull the front pads to check them over pretty often, but I haven't experienced big chunks of material going missing before, I usually run them almost to the backing plate. Guess it is front big brake kit time after I finish off the new set I just put in.  These are Hawk DTC60 with 8hr on them 
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Feb 3, 2019 21:52
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pulled the engine out the other day at work started tearing it apart at my dad's house  then I towed my dad's to work so I could weld up an exhaust for it  
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Feb 4, 2019 04:18
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BlackMK4 posted:Going through the S2000 today in prep for the 16th / 17th. I pull the front pads to check them over pretty often, but I haven't experienced big chunks of material going missing before, I usually run them almost to the backing plate. Guess it is front big brake kit time after I finish off the new set I just put in. My limited s2k experience is that the stock brakes don't cut it on track. Have seen a lot of cracked rotors, even a case where a bbk exploded a rotor, so ducting is probably a good idea regardless. What are you thinking about getting? jamal fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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jamal posted:My limited s2k experience is that the stock brakes don't cut it on track. Have seen a lot of cracked rotors, even a case where a bbk exploded a rotor, so ducting is probably a good idea regardless. What are you thinking about getting?  Fortunately, I am now on a set of 17x10 SA72Rs that clear pretty much everything, so I was kind of thinking the SBG Wilwood kit (https://www.sakebombgarage.com/wilwood-track-day-brake-system-s2000/) and stuffing Raybestos ST43s in them, maybe. Do you have access to the basic Stoptech ST40 kit? e: and access to Hardrace stuff? I need a set of https://www.buyhardrace.com/product/hardrace-rear-upper-arm-bushings-harden-rubber-s2000-ap1-only-_204.html or https://www.buyhardrace.com/product/hardrace-rear-upper-arm-bushings-pillow-ball-honda-s2000-ap1_234.html this week, if I can get them 
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Feb 4, 2019 05:14
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The brake kit I saw explode a rotor was wilwood using fixed rotor rings, which increases the stresses in the rotor compared to one with float. To get larger floating rotors with that wilwood kit you're spending the same as the stoptech 328x28 kit, so I'd suggest that instead. And yes I sell those and think I have pretty decent pricing. I've also been meaning to try to get set up with essex because I like their AP kits and they carry CL pads. No on the hardrace stuff.
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Balls on the Wilwood thing, I think the Stoptech rings are cheaper too. I'm guessing the 328x28 is the ST40. Send me over a price for whatever color caliper is cheapest, please  No rush, these pads should last me about two months.
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I mounted and balanced four new tires at a friend's shop, only breaking one tire pressure sensor at $50/ea. Then I did the front brakes with the Tahoe cop compound pads and new rotors because his thing feels pretty underbraked with the factory brake pads. I flushed the brake fluid and changed the oil while I had it in there, whichever oil had a deal at Advance--synthetic Castrol 5W-30 something something. Next week I'm doing rear brakes and a transmission service, and a diff service if I have the time. Falken Wildpeak A/T3W in the stock size of 265/65 R18. I got stuck in my backyard a while back, now I can dig holes even faster. Each tire took less than 1.75 oz. total weight to balance, and one only took 1/2 ounce. I was seriously impressed. I've mounted BFG All-Terrains of the same size that took 5-6 ounces to balance.  
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wallaka posted:I mounted and balanced four new tires at a friend's shop, only breaking one tire pressure sensor at $50/ea. Then I did the front brakes with the Tahoe cop compound pads and new rotors because his thing feels pretty underbraked with the factory brake pads. I flushed the brake fluid and changed the oil while I had it in there, whichever oil had a deal at Advance--synthetic Castrol 5W-30 something something. Next week I'm doing rear brakes and a transmission service, and a diff service if I have the time. Falken Wildpeaks are very underrated for the price. I put 30" WPs on my Toyota last fall and they are great.
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JQADDINGMACHINE posted:pulled the engine out the other day at work Hang on. I feel like you skipped a few steps, there.
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Feb 4, 2019 17:36
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wallaka posted:I mounted and balanced four new tires at a friend's shop, only breaking one tire pressure sensor at $50/ea. Then I did the front brakes with the Tahoe cop compound pads and new rotors because his thing feels pretty underbraked with the factory brake pads. I flushed the brake fluid and changed the oil while I had it in there, whichever oil had a deal at Advance--synthetic Castrol 5W-30 something something. Next week I'm doing rear brakes and a transmission service, and a diff service if I have the time. I'm putting new tires on my 4runner and was tossing between wild peaks and nitto terra grappler g2s
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Feb 4, 2019 17:39
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Darchangel posted:Hang on. I feel like you skipped a few steps, there. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing
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Darchangel posted:Hang on. I feel like you skipped a few steps, there. Two different cars. I originally owned the blue one, and my dad did a bunch of work on it for some reason (fixing all the rust, repainting it, making it run, etc) and decided that he liked it and he wanted it. I agreed as long as he bought me another one that was in similar condition to how the blue one used to be, which is the rusty silver one I have now.
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Feb 5, 2019 04:33
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 Because I'm an immature manchild.
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STR posted:
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I mean... I really should have done the pic with the speedo at 66 MPH (and the tach at 6k), but I was so close when I stopped in that parking lot that it only took a minute of circling Walmart to hit that. Couldn't have hit the highway in time.
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STR posted:
That's actually impressive, you should have bought a lottery ticket.
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Feb 5, 2019 15:11
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It was planned, sorry. I reset the trip odometer as soon as it hit 160000, and when it got within a mile last night, I just drove around a parking lot until it hit all 6's. The last major milestone I did though (on my old car), was unplanned. I caught 80005 135.5 The 80005 was planned. The 113.5 was not. That's the day I needed a lotto ticket.
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Feb 5, 2019 15:41
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No CEL the picture is obviously fake
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Feb 5, 2019 17:52
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opengl128 posted:No CEL the picture is obviously fake Bulb burned out.
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Feb 5, 2019 18:15
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Colostomy Bag posted:Bulb yanked out. Let's be real here.
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Feb 5, 2019 18:45
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Rhyno posted:Let's be real here. Makes more sense. We should chase him out with torches and pitchforks.
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Feb 5, 2019 18:55
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Why are the 6's different?
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Thief posted:i washed the salt off my car last night and now the weather is perfect and the first time in 2019 people are going out with t-shirts so It was 60 degrees here Monday, in the 30s again today. I wish it would make its mind up.
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Rhyno posted:Let's be real here. It's a soldered LED.  It comes and goes through the day. Always with the same MAP out of range error. I'm on junkyard MAP #4, MAF #2 (this one being brand new OEM, #1 being the original), and a lot of other poo poo that could POSSIBLY cause that code. It persists.MrOnBicycle posted:Why are the 6's different? You know, I never noticed until you mentioned that. THANKS, now I can't unsee it.  I have no clue. The odometer itself can display some text, the trip odometer is strictly numbers. But that doesn't explain it.
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EvilBeard posted:It was 60 degrees here Monday, in the 30s again today. I wish it would make its mind up. Are you in Texas? Because same, but today (Thursday), and it was in the 70s earlier. Amazing. Oh, and rain along with the cold.
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Darchangel posted:Are you in Texas? Because same, but today (Thursday), and it was in the 70s earlier. Amazing. Oh, and rain along with the cold. No, Indiana. It went from below zero last week to days in the 60s this week. Today the high is in the 60s, tomorrow's high is 22.
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EvilBeard posted:No, Indiana. It went from below zero last week to days in the 60s this week. Today the high is in the 60s, tomorrow's high is 22. Heh, same. -15 to 60 within a few days.
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This is fine and not alarming weather
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Wasabi the J posted:This is fine and not alarming weather It's cold where I am LOL libtards.
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Rhyno posted:It's cold where I am LOL libtards. This is a scam to cost taxpayers money!
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Rhyno posted:It's cold where I am LOL libtards. Your FB posts lately have been triggering me hard.
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Huge_Midget posted:Your FB posts lately have been triggering me hard. Betcha got that fancy edjacashun in college You a college boy?
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Serviced...half of my rear control arms on the M3. The LR tube threads decided to set themselves free.  
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Rolled over my first 5k. The oil looks suspiciously clean and fresh coming from a conventional life before this. First change is supposed to be at 7k but I'm wary about it.
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Finished up the work from last week on the Escalade. Turns out the rear calipers on these are notorious for failures, so I replaced them both. I turned the rotors because they were pretty bad, ended up just above the thickness threshold. I had to cut 20 thousandths from one side and 28 from the other. It turns out that pulling a 5,000 lb. trailer works the rear brakes pretty hard. The transmission flush was a pain because there was a leaking external cooler line. It took about 40 minutes to loosen the grille and headlights, wedge the core support, pick the clips out, and snake the four-foot long hard line free through a 2 square inch hole. gently caress those engineers.
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Had a big weekend pulling out the factory drum brakes differential out of the XC and putting in my nice "restored" XG ute diff with discs and a diff ratio to suit a turbo barra and 4 speed auto. Two friends that live an hour away (gold coast-ians) came up to lend a hand. One I help out with his Evo 7 a bit, the other had never worked on a car in his life (but wants a rotary) - he was amazingly poo poo at fetching tools even though my ratchet set has a legend with different colours on metric and imperial, he did enjoy himself though.  I started out Saturday morning really well by finding a tiny pin hole in the bottom of my fuel tank, looking up EFI fuel tanks after that discovery came up with no appealing results It all went pretty smoothly, no stripped bolts or stuck anything. Pretty good for 40 year old parts. I did take a video of the slop in the diff which I'll post later if I remember to upload it. This was the result of a few hours work.   I have no shame after being so lazy that I cut the handbrake cable instead of taking out all the clips. Won't be useful to me for the discs. Today went a little less smoothly since it was way hotter than yesterday, I wasn't thinking very well in the heat. Getting the diff and springs back up together was a pain in the rear end because as we found out at the end of the day, the U bolts I bought were just poo poo for the application, thanks Whiteline! Ended up getting the old u bolts and putting them in until I get a good set. The main thing I was wondering with all of this was if the '94 XG ute diff, '01 AU sedan 4 speed auto tailshaft, and a 70s C4 auto would really fit together underneath my XC. As I was lead to believe, it all fits perfectly. Amazing that Ford Australia kept everything the same length between different motors and gearboxes. The diff combo suits the motor and trans combo I have right now and it'll fit behind the barra and 4 speed auto, makes things easy.  Still gotta sort out the U bolts, flare and fit my new brake hard lines (have to do one side metric, one side imperial to get it to all fit), fit the swaybar with a U bolt kit, then drive the thing for a few days before pulling the motor for some barra turbo goodness. I will make a new thread soon.
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