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monsterzero posted:Yeah, a Hayden. Well I'm not currently living in GM Land with a truck but I'm from Ford World (so take my word with a grain of salt...) you basically have to spring for the OEM replacement at double the cost based on my research figuring out an issue I had. Plenty of stories. I know it sucks.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Well I'm not currently living in GM Land with a truck but I'm from Ford World (so take my word with a grain of salt...) you basically have to spring for the OEM replacement at double the cost based on my research figuring out an issue I had. Plenty of stories. I know it sucks. We'll see how it goes. It's already dropped my idle temp rise after around-town driving. I know there's a lot of ACDelco or GTFO on the owners forums, but it sounded kind of cargo-cultish to me. And it's borderline of amazing that the aftermarket is that bad for these things. There's a billion of em out there.
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monsterzero posted:We'll see how it goes. It's already dropped my idle temp rise after around-town driving. I know there's a lot of ACDelco or GTFO on the owners forums, but it sounded kind of cargo-cultish to me. And it's borderline of amazing that the aftermarket is that bad for these things. There's a billion of em out there. I know, I know. It is weird. I'm far from the AC Delco/Motorcraft cultist OEM type guy you can get but something about those drat fan clutches that everyone gets in a bind over is amazing. Anyways, hope you get it sorted out.
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monsterzero posted:My beater Silverado has been getting toasty when towing and then coming to a stop, especially when going up-hill. That sounded like a bad fan clutch to me so I threw a SEVERE DUTY part at it. That's totally normal if you do a cold start and take off with a clutch-driven fan, with a properly working fan clutch, so long as it goes to sounding normal after a mile or two.
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Yeah, its also butch as hell and I love it. *makes truck noises*
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monsterzero posted:Yeah, its also butch as hell and I love it. *makes truck noises* AI as gently caress
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monsterzero posted:Yeah, its also butch as hell and I love it. *makes truck noises* Pffft. My '90 RX-7 sounded like that with the stock clutched mechanical fan. Louder than the damned rotary. I always meant to install an electric fan, but never did. edit: my '79 will *not* sound like that.
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I’ve had my car for almost two years now, decided to celebrate by installing H&R springs and a full turboback exhaust. I need to tune the car now to remove the CEL and get the engine/ECU to play nice with the exhaust. At the beginning of April I ordered a set of BBS LM-R’s and those arrived this past Saturday. Happier than a pig in poo poo and totally worth the wait. I’m phone posting, sorry if these images come up far too big  
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STR posted:Current sound: Enjoy the "All I ever wanted, all I ever needed - Was rust, in my car."
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My car felt kinda funny today while rolling slowly in morning traffic. Well, there's your problem right there!
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Holy poo poo, those tires should have been changed ... years ago.
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Verman posted:Holy poo poo, those tires should have been changed ... years ago. I don't drive a lot - less than 3000 miles a year. I looked and discovered these tires are at least seven years old. I'm getting a new set Friday.
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Dagen H posted:Please tell us the date code They're made in the U.S.A. No way it's even 4 digits.
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Jesus those look worse than the 8 years+ old ones on the rims that I sold cheaply. Told they guy that they really need changing. "Nah that's alright, I'm going to put then on and use them.  ".
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Today I bought a turbo and I can't stop smiling.   
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the spyder posted:Today I bought a turbo and I can't stop smiling. This is going to make sounds that will be very appealing to me
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Dagen H posted:Please tell us the date code These were on the car when I bought it in 2013. Yes, I'm bad at car.
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Mister Kingdom posted:These were on the car when I bought it in 2013. Yes, I'm bad at car. Congratulations on your not-deadness, you came real close there.
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Finally had some time to mess with FORscan. Made these changes: - Adjusted tap to lane switch signal from 3 to 5 flashes - Disabled the honk warning if you leave the car with it running and take the key with you - Adjusted the timeout on the power port from an hour to one second so my dashcam shuts off immediately (still need to hardwire it) - Changed Sync 3 startup animation to the Ford GT one since it looks cool and I'm a child - Changed the back up sensor beeping from "deafeningly loud from all speaker" to a reasonable volume just from the cluster Still need to see what else I can change around
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the spyder posted:Today I bought a turbo and I can't stop smiling. This is relevant to my interests. Can I live vicariously through you?
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Took my Corvette in and got it aligned. Found that my wheels had no TPMS sensors in it. After some research, it turns out in the C5 era, you could disable the TPMS system entirely. I'm going to have to go get a tech to reenable it and put new TPMS sensors on it. Got the new tires mounted and balanced, and put on a new gas cap. I get the occasional CEL, and it's the P0440, for a small evap leak. Hoping the gas cap fixes it, otherwise I'm gonna be tracking the hose from the canister all the way to the intake, and checking out the solenoids. Considering hacking my OEM exhaust in half to put on my new Corsa exhaust, rather than finding someone with a 2 post lift to get the OEM exhaust in one piece.
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RillAkBea posted:Congratulations on your not-deadness, you came real close there. Closer than you think. The other tire has the same separation. Thank ye, old car gods!
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EvilBeard posted:Took my Corvette in and got it aligned. Found that my wheels had no TPMS sensors in it. After some research, it turns out in the C5 era, you could disable the TPMS system entirely. I'm going to have to go get a tech to reenable it and put new TPMS sensors on it. Got the new tires mounted and balanced, and put on a new gas cap. I get the occasional CEL, and it's the P0440, for a small evap leak. Hoping the gas cap fixes it, otherwise I'm gonna be tracking the hose from the canister all the way to the intake, and checking out the solenoids. Considering hacking my OEM exhaust in half to put on my new Corsa exhaust, rather than finding someone with a 2 post lift to get the OEM exhaust in one piece. Pulling this out of butt type thing of knowledge, but they are Ti?
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Colostomy Bag posted:Pulling this out of butt type thing of knowledge, but they are Ti? Only the Z06 came with titanium exhaust.
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EvilBeard posted:Took my Corvette in and got it aligned. Found that my wheels had no TPMS sensors in it. After some research, it turns out in the C5 era, you could disable the TPMS system entirely. I'm going to have to go get a tech to reenable it and put new TPMS sensors on it. Got the new tires mounted and balanced, and put on a new gas cap. I get the occasional CEL, and it's the P0440, for a small evap leak. Hoping the gas cap fixes it, otherwise I'm gonna be tracking the hose from the canister all the way to the intake, and checking out the solenoids. Considering hacking my OEM exhaust in half to put on my new Corsa exhaust, rather than finding someone with a 2 post lift to get the OEM exhaust in one piece. I always try to keep the stock exhaust/other parts intact when a car is newish to return everything to stock when I sell it. But, once it hits 10 years old I can't be hosed to return it to stock and try to recoup the cost in selling the mods so I just sell the car as-is. I say hack the poo poo off and put the corsa on. Its not like you're putting an unknown quality exhaust on it, corsa is a quality brand and I'm sure you can find videos on how it sounds.
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I'll have owned my B3 Passat wagon for 10 years this September. I stopped driving it daily in 2015 when I grew up and took out a car loan, but can't bear to get rid of it when it still runs this well. Insuring two cars versus one is $100/year cheaper, this pays for the plates on the 2nd car and lets me justify keeping it around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV1RQ3T1h-0 Compared to my newer car it's slower, uglier, worse mileage, no comfort features, no safety. But it runs and it's free, and the noise it makes puts a smile on my face. 
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NoWake posted:Insuring two cars versus one is $100/year cheaper, this pays for the plates on the 2nd car and lets me justify keeping it around. I wish this was the case where I live - two cars means 2x the insurance bill for me.
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EvilBeard posted:Took my Corvette in and got it aligned. Found that my wheels had no TPMS sensors in it. After some research, it turns out in the C5 era, you could disable the TPMS system entirely. I'm going to have to go get a tech to reenable it and put new TPMS sensors on it. Got the new tires mounted and balanced, and put on a new gas cap. I get the occasional CEL, and it's the P0440, for a small evap leak. Hoping the gas cap fixes it, otherwise I'm gonna be tracking the hose from the canister all the way to the intake, and checking out the solenoids. Considering hacking my OEM exhaust in half to put on my new Corsa exhaust, rather than finding someone with a 2 post lift to get the OEM exhaust in one piece. Why do you want TPMS back again? They're more of a hassle than their worth (especially if you have multiple wheel sets), IMO. Probably easier to defeat back then because I don't think they were mandated yet. And I too would hack the exhaust rather than drop the subframe or whatever PITA work needs done to remove the exhaust in one piece. Unless it was the Z06 Ti exhaust, then I'd probably do the same thing but just cry more.
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Suburban Dad posted:Why do you want TPMS back again? They're more of a hassle than their worth (especially if you have multiple wheel sets), IMO. Probably easier to defeat back then because I don't think they were mandated yet. I don't know, it was probably done back then because the sensors were like $250 a piece and they just wanted the error gone. I only have the one set of wheels/tires, as it's not my daily, just my fun summer car. I just like everything working. I only have to remove the 4 nuts/bolts to drop the rear sway bar, then it's 4 bolts per muffler (2 hangers and 2 in the flange.) The issue is, they're one piece over the rear axles, so you can't get them out unless you have a way to get the car way up in the air. They hit the ground before they come loose. I just need a place to get the car up high. I'm probably just going to reach up and hack them in half near the axle, and pull them out in 2 pieces. The Corsa exhaust is 3 piece with clamps, so it will go in fairly easy. EvilBeard fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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TPMS has saved us on a couple long trips, alerting to a slow leak before it became an immediate issue. I can understand why you want it working. Much easier than unpacking and swapping in a spare on the side of the interstate.
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I got the new tires today. For those playing along at home, the date code is 4518.
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Finally started putting the Koni Special Actives onto the 335. I just did the rears tonight.   Despite the grunginess of the one bump stop, they are both new as are the dust covers. The old ones had rotted and separated. This also marked the first time using my new pass through wrench set. It might have been super cheap and crusty, but holy hell did it make this job so much faster. Next up: fronts.
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  All cleaned and shined up so I can put it up for sale but at a price that is too high. Then I'll discover that it isn't too high for someone and they'll buy it anyway. If that happens though they can have it, I can probably find another one as nice, maybe. Probably.
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I had the main filter cap on my EG's ECU melt through a trace a few years ago and left me stranded. Easy fix, but after hours of going "only idiot boomers blame the ECU" and then finally power probing the MAP sensor, it was certainly hard to diagnose.
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