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Oil change followed by a long overdue wash and wax. Discovered during the oil change that every single bolt holding on the under tray had rusted into one with its nut (all 8 of them), so it's permanently attached now. Had to dremel a trap door in it to get the filter out.
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Signed up for my first track day, at NJMP. I am so pumped.
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Oct 15, 2011 19:01
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DogDodger posted:Which track and with which group? NJMP, thunderbolt track. Going with team promotion.
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Oct 18, 2011 14:30
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Put together a camera mount for my upcoming track day. 
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Nov 2, 2011 22:36
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Crustashio posted:That's pretty clever. I usually just moved my passenger seat up/foward as far as it will go then stuff the camera in the headrest. Might have to copy that next year when I get a gopro. That's exactly what I used to do, but the track organizers require it to be hard mounted in the car to pass tech.
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Nov 5, 2011 19:42
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Track day at NJMP today, my first. That was a god damned blast, and my car was about 100% more capable than I expected. So much damned fun.       
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Nov 14, 2011 03:40
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Kotaru posted:I have no interest in the 3sgte. The 1mzfe is lighter, smoother and drat near everyone does a 3sgte swap. 2300lb car with a big torquey v6 is lancia stratos level of awesome. Hell yes. I've always loved the 1MZ in my girlfriend's 99 Camry. Smooth is definitely the word, and nice and torquey. Also, even with 120k on it, its the quietest freaking engine I've ever heard.
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Jan 9, 2012 06:17
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Noise Complaint posted:Cleaned out a beater Cavalier I got for a couple hundred bucks and found a receipt for a Quaife LSD and install in the glovebox Wow that's really....random. No other mods to the car?
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Feb 28, 2012 22:44
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Switched back to my summer tires/wheels, because fuckit, this is not winter anymore in the NE, and hasn't been for weeks. No sense in chewing up my snow tires and having shite handling.
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Mar 8, 2012 05:20
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Looks like a stitched together panorama.
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Mar 13, 2012 15:56
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ratbert90 posted:Ok you get a pass. Sorry man for sperging out on you, but I detail cars as a part time gig while I go to school for my Network engineering degree, so I tend to sperg out. Maybe someday I will make a thread like PBCrunch except it would be just detailing different econobox's and the occasional higher end car. Sounds like an awesome thread to me
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Dizman posted:So this car has been having some issues lately (also please excuse the stupid instagram fuckery - I wanted to see what all the hype was about and now I know it's pretty dumb): Someday PA will come up with inspection stickers that don't start peeling after 6 months
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Apr 24, 2012 04:18
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Dizman posted:I am quite surprised you caught that. And yeah it looks like complete poo poo. The issue started a few years ago. Never did it before. Yeah that's about when I started noticing it. Almost all cars that are parked outside start doing it sooner or later. I guess they changed the adhesive or something.
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Apr 25, 2012 01:59
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Tremek posted:... and then she was rear-ended two days later. Adjuster coming out to look at the car on Monday. Sucks. I bet the tow hitch did some damage though.
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May 6, 2012 06:07
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Chinatown posted:drat that looks nice. You couldn't get me within a mile of a decades old bimmer engine bay with a pressure washer
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May 8, 2012 23:45
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Man, I am the only one who HAS to wear gloves when working on cars? This picture makes my skin crawl.
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Jun 18, 2012 03:34
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Rhyno posted:
If it helps, the last time I changed my oil I got a face/hair full of hot, used oil when the filter dropped into the pan. It was all I could smell for the next day. Still though, used oil has WAY too much nasty/potentially carcinogenic stuff going on for me to want it embedded in my skin/under my nails for any length of time.
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Jun 18, 2012 03:40
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Rhyno posted:Do you not have soap in your house? Of course I do. I'm also admittedly a massive pussy 
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Jun 18, 2012 03:44
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shodanjr_gr posted:Yeah i'm taking it in tomorrow...Does it make sense to go to the dealer or will Discount Tire do the same job for me? (it's a Pirelli PZero on a mustang for what it's worth). Also, how much would it cost? I've been driving for 7 years and I never had a flat... When you pulled the nail out did the tire deflate? If not, there's no way for the can to empty it's contents into the tire and re-enflate it, since it still had pressure.
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Jun 26, 2012 05:30
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Bled my brakes, which I have needed to do since I nearly boiled them at a track day last year. Nice and firm pedal again. Also, speed bleeders make it comically easy. Never doing it the old way again.
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Jun 28, 2012 03:52
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Installed my new Ultragauge. Put it above the rearview mirror, it tucks in perfectly. I wanted it to be out of view so I wouldn't have to worry about someone mistaking it for a GPS unit and breaking into my car (park in the city a lot). It is completely invisible outside the car thanks to the dark area at that spot of the windshield. Tucked the wire behind the headliner and down the A pillar, the only spot you see it is at the OBD port.
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Jul 12, 2012 04:24
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Sponge! posted:The I had no idea what that thing was for until I read through the manual. The Health indicator is a heart that beats roughly every second. As long as the heart continues to beat, UltraGauge is functioning normally. Hilarious. Like, it couldn't just throw up an error message or something? I needs a beating heart? Otherwise, I love this thing. Endlessly customizable with almost too many options. Dozens of gauges to choose from. Extremely affordable compared to the alternatives too.
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Aug 27, 2012 04:14
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New pads and rotors all around, and flushed all the brake fluid in the Miata.
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Aug 30, 2012 03:56
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Washed and changed my oil in preparation of a 1500 mile road trip to Deals Gap. Also figured out why my brake light was flickering under hard cornering, I was low on fluid due to a leaky bleeder. Tightened it up and topped off the fluid, and also discovered during washing that the fluid that slung out onto the wheel and combined with brake dust created some impossibly difficult staining on that wheel. Managed to get most of it off with elbow grease, may look into a specialty wheel cleaner though.
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Oct 11, 2012 03:50
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IOwnCalculus posted:Alternatively, my MS3 had a clunk develop back there and it was literally a loose nut holding in the endlink. I think I may need to replace the endlinks eventually though, and if I do I'm using the Moog parts so I can use a socket instead of a goddamned crow's foot to torque it. Yeah I had the same issue w/ mine, it's pretty common.
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Nov 3, 2012 17:31
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Not mine, but in the girlfriend's car did oil change and bled the brakes. We had done the brake fluid years back, but never got it quite right and have had a spongy pedal since. Did it again with speed bleeders, got a bunch of air out and the pedal is nice and firm now. Third car I've used them on, I can't recommend them enough. Also, she did nearly all the work this time, other than me breaking loose the really stuck stuff.   
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Dec 6, 2012 05:01
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Larrymer posted:needed fixed I'll say. I thought this was exclusively a central PA thing.
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kastein posted:Sure makes it easier to reverse their work, too, just pull the fuse, remove the wire, reinstall fuse! You'd think but...ok, when I was 16-17 I made a few questionable automotive modification decisions, one of which may have been identical to the "wire wrapped around a fuse and jammed in" photo above. Anyway, when I came to my senses and redid the wiring properly, turns out the fuse socket got stretched apart too much, because without the wire th fuse would fit too loosely and not make contact. So I had to chop the wire and leave it. Sorry, new owner kid, but I may not have been the best PO.
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Nodoze posted:Picked it up yesterday, got home today! 02 Suzuka Blue AP1 with 58 (now 59..) thou Awesome car, but whenever I see that blue interior all I can think of is the interior of the Mercury Mystique, since I test drove one when I was 16 (thank christ I didn't buy it) 
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Mar 11, 2013 04:30
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While you're messing with the seats you may want to change the bolts out for a security set.
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Voltage posted:Did the front brakes, and 3 out of 4 shocks/springs on my 2001 Prizm. I absolutely love quick struts, no spring compressor needed, just 5 bolts and you're done. If you end up getting a new endlink, just clamp a vice grip on the back of the old one, right over the boot. Worked great for me when I ran into the same issue.
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Voltage posted:So just clamp the endlink so I don't need to use the alan key? I don't care about spending $20 for a new endlink so if this would work I will try it... Yup, then use the vice grip to hold it in place while you loosen the nut. Make sure you clamp over the boot, if you clamp the endlink further out it'll just spin. If clearance is tight needle nose vice grips may be needed e: clamp right around here: 
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BiRD BoY posted:Brought summer back. Probably too soon. Haha same here on my MS3. Couldn't take the mushy snow tires any longer though.
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Mar 29, 2013 05:33
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Yeah anything I get off Amazon I verify the part numbers somewhere else first. They're great about lots of stuff, but automotive applications isn't one of them.
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May 22, 2013 00:23
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10000lbsofbananas posted:Clayed, washed, waxed, removed aftermarket midpipe and put on the stock pipe, new spark plugs, new rubber, and 20mm spacers. The R3 wheels are perfection.
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Sweet merciful gently caress, get some videos! And if you ever find yourself in PA I've got a case of beer with your name on it for a ride.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:How many PA goons do we have in AI? Every time I think it's just me and Dreesemonkey someone else pops up. Where in PA? In and around Philly usually.
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Replaced the idle air control valve on the Miata to resolve the high idle when warm issue. It has been getting worse lately, idling as high as 2500rpm when really hot. Also cleaned the throttle body while I had it off. Solved the idle problem, but the throttle seems to be sticking just before closing now, as it idles normally until I give it any gas then it settles back around 1300rpm until I tug on the back of the gas pedal and it drops to normal. Probably got some gunk stuck in there when cleaning it, I'll give it another go. Also replaced the plugs since I had new ones, though the old ones all looked great. 
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