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Found all the things the collision center hosed up. Did you know you could fix an exhaust leak by stripping out the factory flange, then putting a nut and bolt through the remains of the hole. Much easier then replacing the 1/2 of a gasket that is sitting on the other bolt.
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Put Koni SAs all the way around on the GTO this weekend along with new front strut mounts. Flushed the original brake fluid out and refilled it with Valvoline DOT4/5. Then spent Monday night gravity bleeding out air bubbles. Not positive I got all the air out but the pedal does feel better then it used to. Discovered my front radius rod bushing is toast by noticing perfectly tread shaped clean spots on the front of my wheel well liner from where my tire impacts it. I'll replace that after autocross this year so I can destroy it on the first autocross weekend of next year. I hate the retarded front suspension design on this car.
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Tightened a banjo bolt to stop a horrific oil leak and discovered the #1 injector is leaking at the fuel rail.....
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Oct 17, 2010 02:49
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thelightguy posted:Although the fact that they check gas caps at all beyond "is it there" is absolutely ridiculous. His profile leads me to believe he's in NJ. NJ's inspection pressure tests the gas cap or at least they did when I lived there. I've heard that they are slimming down their inspection process.
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Dec 17, 2010 04:20
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A compression check on the Miata. 180 120 75 180 Looks like a new block is in my future.
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Mar 4, 2011 04:53
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Everything else points towards rings. 1&4 were likely "wet" due to being insanely oil fouled.
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Mar 4, 2011 15:56
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The Third Man posted:I thought low compression between 2 adjacent cylinders was usually just a gasket leak? I think the 2 adjacent is a red herring though due to oil in 1&4 letting the rings seal. I'll know more by tonight though, I still need to do a leakdown and wet test of all 4.
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Mar 4, 2011 20:48
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Finished putting the motor back in the Miata so I could autocross it tomorrow. Went to start the F150 so I could get the Miata out of the garage. gently caress, cranks but doesn't fire up now. Has spark, don't think it has fuel (dry plugs after a minute or two of cranking). It'll fire one or two cylinders once after sitting for ~30 mins to an hour after a start attempt. Leaning towards hosed fuel pump. However, I threw a scope on one of the injector plugs though and didn't see any kind of signal. Luckily the Miata is a Miata and I was able to back it out of the other garage bay (two car garage with two doors).
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Mar 20, 2011 01:15
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Under hood temperatures went from 200F to 1200F!
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Apr 22, 2011 15:38
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Is that a hole in #6?
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May 11, 2011 15:17
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Picked the F150 up from the shop after they replaced the fuel pump. Front brake stuck on the ride back to work, grooved up the rotor and smoked like a bitch. Hopefully I can get home.
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May 11, 2011 22:32
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trouser chili posted:Those signs aren't legally binding, they can be responsible and you can get them to pay damages. Yep, you can't force people to waive liability with a sign. Same thing applies to the sump trucks with "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BROKEN WINDSHIELDS." Sorry bub, you still are if your load isn't secured.
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Jul 8, 2011 14:28
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And the motor comes back out of the car again.
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Aug 7, 2011 22:13
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Put the next motor in the Miata with Phone today. Finishing up tomorrow then firing it up and tuneing idle.
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Aug 14, 2011 02:47
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Prepared for Irene. Extra water? Nope Extra food? Nope Extra batteries? Nope Extra car in the garage? gently caress yeah  The idea came into my head when it was going to give us hurricane force winds, the forecast moved it far east from here but I still needed to see if it could be done.
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Aug 27, 2011 01:17
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Flogged the poo poo outta it. Wife and I did a 2 day track event, 8x25min sessions a day on the car for 2 days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ferqJxcvh4&hd=1
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Oct 19, 2011 01:21
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To be fair my wife just got off the track so my tires/brakes were already up to temp. I don't think he caught back up to me though.
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Oct 19, 2011 02:49
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Ratchet + rubber mallet = impact wrench.
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Jan 31, 2014 04:14
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Removed its heart. Just gotta pull the exhaust, diff and a few other smaller pieces and it's scrap time.  
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Feb 2, 2014 04:17
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Time for my next project.
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Feb 8, 2014 20:33
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 Peace out interior. Cars have a lot of wiring, most of it useless for a race car.
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Feb 16, 2014 20:38
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Finally got the cage painted.
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May 26, 2014 23:15
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I'm building the car for NASA PTE. It's a fairly standard cage, the rear shot makes it look beefier than it is. I do need to remove the tie ins from the passenger door bar to the sill.
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May 26, 2014 23:53
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Didn't do much to my ride, but I did work on my ride's ride. Hopefully now it won't bottom out when I load it.
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Jul 7, 2014 04:51
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Deeters posted:so I had to take off the battery and cram a socket and extension in there. That's smart since the positive terminal on most starters is always hot.
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Jul 26, 2014 22:03
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Ooh, shiny. And time to hide it under a header blanket.  This weekend I'll make it all sorts of pretty colors.
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Sep 3, 2014 04:48
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Crustashio posted:Got the door leak fixed (stupid BMW weatherstripping) and picked up these: What seats are you using them with?
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Dec 12, 2014 23:46
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Got the center console welded into place and the kill switch wired. Getting real close to having this thing legal for PTE. then it's time to make 30 more WHP so I can have a prayer at keeping up with the field.
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Weighed my PTE car last week and came in 90 lbs light with 1/2 a tank of gas. I was hoping to put off making ballast until after the race next weekend. So much for that plan. First stop was the steel warehouse, this place was massive. This was just their non-plate selections. Behind me was about 1/3 that amount of space in various types of plate.  I got a 4'x8' sheet of 3/16 steel. Someone in the local car club Took what I didn't need. I ended up with a 4'x14" piece that I cut into a 17.5"x15" piece. A 4.5" angle grinder made quick work of the sheet.  To mount it to the car I'm reusing my passenger seat mounts since I don't need a passenger seat anymore.  Drilled the holes for the mounting bolts. Exceeding the duty cycle of my drill significantly.  Tacked the mounting bars into place. It wasn't as dark as it seems, the light threw my camera off.  Lots of welding. 3/16 is about the limit of what my welder can do on a 20A 110V circuit. Too bad I run it into a 15A circuit. Lots of breaker trips happened.   Towards the end I got tired of resetting the breaker.  And here is the finished product. Final weight was 100.2lbs.  FatCow fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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I blew it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQYdL5Rt98 
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Sep 13, 2015 01:27
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New seat!
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Oct 3, 2015 02:07
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I need to do that this weekend. Some bearing on one of the the serpentine belt pulleys has packed it in.
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Oct 14, 2015 14:17
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Oil change! That sure is a lot of used oil. That's a 5 gallon bucket. 
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Oct 17, 2015 19:20
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My odometer did a thing.
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Feb 4, 2016 04:33
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What kind of horrible hell hole do you live in that doesn't let people ride their bikes around.
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Mar 28, 2016 02:19
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Elsa posted:don't make me add to your redtext If yours is the base model, 4x2, 122" wheel base 3.5L engine you can put 1,574# on the rear axle. Even with everything in the bed a lot of that weight would have ended up on the front axle. It's a truck, it's designed to carry weight. You would have been at the top end of what the truck can carry, but nowhere near the point of breaking the suspension. According to Ford you can put 500lbs of tongue weight on your hitch before needing a WD hitch.
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Is that normally a kart track? Seems really narrow.
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e: NVM, must read entire thread before responding 2 pages late.
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Just 6.0L things. Had to chisel the unison ring off the turbine housing.
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