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Those are strange looking frost plugs. Is the water filthy, like it got past the air filter while the car sat?
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I was feeling proud I managed to change the wiper stalk in the Civic and go to work on my third day of being sick. gently caress this cold.
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Feb 3, 2016 04:43
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It's too bad the Rays are staggered because when a friend made the same mistake with 5x100 Subaru BBS wheels we just put the silver wheels on one side of the car and the gold wheels on the other side of the car. Since it's physically impossible to see both sides at the same time, nobody ever noticed. I say paint 'em, powdercoating seems pretty iffy with forged wheels.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:15
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Can you guys make oil caps for piston engines in the shape of a wallet full of money?
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Feb 15, 2016 04:00
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leica posted:Would you be willing to part with an ornament? My son is a gear head and he would love one of those. If not spyder I am certain that McTinkerson can get you a ruined rotor to give to your son. Dunno what the shipping is like but it'd be in CAD$ which should help at least.
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Feb 16, 2016 05:26
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A Mazda with a hard to change oil filter? Why I never.
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Feb 20, 2016 18:59
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A rotary-swapped Mazda B-truck is probably way harder than I think it is, but I want to believe.
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Apr 6, 2016 23:23
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mekilljoydammit posted:Cut up rotors are great tools at times actually; I have a corner I clamp in the mill and run a grinding stone in the corner seal pocket for clearancing side seals, and another one where I drilled into the side seal slot, put a scribe in and ran around on a junk side housing to see where the limits are. I tried to use one once as a ghetto cupholder to hold a shock still while I tried to put the strut top on it.
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May 4, 2016 16:03
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Hahahah holy poo poo a turbo rotary go-kart. How did the builder survive long enough to sell it?
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May 11, 2016 16:18
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kastein posted:Based on the condition I'm pretty sure the "had it running" part was done in the donor car the engine came from, or was straight up bullshit. I bet they never had the kart itself actually running and driving.
I wouldn't mind a few closeups of the suspension setup before you turn it back into exhaust tubing though.
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May 11, 2016 18:34
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I miss the tonkatsu  Those screw-down battery terminals are totally shithouse, you should crimp that cable into a lug that accepts a bolt-on all-brass marine battery terminal, or crimp into a marine terminal in the first place.
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May 12, 2016 01:57
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Skeletard posted:Door trim jankiness. Both sides are like this with the rubberized coating having peeled away from the now-corroded metal: My Civic is the same way, except new door trims cost $136 a side so I think I'm just going to peel the rest of it off with a plastic razor, tape off the weather stripping/window glider, and then hit it with bedliner or something.
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May 26, 2016 03:58
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Giving the dash regular treatments of 303 aerospace protectant will probably keep the UV damage to a minimum. It's worked wonders on a lot of Mazda plastics in my possession.
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May 27, 2016 02:22
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Painting calipers is rice, but it's also good rice. Did you just sand the lettering off?
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May 31, 2016 20:06
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Won't the letters rust now that they're back to being bare metal?
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Jun 2, 2016 14:14
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Please take the time you need. Good luck.
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Jul 8, 2016 14:07
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Wrar posted:I hope you have a smoke tester, because if it ever leaks vacuum that's the only drat way you'll figure it out. Just assume that every hose is leaking: buy a reel of vacuum hose and replace each one, one-by-one, counting each hose in screamed German with the occasional Luger shot into the ceiling for emphasis. Ein! Zwei!
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Jul 24, 2016 23:39
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the spyder posted:Oh hey, check out this cool glove mounted fuse box. I wonder what's in it? Wow I picked the wrong car to pull a fusebox from. That would have actually been worth the $50.
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Jul 29, 2016 20:10
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It's an E46, I wouldn't trust anything that even remotely resembles a cooling system component after seven years.
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Jul 29, 2016 20:36
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Up Garage haunts my dreams and waking hours. Once, I was walking through the hallways of my palatial Victorian mansion when I heard a creaking. I turned, and stared directly into the eyes of a Laile spare tire well bracing kit.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:29
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Your dad has a Scout?
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Nov 15, 2016 15:19
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That catch can is blowing my mind. I keep going back to the picture to make sure that yep that's what I just saw.
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Dec 19, 2016 14:48
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jamal posted:Well on a piston engine pulling vacuum on the crankcase will improve ring sealing and reduce windage losses. I'm off to the junkyard to scavenge BMW vacuum pumps. Way cheaper than fixing a head gasket. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Dec 20, 2016 03:07
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You have excellent taste.
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Jun 12, 2017 06:09
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I love that AI is basically just going off the loving deep end lately. I feel inadequate.
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Jun 29, 2017 03:49
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Get that Z! Where did Rob get the K04s from? I'm glad to hear that it's not just me who always has a horrible day of accidents and mishaps every time the flatbed trailer comes out.
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Jul 12, 2017 03:21
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I love this a lot. You guys do banger rallies right.
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Jul 13, 2017 20:24
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slothrop posted:Nice one. I find the Japanese stuff is pretty overpriced here in Aus. The Yamazaki 12 was a great buy a few years ago at ~$90 but now it's more like $250. Anyways I prefer my peat monsters It's wild how the price of Hibiki 17 has taken off.
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Aug 10, 2017 03:09
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Child labour is the poo poo. Glad you got that auto FD off your back too.
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Sep 17, 2017 19:04
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Man that's a lot of people waiting for you to fix their rotaries.
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Nov 5, 2017 07:14
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Whenever you have two bags of rivnuts, you got a party.
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May 7, 2018 22:55
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the spyder posted:Can't blame him this time. I bought this wreck a year ago and am just now getting to it. A friend needed the drivers quarter panel- one of only four straight panels on the car. Once I started hacking... bad ideas were formed. I'll update the post Exocet. Exocet. Exocet.
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Repowering a dead Celica is a good and noble act.
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Oct 2, 2018 15:43
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Kaptainballistik posted:When CI goes to Canada I think he needs to buy a RX7 off you to use for a year... There are plenty of hoggy JDM FDs on the Island.
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Mar 12, 2019 18:41
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This is a good number of rotors.
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Aug 14, 2019 04:23
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the spyder posted:Way ahead of ya... In a very real way, the enormous loving AC electric motor is the ultimate rotary.
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Aug 14, 2019 04:47
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I had a bunch of clever poo poo for the other two but then I scrolled down to the Subaru and now all I can say is gently caress a Gates timing belt tensioner. My shattered EJ253 became a JDM-junkyard-quality EJ203.
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Jun 23, 2020 04:24
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That's a great story. You're good people.
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Jun 26, 2020 00:04
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Supposedly, if you swap the springs from an FC vert into an FC tintop, you end up with a half-inch lift. Offroad FC?
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Finally, a Braporsche! What are you going to do with all the room you've saved in the engine bay?
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