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atomicthumbs posted:instead of anime, put a gold Firebird decal on the hood, to make everyone mad. I heartily endorse Nissan Thunderchicken.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:That brings up a valid point: What should I have for the vanity plate? If you can have punctuation, I was thinking maybe GETOUT!. STHROGN
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Nov 23, 2014 04:04
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Sperglord Firecock posted:i don't get it It probably has to do that I was watching Undeclared earlier and your pic reminded me of Seth Rogan. I assume your first project will be to clean up that 80s vacuumess under the hood?
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Nov 23, 2014 04:18
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Sperglord Firecock posted:I wouldn't even know where to begin on vacuum lines, and I really am not even aware of what vacuum lines are. Oh, you will. You will.
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Nov 23, 2014 04:45
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Find a good manual- hopefully with hose and electrical routing schematics and stock up while you can still get to the store and back. 
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Nov 23, 2014 17:42
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Subscribed to thread. All suggestions to date are actually helpful and not designed to kill you. That may change. If you have/had a nearby closed store which has an asphalt lot which is in somewhat disrepair- covered in snow (and ice), this will be the best place for you to learn how to handle RWD, and how to handle a manual in bad weather. Give yourself a few hours to really get the hang of it, then do it again the next day (whenever you can) until you begin to get comfortable with it. We don't want you to panic steer yourself into a shoulder rail or do a panic dump into first and leave the go-forward smoke and metal in your wake.
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Nov 24, 2014 01:02
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Sperglord Firecock posted:I'll have to look into getting one when I get an actual legitimate source of income, since cars do cost money. It's just a matter of time before someone suggests you sell the Z and get a 240DL and an Impreza.
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Nov 25, 2014 00:08
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This is just what makes AI so awesome. "I bought a nearly 30 year old car on a whim. Its my first RWD manual." 'Ok. Here's how you drive it.' "I'm going to drive it this winter." 'No. Get a lovely car for that sort of thing.' Sperglord is the new Rhyno?
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Nov 25, 2014 01:32
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Who's Rhyno? Don't worry with the formalities. Hes' another AI person with Auto ADD. You'll probably buy or sell him a car soon. 
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Nov 25, 2014 01:46
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Am I the only one that sees something strange about buying an awesome car and not driving it? Do as I say, not as I do.
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Nov 25, 2014 17:17
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Sperglord Firecock posted:The real thing is, I don't want it to turn into a rustbucket over the winter, and I don't want to end up wrapping it around a pole. I can understand wanting to keep the car in nice shape- AI hasn't done a lot to help you get used to it, though. So, are you getting a Volvo or a Subaru as the daily driver?
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Nov 25, 2014 17:22
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Neither. Depending on the job I get, might not even need to drive to work. Who claimed necessity was the reason to get another car? When not at work, you can tear it apart and work on that!
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Nov 25, 2014 17:32
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Find a shiny metal part on your engine. Clamp jumper cable to that. Clamp other end of jumper cable to negative terminal of car. Ziptie off the other side of cable. Get replacement. Drive home. Replace.
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Nov 26, 2014 23:35
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Feed it green. Just give it a flush and refill. The hardest part will/would probably be to flush the heater core, so go ahead and drain/fill a gallon of premix at a time between drives if you don't really want to get too deep into it. It won't be a great flush, but it'll be better than just running the old poo poo as it is, topped off. Greatly anticipating followups. What color is the
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Nov 28, 2014 23:37
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Sperglord Firecock posted:I got Prestone 50/50. Why is it important to feed it green as opposed to other anti-freeze? That depends whats in it, but green is the "universal" additive. I doubt it is running anything else, but pop the cap and check before blindly buying fluids.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Fair enough. I haven't checked to see if it's green, but worst case scenario, anti-freeze is cheap. Not like I have anywhere super important to go in the near future anyways. Usually its a spout on the radiator. Sometimes you need to remove the lower radiator hose and drain it that way. The only problem with this - you don't properly drain the heater core. If you were more experienced, I'd suggest a full water flush of the system by draining all fluids and running a few cycles after refilling with distilled water. As it is, you'll probably be fine as-is. If you don't have 'green' in it, post back here. AI will be able to tell you what it is- universal coolants shouldn't make too big of a problem, but it is always best to be safe. I'd also suggest a replacement of the thermostat while you're at it. Did you try to kick the heater on when it got hot to see if it dropped at all?
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With every post, this thread title becomes more and more apropos.
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Nov 29, 2014 03:55
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atomicthumbs posted:No click? That'd be your charging system (probably the battery terminal) having shat itself.  Unless Ford.
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Nov 29, 2014 23:14
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Astonishing Wang posted:When it gets back from the shop you should change whatever battery cables are still in lovely shape. All both of them. He means any tapped leads off poz, of course.
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Dec 3, 2014 23:24
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You know what is a cool car to drive? A used Saturn Ion. It has a half-a-suicide door 'n' stuff. Maybe even XM!
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Dec 5, 2014 21:19
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I'm really trying to be nice here- if a shredded belt makes you frantic (and you can't tell that is what happened), this isn't the car that should be the one you drive (nearly) daily. It is going to cost you far too much just to keep it running. Get a shitbox for the daily, or, you know.. uh.. sell it.
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Dec 5, 2014 21:32
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Safety Dance posted:It's a learning process. Get in over your head a little bit! That's how we all learned this bullshit. Yeah, but this is too nice to grenade in the name of "Oh, I hosed up." Kill an SL1. I hear you get money back from the government for bringing back bits of the plastic body 'n' poo poo..
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Dec 6, 2014 00:12
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Dec 18, 2014 19:28
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That is a pretty lovely set, even being Harbor Freight. It has virtually no usable wrenches, and they added a ton of their $5 for twice-as-many-as-here screwdrivers. OP would probably do better picking up the sockets, wrenches, and pliers separately.
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Dec 19, 2014 06:30
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Make sure your camera isn't overheating and the battery posts aren't too weak for it to turn on. 
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Dec 19, 2014 06:45
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Imma jus' leave this here..
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Dec 19, 2014 17:53
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Sperg, tell me your next car will be an early 80s SAAB 900 Turbo. 
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Dec 20, 2014 17:30
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Safety Dance posted:I'm gonna try to head out his way with a nice camera today. 
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Dec 20, 2014 19:04
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Fo3 posted:Hoping for 1990s euro, with biodegradable wiring looms. Nah. wrapping looms isn't big deal. Whats a little short among friends? v vMy suggestion has a backwards motor, slightly slanted. Mated to the trans easier, you see.. even if replacing the belts confuses the gently caress out of anyone not privvy. Also, if he gets old enough, it is an oil (only) cooled turbo..
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What the gently caress is up with those pants? Did the bolt come free with a purchase of two McCalls patterns?* *I only expect Motronic and meatpimp to get this reference. (I don't want to hit anyone by accident, either.)
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Dec 21, 2014 04:55
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I've got at least a half dozen ohmmeters. I'd be happy to snailmail one of those (guaranteed to be somewhat better than a HF freebie). Don't really have much else that is small and/or cheap to mail.
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kastein posted:The other entirely logical option here if the engine is not capable of handling boost is to simply put it back to stock. Will still be a fun car, and much less likely to explode than a hillrod-turbocharged setup. Keep the parts you take off when going N/A, then read up on how to turbo an N/A 300zx properly and start collecting parts... while fixing the rest of the PO's hamfuckery. This is an awesome idea- but shouldn't we get past 'using a clutch' first?
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There are at least two NX out here. I see a red one about every 4 months and a white one about every 3. I'm pretty sure that if they are in the same place at the same time the universe will collapse.
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You want this. Its a manual, and there is something very, very VERY wrong with it to be going for that price, even for parts. Dive in(to the solid ice) head first! given the replaced parts, my guess is that the valves are (still) bent, the head is warped, and it is pissing fluids faster than you can replace them. Perfect!
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How much longer until we start pissing in the well?
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Dec 23, 2014 03:07
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Plinkey posted:When he buys an early 90's 900s convertible turbo with electric everything.  A 900S is non-turbo, though.A 1995 900 Turbo Convertible would be perfect- the only year they didn't use hydraulics for the top, and it was the first "NG900" 'vert. Guess what always breaks. Especially if it had the Opel poo poo engine (which was technically an SE). The only good thing about it was that if you got the 4 speed slush, it was pretty resilient. Most of the time.
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Plinkey posted:Yeah, that's what I meant, I gave up on Saab a while ago. Not S. You can come back at any time. To be fair, it did that after it hit 250k, I'm relatively sure. Then you have a lot of vacuum hoses and poo poo that likes to crumble. Safety Dance posted:Dude sell your pile and be Jeepbros with me! Well thats one way to get out of power-raking the yard.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Ahahahaha, I would buy a Jeep, but I dunno, don't really like them for some undefinable reason. ..and in one swat, Sperglord
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Sperglord Firecock posted:Not to mention there are no Jeeps near me in my price range, save for a 2,000 one that the guy in the description literally said, "yeah the everything doesn't work" He's honest. v  v
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