[QUOTE=justin1992;32525914]-snip-
It is manual, misunderstood. Still not his car though :D not yet anyways.
[editline]28th September 2011[/editline]
[B]Fucker tricked me[/B], it is an automatic after-all. You sly fox you.[/QUOTE]
I do that
[QUOTE=bradley;32528224]So today I put a new intake manifold on the EG hatch and finished the DSM td05/Honda HF manifold adapter. Should be able to fit and keep AC, if not I'll yank it apart and try again.
Also, guys, I'm thinking about starting an import shop, or a tuning website, chipping ECUs and shit for cheap. Good idea? Bad idea? Let me know what you guys think.[/QUOTE]
bad idea, chipping ecus is not a bad service in itself, it's just that people won't follow instruction (aka, if you changed the injectors duty cycle for bigger injectors and the idiot keep the stocker etc.) and you will have a lot of angry idiot wanting to sue your ass for THEIR mistakes
I don't think chipping ecu's would be the only thing he ever did..Hell he could always do both, have a high performance auto shop (import tuning shop whatever) and a website on the side that does chipping and other things
I'd work for you, sounds like fun tbh.
I totally just changed the oil in my car, re coded the Central Locking Module and figured out why my Air Bag light is on.
Ohh Now I can control my window's via the wireless key fob. :v:
[QUOTE=justin1992;32530056]I don't think chipping ecu's would be the only thing he ever did..Hell he could always do both, have a high performance auto shop (import tuning shop whatever) and a website on the side that does chipping and other things
I'd work for you, sounds like fun tbh.[/QUOTE]
If you lived here I'd definately bring you in and teach you some basics. Even in the regular auto shop I have now.
Also... Does anyone know Ferosso's steam ID?
Well, a few posts back I posted about this Ford probe I fixed for a lady friend of mine.
It's broke again. :| I'm assuming the head is warped, being it's still leaking water and oil into the cylinders.
Shes getting a new car at this point.
Three hours of screwing and I'm done for today
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Speaker mats as headlining is great success
also lots of interior panels are back in and the seat covers are removed
Got my Marea HLX back from an oil change, I decided to clean the brakes of everything that should be there.
Also I attached a new antenna and a new tail light to my marea, today I'll take care of some surface rust and handle it properly, after that I'll wash my car and wax it.
Also I think that there's something wrong with my mareas "engine tubes", I bet that one of the "air intakers" is leaking or something (When my rpm hits +4000, it feels like the engine suddenly looses some of it's power and it and gives the car a "kick" (It feels the same, if you switch gears down too soon)). I just hope I'll find a leak and it won't be a pump-related problem. also I should change my gearbox's oils, buy new tires for the winter and hope, that my marea will start without a block heater)
Also my windscreen wipers are posessed and tend to start their wiping at random (normally on mode 2 or 3, so it's pretty annoying IF IT ISN'T RAINING) :v:
I just remembered that my dad had bought me a 1970 Chevy 1/2 ton short box as a project truck. $400 and it was sitting for 5 years but it still ran, brakes are pretty shot though.
Haven't talked to him in a few years since he went up north to find work and doesn't have a phone, I'm curious if he took the truck with him or left it at my grandma's house. Hmm.
Go check man, i had a 77 Chev K10 short box step side, was fun as hell.
greased the throwout bearing, fixed the squeaking, topped off my oil, replaced my o2 sensors
runs like a mutha fuckin champ
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5698103/IMG_20110929_164621.jpg[/img_thumb]
i can't wait to get a job so i have an excuse to drive this car everyday
[QUOTE=justin1992;32556661]Go check man, i had a 77 Chev K10 short box step side, was fun as hell.[/QUOTE]
I'd have to do a lot of work before it's drive-able though, haha. And I'd have to ask my grandma if it's okay if I use her tools/shop, although I'm sure she wouldn't mind, since they used to belong to my grandfather.
[url]http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/1981-Datsun-280-zx_15791539[/url]
Woah...
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ford quality parts
Got up, put a coolant hose on Japfeiffer's CRX again (Another one busted, this time the OTHER side of the heater hose). Hose problems fixed for now, put new oil return line on that should temporarily fix the return leak. Need to find another dipstick.
Japfeiffer is in Texas all weekend so he left me his car. I've been driving the shit out of it. Hell, I've fixed more things on it today than he's broken all week. I've also been keeping the tank full and checking his mileage.
So far getting ~29.9 on around ~3PSI of boost. Need O2 sensor bung welded in, and some fans/a core support piece so I can put the new hood on too. But that'll wait for now. Holding up pretty damn good though, and pulls strong for such low boost. When he orders me a 2.5" -> 2" coupler/reducer and gets full 8PSI I think it'll pull real well.
Overall satisfied with this build, but I wish I could mount the FMIC a bit better. We'll fuck with it more when he finds a better bumper, this one is a bit bent out of shape and warped.
4bangers... put fuel and boost and still get 30mph (altho 3psi is nothing)
Replaced the rear springs today to find out that the original ones allready were replaced by some cut off springs from a whole different car.
So my new "lowering" springs only made it higher....
[QUOTE=Hell Strike;32561011]greased the throwout bearing, fixed the squeaking, topped off my oil, replaced my o2 sensors
runs like a mutha fuckin champ
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5698103/IMG_20110929_164621.jpg[/img_thumb]
i can't wait to get a job so i have an excuse to drive this car everyday[/QUOTE]
I wish I had a car to drive to my job. :(
Just finished wiring up my new ozniums in the sentra today :)
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gosh i made my car appeal more to me for 15 bucks by adding two lights IM SUCH A DUMB BUTT RICER
I did this.
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Yesterday I swapped the plugs and wires because they hadn't been changed since it rolled off the factory floor. Today my back hurts like a mother fucker and I'm sick from being out in the cold for 5 & 1/2 hours. Thanks Ford. Anyway, my experience went exactly like this guys. (Read it, some of you may actually find it funny)
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-Wait until you have to many miles on them and the truck idles like crap.
-Open the hood and stare in the engine compartment.
-Close the hood say you'll do it later and go take a nap.
-The next week when the weather is nice open the hood again.
-Stare at the engine compartment for about 5 minutes because you know the plugs are in there somewhere under all of the crap.
-After you find the plugs with an electron microscope figure your plan of attack.
-Notice that the OEM wires are run under the air intake manifold through a space to small to stick a spark plug wire boot through.
-Wonder what morons they have designing cars these days.
-Be glad that you have wires also made for a SOHC engine and are long enough to run behind the back of the engine. (the only thing that goes right)
-Start with the drivers side plugs.
-Wonder what moron ran a metal line from the headers right in front of the plugs despite the fact there is plenty of room to run the line a couple inches higher or lower.
-Work around the metal line for the front and back plug.
-Wonder if it was the same moron that decided to run two metal lines up off of the other metal line right over the middle plug.
-Try to reach under the metal line to get to the middle plug but can barely get one finger on it.
-With an adapter stick the spark plug socket on the plug.
-Wonder why they couldn't have at least run the metal line a 1/4" higher because it's just low enough to throw off the angle of the tools enough you can't seat the socket on the spark plug. Try to get the socket on the plug for about 10 minutes.
-Wonder how anyone can be moronic enough to arrange an engine compartment so badly.
-Yell loudly in frustration so that the cows next door look at you like your nuts.
-Stare at your bloody knuckles.
-Mutter some words under your breath.
-Yell, find something to break.
-Decide that random chance could better arrange and engine compartment.
-Try again for two minutes.
-Break something.
-Stare at the plug for a minute.
-Walk around for a couple minutes.
-Wonder why something that on every car from 2000 B.C. to 1975 you could change in the time it takes you to change the oil if you're mechanically inclined now takes the whole day.
-Stare at the plug for several minutes.
-Walk around for a while.
-Consider hooking a chain to the metal line and yanking it out with the backhoe sitting nearby.
-Come to the conclusion that there is nobody moronic enough to design an engine compartment so badly and that they did it on purpose just for their amusement.
-You finally get the plug out using a 3/8" universal socket joint to 3" extension to 3/8" to 1/2" adapter to 6" extension to a -1.2" extension to 12" extension using a 1/2" ratchet and hammer.
-Cut the stock wires so you can get them out.
-Now 3 1/2 hours later change the passenger side plugs.
-Sit on top of the raditor support so you can get to the back plug.
-Reach down into the engine compartment to reach the back plug.
-Fall in the engine compartment.
-Replace the back plug.
-Take out the middle plug.
-Pull another spark plug out of the box.
-You notice that this plug has a crush washer and the rest were missing them.
-You don't care and remove it.
-You use your finger to find where the spark plug hole is.
-You insert the plug and screw it in.
-It won't screw in.
-You use your finger to make sure you have the right place.
-The plug still won't screw in.
-You look at the plug to make sure the threads are ok.
-You try to screw it in again and it still won't thread.
-It won't go all the way in the hole.
-You use your finger again to make sure you have the right spot.
-It still won't thread.
-Use your finger and check again.
-It still won't go in.
-You actually look at the plug and notice it's twice as big as the others. The last two plugs in the box are the wrong ones.
-Wait until the next day to exchange the plugs and change them.
-After you exchange the plugs you change them.
-Despite the fact that the passenger side is supposed to be the hard side you changed all the plugs on that side in the same or less time it took you to change one on the drivers side.
-Decide that next time you are going to yank the engine to change the plugs.
-Feel proud that you do the work on your own vehicle and feel satisfied even though it only took you about 5 hours to change the stupid plugs and wires.
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Changed the 5th cylinder plug and then had to remove both driver and passenger side tires to get remotely close to the other ones. Cut cuticals, bruised knuckles, aching back, pissy attitude. All to change spark plugs in an 00' Exploder.
[QUOTE=Roflnocerous;32582260]I did this.
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me gusta that manifold. How much are those edelbrocks running now? As far as cast I just slap on an ebay mani, not any worse. My next build is going HF/VX mani + adapter -> Big 16G. Just got to figure out which car is getting it first.
Today I didn't do shit. Well, me and facepuncher Zags went and looked at 3 different corvettes, all of them late-ish 'rays, one technically not being a "Stingray" ('81, the other two were 76-back). First one was a pile of shit for $6000, second was nice and clean for $7500 but it needed a few chips fixed on the body. Third was a... project. No price on it, couldn't find out because it was on a lot and the people were gone for lunch or some shit.
[QUOTE=BRM;32590025][IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/bram_DC/DSC_0181.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/bram_DC/DSC_0183.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
show the whole of the car like that
Here you go:
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now it just needs a little more negative camber at the rear imo
Nice car. Needs a bigger exhaust
[QUOTE=BRM;32592324]Here you go:
[IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/bram_DC/DSC_0184.jpg[/IMG]
now it just needs a little more negative camber at the rear imo[/QUOTE]
looked better how it was
[editline]2nd October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=cNova;32593351]Nice car. Needs a bigger exhaust[/QUOTE]
no
this isnt a civic
GOD DANGIT.
I was trying to fill up this here hole.
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/IMAG0168.jpg[/t]
Noticed the cap for the hole was the same cap for the passenger side of the car.
So I sayed what ever and started to fix the nozzles inside the hole that squirt water.
Well my replacement had a crack on the side and when the pressurized water hit it the nozzle's flew.
(All of the head's have a crack on the side including my replacement.)
Long story short I have 3 separate headlight washer head's broke. And one Almost clear headlight.
Looked like this when I first got it.
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/headlightfubar.jpg[/t]
Changed the Shock/strut tower things on a 94 Olds Cutlass, that was fun on the first one. It's got this rubber "extra spring" thing goin' on that was a pain. Had I known that there's a bolt you thread in to hold I'd have done that first.
Then there was the brakes, passenger went fine but the driver side was FUBAR leaking fluid ALL over. So, replaced it, after smashing my elbow on some jagged metal...
Then later I REBUILT the TPS on the roomies Civic. Ya know, the irreplaceable TPS on the old Dual Point throttle bodys? Well, I had no choice being Autozone and no other place sells them, because your not supposed to remove it. I got a new one for like 46 bucks for the 1.6, pulled it apart, unsoldered the three contacts and lifted the pot circuit and installed it in the old one. Works PERFECT. I wish I knew about it sooner because I'd have done it MONTHS ago.
It's still idle hunting....
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