MR2's new engine runs!
Just have to wait for the new throttle position sensor to come in. It runs kind of shitty when the old TPS is plugged in.
Almost done with the swap :hypeisreal:
I'm not really a fan of new BMW's, but I ran into a new BMW M3 today.
It looks good. It's hard to describe what makes it look good, but it's just something you notice when you see it in person. Some cars just look way different in person than on pictures. Like a Model X. Doesn't look bad on pictures, but it's actually a surprisingly large hambeast.
Had an unknown fluid dripping that I suspected was power steering. Added a bottle of stop leak to it and its now either completely gone or small enough to blend in with the already stained pavement. Its like a christmas miracle.
The past three times I've taken my bike and car out I've gotten compliments. I don't know what to do with all this attention.
[QUOTE=kyle877;52186415]The past three times I've taken my bike and car out I've gotten compliments. I don't know what to do with all this attention.[/QUOTE]
save it for when your in a crippling depression
Had some bitch straight up cut me off today.
She was in the left lane and RIGHT before I made my left, which was the whole reason I was in the right side lane, she immediately hauled right in front of me forcing me to smash on the brakes. Had I not, I'd have hit her.
I want to say I should have, because that was a major illegal move and she'd have been completely at fault. Glad I didn't cuz I don't want to deal with all the legal shit plus having to fix my car more then I currently need to.
Got the video of it off my dash cam. We happened to be going the same direction, but I was so raged out when she pulled into a store parking lot a bit later I gave ultra slow speed chase, I was going to yell at her but decided that it would be best to not and just me "following" her made it clear "hey bitch, don't fucking do that again".
[QUOTE=Strontboer;52186904]save it for when your in a crippling debt[/QUOTE]
ftfy
So my Mustang is at the body shop because a canopy blew into it at the autocross, and I'm stuck driving a Toyota Camry rental... God above, what an undesirable shitbox. Cars like this are what make people like Morgen want to do away with petrol powered cars.
Went to a rather depressing place today.
A guy has a giant property, full of rare vintage cars + trucks, but has a 30 day notice to sell or remove them. The notice runs out this Monday, and a lot is left and getting crushed.
Most of it has sat untouched for 20+ years Novas, Chevelles, Blazers. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Broncos. Trans ams, Camaros. Bel Airs, Internationals, etc
Woo bought my first car today.
2002 Volvo V70 2.4L (5cyl) wagon with a turbo. Thing's fuckin nice as fuck from being the summer car of a guy who worked at the local GE plants. He normally lives in Florida and recently retired so he sold it. For two grand I got one fast as fuck car (compared to what I've driven anyway) in pretty good condition with a brand new (new as in barely used, not literally new) set of cooper tires.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/KY6lRDX.png[/t]
Seriously though, this thing has no desire to stay at <50 and will slowly crawl up to 50 unless you watch that dial like an overly strict religious parent watches their child's internet history for porn. Was pulling out of my driveway earlier and with what amount of pedal normally barely pushes my parent's cars onto the road did a fucking partial squeal and scared the shit out of an old lady walking 100 feet down the road as well as my dad. Gotta love that swedmobile eh? (And yes I already know to keep an eye out for trans problems that the early 2000's v70's tend to have.)
edit: Btw it had a little over 160k miles on the clock when I got it which I figured isn't too shabby for a 15 year old car.
[QUOTE=FordLord;52187671]Went to a rather depressing place today.
A guy has a giant property, full of rare vintage cars + trucks, but has a 30 day notice to sell or remove them. The notice runs out this Monday, and a lot is left and getting crushed.
Most of it has sat untouched for 20+ years Novas, Chevelles, Blazers. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Broncos. Trans ams, Camaros. Bel Airs, Internationals, etc[/QUOTE]
[I]Buy them all.[/I]
[QUOTE=FordLord;52187671]Went to a rather depressing place today.
A guy has a giant property, full of rare vintage cars + trucks, but has a 30 day notice to sell or remove them. The notice runs out this Monday, and a lot is left and getting crushed.
Most of it has sat untouched for 20+ years Novas, Chevelles, Blazers. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen Broncos. Trans ams, Camaros. Bel Airs, Internationals, etc[/QUOTE]
I saw something about that. I wish it was near me. I would offer to help him move them if he covered gas. Eminent domain is some bullshit sometimes.
You should've seen me when I went from ~40hp to 125hp, it took about a month of practice before i stopped doing FWD burnouts every time i tried to move the car.
[QUOTE=Fireblade RX7;52187574]So my Mustang is at the body shop because a canopy blew into it at the autocross, and I'm stuck driving a Toyota Camry rental... God above, what an undesirable shitbox. Cars like this are what make people like Morgen want to do away with petrol powered cars.[/QUOTE]
Do note that rentals are almost always the lamest of the lame ducks of vehicles.
Which reminds me that my friend was given his lazy old e39 520 as a rental when his e60 525tds was being serviced by the dealership :v:
[QUOTE=Birdman101;52182407]Lug bolts suck. Who the hell wants to hold up a wheel while trying to thread in a bolt. Studs and nuts are the only way to go.[/QUOTE]
Why are you holding up a wheel while trying to thread in a bolt when they make alignment pins:
[t]https://dq4zp01npifg0.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/commerce/IMG_7203.jpg?itok=j5nI_pyP[/t]
[t]https://dq4zp01npifg0.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/content/files/wheelpin4%20copy.jpg[/t]
These little guys are included in all spare tire kits for Mercedes, I dunno about other Euro cars, but I don't see why they wouldn't give you one.
Now if you want to talk about a pain in the ass, look no further than this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/SLcCmFc.jpg[/t]
Overtorque these fuckers and you're going to have to break out some torches, hole saws, easy outs, drills, hammers, etc to get your tire off again. Some even go to through the hell of torching wheels because of these bastards.
[QUOTE=Slithers;52187992]Why are you holding up a wheel while trying to thread in a bolt when they make alignment pins:
[t]https://dq4zp01npifg0.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/commerce/IMG_7203.jpg?itok=j5nI_pyP[/t][/QUOTE]
Never seen or heard of one of these in my life.
[QUOTE=Slithers;52187992]Why are you holding up a wheel while trying to thread in a bolt when they make alignment pins:
[t]https://dq4zp01npifg0.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/commerce/IMG_7203.jpg?itok=j5nI_pyP[/t]
These little guys are included in all spare tire kits for Mercedes, I dunno about other Euro cars, but I don't see why they wouldn't give you one.
.[/QUOTE]
A fucking dream right there mate, a fucking metal alignment pin. Mine was brittle ass fucking plastic that shattered when I screwed it into the hub. It should be mandatory that they're metal. IIRC the metal ones are like $20 and I really can't be arsed to spend $20 on that right now, so I'm just going to fight with the hub if I gotta change my tyre again.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52188093]A fucking dream right there mate, a fucking metal alignment pin. Mine was brittle ass fucking plastic that shattered when I screwed it into the hub. It should be mandatory that they're metal. IIRC the metal ones are like $20 and I really can't be arsed to spend $20 on that right now, so I'm just going to fight with the hub if I gotta change my tyre again.[/QUOTE]
At where I work, we just go to the bolt shop down the road and buy long bolts and cut the heads off them. We use them for manifolds, heads, flywheels, dampers, seal-guides, flywheel housings, cylinder head alignment, pretty much everything that is heavy and needs alignment before sitting it against or on something. Most I've ever spent on a bolt was like $3 because it was a special thread in a special length.
Then again, we're lifting 250kg cylinder heads, 50+kg flywheels and housings etc.
So The seats i got from the junkyard for the buggy are from a 2006 mitsibishi eclipse. I was in the process of making mounts for them yesterday, and i was wondering why there are 4-6 freakin plugs in the bottom of each. The drivers side one has one for the electric adjustable seat, and i can see one plug each for a seatbelt alarm weight sensor, but what could the rest of them be? Theyre too small a gague of wire to be heated seats.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;52190547]So The seats i got from the junkyard for the buggy are from a 2006 mitsibishi eclipse. I was in the process of making mounts for them yesterday, and i was wondering why there are 4-6 freakin plugs in the bottom of each. The drivers side one has one for the electric adjustable seat, and i can see one plug each for a seatbelt alarm weight sensor, but what could the rest of them be? Theyre too small a gague of wire to be heated seats.[/QUOTE]
Looks like seat belt, heated seat (quite possible even though they seem small), seat slide sensor/occupant sensor, power seat and some module for the side airbag.
I wonder how i could find out if one of them is heated seat without risking blowing off an airbag by just running 12 to everything
can you not find any wire diagrams?
Look around on Eclipse forums. You can usually find wiring diagrams, and even full service manuals that users upload. That's how I got the entirety of Ford's OASIS documentation for my Fusion. Similarly for my Honda Shadow. :v:
Yeah i fou dthe wiring diagrams for all the srs system, power seat, and heated seat, but that still doesnt tell me which plug it is.
[editline]5th May 2017[/editline]
Wait maybe it does
Ill have to look at the plugs when i get home
[QUOTE=Birdman101;52191170]Yeah i fou dthe wiring diagrams for all the srs system, power seat, and heated seat, but that still doesnt tell me which plug it is.
[editline]5th May 2017[/editline]
Wait maybe it does
Ill have to look at the plugs when i get home[/QUOTE]
i think i got you famalam
[IMG]https://hostr.co/file/Htb9A5xXJ5WS/heatseat.png[/IMG]
[editline]6th May 2017[/editline]
It might be completely wrong because I've never even seen a mitchubish eclipse before now, but that's what I found on club3g
If im not mistaken, the standard color for srs plugs and wire covers is yellow.
Like, "caution, do not fuck with"
If i were you, remove the airbags from them completly. No sense having them in a buggy plus it reduces a bit of weight, even though its kinda negligible.
Speaking of torquing wheels down, what happened to that guy that ended up having to cut his wheel off or something after he got a socket stuck. Didn't he weld a bunch of shit on it to try to get it off?
[QUOTE=Scientwist;52191385]If im not mistaken, the standard color for srs plugs and wire covers is yellow.
Like, "caution, do not fuck with"
If i were you, remove the airbags from them completly. No sense having them in a buggy plus it reduces a bit of weight, even though its kinda negligible.[/QUOTE]
I've always wanted to set off some airbags but I've never had a chance to. Figure it would be hilarious to toss one somewhere it just barely fits then set it off.
What could be the cause of my blinker light going on when ever I turn the key?
[t]https://puu.sh/vGQZS/64c9a22683.jpg[/t]
It's really dim and burns constantly, never did this before. no other lights burn and the warning lights and blinker still works fine
it's a reminder that you're now blinking manually
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