Automotive Addicts V8 Pt. 2 - Real Motors have 8 cylinders and Pushrods Edt. - General

Well, it's a 2009. It was imported to Ireland from UK in 2009 (There was one owner in UK) very low mileage import, my guess it was dealer import or somebody who got PCP or some deal and then traded it in right away - in Ireland there was 2 owners. It had total of 70k miles which is super low for 70k (in Ireland at least). Not sure why but I have feeling it was two granny-owners in Ireland. The mileage was extremely low for it's age. I could be wrong though, coukld be boy-racer who bough it before me, tuned it up for LED's and stuff then couldn't afford it so he traded it in.

There’s almost no chance that a 10 year old beamer that’s been through multiple owners hasn’t been owned by at least one clown

You would be surprised how well it's valued in Ireland due to it's condition. Many peeps build business from porting cars from UK to IE and re-selling them at 50% increase. .... You know market is in sad sate when PCP is actually better deal than buying 2 year old used car from anyone else....

Around here, some people put covers over their grills in the winter to keep more of the heat in the engine and to warm up faster. I mostly see it on diesels.Velcro would be a less janky way to attach something like.

Hey guys? Who wants another pic dump? No one? Too bad. Camaro update.. I got it sprayed, But the paint that Napa mixed was so far off that even with a blend it was still glaringly obviously a different color. I shot a test card and thought "That looks too blue.." but I shot it anyways and sure enough, it's too blue. You can see the blend in the middle of the door. https://imgur.com/7PyD04A So, took it back apart and gave Napa the door mirror and told them it needs to match that because the paint they mixed is just not even close. It's an OEM general motors color, so who knows how that got messed up. I can blend a slight difference that you're bound to get, but blending from dark blue-black-purple-ish to blue-ish isn't gonna fly. At work I spent a week on a band new Sprinter Winnebago Revel camper.. https://imgur.com/IGbEgeS Table of goodies.. the truck got.. Alarm/remote start, glass break sensors front and rear Alpine components up front and 6x9s added to rear doors. 4 channel amp powered subwoofer behind driver's seat Front and rear LED light bars Cellular antenna booster DVR system with 5 cameras 9" Touchscreen radio powered deadbolts in all 4 doors https://imgur.com/fbzRD6L Spent an entire day stripping the van and figuring out how I wanted to run everything https://imgur.com/Tbb2NAY https://imgur.com/irac2Nx Installed the deadbolts. https://imgur.com/K5sAFRf https://imgur.com/H3D7YN2 And the sliding door.. I had to drill this one in blind, so that was scary, lol. https://imgur.com/1A6MYml This little striker plate is on the sliding part, then. So the deadbolt interacts with this to stop the door opening when it's out. https://imgur.com/JNIkTOs Switches for the LED lights, to turn the radio on whenever, and 2 little push buttons to lock and unlock just the deadbolts on the dash without using the keyfob. https://imgur.com/w9DkNAe https://imgur.com/De838vl Had so many wires to run to the rear.. these 3 big bundles make their way to the back full of various goodies. https://imgur.com/YNA9AqO Then they find their way under this bench seat where there's a ton of electrical stuff. Added my DVR and cell booster there, so I lose some wires, but others continue back for the rear cam, speakers, LED bar, cell antenna, etc. https://imgur.com/PVXwabU All tidied up. 5 camera connections made for a lot of stuff, but not a big problem at all with all the space. https://imgur.com/GlTCbXB The big Alpine 9"... never got a pic of the dash buttoned back up. https://imgur.com/IVRjNGi Front LED and camera. The cam is the little dot just below the Benz logo center. Flush mounted. https://imgur.com/sjE0qEP Rear LED and cell antenna. If you loosen the bolts on the bracket you can slide it side to side for whatever you may need. https://imgur.com/M2hs9t7 Rear with the 6x9s added to the doors. https://imgur.com/YGA95wJ Side view cams on mirrors. The Sprinter mirrors are great to take apart, very easy. A nice bit of respite, lol https://imgur.com/DIQtRQ8 And 3 of the deadbolts got these nice little pull wires incase they fail.. that way you can actually open the door and aren't locked in while the vehicle is burning or something. https://imgur.com/e6HIfFd That's about it for the Sprinter van. Tons of work but it doesn't look like much on the outside. Altogether I spent about 50 hours on it over the course of 5 days. Then I had a day off and my next vehicle was.. Another Winnebago! This one was a 1977 with an Chrysler 440 V8. It got a touchscreen radio, backup cam, and a TV mount. There's a video output from the radio to the TV to watch DVDs on the TV. https://imgur.com/Ac40vMM About 15 minutes into the job it started raining. I had to lay on the ground to run camera wires under this thing so I was soaking wet and filthy. https://imgur.com/xFpDLjn After a long uncomfortable few hours I had all the wires run. It's difficult to find good ways to run in an RV, but once you get them under it's easy to just follow the frame and other wire bundles. Getting from the top/inside to the bottom was the hard part, but after enough fooling about eventually you find a way. Like this rear cam that you see in this pic. It goes in where the middle light wire goes in, enter a cabinet, exits a cabinet through the bottom, follows down into that rear storage area behind the spare tire, and from there drops under the the vehicle where it can follow the frame. The TV video wires had to enter the bathroom, go into a removable section of wall, follow the 110v wire down, exit into the raised bathroom floor cavity, go under the bench seat where the water heater lives, then they find a grommet there to exit under the vehicle. They all enter a big grommet on the floor in front of the gas and brake pedals and then go to the radio through the dash. Whew. https://imgur.com/USU99jW Fancy radio in a 1977 https://imgur.com/OZ22Viq TV mounted. It's a 24" and with the big washers I used on the opposite side of the wall this baby is on there solid. https://imgur.com/Pb1FXl9 The opposite side of the wall is the bathroom where the wires go and the video wire enters the wall just to the right of the outlet where that brown 'line' is is the seam. The TV plug goes right to this handy outlet and if you don't want it plugged in there's a cabinet right above the outlet you can unplug it and stow the plug brick in. https://imgur.com/sILUXRx And then today's job was a 'simple' radio and 4 speakers with an amp in an old Mustang. https://imgur.com/VK6P0F9 A Retrosound radio that's build to look like an old dual knob radio was used so I didn't have to cut the dash. Replacement kick panels allow room for 6.5s to go in the front, and someone already cut holes in the rear so I slapped new speakers in there. A nice compact 4 channel amp lives behind the dash to power it all, too. I also added the little pair of cig lighters below the radio. https://imgur.com/0peYE6S Annnnd that's what I've been up to. My sunflowers are in bloom. Cheers. https://imgur.com/tQAV7A3

Am I the only person that 75% of the imgur embeds just fail to load for? I had to refresh the page about 15 times until they all cached and showed up.

the joys of secondhand wheels 1: buy wheels ($200, tyres hold air and are near full tread) 2: testfit wheels 3: realize that you're 21mm wheelnuts fit, but you can't slip a socket over the top because of the holes in the rims 4: buy new wheelnuts and locknuts because you don't want people to steal your new wheels right? ($70) 5: testfit wheels again, realize you bought shank nuts instead of tapered and they still don't fit for the same socket reason 6: return wheelnuts and get slimmer nuts that have an internal hex ($20 more after the return) 7: testfit wheels, wheels all fit and bolt on, no problems with rubbing on anything so bolt them all on 8: testdrive and feel massive vibrations and wobbles on the steering wheel. uh oh. 9: jack up car again and spin front wheels. find a massive bulge on one of the tyres and discover that that tyre is old and perished ($90 for cheap brand new replacement) 10: replace front wheels with factory wheels 11: hear thunking noises from the rear, find out that the hubs aren't centralized and the wheel is slapping up and down whilst driving ($100ish for centralizing rings) I haven't bought the tyres yet but my 200 buck wheels are gonna cost 480! https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/229026/9070900a-bcc7-42b1-a4d6-41df922c7844/image.png but at least I like how they look! and I just realized when I spent ages aligning my exhaust when I fit it I did it while the back was jacked up. so it points down! also fuck I need lowering springs lmfao look at that fitment

Looks almost lifted. Needs more lows! I think the curse of wheel bolts is just a thing that comes with buying wheels. Rota sent me the wrong diameter bolts (1.25 vs 1.5) when I bought my Slipstreams, despite them having a box to put your car details in on the order page.

Is the Hyundai Tiburon a crap car? im looking at an 04 with 84k miles on it, not sure if it’s being sold because tiburons are garbage or something. Only thing I read that sux I read is the clutch but this car is the automatic version

They’re shit.

I would have to say don't go for pre-07 Hyundais or Kias.

The only old Hyundai I'd drive is one of their econo-boxes, and only with a Manual cause their old autos are wonky. The Tiburon is S L O W but you'll pay higher insurance than a powerful sedan because 2 doors. The most powerful model barely achieves 170HP and its 0-60 is >8sec.

So I just did two things. I checked the spark plugs in cyl 5 and 6 and I swapped coils 5 and 6. Even though the plugs are less than two years old they're pretty black, with visible solid buildup around the spark gap, 5 seemed worse than 6 but I could just be imaging it. When I swapped the coils and started the car it shook much harder, I read the codes and it was cyl 5, 6 and "multiple misfires detected" or something like that. Then I swapped the coils back and put everything back together and tried the car one more time and, for now, it seems back to normal. No misfires or shakes. I'm still bringing it to the mechanic though. I'm guessing that my plugs are bad (I don't know how) and cyl 5 coil is bad (it looked quite corroded white while the others just looked like clean black plastic). Or it could be something else entirely.

Running rich and/or burning lots of oil can do that. I'd pick up a full set of OEM volvo plugs, all 6 coilpacks if you can afford it, and also look into your "Ignition Power Stage" modules. You will have 2 on the intake manifold, each one controls 3 of the coil packs. Single-cylinder misfires seem to be a common failure, if you swap them around (leaving the coil packs as they were) the misfire should move to cyl2, 4 or 6. Volvo 960 and S90/V90 Information https://volvoforums.com/forum/volvo-260-760-960-28/power-stage-location-cyls-1-3-5-a-49341/

Sup peeps, it's been a minute since I last posted because of some crazy life type shit. Moved back to my dads because A: hes old and needs help doing things and B: My Friend and roomates evil GF basically ran me out of the house because shes crazy and has issues. But at least I'm 100 bucks away from bringing home my 99 acura TL 3.2 type S. Either it's getting fixed (front is mushed) or it's guts are getting crammed into My Accord. Not sure what way I want to go yet. @Taylay I always loved those 3 spoke type rims and they look great your ride. @clutch2 You're a fuckin' machine bro, nice work.

Damn, I went with the high end spark plugs because I hoped they would last. I looks like the oem plugs will only be like 35 total for all 6. Coil packs will be 50$ each for OEM or like 30$ each 3rd party. Then the ignition control module is like 50$ each if that's the problem. I should definitely switch them out and try what that first link says. Thanks for all the help.

The volvo plugs are OEM'd by good companies and apparently engineered for each application. Check the reviews on the set I bought for my car, 3 people all bought fancy-pants expensive sparks and all had wacky issues. Volvo Spark Plug Set 113439 8642660 0002340117 0242235749 271636.. Even my old Maxima had a lot of anecdotes online of people going all-out on fancy sparks only to have problems cause the cheap shit or OEM worked better. They probably have an application in some motors but not these.

The biggest difference between the two is that the ones I have (NGK) have only one tong (diode? ground? whatever it's called), whereas the OEM ones have 3 smaller ones in a circle. I guess that's a byproduct of whatever is actually wrong, I wish I had a good diagram of where the ignition control modules are, I think I found one already when I looked about an hour ago, but the back one is apparently harder to get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ301QEoo9Y

From what I've heard the Tiburons are actually pretty fun cars to drive, but I wouldn't really buy a pre ~2008 Hyundai/KIA.

Two wheel friends how do I fix this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302956646424903680/475735343837085706/image.jpg It's next to impossible to see out of

I don't ride and I don't know what material that is, but couldn't you go after it like a fogged headlight and seal it with a clearcoat?

Maybe, I'm just not sure if there's supposed to be some special coating on these things that I could fuck up.

https://youtu.be/VNAdqrfE5KQ Regardless of your opinion on electrics you gotta admit this is impressive. I didn't think we would see people stuff a Tesla motor in the engine bay like that. Sucks he had to lose the back seat. I'm curious how it performs with all that weight right there, though. I suspect this kind of thing will become more frequent as more people get comfortable with wrenching on electric parts.

i hope hes olding on to the CFSA engine that was in that car, they're only going up in value due to RS5s getting cheaper and being crashed left and right in germany

Put it in the Tesla to be blasphemous to both sides of the hobby.

having owned a supercharged RS4 which is the precursor of the RS5 V8 engine(its really just a different motor code) this idea sounds intriguing

Audi and Tesla combined I don't think you could create a more potent douchebag chariot, it is truly remarkable

Could've been a BMW.

Audi drivers are worse than BMW drivers since they all, as in every one of them, wishes they were driving a BMW so their entire essence is consumed by envy and bile