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Installed new wheels, tires, and painted the brakes Chevy Orange.   Edit: Now the pictures show up Fushin fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jun 1, 2012 |
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Jun 1, 2012 00:37
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That's... well, ummmm.... something.
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Jun 1, 2012 01:48
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meatpimp posted:That's... well, ummmm.... something. Yes, a car. Four wheels, an engine, a transmission... If it's the graphics then I got the car from the dealer like that. It was a showroom model that I got for a discount because they were closing out the 09 models. I don't care for them but they're just graphics.
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Tackled the A/C because we're quickly approaching the point where a car without is not drivable in NC until sometime this fall. Someone has done the R12 -> R134a conversion at some point in the past but the A/C has absolutely no effect at the vents. Didn't get far into it today, just enough to determine there is some refrigerant and the low and high pressure switches aren't the problem. Gonna get back to that probably this weekend with the help of the A/C thread but I've got a feeling the compressor is shot and I'm going to need to do the whole compressor/expansion valve/receiver-drier set. Went to lunch and came back out to a completely dead battery. Swapped that for a new one that's actually the correct group size and still made it back in time for (most of) the meetings on my calendar this afternoon. Replaced the clock in the dash and also swapped in an LED replacement for the bulb:  It looks better in person than in the picture. Also swapped out this pain in the rear end:  Washer fluid reservoir with a slightly separated seam somewhere towards the bottom. Posters on Rennlist seem to all be able to replace this by pulling three bolts and having the thing fall on the ground, but it wasn't quite that easy. For one thing, there's a brake cooling duct directly underneath it that has to be removed. The bracket for the duct doesn't have to be removed but at least one bolt needs to come out and another loosened so it can swivel out of the way. Worst part was pulling the big hose off the bottom pump. The passenger side nozzle seems a little gunky but the driver's side works pretty well and the headlight washers are perfect. I'll try to clean out those nozzles this weekend. Also on the To Do list for the weekend: Take a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway with Fluffy navigating. 
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Jun 1, 2012 05:48
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Discovered the truck had a broken end link so I made a quick trip to the store and got to work in the dark. The top of the old end link had sheared off  Nice and shiny  Went ahead and did both sides while I was at it. The rest of the suspension looks fine so there shouldn't be any surprises on that front for a while.
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Jun 1, 2012 12:30
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After 4 years and 80,000 km of Panda ownership, I have sold my little Panda. I couldn't help but feel a little emotional as I watched the new owner drive away in my little red car, but I know she'll treat it well and feed it all the kilometers it could ever want. So that's it, no more car at the moment, just the motorcycle. Perhaps I should start hunting for a nice Peugeot 406 TS6 V6 estate for my 4-wheeled fix  Bye bye little Panda, it's been fun. My first, last and only new car. 
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Jun 1, 2012 18:18
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Merger of old and new(er). A friend took 30mm off the T.Spark inlet manifold and welded it on the old Alfa twin cam inlet manifold. 
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Jun 1, 2012 20:21
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I put the doors away for the summer. 
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Jun 3, 2012 14:09
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Paint and re-assembled. First attempt at fiberglass repair and painting. Came out pretty well.
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Jun 3, 2012 22:30
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Powershift posted:Paint and re-assembled. Perfectly presentable. Well done. gently caress you MOOSE!
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Jun 3, 2012 22:42
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let someone else drive it  
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Jun 4, 2012 00:26
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Powershift posted:Paint and re-assembled. Looks great dude! For me I got the first baby step done today, out of the garage.  Then it started raining 
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Jun 4, 2012 02:06
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GutBomb posted:let someone else drive it Tell us the story.
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Jun 4, 2012 02:49
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Billy Tully posted:Looks great dude! Sup fellow "damned weather" buddy, your truck looks absolutely awesome. I managed to pull a non-stock body panel off of mine and cut up some metal for framing.   Aand then a massive thunderstorm said "gently caress you" to our power supply and I went back inside before the welding started.
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Jun 4, 2012 02:53
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kimbo305 posted:Tell us the story. I knocked on the door of the house the car was parked outside but no one answered. I left a note with my phone number on their windshield. It left a similar looking scratch on their rear bumper. No cracks or deformation though. She's the only person aside from myself that has driven my car since I bought it. She's now also going to be the last aside from myself.
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Jun 4, 2012 04:03
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I lowered it on H&R Springs...now the front suspension clunks  
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Jun 4, 2012 17:20
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Welcome to the joys of Fiat ownership 
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Jun 4, 2012 17:38
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Bought it.  
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Jun 4, 2012 22:32
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DropShadow posted:Bought it. gently caress. Yes. I demand a ride before you leave CT.
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Jun 5, 2012 00:20
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There's a lot more CT AI goons than I thought. Today my power window motor stopped working in the Z24 and the glass was stuck 3/4 shut and at a strange angle. I was confused until I pulled off the door panel and saw the power window motor was detached from the door and all the bolts were cleanly sheared. I replaced them with nice thick bolts from the hardware store and found the door glass was outside its little channel and straining against the rubber as it went up. No wonder the window was hard to put up 
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Jun 6, 2012 00:01
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got a big rear end box from Subaru I will finally be able to fulfill a long held dream of having a big rear end wing on a blue turbo Subaru with gold wheels  Changing up the look a bit with an STi wing for the old WRX. My WRX is putting down considerably more power to the wheels than an STi so no poser comments necessary 
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Jun 7, 2012 03:51
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There are a lot of STI owners that probably would have trunk-swapped you for free. As for me, i cleaned the throttle body to deal with a rumble when stopped. amazing how a little bit of dirt can be such a pain in the rear end. 
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Jun 7, 2012 03:55
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Powershift posted:There are a lot of STI owners that probably would have trunk-swapped you for free. Not with a WRX wing they wouldn't have. Believe me, I searched for months. Everything was either beat to poo poo or not available, the supply of people who want something different for their 04-05 WRX/STi is dwindling by the day.
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kylej posted:Not with a WRX wing they wouldn't have. Believe me, I searched for months. Everything was either beat to poo poo or not available, the supply of people who want something different for their 04-05 WRX/STi is dwindling by the day. You could have swapped somebody with an RS for their wingless trunk, then used that wingless trunk to swap for an STI trunk trunk swapping is a complex ecosystem. If i keep the sti wing on my trunk, i'm definitely getting some stabilizers, because that thing flaps like crazy at speed.
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Jun 7, 2012 04:19
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Replaced the rear lateral links on my 'Speed Protege after bending the old ones doing my brakes last week (noob note: lateral links are not control arms and make poor jackstand support points). Drove it a mile to the nearest shop only to find out their one alignment tech was tied up til closing doing an A/C service, so now I have to try and go back before work tomorrow. Also, a month after repairing the ribbon cable and getting my stereo back after rocking engine sound for a year and a half, my subwoofer cut out a few days ago. Pulled it out and found the speaker has a bad coil (no continuity across the terminals), and of course there's like 4 choices of 8" speaker of any impedance that are shallow enough to fit in the factory sub enclosure, which hangs beneath the parcel shelf in the trunk. Oh, and discovered that the reason my car smokes from the hood after coming off the highway is a slow leak coming from the oil supply line to the turbo, which for the past 2 years already had an issue with the wastegate flapper not sealing correctly when fully closed.  I swear if I wasn't broke and the car didn't handle so well I'd have ditched it long ago.
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Jun 7, 2012 04:26
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If that particular line's leaking, take a good hard look at the return line off the turbo. When that cokes up (and it inevitably does, it's a wear item that needs regular replacement), oil leaking from the input line is a prelude to the turbo blowing internal oil seals.
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Jun 7, 2012 13:40
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KozmoNaut posted:Perhaps I should start hunting for a nice Peugeot 406 TS6 V6 estate for my 4-wheeled fix Hey, stay away from my car, man! Get your own!  
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Jun 7, 2012 18:19
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Installed a toolbox!  No more driving 10 minutes to get a wrench, or having tools sliding around my back seat.
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Jun 7, 2012 20:40
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Sir Cornelius posted:Hey, stay away from my car, man! Get your own! Eh, I don't like silver.
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Jun 7, 2012 20:49
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Last night between rain showers I pulled the old ruined soft top off my MX-5. Why in the hell does the parcel shelf carpet need to be that secure? The vast majority of my time was spent pulling those plastic pegs out. In the end I got enough off that I could grab the back of the carpet and pull the rest out, but loving hell. According to some passing stranger seeing a 6'5" guy try to contort himself into the space behind the seat is quite funny. :v
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Jun 7, 2012 21:25
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I bought another part. Another land Cruiser under seat heater to misuse. This one is going to be tweaked a little to drive the front heaters in the VW. Can't actually do anything right now so I'm just collecting parts. 
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Jun 7, 2012 23:47
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After a buddy of mine tried it with his Lancer and it came out pretty nice, I decided to see how my car would look with Plasti-dipped blacked out wheels. Figured for approximately $24 (4 cans) I could do so with no risk, since it peels right off. The results:    Over-all I like it. Obviously not as nice as doing it proper with a powder coat, but you can't beat the price!
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Jun 9, 2012 17:40
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Broke 2k miles on my 2 month old Sonic.  Then I washed it inside and out to make it look good as new again.
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Jun 9, 2012 19:13
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Is that the 1.4T engine? How is it?
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Jun 9, 2012 19:19
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Bovril Delight posted:Is that the 1.4T engine? How is it? Yeah, 1.4L Turbo Automatic. I love it. I took the old 2-lane highway to my parents' house to wash it today and had it up to 110 on a long straight stretch, which I found impressive for such a small engine. Acceleration is a pretty slow once you get to ~90, but it's awesome at normal speeds and you get a good boost when passing. When you're just cruising it's really quiet, and it has a good turbo whine to it when you give it gas. When I test drove the Sonic all they had was the 1.8L LT models, and the difference is like night a day. You barely felt the 1.8L even when giving it gas. It was a smooth ride, but really weird to drive.
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Frozen-Solid posted:Broke 2k miles on my 2 month old Sonic. 2k in 2 months? the last 2 vehicles i bought, i did 2k in 2 days.
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Bovril Delight posted:Is that the 1.4T engine? How is it? I had a rental a Cruze with the 1.4T and 6 speed automatic. I had no idea it had a turbo until I put my foot in it, then it was more of a  moment when it spooled up.If wikipedia is correct, the Cruze got about a 20 hp boost over the Sonic (same torque though), though the Cruze is a pretty heavy car (about 3100 lbs I think?). I was really impressed with the entire driveline.
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Powershift posted:2k in 2 months? the last 2 vehicles i bought, i did 2k in 2 days. I'm a pretty light driver. My daily commute is ~5 minutes. The only reason it's even 2k is because I made a 4 hour trip to Chicago and back, and 2 trips to St. Louis.
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Special Laguna Seca exhaust tip~~~~ Basically gently caress every single rich prick who moved next to a race track and then complained about the noise
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