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Glad to see the Miata back on the road. If you see a ratty yellow NA around, it's most likely me, so wave.
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UnkleBoB posted:Glad to see the Miata back on the road. If you see a ratty yellow NA around, it's most likely me, so wave. Oh poo poo, you live in St.Pete? No a lot of goons here it seems. Also, is this bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fj2OIvU-4 Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 18:00 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 17:56
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Cut pipe (or unbolt flange), shake piece out, weld pipe back together or reattach flange  The cat on my 98 XJ went from brand new to 1/3 of a cat in a year or two. Fortunately the matrix sections that were furthest downstream fell apart first, so I just put a flange in the exhaust just downstream of the cat and shook the chunks out every time it started bogging at high RPMs or rattling. CEL never came on.
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May 19, 2016 21:38
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Yeah I thought about that, but I don't want any other additional chunks ruining the new stainless exhaust (muffler), so I already ordered a stainless test pipe from Racing Beat for 80 bucks. I was planning on a stainless header and test pipe anyway so I have a complete system from the motor back. I just hope none of that poo poo got into the muffler already, but I think I caught it soon enough.
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May 19, 2016 22:28
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leica posted:Oh poo poo, you live in St.Pete? No a lot of goons here it seems. I live in Clearwater, but am around St Pete often. There are a few of us. I'm gonna be trying to host a little get together at my house soon. That video sounds eerily like my Miata. Been wondering what that rattle was
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May 20, 2016 02:30
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So I was changing the oil on the Camry and noticed this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIbC75O0rEE Not good. Good thing I noticed it though, another issue added to the list 
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May 20, 2016 21:05
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Hmmmm. This will not do. MUCH better  
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May 21, 2016 17:38
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Why would they cover that glorious looking intake? Noise reasons?
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Jun 7, 2016 13:01
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BloodBag posted:Why would they cover that glorious looking intake? Noise reasons? Vanity or to discourage people from doing their own maintenance.
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Jun 7, 2016 19:24
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Veeb0rg posted:Vanity or to discourage people from doing their own maintenance. And huge noise reduction. The underneath of that plastic on that motor is some very dense, heavy insulation.
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Jun 7, 2016 19:31
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If it keeps goobers from putting their booger hooks all over poo poo they don't understand and shouldn't be touching I'm kinda alright with that. Unfortunately the ignorant-but-enthusiastic sort that tends to do the worst sort of bodge-job "repairs" wouldn't be deterred. Looking directly at you, previous owner who replaced all blown fuses with 40-amp ones and melted half my loving harness.
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Jun 7, 2016 19:57
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I have noticed no difference in the amount of engine noise after removing the cover so it's staying off. Just replaced the air and cabin filters and they were both filthy loving dirty, wtf Lexus dealers. kastein posted:Looking directly at you, previous owner who replaced all blown fuses with 40-amp ones and melted half my loving harness.  Jesus Christ.
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Jun 7, 2016 23:00
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The fun part? His "repairs" to the melted harness are even worse than the 40 amp fuse fuckfest fiasco! Check the wiring carefully on a car before buying it, folks. I didn't because my initial assumption was that I'd be ripping all the wiring out and swapping other stuff in, but now I'm trying to make it live for a while before doing that and kinda regretting that decision.
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Jun 7, 2016 23:12
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How the gently caress do you "fix" a melted wire harness, that's what I'd like to know.
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Jun 7, 2016 23:15
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There are pictures in my thread if you don't want me derailing this one. e: here are links to the wiring fuckery, I've found more since then but didn't bother to document it before ripping it out. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3527505&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=49#post457291183 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3527505&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=50#post458124965 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3527505&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=50#post458144079 Suffice to say it involves many, many random chunks of hookup wire strung through places they don't belong, twisted splices with absolutely no solder or crimp involved, duct tape or half assedly swaddled electrical tape, randomly cut poo poo, fuse-taps in other slots in the fusepanel that didn't melt down, chopped wires where the factory wiring melted enough to short to something, home electrical wire nuts, and bypassed things that didn't need to be bypassed, but were now intermittent because they were bypassed badly using the aforementioned "methods." It was horrible  and continues to be so. I found a completely un-insulated bare twisted splice under a kick panel the other week when it shorted to the chassis because I kicked the kickpanel gently while driving. Fortunately I had already replaced all the fuses with their proper ratings again, because it just blew the fuse instead of melting another 5% of my chassis and dash harness.
kastein fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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leica posted:I have noticed no difference in the amount of engine noise after removing the cover so it's staying off. Sometimes the covers are used to help direct air from the cooling fan(s) too. Or in the case of the 1MZ-FE, to cook anything made of rubber that happens to sit under the (much smaller with no real purpose) cover. I've had to replace every inch of vacuum line that was under that cover on mom's Avalon (vacuum lines turned into dust if you just touched them), but anything that wasn't under the cover is still at least sort of flexible.  At least it can pass emissions honestly now.Oh... her car was dealer maintained for several years, and then maintained by quick lube places that charged her plenty of times for new cabin filters (mostly by one location). I checked the cabin air filter last week...  Pretty sure that was the original...  On the plus side, turning on the a/c results in feeling like you're being hit by hurricane force winds now, instead of a lifetime smoker with severe asthma trying to exhale from across the room.
randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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