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    Goldsboro, NC area

    Recently moved into the Goldsboro North Carolina area. I'm completely clueless on anything NC. If anybody's in the area or has any interesting information about North Carolina please share. It would be much apprectiated.
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    Rebuilding your own door locks with pictures

    ***Work in progress*** (changing pics) I know I’m not the first person to have one of my door locks freeze up on me or get so bad that you can’t even get the key in. This is just a basic cleaning and lube of your door locks. If you get really ambitious you could try and find new...
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    Rebuilding your own locks

    I know I’m not the first person to have one of my door locks freeze up on me or get so bad that you can’t even get the key in. This is just a basic cleaning and lube of your door locks. If you get really ambitious you could try and find new parts but I have yet to do so. I am NOT a certified...
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    Dragfest NE Ohio

    A full day of show cars, fast cars, bikes, full drag cars including but not limited too 11 second civics (1 that I know of) 10 second chyrsler conquests, 9 second bikes, 18 second accords, etc etc etc. It's a pretty fun event and I know for a fact that i'll be there in my 89 and a friend will be...
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    Ricers?

    I don't know if this is a re-thread (since I never look in the ot section) but a friend of mine just showed me this. There is a blue mkiii in there...closer to the bottom on the right http://tanetane92.web.infoseek.co.jp/20050116tas2.html
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    Getting sued for $125,000

    August 25th 2004- Failure to yield at a stopsign (me, who was sticking out MAYBE 18" in front of the stop sign...the front of my car was maybe 6" into her path) and a bitch in a pontiac aztec hit the fron 12 inches of my car, enough to move the frame rails about a foot and the front of my car 5...
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    Moving to Orlando Area?

    Me and a friend of mine might be moving to the Orlando Area (from northeast ohio) since we both hate cold weather and we can only drive our cars like 3 months a year (he drives a civic). We've also got some really good job opportunities making twice what we're making now. Just wondering how many...
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    NOPI @ Norwalk Ohio

    Spent the past 2 days at NOPI at Norwalk Raceway in Ohio. There were 2 mkiii's that I had never seen before but I'm sure you guys have heard of them and/or seen them. They were both were 2jz powered. One was a semi street car on radials running a mild cage, decent single turbo, and a turbo 400...
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    misc. problems all related?

    So...everything on the car was working fine until i took it to the track (best time of 15.4.....guess everything wasn't working fine). I thought I blew an intercooler hose. I already blew the throttle body coupler once so I replaced that and set my tps and checked the ISC. took it for a test...
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    rps clutch problems

    So...I've got 2000 miles on my 89 turbo 5spd (engine and trans from an 87) and I put an rps street/sport clutch in it that's supposed to hold 340ft-lbs of torque. I've got a k&n intake and a bic ddp wastegate shimmed with 2 washers on each bolt. For some reason the clutch doesn't grab anymore. I...
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    EGR leak???

    List of problems and what I've tried so far, car is an 89 turbo with a 5spd swap, completely stock minus the K&N FIPK. -Exaust leak in the back of the engine bay, sounded like it was coming from the exaust manifold/turbo and I'm also only getting 3psi of boost. So, I pulled the turbo and...
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    Turbo problems

    My cars been running for a week now (89 turbo 5spd converted from auto w/ 104k on the engine) and today I went about 1 hour on the highway. On the way back it didn't seem like something was right, I could hear the turbo spooling really loud but the car didn't seem to be going anywhere, and the...
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    A few questions

    Ok, new questions, maybe somebody can help me with these instead of the old ones. The differential makes a lot of noise at low speed and while cornering and low speed it's even worse. It's a rapid ticking noise. Also, the tranny (r-154) whines at low rpm in all gears. I'm running mobil 1...
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    Ticking and Smoke

    So, since I usually don't post on here, but there's more people on this website and I need info, I'll give ya'll the low-down. Purchased an 89 turbo auto with a rebuilt head (to factory specs with new parts). Pulled the engine (blown rings) and slapped the new head on my 87 engine, attached...
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    some help please! :)

    I'm almost done getting my engine hooked up. I've got an 87 engine in an 89 and almost all of the parts on the engine are from the 89. I can't find anything that plugs into this connector though. It comes out by the ignitor but there's just no plugs to go on it :D Any help would be...
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    NE Ohio Dragfest

    Thompson Raceway Park is having 'dragfest' on July 31. It's supposed to be pretty sweet although I have never been to it. show/race as far as I know, and I think it's $25. Visit www.thompsonracewaypark.com for more info. As of right now I know I'm going (as long as my car runs) and a friend with...