Search results

Father's Day means lots of manly shit goes on sale. Feel free to post any awesome deals you come by. There will be a lot of 50% tools from many companies. Now is the time to add or replace stuff to your collection. Sales are going on now. http://www.sears.com/ http://www.homedepot.com/...

I'm going on vacation next week and will be traveling through Memphis, Tn. I'm looking for some suggestions on where to eat some good Q. I want real good food. I'm not going to eat the building so please don't send me to some fancy shmancy place, unless they have damn good food. Thanks for any...

Happy Father's day to all Dads out there, and to some who don't know they're Dads yet but will be served by certified mail. Enjoy you day with your family and have a good time. Don't forget about all the tool sales out there. Sears, Northern Tools, Lowe's, Home Depot, and all of the other...

I had to replace my wifes headlamp low beam, and really took notice of how yellow and foggy the lenses were. I decided to clean them up with some sandpaper, compound, and polish/sealant I had laying around in the garage. The results were amazing, and night time visibility is awesome. Less talk...

Recently I've been having an intermittent rough idle on cold starts. It would go away within seconds and run smooth. Now the problem is constant. Check engine light came on and gave me codes of 24, 34, 42 & 52. I did find the KS (afm) wire broke off of a crimp I did when I wired in the MAPECU. I...

Like quite a few guys here my car has been running pretty rich on startup, & idle. Once I'm driving it's fine. It would stumble and die at times. It was driving me crazy because I'd constantly change my MAPECU table to try to compensate for that low end richness. After reading plenty of "I'm...

Throughout the years I've heard many people claiming they get "X" boost by "Y" RPM. My question is how do you know? Is there some kind of "industry standard" of test those claims? Are you supposed to roll at 1000RPM in 5th gear then floor it and see what it does? Perhaps 3rd gear from...

Looking to take the family to San Francisco and looking for some travel advice. I'm looking to stay a few miles away to save some money and wanted to advice as to which cities to stay away from. Which cities are ok to stay in, and which hotels are cool to stay at. I don't mind staying 25-30...

It looks a little wobbly. You think I can open it up and shim the shaft with some duct tape to minimize the wobble? I saw on Mythbusters that you can fix or create anything with duct tape. On a serious note, yeah... it's done. No, I can't afford to buy another turbo right now. Oh well. I...

Wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wj0c4QXhKM And here's their apology for the mistake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDwgJa7JOI

Compression checked. Done with compression tester from O'reily's Auto parts. Engine warmed up to operating temperature. 1 - 120psi 2 - 140psi 3 - 135psi 4 - 135psi 5 - 140psi 6 - 140psi...

I've been street tuning this MAPECU in third gear for the most part. Right now I'm tuning the idle and cruise part. I'll be dabbling in the boost areas later once I do the non-boost section. I'm doing pretty decent tuning to Vf right now. I've gone up to about 3000rpm. Problem is when I...

Looking for some that won't back out. They're for the T4 turbo to ebay manifold bolts. Which ones and where do you get them. Thanks in advance.

I currently have stock 3.73 Lsd. If I were to swap to a 4.30 will I go quicker in the 1/4? My plan was to get a hold of a 4.30 and prep it for dragstrip use. I'd abuse that diff until it gave out. I would keep my 3.73 for back up just in case. So will I notice any gains, or is it not worth the...

If I were to go with non-tems shocks, do I have to remove the tems electronics? I guess I could unplug, remove, and store them away if I have to.

Went out the the dragstrip last night. First pass of the night I hit my best time. Next to the best slip is my "potential" best pass for the night but I missed *gulp* 4th gear. Of all gears how in the hell did I miss 4th!? Anyhow, you can see that I was a tenth faster up until the 1000ft...

Onlinetires.com has some Hankook Ventus V12 EVO K110's for $80.52/ea. I bought a set of four just now. I got on the phone with them and made sure they had them in stock. I needed some decent tires cause my current setup is not ideal for the street. Plus my front tires are smaller than stock...

UPDATE: Turned out to be a 2010ish CLS AMG. Cliffnotes: While driving through some twisty roads I had a run in with a late model 4dr E Class Mercedes. I tried to put up a challenge, but he was too much for me. He left me in the dust numerous times. I was out on an early morning drive...

My wifes power doors on the drivers side hasn't worked in a while. I finally decided to order both front and rear door lock actuators, and fix it once and for all. Checked with the local parts stores and cheapest I found was $42/ea. With tax that would be $90. I checked with Rockauto.com and...

I'm running Autolite copper 3922's @ 0.031 gap. 16 psi on a Garrett T4 60 trim. AFR's are at 11.7. Shell 93 octane gas. Car is breaking up after 4200 RPM to redline. I have not done the ignitor "mod". Should I close the gap on the spark plugs? What would you guys recommend?