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ok my valve cover is leeking like a mofo and its pissing me off cus when i get to work i can see the oil that is leeking down the exhaust side onto the exhaust manifold get burned off and make smoke come out of my hood. i've got the oldschool phillips screw on things with the weird gold and...

my friend from work has been asking me almost every day "how fast is your car" and i foookin hate it when people ask that question because how do you answer, do they want 0-60, 1/4 mile, top speed, hp, torque what so instead i just say it has 260 fast points. he didnt get it being an acura...

i was cruising allong another forum and i saw this link so i thought i'd give it a look over and my god i am both glad and pissed off that i did, i want this car so bad right now omg i would sell myself to strangers for it. who cares if the model is blown out into popularity i still crave this...

ok i'm pretty sure toyota doesnt have its own oil treatment center so who's oil are they rebadging as their own to sell at the dealer as "toyota" oil.

thats right im gradauting class of 05' 17 still, got like 3 credits more than required at high schoo, already got like 40 credits at community college, my ceremony is tonight and i'm all ready hung over. next 3 days are gonna be lost to the night, w000000 im f&**ing done with my crappy ass...

ok after a day of litteraly mapping every wire and trying to trace every white whire w/ a black line i started pulling out every fuse 1 by 1 to trace my lack of ignition. well what i found was that my 100 amp alt fuse has a hairline mising in it and my wouldnt you know it efi fuse has a hariline...

i was driving just fine yesterday no probs but now i went to get in the car and the car just wont even turn over on me. i turn the key and i hear the click,...and thats it. one click if i hold the key on start i can hear a slight slow crank just a light sqwwwwwwwwwwwwsh. im testing a battery on...

im making threads all over but this is a different thing than my shim thread i have been digging arround looking for tranny coolers and found a decent one for about $30 that will bring the temp down approx 60degree F. now the issue i have is that its a tranny OIL cooler not the coolant that...

ok i know about the tsrm i've memorized the procedure for setting the valve spacing and putting in the shims the hard part is getting the materials. i have gone to every parts store in this town and asked for 1: valve spacing tool and 2: replacement shimms for valves. the responses i get are...

well i got a certain something in the mail today and right after school i went to work putting it into the car, when i pulled my stocker i blew through one end and air just flowed out of the other. now i put the thing in and coaxing some of the hoses to fit was a trial in itself...

my friends dsm somehow blew the iinnards of his cattalitic converter to shit and ended up totally clogging it so no exhaust could pass through. his sympons were an insane loss of hp, exhaust gasses flowing out of oil filler cap and dipstick, and so forth. i was just wondering, cus a few days...

since i got my car i've never fixed this but the small lever next to the gas cap lever for the rear hatch doesnt do anything, i can hear the sound of a cable in the back but what should i look for when i decide to tear off the rear panels and what should i tear off. has anyone dealt with...

heh i rhymed. anyway i see the little list on bottom of thread list of peoples users names under the title "moderators" i know what the hell it is no need to explain, im just curious as to how you guys came about being, moderators, was it certain amount of knowledge on certain subjects...

i found this online and was just wondering what is keeping us from using the 320 hp capable a340e from the MKIV on the MKIII. http://www.supras.nl/view.php?page=modsEngineReplacement.htm Why not drop in the A340E of the Twin Turbo Good question! First of all for the people who don't...

i've been reading everything on howstuffworks about the auto tranny and hitting the articles that dsmtuners.com has and been wondering about my auto tranny. i know it tends to die once the engine hits 300hp but what part of the tranny goes out causing this failure. how much power are our torque...

ok i took my targa off and drove arround and i randomly get this shake from my car as if my car was missing or stumbling or as if my wheels were loose. its random and just noticable the thing is it also happens with targo on just not as bad. anyone have any ideas as to what would cause it. i...

i am going to be doing my tune up in the next few weeks and am scrounging up my parts for it over the next few days and i have some questions. what plugs would you guys reccomend because i heard some negative talk towards platinum plugs im looking at one of following ngk's Laser Platinum...

a local car shop came to me and saw me hanging out the local race spots and asked me if i wanted a sponser. the deal is i put a 6inch by like 3ft sticker w/ their name on the rear windshield for like 6-12 months and in return i get unlimmited access on weekends to their fully equiped shop, tools...

k my car did a weird thing today, i took off the targa and it seamed to jiggle while driving. not realy that much wind but it felt so bad. i got home put the top back on and it feels like my car is running odd. the engine has a vibration to it that it didnt have before. i'll pop my hood and wach...

i think when my dad did my plugs last he put in champion platinum 4 arm plugs. now i heard these like to break heads off. what damge could i look at besides face damage. im thinking them gettin smashed into my valves or frolicking in my exhaust wheel on my turbo any input im gonna go w/ ngk's...