What have you done to your car today?

Well, its not my car per se, but last night I helped a mate put a methanol water injection system on his VL Turbo so he could get it tuned today..

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Picture is a bit old, but it was tuned today.

Made 388 RWKW on 27 PSI. Pretty impressive!
 
Replaced my battery. It's amazing how much a shot battery kills your car. My transmission is shifting better, fuel economy seems better and it actually starts now, instead of barely getting going.

Can't believe I didn't catch on to this earlier.
 
Philly
Replaced my battery. It's amazing how much a shot battery kills your car. My transmission is shifting better, fuel economy seems better and it actually starts now, instead of barely getting going.

Can't believe I didn't catch on to this earlier.
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That shouldn't really have anything to do with any of the things you listed other than "actually starts now".

You alternator puts out about 14-15 volts when the car is running, the battery does nothing except get charged when the car is running, since the car is producing more voltage than the battery puts out.

The only reason what you've described would happen was if you battery went completely dead each time, causing everything the ecu "learned" to become erased, forcing it to default and start over each time.
 
Perfect Balance
That shouldn't really have anything to do with any of the things you listed other than "actually starts now".
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I had the old tested and it was sitting at 11.5 volts almost immediately after the car was turned off. Maybe changing the battery erased the ecu and that's why it seems to be doing better. Just after driving in the blocks around campus I was getting 1.5x to 2x better gas mileage I was at before the swap. The real test will be the highway, where I can get a pretty good guess of where I should be at.
 
spauldj3800
It is an insane amount, thats the reason for the water/methanol injection.



He drag races it on occasion, it will be interesting to see how long the manual box and clutch last...
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2.7sec, 0.1sec for every PSI.:lol:
 
It's 6* outside, -12 with windchill, and I'm heading out to replace the alternator on my GF's car. Car is dead, in the driveway, outside, with snow under it. That's what I'll be doing to a car today. YAY!
 
Just installed the Odyssey battery and Password:JDM mount. The battery's staying inside the house until the engine swap for obvious reasons, but it all fits snugly and I should have pics up soon.

Pretty nice outside here, I'm loving global warming!
 
not a what I've done but rather a what I'm going to do. Take my car to my good friend (Auto electrician) to have the speedo cluster fixed. No speedo, odo, rev counter and engine check light is on grrrr
 
Perfect Balance
That shouldn't really have anything to do with any of the things you listed other than "actually starts now".

You alternator puts out about 14-15 volts when the car is running, the battery does nothing except get charged when the car is running, since the car is producing more voltage than the battery puts out.

The only reason what you've described would happen was if you battery went completely dead each time, causing everything the ecu "learned" to become erased, forcing it to default and start over each time.
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Not true. Try jump starting a Vectra/Astra with a battery that needs replacing. The car won't drive right (problems such as stalling/rough idle) till you replace the battery. It is usually the same case with most newer European cars.
 
J-PaP
Not true. Try jump starting a Vectra/Astra with a battery that needs replacing. The car won't drive right (problems such as stalling/rough idle) till you replace the battery. It is usually the same case with most newer European cars.
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Perfect Balance
The only reason what you've described would happen was if you battery went completely dead each time, causing everything the ecu "learned" to become erased, forcing it to default and start over each time.
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This is probably what's going on, especially if the car needs to be jump started. From what I understood, his car's battery tested bad, but was still starting the car.
 
You know those silly Ten Dollar parts? Guess what? Since my top bracket for the fuel pump (which the pump was done for after 12 years :grumpy:) is bent, rusted and needs replaced. The part has to be shipped in (which it will come in tomorrow), so I don't have my car! :grumpy::ouch: No worries though, it will be fixed soon as tomorrow or Saturday, and I will be back on the road. I'm back on the road again and it runs good. :dopey: Randy
 
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I haven't posted in this thread since March 08.

I've since replaced the Work VS-XX with a set of Keskin KT-1 since I wanted more of a lip and aggressive offset

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After
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For that car, I'm more a fan of the old wheels' design and color, but the depth on this new set is dope! Gorgeous car, too, that third pic is wallpaper worthy 👍.
 
I'd agree with the hellaflush statement, but that's just about on the right side of tasteful. Nice rims. 👍
 
Eric.
Miata's don't fit in the hellaflush crowd.


The intercooler makes the car appear to have fangs though.
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I'm not really going for the hellaflush setup. If I was, I'd drop it another 30mm but the car wouldn't be practical. I'm already scraping my exhaust and subframe braces at the current ride height.

Plus, with the hellaflush, the fenders get screwed up.
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If I had an older NA I could do it, but I'm not going chop up the Mazdaspeed version since they're available in limited numbers.
 
Unbelievable. After all that my car and I have been through, all the money I've been spending on the ungrateful little b***h, she decides to break down on me, on the gateway motorway when its really busy, on Christmas Day.

So, after my mechanic friends came to see if we could determine what happened and try to get it going again, which didn't happen, I then had to find a tow company will to work on Christmas day, and one that caters for lowered vehicles.

What a mission, got it home after a few hours, and its going to have to sit in the garage, again, until the shop I use opens up again, then I'll have to get it towed there and more money spent.

We don't know exactly what the problem is (we had spark, fuel and compression - engine was turing over same as usual) so we are thinking injector signal, when we checked the distributor it had oil at the bottom of it, so a seal has gone, oil has gotten into the dizzy and is probably fouling the crank angle sensor, so I get no injection. Thats the main theory anyway.

What happened was I was just driving at around 90 kph, in fifth, so just crawling along, and just lost power. No spluttering, no bang, no oil, no steam, just no power. Still had all electronics, car still cranks over.

So, more money going towards my shop. Might leave it in the garage for a bit and save up so I can get some of the other things I want done to it performed at the same time, but I'll probably just end up getting it fixed, and having to potentially re-do work down the track. The joys of it, man I've had some bad luck with this car, one step forward 2 back. Hopefully one day it will be at a stage where I'm happy with the performance, and it doesn't break down... yeah right.
 
That really sucks mate, it's not fun waiting around either. My mother's Lancer broke down on me once travelling on the Logan Motorway coming back from Dreamworld, and that's quite a ways from home for me, so I had to sit there and wait a couple of hours, nothing to do- and I was having a really bad month already. Hope it's a relatively cheap fix for you and you're back on the road in no time, it really sucks it happened on Christmas day of course.👎
 
Punknoodle
Unbelievable. After all that my car and I have been through, all the money I've been spending on the ungrateful little b***h, she decides to break down on me, on the gateway motorway when its really busy, on Christmas Day.

So, after my mechanic friends came to see if we could determine what happened and try to get it going again, which didn't happen, I then had to find a tow company will to work on Christmas day, and one that caters for lowered vehicles.

What a mission, got it home after a few hours, and its going to have to sit in the garage, again, until the shop I use opens up again, then I'll have to get it towed there and more money spent.

We don't know exactly what the problem is (we had spark, fuel and compression - engine was turing over same as usual) so we are thinking injector signal, when we checked the distributor it had oil at the bottom of it, so a seal has gone, oil has gotten into the dizzy and is probably fouling the crank angle sensor, so I get no injection. Thats the main theory anyway.

What happened was I was just driving at around 90 kph, in fifth, so just crawling along, and just lost power. No spluttering, no bang, no oil, no steam, just no power. Still had all electronics, car still cranks over.

So, more money going towards my shop. Might leave it in the garage for a bit and save up so I can get some of the other things I want done to it performed at the same time, but I'll probably just end up getting it fixed, and having to potentially re-do work down the track. The joys of it, man I've had some bad luck with this car, one step forward 2 back. Hopefully one day it will be at a stage where I'm happy with the performance, and it doesn't break down... yeah right.
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Grab a screwdriver and put the head end on each injector and the handle on your ear. See if you can hear all the injectors. They make a clicking sound when working.

If the problem is the dizzy it should work again after you clean it so maybe give that a shot first.
 
So I was driving home and I was gonna go through a yellow light but decided that my car was too slow to make it and, besides, I was worried about drunks, so I stomped the brakes down and came to a stop just at the stop line. My brakes were all smoking and stuff. :lol: Guess someone installed a smoke machine while I was on vacation. I can't believe how poorly my car stops, but at least it did.
 
ranhammerR34
You know those silly Ten Dollar parts? Guess what? Since my top bracket for the fuel pump (which the pump was done for after 12 years :grumpy:) is bent, rusted and needs replaced. The part has to be shipped in (which it will come in tomorrow), so I don't have my car! :grumpy::ouch: No worries though, it will be fixed soon as tomorrow or Saturday, and I will be back on the road. I'm back on the road again and it runs good. :dopey: Randy
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Ah Crap! It came on again. :grumpy: Not the most happy right now.
 
Anyone know where I could source an ST205 gearbox? I've decided I'm going to do the power steering rack and gearbox at the same time, but I'm going for the better box and getting it rebuilt before it goes in
 
- Got the Sierra sold, just waiting on the guy to pick it up
- Plugged yet another tyre on The Cereal Box and discovered that for some reason the subwoofer is still pumping bass even when there's no song playing at the time.
 
I finally finished installing my boost gauge, and euro-dash pocket and a silver glove box handle. The car is a 2011 GTI, suspension was taken care of when I got the car 2 months ago after a lady ran a red light and killed my 2008 4 door civic SI with a my Type-R front end conversion.... =(

But I like the GTI.
 

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