Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Real_PhillBert]

18 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

shhh we need to ruin terrys expectation of how glorious manuals are 

 

[TVwazhere]

2 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

[bcredeur97]

37 minutes ago, Purp_Juice said:

Apparently it reduces torque at Low RPM but i don't feel a difference at all. 

 

Just saving up for a remap, gearbox flash, dpf gutting out & egr removal and blank now 

my miata had some flaps that supposedly improved torque at low rpm some.

When I swapped to the JDM engine/intake mani that didn't have those flaps, I noticed a drop off in torque below 4k rpm.

However when I got the JDM ecu working, it went back to normal... if not better.

 

So flaps seem pretty useless to me. lol. maybe worth a couple ft lbs but not worth the complexity/added failure points. they should stop doing that

[PandaCopyRight]

6 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

 

[Real_PhillBert]

Just now, PandaCopyRight said:

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[AlwaysFSX]

12 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Psh, manual labor? What kind of peasant are you?

[PandaCopyRight]

Just now, Real_PhillBert said:

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

i can tell   

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Psh, manual labor? What kind of peasant are you?

The glorious master race kind! Can't you read?! I am not a slave to the laziness of my left foot! /s

[Purp_Juice]

5 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

my miata had some flaps that supposedly improved torque at low rpm some.

When I swapped to the JDM engine/intake mani that didn't have those flaps, I noticed a drop off in torque below 4k rpm.

However when I got the JDM ecu working, it went back to normal... if not better.

 

So flaps seem pretty useless to me. lol. maybe worth a couple ft lbs but not worth the complexity/added failure points. they should stop doing that

Ohhh i read your message wrong. 

 

Yh mine improved the low rpm torque but it wont be missed for the sake of engine rebuild and as i said i cant feel a deference anyway. 

 

Mine were implemented to improve the emissions - probably why yours had them. 

[AlwaysFSX]

3 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

The glorious master race kind! Can't you read?! I am not a slave to the laziness of my left foot! /s

[PandaCopyRight]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

 

glorious "whose line is it anyways?" 

[AlwaysFSX]

Just now, PandaCopyRight said:

glorious "whose line is it anyways?" 

Who?

[Drak3]

1 hour ago, vetali said:

 

 

I don't need to watch that video to know the answer.

 

Obviously it's the Ford Pinto.

 

Kappa.

[Bitter]

And the dealer, THE DEALER, sent valve covers for J35A6 somehow. A7 valve covers won't be here till Monday afternoon.  Nice. How does the dealer get us the wrong part number by VIN?

[bcredeur97]

39 minutes ago, Bitter said:

And the dealer, THE DEALER, sent valve covers for J35A6 somehow. A7 valve covers won't be here till Monday afternoon.  Nice. How does the dealer get us the wrong part number by VIN?

inb4 the J35A6 was swapped for an A7

[chaozbandit]

[Bitter]

57 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

inb4 the J35A6 was swapped for an A7

It was not. A7 has a bunch of extra stuff the A6 does not so unless you swap the pcm and harness too...

[Mr.Dingle]

Go europe go 

(24MPG for the US folks)

[iDeFecZx]

And I thought my parking was bad 

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

And I thought my parking was bad 

I thought it was you for a second  

 

Share it to FoST owners, see if he's on there

[bcredeur97]

The new GT500 arguably has a better engine for the Ford GT, lol.

[vetali]

9 hours ago, Bitter said:

And the dealer, THE DEALER, sent valve covers for J35A6 somehow. A7 valve covers won't be here till Monday afternoon.  Nice. How does the dealer get us the wrong part number by VIN?

Thats weird if they ordered it by VIN. If it was a vehicle with early VCM, I think only the higher level trims were equipped with VCM. So the parts person coulda been lazy and just entered the year, model and guessed wrong on the trim. 

 

Contrary to every ricer that calls in, we cannot look up by engine codes in the parts catalog. Need a year, model, and trim level or VIN to look up parts. 

[Cereal5]

23 hours ago, vetali said:

Because its GM. Then again I can't remember the last car commercial that was "good"

I actually really liked Dodge’s 100tb anniversary commercial, with all the 100 year old people.

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

The new GT500 arguably has a better engine for the Ford GT, lol.

Well... the 05-06 GT was just that. I’m sure you knownit had a 5.4L SC, which later went in the 07-12 GT500. I’m just waiting for the super snake to be announced...

[FuzzyYellow]

Okay, it’s story time.

 

So I got a message from the dealership on Thursday afternoon saying my truck was ready to go. So I go pick it up, start driving it back, and about 2/3 of the way home, the abs light comes on. 10 seconds later, the light dim and the truck starts stumbling really bad. No power at all. So I pull over, and it dies completely. No start, no crank. So I call the dealership and leave a message saying I’m stranded on the side of the road, and proceed to call my dad to come tow me home. I’m the phone with him, I decide to try starting the truck one more time, and it fired up. So then the dealership guy calls me back, and tells me to try make it home and we’ll go from there. So as soon as I hang up the phone, I put the truck in drive, and it dies again. Again, no start, no crank. Battery cables are fine, everything seems fine, but still nothing. So the dealership towed it back. 

 

 

It turns out there was some loose wire in the fuse block, and they got it straightened out. I’ll go back tomorrow to pick up the truck since I got off of work too late to do it tonight.

 

 

[Cereal5]

20 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

Okay, it’s story time.

"Like new". Glad you were able to make it home ok though. Hopefully it's good to go this time. Then again, what's a couple days after a few months of waiting. Still dumb though lol.