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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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8 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Genuine question, for every day driving how much does it actually matter with the power difference? I drive with lead-footed often enough but I can be content with 'enough' power output, but not 100% sure how much of a difference it makes on an EV.

yeah.. i don´t use it much in the Tesla, however i do like it in certain situations.

 

but EV´s are heavy, and they get slower at higher speeds. i have a test drive of it saturday, the main problem is the 10 month delivery time. I am hoping it is better for the EV6, much uglier car, but just need to get away from the tesla. the EV6 325 AWD GT-line is also MUCH cheaper than the tesla, and bigger.

 

main problem is still the lack of charging on other cars than tesla, i have to hope the expansion of the charge networks will continue at speed, since the Tesla chargers are ALWAYS open, whereas other here normally are filled with cars.

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16 hours ago, Beef Boss said:

Two bad motorad thermostats and a bad NAPA brand thermostat later... Rockauto sent my two wrong brand thermo stats today, and the NAPA one were all defective out the box...

 

Thank God I also ordered a Tama one... What a waste of time today.

 

Anyone ever order off those OEM Mazda websites? Never have cause the prices always higher than what is OEM quality from rockauto. Definitely a learning process on what to get OEM and what not to...

I feel like the Aisin stat I got off rock auto might not be opening at the right temp. I'm going to check it on my drive home tonight with my small scan tool. Heat feels way colder than I thought it should be and it'll warm back up with still, like a partly open stat.

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17 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I feel like the Aisin stat I got off rock auto might not be opening at the right temp. I'm going to check it on my drive home tonight with my small scan tool. Heat feels way colder than I thought it should be and it'll warm back up with still, like a partly open stat.

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6 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

Ever get tired on working on that one, here's a GOOD 😆 project car for you.

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Hard pass, I think my next car will be from this century with modern features like antilock brakes. I'm keeping my 2000 Celica tho, even if they stop making gasoline I can still go sit in it.

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*Finally* got my ozone generator.

30 minutes in the car and you can't tell it was ever smoked in.

Fantastic device. worth every penny.

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2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Hard pass, I think my next car will be from this century with modern features like antilock brakes. I'm keeping my 2000 Celica tho, even if they stop making gasoline I can still go sit in it.

Can't blame you - If it still runs at all it's probrably the only one left that does.
It will definitely keep you busy in the shop, that I can guarantee.

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20 hours ago, Bitter said:

I feel like the Aisin stat I got off rock auto might not be opening at the right temp. I'm going to check it on my drive home tonight with my small scan tool. Heat feels way colder than I thought it should be and it'll warm back up with still, like a partly open stat.

buying OEM thermostats isn't a terrible idea tbh. (if you can find one). 

I know the OEM vs aftermarket thermostats on my miata were a lot different. 

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1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

buying OEM thermostats isn't a terrible idea tbh. (if you can find one). 

I know the OEM vs aftermarket thermostats on my miata were a lot different. 

Yeah I think Mazda probably still stocks this one, if mine is being shitty I might do that. I wish the cooling fan didn't come on right at 200F, more like 210. Then the 190 stat I had would have been ok to keep using. My heat is way down on the highway and I don't like that. I'll block off part of the rad temporarily while it's crazy cold out to see if that helps and actually remember to bring my lil scanner home to check temp. 

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I think im starting to have withdrawal symptoms after i had to watch a bunch of dashcam footage..... (had to, those things use a lot of space)

 

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I put that cheapass Anchor mount on and idled in park and drive while the engine was still warm from driving. I think it's better actually, but I want it to be better so I probably have some confirmation bias.

 

Hmm short test drive, maybe 🤔 not. Seems to be different but not better. Feels same in D or P/N now lol. Eh whatever. If I hate it in a week old one back on and return the new one.

 

Longer drive. Once the engine is warmed up all the way it idles better in gear but a little worse in park/neutral. Warming up it's kind of boomy in the cabin and I don't like that. Shifts feel less jerky though and overall I think it feels better.  Still unsure I'll keep it.

Thermostat is opening at exactly the correct temperature and working perfectly, I'm going to block off part of the radiator. I was able to get the part number off my old thermostat and track one down again but I really didn't like how that kept the radiator fan running so much. I think I'll just stick with the new one and radiator block off in cold weather. I figure about 1/2 blocked should do it maybe. I think I should keep the 180 temp, the engine runs a constant 183-185 on the highway, idling it creeps slowly to fan turn on temp then back down to 180 real fast once the fan has ran. Taking off from a long idle the temp drops below thermostat temp to about 170 then quickly reopens it. Grain of salt, it was 7 degrees while I was watching temps. Cabin temps on the highway used to be 130-140 easily, now my peak is 120 barely and it takes a little longer to get there. Last tank of gas was also down to 22mpg from 25-26 but I ran the engine parked a lot and had filled up at a different station with a different pump shutoff so again grain of salt. I miss my sauna heat in the car, but judging it during single digit temps maybe isn't fair, same for the last tank of gas I suppose too.

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This thing is shockingly fun in the snow

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On 1/7/2022 at 10:59 AM, bcredeur97 said:

buying OEM thermostats isn't a terrible idea tbh. (if you can find one). 

I know the OEM vs aftermarket thermostats on my miata were a lot different. 

Yeah we probably share the same thermostat, I have the 1.6L protege.dunno if yours is different displacement though I doubt it changes much.

 

Not sure the Tama is OEM but they do make OEM parts for cars so... Yeah it was different than the one that more than likely came with the car 21 years ago... Dang thing wasn't even in F just Celsius. Car warms up a ton faster, sure it was 23 bucks, compared to the eight dollar ones everywhere else but it works... The others do not. I also changed the water pump to a Gates branded one, the fins were much bigger if that changes much haha.

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Slid in a sheet of cardboard to cover half my radiator, I'll find out tomorrow if it helps with highway heat. Kind of bummed my 180 stat is working correctly and that my heat sucks this much with it. It's easy to swap it out but I just hate that the only 190 stat is a shitty MotoRad part and I fear it'll be as slow to open as my old one and have the cooling fan running all the time again.

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5 hours ago, Bitter said:

Slid in a sheet of cardboard to cover half my radiator, I'll find out tomorrow if it helps with highway heat. Kind of bummed my 180 stat is working correctly and that my heat sucks this much with it. It's easy to swap it out but I just hate that the only 190 stat is a shitty MotoRad part and I fear it'll be as slow to open as my old one and have the cooling fan running all the time again.

Yeah, not sure if you saw my recent experience I had two motorads fail in a row after single use... And a Napa branded one they "sell to shops all the time"... What a pain in the butt! Waste of gaskets and coolant haha

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1 minute ago, Beef Boss said:

Yeah, not sure if you saw my recent experience I had two motorads fail in a row after single use... And a Napa branded one they "sell to shops all the time"... What a pain in the butt! Waste of gaskets and coolant haha

I saw. We use them at work sometimes and while they usually work fine their build quality is...much lesser than what I'd like to install in my own car. I'm hoping blocking the radiator does what I need to get the coolant temp up into the 190's on the highway but I'm not optimistic. What I need are some of the active grill shutters or an electronical thermostat, but I think I have to buy a new car to get those upgrades. If my next tank of gas also sucks MPG then I'll just try another 190 degree Motorad, looks like the only place I can get one is RockAuto. I'll reuse the seal off the Aisin thermostat though to save a little and I can reuse my drained coolant, I can even keep the coolant in the radiator with my giant hose pinch-off tools from China to slightly reduce the amount of coolant lost and refilled to speed up the process.

By god I'll ruin this car yet one part at a time with aftermarket crap!

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So I bought a phone mount for the GF for her birthday last week. Normally a $55-60 mount, Bestbuy had it for $45 but was sold out. Target had it for $60 and price matched it for us. Nice! 

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And the Anchor motor mount is headed back to Amazon. Yeeted that thing the fuck out of my car at lunch. Driving 60mph on the highway my rearview mirror shook so hard I could see nothing. The cabin boomed so loud I had to turn my radio up 5 more notches to near deafening to hear it and the sound made me feel dizzy for the first few miles.

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9 hours ago, Bitter said:

The what?

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What a terrible thing to mess up on if it can cause injury/death lol 

17 minutes ago, Bitter said:

And the Anchor motor mount is headed back to Amazon. Yeeted that thing the fuck out of my car at lunch. Driving 60mph on the highway my rearview mirror shook so hard I could see nothing. The cabin boomed so loud I had to turn my radio up 5 more notches to near deafening to hear it and the sound made me feel dizzy for the first few miles.

I love how my aftermarket mounts on the civic weren't bad at all and I expected them to be bad lol. No idea 

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30 minutes ago, Bitter said:

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Gotta love how they just accepted it… doesn’t look like the wheels were turning or spinning at all, just kept on the brakes and hoped the thing would stop on its own. 

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40 minutes ago, Bitter said:

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The post above it with the 1 wheel drive Silverado is even better lmao.

 

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53 minutes ago, Bitter said:

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12 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

The post above it with the 1 wheel drive Silverado is even better lmao.

 

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28 minutes ago, vetali said:

 

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