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

[Ross Siggers]

6 hours ago, thegreengamers said:

I'm going to see if I can fix the paint and clear coat on my Corolla at some point, maybe over spring break. Does anybody know what I could try?

Is the roof down to bare metal? I see orange  I'd say an aggrssive cutting compound and a rotary, but I'm 99% sure that's too far gone.

 

Buy some sandpaper, masking tape, then a rattle can the entire car, it'll be cheaper than attempting a paint correction, probably look better, and hey you can pick a new colour!  

@TVwazhere have you ever heard of a company called Kaaz? They make diffs too, but they're up around the Quaiffe price range afaik. My friend has a really aggressive one in his 3-series, but then again, he has an LS in it as well  

 

[FuzzyYellow]

8 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

that's why I'm liking this husky set right now. Little more $, but comes with all the stuff you're missing. and a decent box to put it all in

 

https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/09/09beb059-e8cb-4fee-86cc-eaf5efa47fbf.pdf 

That set looks pretty comparable to mine. Still only up to 21mm, but you have a few more deep sockets and combination wrenches. Still not a complete set though.

 

whats the warranty on husky? My biggest pull to craftsman was that if I break anything, I can get it replaced forever.

 

 

edit: oh that husky has extensions too. I’m my experience husky tools have been decent. I don’t know about socket and ratchets specifically. (I work in construction)

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, Ross Siggers said:

 have you ever heard of a company called Kaaz? They make diffs too, but they're up around the Quaiffe price range afaik. My friend has a really aggressive one in his 3-series, but then again, he has an LS in it as well  

I have not. The Mfactory LSD should be here by next Tuesday though. 

 

I'm probably gonna bite and get the bearing/screw sets. Apparently the original screws can stretch (?) and the bearings are deemed basically essential. 

This included instruction manual specifcally states to throw out the old bolts so there must be some merrit to that

https://performanceparts.ford.com/download/instructionsheets/FORDINSTSHTM-4026-FST.PDF

[TVwazhere]

27 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I'm probably gonna bite and get the bearing/screw sets.

*thinks to self* Hmm maybe there's a coupon I can use

 

*googles Mountune Coupon*

 

Fuck yeah, $15 is $15

[Ross Siggers]

43 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

included instruction manual specifcally states to throw out the old bolts so there must be some merrit to that

One would assume it's like flywheel bolts, or head bolts. Often you're not meant to reuse them because of stretching

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Ross Siggers said:

One would assume it's like flywheel bolts, or head bolts. Often you're not meant to reuse them because of stretching

It's shit like this that are reason why I'm a novice car tinkerer and should leave transmission jobs to someone who does it for a living  Fortunately I recognize this before I try to rebuild my trans and then go to turn the car on for the first time and my engine explodes when I let out the clutch because the gears are locked

[Ross Siggers]

Oh, I'd love to do a bottom to top rebuild of my engine, but I need to do it with a more experienced mate, the basic principles are there but there's so many little things I just wouldn't consider  

 

Speaking of, I missed out on a mad set of custom cams the other day, gutted.

[TVwazhere]

7 minutes ago, Ross Siggers said:

Speaking of, I missed out on a mad set of custom cams the other day, gutted.

I mean i technically missed out on a 20% coupon instead of 10 because it expired 7 days ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[terrytek]

2 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

*thinks to self* Hmm maybe there's a coupon I can use

 

*googles Mountune Coupon*

 

Fuck yeah, $15 is $15

aint' that a bit expensive for what are essentially just bolts and shit?

[Bananasplit_00]

Roads are starting to clear up again, maybe it will clear up enough to test the bike in a week or so

[RevoltTrain]

28 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Proper bearings aren't cheap.

Bearings are important 

[bcredeur97]

42 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

i bought $13 wheel bearings once.

 

Regretted it. one side of the truck lasted 10,000 before falling apart. other side lasted like, 50,000 until they got replaced with that rotor.

$13 is a deal for 50k miles

 

10k though? nope. not worth it

 

but that's the thing.. with cheap stuff the tolerances can be so off that you don't know what you're gonna get

[MEC-777]

For those of you with modern turbo engines and are concerned about LSPI:

 

 

[bcredeur97]

7 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

For those of you with modern turbo engines and are concerned about LSPI:

-snip-

 

"modern turbo engines"

 

nope.. still rocking a N/A 1.8 over here and losing every race

[MEC-777]

37 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

"modern turbo engines"

 

nope.. still rocking a N/A 1.8 over here and losing every race

Unless those races involve corners.  

[iDeFecZx]

3 hours ago, terrytek said:

aint' that a bit expensive for what are essentially just bolts and shit?

Mountune tax accounts for most of it

[iDeFecZx]

1 hour ago, vinyldash303 said:

I'm curious about how close a FoRS vs an NB miata would be.

New RS is shite as a handling car

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

For those of you with modern turbo engines and are concerned about LSPI:

TL;DW, Dont floor it at 40mph when in 6th gear. More than one ST has been sacrificed to the car gods in this manner

 

I'm happier above 3k rpms anyway  

[Real_PhillBert]

22 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

TL;DW, Dont floor it at 40mph when in 6th gear. More than one ST has been sacrificed to the car gods in this manner

 

I'm happier above 3k rpms anyway  

Not just STs, I knew one guy in college who nuked his GTI cuz he decided downshifting wasn't necessary. haha. 

[dcgreen2k]

29 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

TL;DW, Dont floor it at 40mph when in 6th gear. More than one ST has been sacrificed to the car gods in this manner

 

I'm happier above 3k rpms anyway  

So, how does doing that destroy the engine? Does it make the air/fuel ratio too lean?

[TVwazhere]

5 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

So, how does doing that destroy the engine? Does it make the air/fuel ratio too lean?

If I recall correctly from the video, because the engine is so hot and you're injecting a lot of fuel at low RPM's, not all the fuel is burned. The fuel can then get hot enough to ignite while it's trying to compress the next stroke. 

 

10 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Not just STs, I knew one guy in college who nuked his GTI cuz he decided downshifting wasn't necessary. haha. 

I feel like this is mostly an issue for manual trans engines, as automatics should downshift when it sense higher loads. 

[Real_PhillBert]

7 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I feel like this is mostly an issue for manual trans engines, as automatics should downshift when it sense higher loads. 

I would agree. 

 

On a side note, would a DCT ignore your lack of request for a lower gear (assuming manual mode) and downshift anyway, or would it actually do as it's told? I imagine it would depend on the specific transmission. I know most of the "Manual" modes on DCTs will take over if you're an idiot. 

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

TL;DW, Dont floor it at 40mph when in 6th gear. More than one ST has been sacrificed to the car gods in this manner

 

I'm happier above 3k rpms anyway  

 

1 hour ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Not just STs, I knew one guy in college who nuked his GTI cuz he decided downshifting wasn't necessary. haha. 

easy solution: only put big turbos in cars

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I would agree. 

 

On a side note, would a DCT ignore your lack of request for a lower gear (assuming manual mode) and downshift anyway, or would it actually do as it's told? I imagine it would depend on the specific transmission. I know most of the "Manual" modes on DCTs will take over if you're an idiot. 

normally I don't like this sort of thing.. but I would actually like it in a sense of the engineers knowing what range LSPI is an issue and being sure the engine stays out of that range in a high load scenario if possible.

 

even on manuals they could have a little LSPI light come on when you're in a rev range where it can occur as a reminder "hey you probably don't want to floor it right now". Or since electronic throttles are a thing.. even limit throttle application in that range... which again almost forces you to downshift.

[Real_PhillBert]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

normally I don't like this sort of thing.. but I would actually like it in a sense of the engineers knowing what range LSPI is an issue and being sure the engine stays out of that range in a high load scenario if possible.

I'm kinda torn. 

 

On one hand I want my car to do what I tell it to do; but on the other I dont want to replace an engine haha. 

 

I would bet that most, have some safeguards in place such as shifting at redline instead of pinning it against the limiter, so I guess they could program in a similar thing for LSPI as well.