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

[Real_PhillBert]

10 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

PSA:

 

Had a lady at work bring her husband's hard drive in that apparently had all their life on it. Was an old 320GB seagate drive they've had for years. No backups. Asked if we could help her...

Plug in drive, light would flash, disk would not spin up. Computer would see the USB device, but not the disk inside.

 

Had to be the bearer of bad news to tell them the drive was dead. Recommended a local company and drive savers as potential people to rescue the data, but warned it would be very expensive.

Backup your data people!

Its a lesson most people have to learn the hard way. Myself included.

6 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

cloud storage

or just not have important info ... 

I'm weird and don't like the idea of my data on someone else's drives.

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Welp, today I was at my desk not getting a whole lot done and thinking about how those suck

[Real_PhillBert]

Just now, TVwazhere said:

Ever have one of those days where the pile of stuff you have to do is so monumental that you just cant find the motivation to do any of it? Yeah, that was me today.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Welp I just failed inspection due to "monitors not ready" after I just drove the car 50+ miles. Flm sometimes inspections can be annoying

I once failed because my indicators weren’t orange enough. 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I need those lego sets!

[byalexandr]

21 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

be careful with 4th gear. thats the weakest point of the 6 speed trans

 

the diff.. I'd get some better mounts than OEM for sure. Maybe get that kit that reinforces where they notch it out.. I believe the diff itself can take a lot it just tends to move around a lot and also that notch they cut out for safety if you get rear ended becomes a weak point

I just finished installing new calipers rotors and pads on all four corners. Recently replaced the front ball joint and UCAs along with the outer tie rods, plus the coilovers which for $200 I have no complaints, still rides very well for the 5 months I have had them.

 

Still have to get poly bushings especially for the diff and fix my rear subframe brace. I get a lot of wheel hop which will destroy the Torsen at higher power, AND my CV axles are shot; previous owner didn't care for the car so now I'm paying for it 

 

I eventually want to swap a ZF/Getrag 260 and Getrag diff. Only thing is that it's hella expensive. Maybe an F-body T56 but I hate how sloppy those shifters are.

[iDeFecZx]

On 5/15/2019 at 5:42 PM, spwath said:

 

 

Weird, I wonder why. Just bought last year with 8000 miles on from old lady, then I put it up to 23000 miles, seems early for tires to be this worn...

Especially for just stock car, nothing changed at all...

15k is a lot of miles for a set of tyres.

 

[MadyTehWolfie]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

why waste your time? use a scan tool to check your monitors prior

 

my dad's G35 would take forever for it's monitors to be ready after clearing I remember. Some cars just do... not sure why

 

... not that we have emissions here. I just remember watching them

What makes it bad for me is that every time I start my car up for the first time it gets misfire codes in 2 to 4 cylinders. Because the hpa manifold has no flaps in the intake manifold so I have to go through this shit every single time. 

[MadyTehWolfie]

19 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

you have a tune right? depending on software you might be able to go into the tune and disable those cel codes?

Wouldn't want to disable the misfire cell codes. Only happens when it's a cold start and not 100% of the time. I learned to live with it

[PlayStation 2]

To this day, I'll never understand why Mazda put in the effort to make a 1.8 liter V6. That being said, I appreciate their efforts.

[Bitter]

16 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

To this day, I'll never understand why Mazda put in the effort to make a 1.8 liter V6. That being said, I appreciate their efforts.

Probably some Japanese taxing thing.

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

Probably some Japanese taxing thing.

I believe it was, but even still, I just find it bizarre that Mazda went through the trouble to shrink down a V6 for a sports compact that never really sold.

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

I believe it was, but even still, I just find it bizarre that Mazda went through the trouble to shrink down a V6 for a sports compact that never really sold.

Well it's not like the K series V6 didn't get used...and used...and used. Got to drive a Miller Cycle Millenia once, awesome engine.

[bob345]

Some pics from autox this past weekend. Photographer did a pretty great job IMO

[terrytek]

12 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I'm sort of tempted to buy this for probably a few hundred dollars and then drive it all the way home
https://www.copart.com/lot/35528859

 

edit: since its in Cali it would require a broker which makes it more expensive than it needs to be so nahhh

i could buy it for u and ship it to u  

10 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

So I'm always banging the drums in my crusade against cheap tools, and today my drive got even stronger.

 

Four or five years ago I was gifted a set of Krutch (Northern Tool, china) impact sockets and have hated them ever since I first used them. When used with a reasonably strong impact, they flex and lock the fastener in and you have to put the socket in a vise and beat the fastener out. I hate them with all the fiery passion I can muster. 

 

Welp, today I was at my desk not getting a whole lot done and thinking about how those suck, so I ordered a new set of Proto impact sockets, and I cannot wait to liberate my toolbox of these pieces of Chinese horseshit. 

 

So in short, don't buy cheap tools, you'll just end up throwing them away or breaking them and buy good tools, so you might as well jump to the end and buy good tools. 

i mean harbor freight tools is good. cheap. they break, get another set under warranty.

8 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

why waste your time? use a scan tool to check your monitors prior

 

my dad's G35 would take forever for it's monitors to be ready after clearing I remember. Some cars just do... not sure why

 

... not that we have emissions here. I just remember watching them

i'm trying to clear a fucking catalyst monitor on my van but it doesn't seem to wanna clear. we've tried everything to try to clear it save of replacing shit but it still says incomplete. i wanna say a cat is going out but there is no CEL thrown for it.

[iDeFecZx]

5 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

To this day, I'll never understand why Mazda put in the effort to make a 1.8 liter V6. That being said, I appreciate their efforts.

Meanwhile BRM made a tiny 1.5 litre V16 to go F1 racing back in the day, oh and they supercharged it 

[PandaCopyRight]

11 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I'm weird and don't like the idea of my data on someone else's drives.

neither do i .. but on the other hand ... i dont really have much info to store ... 

[BigRom]

2 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

Meanwhile BRM made a tiny 1.5 litre V16 to go F1 racing back in the day, oh and they supercharged it 

laughs in BRM H16 engine

 

Seriously BRM were completely mad during the 1960s

[Real_PhillBert]

6 hours ago, terrytek said:

i mean harbor freight tools is good. cheap. they break, get another set under warranty.

I'm gonna have to strongly disagree with you there; a good warranty does not make a tool high quality.

[TVwazhere]

7 hours ago, bob345 said:

Dat plate tho

[JoaoPRSousa]

8 hours ago, bob345 said:

Some pics from autox this past weekend. Photographer did a pretty great job IMO

 

Damn nice car you got

[TVwazhere]

3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

They're good options for the market they serve. 'i'm going to respray my drift missile some god awful color every couple months" They have the perfect $12 paint gun.

Plus I love getting a free magnetic parts tray, flashlight, Fiber cloths, tarp, screwdriver set (philips head :^) ) or whatever other free items they have with a coupon and a purchase. 

 

I got my Floor jack from them and it's amazing. Dont worry I use jach stands..... (that I also got from them ) 

[bob345]

5 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Damn nice car you got

Honestly it's the most fun car I've ever owned. 

[bcredeur97]

5 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I'm gonna have to strongly disagree with you there; a good warranty does not make a tool high quality.

12 hours ago, terrytek said:

i mean harbor freight tools is good. cheap. they break, get another set under warranty.

it's like this:

say you have a nut to get off. You have 1 socket for it. You give it a 1/8th of a turn and your socket breaks. 

Oh well, just return and get another right because lifetime warranty? 

you get another one, you manage another 1/8th of a turn and it breaks. 

do it again. 

again.

again.

again

 

 

4 months later you finally got the nut off.

 

 

is the cheap tool still worth it?

 

 

That said... I don't want to spend $30k on tools right out of the gate if I have no money and no plans on being a full time mechanic but I want to work on my stuff. So I do like to look for the middle ground.. or the "good" cheaper stuff but it's hard to find...

[Bananasplit_00]

Friends bike is finally fixed, we got it running quick and man is it different to ride. The clip ons are so tight that you can barely turn the wheel so all you have, even at very low speed, is leaning like a mofo lol. Runns smooth af too, not even a hint of vibration present