jeffer949

I got 28mpg on a road trip to MO over the 4th of july but my car is no where near stock. well i guess the engine is.

They are nice cars. A little under powered from the factory imo but still it has such a nice smooth power band. Id love to get one on a road course. My friend has one and i actually got into an accident while driving it like 3 years ago. Well i was waiting in line at a drive through at like 2 am. (every one was drunk and he was sober and his car was blocking me in. So i took it lol. But as i was saying i was in line at a drive through and a guy wanted to get out of line and he backed up right over the front of the car. Here it is after it finally got fixed with some upgrades. He went with the secound generation hid's and the new airdam and the ducted hood. He then decided to change the car from silver to this.

I still hate you

I say do the doors and leave the hatch. If the battery dies you just go in through the hatch.

Why not just use motorcycle ITB's from a fuel injected motorcycle? seems it would be easier.

Most of the drift guys hang it from tow hooks in the back . Im not sure i really get it either. Most of my friends that have them do it just to be silly and its on there drift cars which are beat up to begin with.

Im moving back home to Newton in a month we should get together. the wiring wouldnt be a problem. You would either need a zxt harness ecu and afm or i personally would go with stand alone. would probably even be easier in my opionon and leave you more room for upgrades

I personally think that hybridz is better than the rest of the sites on the internet and its up to the members to keep it that way. That includes taking the responsibility to keep your mouth shut when you dont actually know what your talking about. Just because your "wanting" to help doesnt mean your actually helping. Id love to help on a formula 1 racing team. But the truth of the matter is that id probably just be in the way.

I forgot about the power windows and locks. Geez. The only thing my car has on his is that its faster lol. I guess wider wheels also.

Its true with me. I learned on my cheap ass welder and I got to where im pretty decent but nothing that would be considered "good or great". I then picked up a nice mig and started welding on my friends car and wow. It was like night and day. I went from rough uneven welds with alot of burn throughs to being able to pull nice even beads good even penetration and looked very very good in my opionion. It will be worth your money to buy a good welder.

Are you talking about the guy with the flooded engine and then every one started to tell him that his car needed new rings?? If so I went off on those guys in that thread. I hope he figured out who was setting him down the right path. I completely agree that people need to keep there mouths shut if they dont actually know what they are talking about. Factory certified Ducati and Yamaha Technician. Plus 4 years of HS AUTO tech. lol among other mech jobs in the auto/marine field

LoL No my car is quiet enough. I am jealous of your A/C system, your car computer, your stereo. suspension, umm your intake manifold. hrmm anything else? lol One thing i found that helped with the injector ticking was switching my injectors to alternating injection instead of simultaneous injection. just made it so that 3 injectors where firing at once instead of 6.

Your car has to much sound deadening to get a good sound clip in with the mic in the cabin!!!!!! come on Derek you know better than that!!! lol When was the last time you adjusted your valves?? they seem a little noisy to me. But I say just get the new engine built!!

How does this guy even know he needs a rebuild? His engine might smoke for alot of reasons. Head gasket leaking valve seals to name a few. You guys are really quick to tell this guy to rebuild his engine. He needs to fix the fueling problem and then do a compression check/leakdown test to see where his engine actually is. According to what you guys are saying every one should rebuild the engine every time there car doesnt run right.

If you rebuild this engine and you dont fix the PROBLEM you will just ruin the new engine. You need to get those injectors checked out.

Just did a real quick read through and i dont think i saw anyone say that your injectors are probably leaking when your car is off. They are flooding the engine when its not running and then leaking past the rings into your oil. If so the SU swap will fix the problem

I did the mistake and bought a cheap flux core welder only that didnt have much adjustability. It only had a high and a low for the amp setting and then a dial for wire feed. sometimes the low setting wasnt low enough for doing sheet metal and it would burn through. A real pain in the ass. The one your getting has 4 settings but isnt adjustable. might be better but you cant get that perfect setting like you can with a dial. Id suggest getting one with a dial for the amps.

I painted mine with some rattle can rustoleum once. No issues.

That is what i was trying to say to do. Looks like you got it worked out.

I have the exact one. Just so you know you can e-mail them and request an aluminum flange for it. Gabe (wigneout) has it also and neither one of us have had to change the springs. I love mine. It works great. Up until about 14 psi its a whoosh but above that its a nice crack sound that i love.

I had to actually take off my control arms to get mine on. Well I just unbolted them from the chassie i didnt take out the spindle pins.

Any kind of paint that had red in it or is in that spectrum of color has a high amount of solids in it doesnt cover that well. Tinted primer will help but sometimes it just takes multiple coats. In order to actually get the effects of multiple coats you actually have to let it dry for 8 hours before you apply your second coat.

Awsome Phil looking good

Ive also heard it for like bmw's from other drivers stuff like that.

Its an old joke. Heard it about 10 different ways