2 new rear calipers (again) and the ebrake is fixed! Passed inspection today. After 9 months of CEL's and this part failing and that part wearing out, I finally got it up to snuff.

12/1/2014 3:19:03 PM

In NC do they lift the car to check for cats? Or is it just a scan? Can't remember since its been like 2 years since I've had to do a NC inspection.

12/1/2014 3:35:55 PM

depends on the shop.

12/1/2014 3:54:14 PM

they're supposed to check for cats

12/1/2014 6:00:47 PM

Blown speaker in the passenger door of the Cayman. Of course...OF COURSE the entire door panel has to be removed to replace it.

12/12/2014 4:11:20 PM

Pretty much any and all cars now days require the entire door panel to be removed.

12/12/2014 8:46:48 PM

Bought some old two-piece ARE 398 wheels on Craigslist recently. 16x9.5, 5x4.75" bolt pattern. They had at least three layers of spray paint on them. Just plain turrrrrible



I took them apart, stripped everything to bare aluminum, had the faces redrilled to 5x4.5, repainted the faces a dark metallic grey, cleaned the bolts with a few rounds of aircraft stripper, and refinished the lips with wetsanding and polishing.



They came out nicely. I'm not actually going to use them on this car though since they each take about 65mm worth of spacers to sit flush, haha. Not sure what I'm going to do with them.

12/14/2014 2:45:12 PM

Wow, nice refinishing work.

12/14/2014 6:41:41 PM

That is AWESOME.

12/14/2014 7:54:42 PM

Do I spot some old Chrysler Conquest/Mitsubishi Starion wheels in the mix?

12/14/2014 8:39:44 PM

Yeah, I have a bit of a Starion wheel fetish. I've owned well over 30 of them, but I've since lost count. I currently have eight SHP rears (16x9 +0) and a pair of SHP fronts (16x8 +18).

12/14/2014 9:22:36 PM

anyone have a floor jack I can borrow? I need to replace the brake pads on my sierra and the bottle jack that comes with the truck aint gonna cut it.

12/14/2014 9:24:52 PM

Quote :

"Pretty much any and all cars now days require the entire door panel to be removed."

True, but this speaker is covered with it's own plastic grill, is definitely a separate piece apart from the rest of the door. Also, the side impact airbag is in the door panel...

Also pretty sure it's some weird ass speaker size that I have to order from Porsche or Bose...more research to be done

12/15/2014 11:33:22 AM

pulled motor ( s )

who needs a radio with that beautiful boxer purr pat?

12/16/2014 8:25:41 AM

got the 240 into the garage and up on jack stands (need 2 more 6 tons to get it higher though, going to start on the clutch today
hopefully things go smoothly..



whats going in:



the other night i was riding around with some friends and ran over a possum (was already dead)..and it stuck under the car for a couple hundred feet. Friend behind me said it came out bloody and with tufts of hair flying. So last night i got to scrape the meat off of my crossmember, tranny brace, and diff..
didn't take pics of the meat pile ..

12/16/2014 9:09:19 AM

ok so far, taking the flywheel to get resurfaced tomorrow and hopefully get it all back together on thursday
still can't quite figure out what was wrong with the old clutch..fork, spring, and pivot all seem to be functioning correctly.

12/16/2014 7:55:03 PM

^somehow got oil/grease on the clutch/flywheel? 1st-hand experience

12/16/2014 10:18:38 PM

^^That's unfortunate - best of luck with figuring that out and/or a smooth installation of the new parts.

Quote :

"who needs a radio with that beautiful boxer purr pat?"

The purr would be a lot better if it wasn't so muffled with the factory exhaust

12/17/2014 8:55:26 AM

clutch is in..car feels great

cut rear fenders today, need to find some nice 17x9/10s to fill these flares properly

12/22/2014 2:58:52 PM

sold a set of winter wheels/tires from e36 m3. 7 years later lol

12/22/2014 4:44:48 PM

Got my compression tester adapter stuck in cylinder 1

12/27/2014 2:09:30 PM

You can't post that without tell us how big a pain in the ass it was to remove.

12/27/2014 5:31:45 PM

Turned out okay. I just had to go buy some longer needle nose pliers to work it out.

Good news is compression is in the okay range for a 23 year old car. Now I just have to find a vacuum leak, change valve seals, change steering rack, and possibly change the heater core

[Edited on December 27, 2014 at 5:58 PM. Reason : why am I holding onto this car again?]

12/27/2014 5:57:52 PM

Installed new radio and rear speakers.

12/28/2014 2:14:09 PM

Radiator for street/Strip cars... in single or twin turbo...


(if it's not obvious i chopped this... awesome... if it is... DUH)

12/31/2014 11:48:16 AM

^LULZ

fiddle farted with the tuner on Big Red, cant even make it lope I did, however, epoxy one of door pocket panels back in place after nearly ripping it off with my seat belt long ago.

12/31/2014 1:07:53 PM

Seriously if there was about a 1/2" water ring around the hole would that actually work??

12/31/2014 1:35:10 PM

why wouldn't it?

of course I would rather just run 2 narrow hx's in parallel


wait, is that a damned batmo-wheel?

[Edited on December 31, 2014 at 1:58 PM. Reason : -]

12/31/2014 1:57:04 PM

Lol yeah its an 88mm BW with the batmowheel

12/31/2014 2:15:29 PM

goddamn those things.

I'm of the camp that you're not going to outsmart BW, Garrett, etc. on wheel designs. I'm sure you can make a wheel hit a fat spot somewhere for a purpose built setup, but the way they've been marketing those things people are buying just because.

12/31/2014 2:32:56 PM

When my VF-52 ate it's self it looked like a batmo-wheel.



Lets face it... the bat blade doesn't do a damned thing... the fact that it was a billet wheel with a thinner center and more flow area is what makes all the difference in the world... But now everyone and their brother offers a billet wheel.. and the ones from the OE companies also have a SH!T ton of CFD behind them...
I mean i can hear a GT-30 and a GTX-30 and tell you which is which...


I just picked it because it was the easiest thing to crop in.

Truth is even the billet wheels don't make that much difference... they just act like a larger wheel... all they do is let you sneak in a wheel that flows a lil more than a typical 76mm into a 76mm class... but the damned thing won't spool like a 76mm it will spool like a 77mm and flow like a 77mm.. the only thing it really gains is response above boost-threshold.

[Edited on December 31, 2014 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

12/31/2014 2:43:01 PM

yeah, also I wasn't harassing you, btw.

I've got a billet 11-blade wheel in my 63mm BW; if memory serves, wheel alone was worth something like 7hp peak on a similarly equipped truck. Unfortunately I changed the comp wheel and delivery valves (injection pump) at the same time so my 27hp increase was mostly in fueling. It's quiet

12/31/2014 3:25:29 PM

God you're rockin a 63.... makes me feel dumb looking at the turbos i am lol.

Also i didn't think you were diggin on me i just really hate that company. They take well designed turbos and mix and match the compressor wheels with turbine wheels that don't flow enough to support the compressor and make really finicky turbos that have narrow power bands and work like shit... and that was before the batmowheel.


[Edited on December 31, 2014 at 3:42 PM. Reason : .]

12/31/2014 3:33:37 PM

I hit 200,000 miles.
Changed the oil.
re-adjusted ebrake.

12/31/2014 7:34:08 PM

Ordered new spark plugs for the Cayman 2 weeks ago, took 10 days for them to arrive from AutoHausAZ (no biggie). Went to install them this past weekend...



Wrong spark plugs. Apparently Porsche has a habit of changing things on their vehicles mid model year and chosing my plugs based on model year wasn't enough - to be 100% sure you need to use the VIN. Argh! Time to ship these back and reorder some more (b/c I'm not paying $27/ea for these plugs at the dealership).

1/19/2015 9:13:23 AM

i just did a battery change and $250 in oil changes for my fleet this weekend...

the downside of having 5 cars.

1/19/2015 2:14:07 PM

250 isn't bad, I spend $70+ on oil and filter for my 1 car. 9 qt oil pan will hurt your wallet.

1/19/2015 2:44:34 PM

^that's what it cost me to do the Porsche.

1/19/2015 2:51:51 PM

^ I was told by my tuner and pretty much everyone that multi-prong plugs are a gimmick. Does the Porsche come with them factory?

[Edited on January 19, 2015 at 3:04 PM. Reason : .]

1/19/2015 3:03:52 PM

Yes, they do.

1/19/2015 3:21:44 PM

new f150 plugs:

1/19/2015 3:22:58 PM

Ok when you are in the limit with your tune especially on a wedge motor multi prong plugs will push you over it. They speed up combustion a touch and make you pull timing thus giving you nothing.

Now on a car with a large inefficient combustion chamber like a Hemi or an 4v motor they help emissions some.

On a stock car that you don't plan on tuning at all they effectively give the car a couple degrees of timing it may not have given it's self.

This is my understanding arghx please comment.

1/20/2015 3:38:42 AM

^how do you figure they speed up combustion?

My assumption was always that the spark would merely jump to the (one) tip with the least resistance, making 4 tips simply a gimmick

1/20/2015 6:10:59 AM

That was a brain fart...

You are correct, only 1 spark at a time.

they pull timing on turbo cars because the additional electrodes heat up during combustion and can create a pre-ignition spot.

1/20/2015 7:08:40 AM

Quote :

"new f150 plugs: femaletoy.jpg"

It's too early in the morning for my brain to decipher what I'm seeing. Plz explain.

1/20/2015 7:23:49 AM

someone posted their butt plug on yellow bullet this morning.

1/20/2015 7:48:49 AM

jawhitak here's the hyperlink

http://roushperformance.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/03/401546a_2.jpg

don't know what's happening on your end.

Sumfoo1 for the optical illusion

1/20/2015 7:56:32 AM

glad to help!

1/20/2015 8:55:28 AM

I once changed the spark plugs on a Expedition. All I'll say is fuck Ford.

1/20/2015 11:11:10 AM

^they were notorious for breaking off, stripping threads, etc

1/20/2015 11:18:36 AM