What have you done to your car today?

[chrisjunkie]

Tightened the wheel nuts after thinking my wheel bearing was rooted. Turns out 3 of the 5 nuts on the rear left tyre were finger tight!!

[ReubenH]

Hehe, you only make that mistake once

Though i've done the opposite, and overtightened some once, stripping the thread out of the nut. They were aftermarket though, real soft. Makes me want a torque wrench so i can get a feel for all the different torques required over the car.

[sultan]

twisted turbo setup.... again...

undid two out of 8 lower bolts on the shocks. realised that the others are all too tight to get off and yelled at the cat because it was her fault.

[Timmah]

Somehow got the idea that Coke might get rid of the oxidation on my rims, didn't really coke But they're shiny now.

[D-Style]

 ReubenH said:

Hehe, you only make that mistake once

Though i've done the opposite, and overtightened some once, stripping the thread out of the nut. They were aftermarket though, real soft. Makes me want a torque wrench so i can get a feel for all the different torques required over the car.

I use a Torque wrench on alot of my cars bolts now.

Once i had a tyre place totaly stuff my wheel nuts (they were Fancy RAYS alloy ones) by using a rattle gun on alloy nuts. Very costly mistake by them as they had to buy new off ST-Hitec in Auckland (about $300 a set)

[WRXER]

Tried to turn the key, but battery dead..... Coudln't be bothered jump starting, must buy a new battery.

[Guest]

 WRXER said:

Tried to turn the key, but battery dead..... Coudln't be bothered jump starting, must buy a new battery.

got jumper leads, a truck, and a jump start pack if you change your mind.

[WRXER]

Cheers mate, might take up your offer next weekend if we get some more good weather.

[Ninja8)]

oil change with upper engine cleaner which hot boxed my garage..tried installing a sandwich plate for me oil pressure gauge.

BUT!!!

NO!!!

[stira]

 sultan said:

twisted turbo setup.... again...

undid two out of 8 lower bolts on the shocks. realised that the others are all too tight to get off and yelled at the cat because it was her fault.

Ive found that the pole that hold up our beach umbrella works wonders on the end of the socket wrench for that, plus a ten minute soaking of crc.

[Dv8er - FSTWRX]

 stira']

[quote name='sultan said:

twisted turbo setup.... again...

undid two out of 8 lower bolts on the shocks. realised that the others are all too tight to get off and yelled at the cat because it was her fault.

/quote]

Ive found that the pole that hold up our beach umbrella works wonders on the end of the socket wrench for that, plus a ten minute soaking of crc.

That takes care of the cat, but what about the bolts? ;D

[Guest]

got the boys to pull the wagon out of the way so we could get rid of the tree that got blown down and repair the fence. too many cars not enough garage!!

[sultan]

i originaly was using a piece of pipe on the wrench but that wasn't good enough. i got my mrs dad's mean long bar set last night. the bolts were so tight i ended up lifting the car off the ground with the bar trying to get it off. had to have the car held down. it was quite intense, i was begining to think 1 of the bloody things was welded on it was so bad. shit they all might have been with the sound of the crack when they eventually gave way.

i imagine they were rattle gunned to kingdom come and then heated up quite nicely over the years

[nt_a_foz]

Got rid of joshs shell out of my shed..Was suprsingly easy to move a car with no engine, drivetrain and non rolling onto a trailer ahha

[Kiwiflyboy]

after some idling problems and car making a tick tick noise under heavy load and high rpm(been told could be Detonation) I decided to run some upper engine cleaner through it, nothing really came out exhaust so thought was a waste but then took for a drive.

Idle was smoother and the power delivery was smoother much much smoother had a better kick low down and a very hard to notice VOD compared to what it used to be. like a whole new engine now.

I did still get the tick tick under full power high rpm but not high rpm low power so really does seem like detonation and have reset ECU and finally thrown away my shitty Shell card (as no 98 octane) and going to run some 98 BP through it to see what its like.

anyone else got any other ideas for the tick tick sound?? i thought maybe a dyno tune on the 98 octane aswell????

[DRFVDR]

Drove the RX from home to Palmy (well that was yesterday) then this evening out to Keltics

[Guest keltik]

Sounded pretty porno driving away! I put my quiet muffler back on

[Johnnynz]

Wrote things in the roadgrime on mine. Most constructive car day in about 6 months tbh.

[DRFVDR]

 keltik said:

Sounded pretty porno driving away! I put my quiet muffler back on

;D ;D yeah it does sound awesome lets hope it not too loud

[Ninja8)]

bolted up my cusco rear strut brace....do the cusco braces not sit flatly on the top of the shock??

mine has a 1cm bit stickin out on one corner which prevents me from being able to fully tighten one of the bolts...strange.

[Shale]

Have a siamese downpipe to go with my new VF8 and Fujitsubo muffler. Just gotta install the blighters

[QRAF]

filled it up with mobil 8000 at 1.79 a liter $93.16 later as its going up 7cents tonight due to gst and duty tax on gas.

man its nice driving it as the daily driver again.

[sultan]

my daily driver costs about $110 of 91 so i'll be filling her up tonight for sure

thing i've done on the car today: upgraded from third party fire and theft to full cover

[Joker]

55L = a whopping $3.85 extra a tank

OMG!

[sultan]

i go through 70 litres a week. means i now have to pay for 8 lunches instead of 7