Keep that up. I got my son into Autocross when he was 5. He's 19 now and can drive pretty much anything:
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2018]
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Keep that up. I got my son into Autocross when he was 5. He's 19 now and can drive pretty much anything:
Got new small summer tires for my Hi lux and changed the rear pinion seal, did a lube service on it and rust prevention, ready for towing the caravan around the country next weekend woohoo!
Finally installed my 2.5" Rough Country lift and 275/65/20 tires on my Silverado. Now just need an alignment this week.
Since my truck project is no longer really in project stage, I'm trying to rebuild my interest in my Regal so I can start working on it with some enthusiasm. So today I worked on cleaning out the garage around it. While I've been busy with other projects for the past two plus years, the garage space around the dormant Regal slowly filled up with more and more sh*t, crowding the garage and making a whole claustrophobic mess.
So today I went in the garage and started pitching sh*t. Old parts, spare parts that I won't use, 15 sets of lightly used spark plugs and wires, 5 folding chairs, old wiring harnesses, old trim pieces, fan shrouds that don't fit anything, 10 HEI distributor caps, about 15 thousand miscellaneous bolts, half empty cans of paint, and bunch of other engine accessories and other crap. I need space right now not spare parts, so I pitched a lot of stuff. I didn't pitch anything that is of any value or may actually be used someday. I kept a couple Saginaw power steering pumps, kept a few A/C compressors, kept a couple alternators and a couple good distributors, kept all the parts for the Buick 350 I have apart. I'm gonna go back tomorrow and throw away some more stuff but I already have a lot more room around the car to work and I have four decent used tires to put on it so I can scrap the junk ones on it that don't hold any air and I'll be able to roll the car in and out of the garage. Hopefully regain some interest and start wrenching on it again.
So today I went in the garage and started pitching sh*t. Old parts, spare parts that I won't use, 15 sets of lightly used spark plugs and wires, 5 folding chairs, old wiring harnesses, old trim pieces, fan shrouds that don't fit anything, 10 HEI distributor caps, about 15 thousand miscellaneous bolts, half empty cans of paint, and bunch of other engine accessories and other crap. I need space right now not spare parts, so I pitched a lot of stuff. I didn't pitch anything that is of any value or may actually be used someday. I kept a couple Saginaw power steering pumps, kept a few A/C compressors, kept a couple alternators and a couple good distributors, kept all the parts for the Buick 350 I have apart. I'm gonna go back tomorrow and throw away some more stuff but I already have a lot more room around the car to work and I have four decent used tires to put on it so I can scrap the junk ones on it that don't hold any air and I'll be able to roll the car in and out of the garage. Hopefully regain some interest and start wrenching on it again.
If you've ever wondered why tuning is such a big deal the amount a tune can be effected by a sensor change is pretty dramatic. If you'll recall I was chaing a tune issue in the wagon and I swapped MAF cards between the wagon and the TBSS. While I retuned the MAF inbthe wagon, I never revisited the MAF in the TBSS. Well last Thursday it came back to bite me in the *ss big time when the truck threw a couple codes (P0172 and P0175 for rich banks 1 & 2) and went into limp mode... on the highway in a rain storm stuck going 40km/h. I managed to plug in my bluetooth dongle and clear the codes and drive home at speed.
The engine was showing nearly 35% rich.
Weird. So I put it into open loop and spent two days retuning the MAF. Runs and drives great and everything is trimmed within 5%. Done right? Wrong. Because the second the truck went into boost it would go pig rich and shut down and throw P0068 - MAP/MAF error vs TPS.
After hours of tweaking nothing I did would fix it - until I found this:
WTF?! That wasn't down there the day before.
How did it happen?
Oh... well that's a new one.
She's good to go now. Making big boost and scoots again.
The engine was showing nearly 35% rich.
Weird. So I put it into open loop and spent two days retuning the MAF. Runs and drives great and everything is trimmed within 5%. Done right? Wrong. Because the second the truck went into boost it would go pig rich and shut down and throw P0068 - MAP/MAF error vs TPS.
After hours of tweaking nothing I did would fix it - until I found this:
WTF?! That wasn't down there the day before.
How did it happen?
Oh... well that's a new one.
She's good to go now. Making big boost and scoots again.
Worked on the Rainier today. Gotta give the winter beater some maintenance from time to time!
Decided 235k miles on factory tie rods and struts was enough. Had some noticeable slop in my steering and I am putting new tires on when fall comes, so i thought i would get the suspension in shape again.
Shockingly the shocks (ha puns) weren't blown. Does ride better though.
Got a good deal on bilsteins and moog parts. Ended up getting bilsteins when ebay ran their 20% off everything sale and 4 wheel parts of all places had them cheaper than even rock auto. If you are smart you can find what you need on summit, throw it in your shopping cart, and wait for ebay to run a sale. Drop the shopping cart in the summit ebay store when they run a sale and you get all the awesome fast 3 day free summit shipping, and 20% off on top of that thanks to ebay's marketing dept. Ended up getting bilsteins for less than the KYB's were on rockauto so not bad there!
Putting tires and shocks on it means I am running another set of tires through it so 280K here I come! 😛
Decided 235k miles on factory tie rods and struts was enough. Had some noticeable slop in my steering and I am putting new tires on when fall comes, so i thought i would get the suspension in shape again.
Shockingly the shocks (ha puns) weren't blown. Does ride better though.
Got a good deal on bilsteins and moog parts. Ended up getting bilsteins when ebay ran their 20% off everything sale and 4 wheel parts of all places had them cheaper than even rock auto. If you are smart you can find what you need on summit, throw it in your shopping cart, and wait for ebay to run a sale. Drop the shopping cart in the summit ebay store when they run a sale and you get all the awesome fast 3 day free summit shipping, and 20% off on top of that thanks to ebay's marketing dept. Ended up getting bilsteins for less than the KYB's were on rockauto so not bad there!
Putting tires and shocks on it means I am running another set of tires through it so 280K here I come! 😛
Today I cleaned the pool and took a nap so nothing really research on sbc pulleys
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