What kind of car(s) do you own?

[C.C.Sinned]

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I grew out of that phase of life some years back.

now you need to grow out of the rice phase completely.

real American steel is where it's at

 

[naisho]

now you need to grow out of the rice phase completely.

real American steel is where it's at

I'm trying, man. It's not easy growing up asian and american into a family of Toyo's and Lexus!

You look like you know your auto stuff, the real deal american man. I can't do jack crap in serious auto mechanics, the farthest I ever attempted was to replace a transmission but I gave up half way attempting it and said screw it.

I have a goal though, for the american muscle.
When I get older and settle down, I plan on getting one of those 70-80's Corvette Stingrays. Ever since I laid my eyes on one on the road during high school, I knew it was one of those weekend warriors I'd want in my future garage.

 

[deafsmogtech]

Yes, the Explorer was bought new from my father then passed on to me when he bought a new one several years later. Sounds like your van has had problems and I'm kind of surprised a leaky fuel pressure regulator can harm catalytic converter. My Explorer never had any fuel issues or whatsoever, it always starts on the first turn of the key and runs fine. It seems like your van has some defective parts that hurts your emission systems. 4.0L OHV V-6 is the most reliable engine I've ever had driven. I had the catalytic converter replaced at the independent shop for $400 which is not bad compared to another shop that would run about $800-1200.

Leaky fuel pressure regulators inside intake manifolds, are common on GM 4.3L and 5.7L engines. Yeah, richen A/F mixture or misfires are easy to destroy cat converters. I bought a new cat converter for $85 dollars from Summit, welded it, ofc I replaced $45 dollars O2 sensor too then passed smog check easy. No sweat. Save my fat wallet

 

[deafsmogtech]

I had to pull out an alternator in the old skyline i had, that had to be replaced, quoted the cost for the new one whumped me out for $1200. I thought fuck that, so went to wreckers then find out its hard to source and would be $400 whoa still too high, there was no hope. A freind said me to pull mine apart which i did, which involved pulling out the radiator out of the car just to get access the alternator, annoying as it was, but it wasn't that bad once I just knucked it in. He explained the internals are good just the brushes are worn down, replace that. I went to an engineering workshop where there are lots of milling machines and lathes and stuff, they happened to have a pair of exact brushes according to the specs, coded as stamps on these brushes. To find this workshop and the brushes once i got there took a bit of detective work but it paid off so well that the brushes were only $4 for the pair. The pair was to refer to the north and south 'poles'. I then went home and repaired the alternator donned back it the car. To my amazment it worked, the whole thing was going to be $1200 parts alone, labour would be easily 200-300 maybe more due to the way radiator is in the way and some screws were stubborn as shit and stripped by soem pricks before i owned the car. All the way down to four bucks and my own time to fix it.

I never seen a skyline. Was it imported to the mainland? You lucky for repaired alternator. I notice several deaf mechanics are talent of alternator/starter repairs themself like you. Unbelieveable. I did them before when I was a teenager. As today I'm not longer in alternator/ starter
rebuildings, I hate to mess up my hands,. Same as The Highlander
mentioned in post #469.

 

[deafsmogtech]

gone!

me -1939 Chevy Panel
wife - 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan

My first car was a 67 Impala, 2 door with a 327cid and powerglide tranny when I was 15 yrs old. I bought it myself from an original owner for $300. This Impala was smokey and needed piston rings. I keeped it till I made some money from mowed lawns of my neighbors, then turned 16 years old, I teared the smokey engine down, cleaned piston grooves, re rings and replaced bearings, timing chain and valve job heads (my older friend did head work for me), reassembled and reinstalled a engine into an Impala. Prior to the engine teardown, my older sisters and brothers said to me,"You bought a smokey car? You stupid". I keeped silence. I was about to starting the fresh rebuilt motor, it was flared up as I put my hand on the engine to feel any noises. Nothing. You know what? My sisters and brothers were rushing to see me and my car. Jawdrops. I took it for a short trip (without DL). It was a great and powerful. My mother came home from work, they
leaked her about my car. She said nothing to me. Sometime she borrowed my car for work cuz her car was broken down. In few years later I sold it.
I broken my heart. Now I have my 63 Nova wagon which is still undergoing
works.

 

[Grummer]

I never seen a skyline. Was it imported to the mainland? You lucky for repaired alternator. I notice several deaf mechanics are talent of alternator/starter repairs themself like you. Unbelieveable. I did them before when I was a teenager. As today I'm not longer in alternator/ starter
rebuildings, I hate to mess up my hands,. Same as The Highlander
mentioned in post #469.

there's the picture of the car alot like my old skyline, isn't she a beauty? big boot, roomy, masculine lines, good proportion everywhere, long wheel base good for stabiliity (but the powersteering was abit too sensetive perhaps too much hydralic forces in the steering pins. So the car weaved at top speed, mind you it was 1982 Jappa so what do you expect? handling wise.

I loved that car, fucking stupid beaucrats wankers setting down bullshit rules, it isn't 'unfit' car that causing smash ups, so i was forced to sell it cheap to the mechanic's mate who wanted to do it up as a race car (that they did, but dunno how they fared)

OK enough of raving on (or rants), here's an example of the early R3x generation of Skylines, the R30.

 

[Indianachris]

2008 Dodge Charger

 

[C.C.Sinned]

I'm trying, man. It's not easy growing up asian and american into a family of Toyo's and Lexus!

You look like you know your auto stuff, the real deal american man. I can't do jack crap in serious auto mechanics, the farthest I ever attempted was to replace a transmission but I gave up half way attempting it and said screw it.

I have a goal though, for the american muscle.
When I get older and settle down, I plan on getting one of those 70-80's Corvette Stingrays. Ever since I laid my eyes on one on the road during high school, I knew it was one of those weekend warriors I'd want in my future garage.

learn by doing. do it and do it now. the market is down, a buyers market

 

[C.C.Sinned]

My first car was a 67 Impala, 2 door with a 327cid and powerglide tranny when I was 15 yrs old. I bought it myself from an original owner for $300. This Impala was smokey and needed piston rings. I keeped it till I made some money from mowed lawns of my neighbors, then turned 16 years old, I teared the smokey engine down, cleaned piston grooves, re rings and replaced bearings, timing chain and valve job heads (my older friend did head work for me), reassembled and reinstalled a engine into an Impala. Prior to the engine teardown, my older sisters and brothers said to me,"You bought a smokey car? You stupid". I keeped silence. I was about to starting the fresh rebuilt motor, it was flared up as I put my hand on the engine to feel any noises. Nothing. You know what? My sisters and brothers were rushing to see me and my car. Jawdrops. I took it for a short trip (without DL). It was a great and powerful. My mother came home from work, they
leaked her about my car. She said nothing to me. Sometime she borrowed my car for work cuz her car was broken down. In few years later I sold it.
I broken my heart. Now I have my 63 Nova wagon which is still undergoing
works.

nice, those nova wagon are sweet grocery getters. two door or 4?

 

[Grummer]

and Nasiho , get the Toyota IS200 and buy a supra 2JZ-GTE or just the motor , fucking hell that car would be a really good 'sleeper' just dont advertise it with big bore exhaust pipes (they're are only for poser fuckwits, just get a nice, pair of ordinary v-8 spec exhausts, get it welded and route it like normal.

 

[Grummer]

i stole a (used, they had piles) magazine from fish n chips shop with an article to rebuilt the 2JZ hee hee

 

[deafsmogtech]

there's the picture of the car alot like my old skyline, isn't she a beauty? big boot, roomy, masculine lines, good proportion everywhere, long wheel base good for stabiliity (but the powersteering was abit too sensetive perhaps too much hydralic forces in the steering pins. So the car weaved at top speed, mind you it was 1982 Jappa so what do you expect? handling wise.

I loved that car, fucking stupid beaucrats wankers setting down bullshit rules, it isn't 'unfit' car that causing smash ups, so i was forced to sell it cheap to the mechanic's mate who wanted to do it up as a race car (that they did, but dunno how they fared)

OK enough of raving on (or rants), here's an example of the early R3x generation of Skylines, the R30.

LOL, I never seen a Skyline before. Too sensitive P/S on a long wheelbase? must be excess positive degree casters. I think the long wheelbase vehicle need more positive degree casters to stay stability that requires P/S pump.
On the Bonneville flat, you need to set casters to excess positive degree such as 7 or perhap 10 degree depend on the vehicle weight, run over 100 mph or you type ur pager while your car on flat runs. If the car on the flat is not straight you have an alignment problem. hey I'm not Bonneville expert.
Sorry to see your car's gone. Sounds like you did drifting? No, I just kid u.

 

[deafsmogtech]

2008 Dodge Charger

Sexy and look better than a BMW 330ci. HEMI? I must be crazy over a Hemi motor.

 

[deafsmogtech]

nice, those nova wagon are sweet grocery getters. two door or 4?

LOL yeah it looks like a grocery getters. But not, looks much different. Like a surfer's wagon. I just finished TIG welded on the 4 link brackets on Moser 9 axle housing. Do layout of new Lokar E- brake cables tmw. I dont know if I can fab an aluminum gas tank after E-brake cables. Still have a ton of works to finished by the end of this year. Fucking my hobby works. :roll:
PS 4 doors

 

[web730]

2008 Dodge Charger

The window tints on this Charger looks very dark. It sure looks cool.

Is that 15% visibility or darker on this Charger?

Since I assume you are from Indiana, right? If so, didn't you realize that it's illegal in Indiana? Check the Indiana's tint law at Indiana Window Tint Law - TintCenter.com

In short, it requires above 30% visibility on all of Indiana vehicles' windows.

I plan to put dark tints on my Mustang soon... would love to have all windows with 15% tinted, but my state, Florida requires 30% on driver/front passenger and front window but allow 15% on rear passenger and back windows.

Some people ignore the tint laws on their risk. I have seen some do here as well but wonder as if you were ticketed yet?

 

[Indianachris]

The window tints on this Charger looks very dark. It sure looks cool.

Is that 15% visibility or darker on this Charger?

Since I assume you are from Indiana, right? If so, didn't you realize that it's illegal in Indiana? Check the Indiana's tint law at Indiana Window Tint Law - TintCenter.com

In short, it requires above 30% visibility on all of Indiana vehicles' windows.

I plan to put dark tints on my Mustang soon... would love to have all windows with 15% tinted, but my state, Florida requires 30% on driver/front passenger and front window but allow 15% on rear passenger and back windows.

Some people ignore the tint laws on their risk. I have seen some do here as well but wonder as if you were ticketed yet?

It is 15% and it only looks that dark because of the dark interior.

P.S. It's not a Hemi, 3.5 V6.

 

[Grummer]

LOL, I never seen a Skyline before. Too sensitive P/S on a long wheelbase? must be excess positive degree casters. I think the long wheelbase vehicle need more positive degree casters to stay stability that requires P/S pump.
On the Bonneville flat, you need to set casters to excess positive degree such as 7 or perhap 10 degree depend on the vehicle weight, run over 100 mph or you type ur pager while your car on flat runs. If the car on the flat is not straight you have an alignment problem. hey I'm not Bonneville expert.
Sorry to see your car's gone. Sounds like you did drifting? No, I just kid u.

nah, back then in 1998-2002 while i had this car, i never heard of drifting but yah i liked the idea , and i did a couple this sliding around corners this car was amazingly stable even with back wheel madly spinning (I used to do motocross so powersliding was the order of the day in that, also i done 120kph+ powerslides on the Yamaha IT's on beaches (when no-one is looking if not rego'ed you can get done for it) - loved that.
While drifting was unheard of (to me)back then, i reckon yup this car was an excellent drifter. Althought the shocks on jappa never lasted, so yeah it was about to wear out , requiring new shocks absorbers. I can recall that i can feel it, especially the rebound dampers (or dampers entirely). I dunno anything about you say about positive degree casters, never heard of it tbh.

Cheers

 

[Grummer]

now you need to grow out of the rice phase completely.

real American steel is where it's at

american steel? when now they are talking electric cars, or fuel cells? nah, it would be american plastics LOL
jk jk but you know im getting at, technology is evolving everything, even Metallurgy is not immune

 

[The Highlander]

Sexy and look better than a BMW 330ci. HEMI? I must be crazy over a Hemi motor.

How about the BMW M3? It's better Performance than Hemi. I keep dont understand why some people think Hemi engine is cool because of 60's? Some of people dislike Hemi due poor fuel efficiency and not really "faster"

The HEMI Magnum engine has two valves per cylinder as well as two spark plugs per cylinder. The two spark plugs help to solve the emission problems that plagued Chrysler's earlier HEMI engines.

Now I learned that two spark plugs per cylinder don't mean powerful.

 

[The Highlander]

american steel? when now they are talking electric cars, or fuel cells? nah, it would be american plastics LOL
jk jk but you know im getting at, technology is evolving everything, even Metallurgy is not immune

Yeah mostly new american use plastics due better fuel efficiency, easy to repair after accident, low price, and rust proof (damn salt during winter time).