cisco
» CMF MemberKinda getting there. Just had really no time lately with work. I need a less busy/stressful job soon!
But..
Well all tuned as per previous thread.
Today went in to fix up some really bad resonance that the car has at both exactly 3000rpm and 4000rpm. Absolutely terrible, must be something pretty not right, but no idea what.
Paid $28 for YET ANOTHER one-day rego permit, went to the exhaust shop. I'd had a booking all week.
He couldn't find anything wrong with the exhaust, but then told me the muffler only had 2" inlet and outlets and that it *could* be the muffler. So all day for that advice, he only got to my car at 4:50pm and then had to close shop at 5pm and hadn't done anything. So drive back home waste of $28 rego permit.
Plan: Putting the whiteline springs and konis on the blue car for a while. Coil overs beautiful but occasionally the steering alignment sticks in one particular direction after you've made a tight turn, only resets itself the next time you make a tight turn in the opposite direction. VERY annoying for a road car. Sometimes it hardly ever happens, but occasionally it does, and really rubbed salt into the wound when that happened today after the exhaust guy didn't touch my car.
So let's get down to smooth factory reliable basics like the Fairmont. Never had a single whinge about the whiteline and koni combo, its not as firm and responsive as the coil overs, but it doesn't have the steering sticking issue. So put those back in, go for rego SOON.
Have ordered some factory LX hubs which won't have any obvious ABS sensor holes. This will hopefully aid in passing rego inspection. If they ping me, then I will just go for broke and re-install the ABS purely to pass rego. This will involve having a brake shop make up 2 new lines for me because 2 had to be destroyed when the ABS was removed because they were impossible to remove. What a biatch - really hope they don't notice, there won't be much evidence left after these front hubs go on.
Because the car is still vibrating, it seems to push the car over the 90Db limit at those points, so I will also re-install the blocker plate in the exhaust to drop 5Db off the car's volume. Then remove again after it passes, its only *JUST* under/on the 90Db limit, so just saves me making more trips from them failing me from something so stupid and minor.
Apart from that, car going really well. Engine particularly driving just lovely. Would be nice to have it all fixed up and registered well before winter comes. I just don't seem to get any time to pay attention to everything all in a single week and get it over with.
Might take a solid 1-2 weeks annual leave soon and FOCUS to complete the project.
But..
Well all tuned as per previous thread.
Today went in to fix up some really bad resonance that the car has at both exactly 3000rpm and 4000rpm. Absolutely terrible, must be something pretty not right, but no idea what.
Paid $28 for YET ANOTHER one-day rego permit, went to the exhaust shop. I'd had a booking all week.
He couldn't find anything wrong with the exhaust, but then told me the muffler only had 2" inlet and outlets and that it *could* be the muffler. So all day for that advice, he only got to my car at 4:50pm and then had to close shop at 5pm and hadn't done anything. So drive back home waste of $28 rego permit.
Plan: Putting the whiteline springs and konis on the blue car for a while. Coil overs beautiful but occasionally the steering alignment sticks in one particular direction after you've made a tight turn, only resets itself the next time you make a tight turn in the opposite direction. VERY annoying for a road car. Sometimes it hardly ever happens, but occasionally it does, and really rubbed salt into the wound when that happened today after the exhaust guy didn't touch my car.
So let's get down to smooth factory reliable basics like the Fairmont. Never had a single whinge about the whiteline and koni combo, its not as firm and responsive as the coil overs, but it doesn't have the steering sticking issue. So put those back in, go for rego SOON.
Have ordered some factory LX hubs which won't have any obvious ABS sensor holes. This will hopefully aid in passing rego inspection. If they ping me, then I will just go for broke and re-install the ABS purely to pass rego. This will involve having a brake shop make up 2 new lines for me because 2 had to be destroyed when the ABS was removed because they were impossible to remove. What a biatch - really hope they don't notice, there won't be much evidence left after these front hubs go on.
Because the car is still vibrating, it seems to push the car over the 90Db limit at those points, so I will also re-install the blocker plate in the exhaust to drop 5Db off the car's volume. Then remove again after it passes, its only *JUST* under/on the 90Db limit, so just saves me making more trips from them failing me from something so stupid and minor.
Apart from that, car going really well. Engine particularly driving just lovely. Would be nice to have it all fixed up and registered well before winter comes. I just don't seem to get any time to pay attention to everything all in a single week and get it over with.
Might take a solid 1-2 weeks annual leave soon and FOCUS to complete the project.