russian rocket

while your intentions are good, wanting the cars to go to good homes. you get yourself too attached to the cars and are having a hard time letting them go. When I flip cars, i do not get attached to them at all, mainly because i flip your everyday run of the mill cars, but every once in awhile ill get a nice one, but i remind myself why im fixing it up in the first place

Hell, file anyways. its a small fee and it might scare them again into settling outside of court

Not even a tune? LOL.

 

A 160 Stat and a tune would knock 3-4 tenths off just from timing.

 

Good work! Ever run it stock?

 

nope, no tune. just had my supercharger replaced under the warranty a few months back and the dealer had me come in so that they could pull my ecm data to make sure there wasnt a tune in there lol

 

I have a flex fuel sensor coming in today, so i might go ahead and get a tune done after i install it.

 

No unfortunately i never did, but i do still have the stock air box sitting in my garage, maybe i should throw it on and see what it does lol

stock?

 

cold air intake is the only real mod, has exhaust cut outs but they are just before the mufflers

Got a new personal best in the Cts-V last night at Muncie Dragway.

Track prep was pretty good

Pretty happy with the results, i think it still has more left in it. I am getting shift flare on the 3-4 shift, so once thats resolved it should pick up another tenth maybe. also need some drag radials

 

My car is a 2011 Sedan, auto with all the options (so its heavy lol)

Mods: CAI with green filter

Tires: Eagle F1 all season tires

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/20170531_223230_zpsncrobpxr.jpg

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I REALLY want one of their shift extenders, well at least I'm willing to pay the $65 to try it out. Their website says out of stock, and I've messaged them on Facebook multiple times and written on their wall to inquire about one. I know it's not much money to them, but I wish they'd get back to me.

 

im really surprised he hasnt gotten back with you. i think he has a guy thats supposed to handle most of the questions and inquires, at least he did.

One of my former college roomates specializes in these cars, Russell Culver, he owns Dead Hook Motorsports. Hes done some pretty impressive things with them.

http://www.deadhookmotorsports.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DeadHookMotorsports/

good thing the guy wanted to remain anonymous, there is no way gm will ever find out who he is....

 

"Then they got to me and were like, “What do you think about Chevy?” and I was like, “Popular.” "

How much for the motor? A co-worker has an 08 that needs a new motor in it.

 

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Gotcha. My mom has an 07, and only thing we could think of might be the rear hatch struts, but unless it was local it's probably not worth the effort

 

oh gotcha, yea those things are cheap enough new that it wouldnt be worth the hassle to ship or meet up

Location?

 

Lima

I am parting out a 2007 scion tc auto, sunroof, the previous owner lost control on the freeway and got spun around. Hood, both bumpers and drivers side are pretty banged up, the passenger side is still in great condition. The interior is excellent and none of the airbags deployed. car has 115k miles on it but the engine was rebuilt by a Toyota dealership 10k miles ago. Tires are like new with only a couple thousand miles on them. Has nice aftermarket sporty rims. I am parting out the whole car.

i can send specific images or videos of the parts you want

 

The car does start and drive

 

Here is a video of the car running, this is the first time it has been started in 6 months

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/20170505_115729_zps7nn97fns.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qnzEHkbsWE

well got her all done and put back together

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2017-04-26_18.59.02_zps9g8lp3ih.jpg

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2017-04-26_19.00.14_zpsn61m0num.jpg

This.

 

How can you even be somewhat interested in the bottom pic that you would make a thread.

 

Because I like the way the new cts-vs look

Hey guys, I'm going to be blacking out the grills on my car and wanted to see what people thought about the bumper too. So please choose top or bottom.

 

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kliped/2017-04-18_08.16.56_zpsrt9enqwm.jpg

Hey guys, i know this is a pretty long shot and im sure ill get plenty of flak for this but i was curious if there were any mri specialist on this forum who would be interested in looking at an mri in their spare time. this would be completely off the record and i would not hold you liable for anything.

small back story is that i fell off a ladder in january and sustained a radial head fracture in my left elbow. its been a slow recovery and while the muscle pain in the forearm is gone, i have a good amount of pain in the joint. at my last xray, there was something strange in the joint that the doc could not explain. after an mri, the techs could not find anything abnormal.

i plan on getting a second opinion outside of anyone in lima, in the mean time i was seeing if anyone would be interested in taking a look and see if you can see anything different from what the mri tech at OIO in lima saw.

if anyone that is qualified in the field is interested, i can email you the mri file along with all my xrays.

here is one of the slices from my mri, i was curious since i am no expert in this, but on the radial head on the left side, towards the top, does that look normal, the black line.

 

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well, so far so good. engine runs nice and smooth, great oil pressure. its even quiet now on cold starts, so maybe that wasnt piston slap that i was hearing after all. the noise hasnt come back yet, so lets hope its done and over with.

that sounds valvetrain related to me....bent pushrod or collapsed lifter is my official guess. Been wrong many times before though. Just what it sounds like to me.

 

i would think a bent push rod would create the noise at all times, not just now and then. I have been kinda thinking a collapsed lifter too, maybe one that is on its way out, it collapses, then works itself loose and works again for sometime. from what i could tell though, all the cam lobs looked pretty good, i mean i can see the path that the lifter rids on the cam, but nothing looked gouged or scorn.

the only problem with a collapsed lifter theory, i would think the car would run somewhat ruff performance wise when the lifter is collapsed.

My G8 idles at 55-60 cold, and 45 hot. It'll go to 80-90 psi when cold above 3k rpm

 

Did you keep or remove the oil pressure bypass in the oil pan?

 

oh cool! then my numbers are spot on compared to yours, the oil pressure did end up dropping down to 42-45psi when it was full warmed up idling.

I left the oil pan as it is.

well its back together for the most part, still have to put the front diff back in. I went ahead and primed the engine and fired it up, its quieter now on cold start than its ever been. Everything sounds good and it idles smoothly, BUT...i dont know if this is a good thing or a bad thing yet, the oil pressure is pretty damn high. It sits and idles at around 60psi and naturally increases as the rpms increase. i have not let it come up to full operating temp yet, but this is a HUGE difference from how it used to be. it used to go up to 40-50psi on cold start and with in a couple minutes it would drop below 20psi. now it stays steady at 60psi.

 

i am kicking myself in the ass just a little because i did not plastigauge the new rod bearings, i did however mic one out and the size came back identical to what i removed.

got some work done on it today. replaced the oil pump, timing chain, tensioner, vvt solenoid and dropped the pan. Im going to replace the rod bearings while im at it. stock ones with 180k miles on them dont look bad at all

is traveling to mexico more expensive than it used to be? i was looking up some prices on flying to mexico with my wife and 3 children, needless to say i was a bit sticker shocked. i dont remember it ever being so expensive.

my wife and i went back in 09 to Cancun, for round trip airfare and all inclusive 4 star hotel, it was 800 bucks.

 

now there are a bunch of taxes that i dont remember paying last time. are these new or have they always been there?

 

MX-TourismTax $122.85

Security Fee $28.00

US-International Departure Tax $180.00

Passenger Facility Fee $45.00

MX -TUA $147.85

US Customs Fee $27.50

US APHIS Fee $19.80

US Immigration Fee $35.00

Don't let the diff discoruage you. You can have it out in 5-10 minutes. Front driveshaft bolts, 4 mount bolts, 6 axle bolts on each side, unhook electrical connector and vent hose.

 

i ended up replacing the mount with the diff and exhaust manifold still in place, it wasnt too bad. a bit tight but overall not that bad. i did remove the inner fender cover which helped out a lot. i worked the crap out of that motor mount heat shield, glad its so pliable lol. once i had all the bolts out, i was able to turn the mount enough so that i could access the nuts on the back that hold the heat shield and mount bracket. then i took it out in 3 pieces.

so far the hardest part of this whole thing has been removing the manifold to cat nuts, those were a mother fucker. only one of them came off willingly, the other two completely stripped out and one of those two had welded itself to the stud, an irwin nut extractor didnt even work. i managed to get my angle grinder in there to cut the nut off, i cut that damn thing in 2 places completely through to the stud and it still wouldnt budge.