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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Stott69 » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:04 am

Glad to see SIC!
Ree, wouldnt mind jumping in if your doing a pull over this way
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Nuty|Mike » Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:38 pm

Got a mate to do Cambelt ,tensioners,cam seal,waterpump,thermostat,coolant flush with new header tank and a new wof all ready for a large amount of kays to get to Dunedin.Also did a all filters service myself last week .
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:28 am

Stott69 wrote:Glad to see SIC!
Ree, wouldnt mind jumping in if your doing a pull over this way


Haha, sorry pal, mine is only a 2 seater, and Simon is in the passenger seat tinkering with the laptop while I drive ;)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:41 pm

Stripped a shortblock i picked up yesterday..

3sgtes are strong they say..

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby DeeCee » Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:45 pm

bog, sand, bog, sand.. and repeat :)
Might get on to some fibreglass today
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Kiwi-Corolla » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:29 pm

Slapped on some stickers:

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby iOnic » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:43 pm

Broke it.
Driving along the freeway, hit a bump, sudden dive into next lane, massive shuddering, somehow missed all traffic and got it stopped on the shoulder. I assumed I'd bent an arm/strut but all wheels straight. Pop bonnet to check strut tops and found this......$&#$%.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby CAMB01 » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:45 pm

Grrrrrrr! wrote:Stripped a shortblock i picked up yesterday..

3sgtes are strong they say..

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:50 pm

Wasn't my engine. Was a shortblock I picked up yesterday. But yeah, although i'm actually thinking whoever built it went a little to tight on the ring gaps, because the tops of the pistons have no damage at all, and the bores (including the one piston that is still intact) have a strange wear/pitting pattern.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby CAMB01 » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:53 pm

The pitting will be detonation marks
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Boosted_162 » Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:10 pm

iOnic wrote:Broke it.
Driving along the freeway, hit a bump, sudden dive into next lane, massive shuddering, somehow missed all traffic and got it stopped on the shoulder. I assumed I'd bent an arm/strut but all wheels straight. Pop bonnet to check strut tops and found this......$&#$%.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Bling » Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:13 pm

iOnic wrote:Broke it.


Ouch, how bad is it?
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby iOnic » Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:17 pm

Yip. Oil filled mounts so quite nice under there at the moment :lol: cracked cam cover and broke an aircon fitting and it's stuck in 6th too :lol:

Investigating all new aftermarket mounts now. I've had enough of them. Mazda stock mounts are way too weak for 400nm+. On the plus side we can squeeze a few more horses out of it once it's back.

I'm told the MPS shares the same mounts as the poverty spec Mazda 3 which explains this.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Leon » Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:30 pm

Purchased a "new" one :)

Raced the ITR, and discovered that the brake pads were made out of weetbix. Two applications, and they faded.

Finished each run with no brakes, and smoke pouring out the wheels

Grrrr damn you attachments not working ... oh well imagine photo of odometer showing 460,000km. That is the new car.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby 1I1 » Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:54 pm

On Saturday - swapped front pads for more street friendly options - nice and easy to change over which is good. Gave the track wheels a clean as they were caked in brake dust. Made sure they clear the callipers too.... once the outer wheel weights are removed they will :lol: . Threw in a new air filter and made sure oil/brake fluid etc was boxed up ready to throw in the boot with my tools.
Today washed it and also gave the windscreen and a good clean inside and out.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby ~SlideWays~ » Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:19 pm

Hit a bird at 180kph, poor bastard didn't stand a chance.

Also blew gasket between turbo and manifold. Brother was worse off so he used the trailer instead and I drove the 2hrs home sounding like a tractor.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Mon Jan 20, 2014 10:03 pm

Did more tuning today, and finally smoothed out the huge rich spot around 400rpm, and a massive miss/jerk around 6500rpm...now its running smooth as ever, so roll on the weekend :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Dell'Orto » Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:45 pm

I noticed a bit of black smoke going up the Haywards ;) Car looks mint though dude, so clean
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:57 am

Dell'Orto wrote:I noticed a bit of black smoke going up the Haywards ;) Car looks mint though dude, so clean


Haha spotted.

That would have been the rich spot, I guess ;) All sorted now, so I will pop in the new iridium spark plugs today for their baptism of fire this coming weekend.

Thanks, mate, Ive always said if it cant be the fastest, it should atleast be shiny lol
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Lith » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:17 am

I suspect there will be at least a couple of very shiny Wellington Supras up there :) Looking forward to the event!
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