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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Shrike » Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:46 pm

When I had the skyline the intercooler pipe came off so it had the gate opening and being loud but none of the go, took ages to work out why I had no boost haha
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby MrOizo » Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:15 pm

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MrOizo wrote:Went in garage and had a look at my car. Realised that there's not all that much to do!
Need to sort my shit out!


Turbo and NA at the same time! :lol:


For sure! All for the noise.... waaaaaaaPSH! :wink: :lol: :lol:
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:07 am

Pulled off my turbo beanie to try and find where my exhaust leak is coming from. Tightened every nut and bolt I could get to for the flanges and wastegate etc, but there is still a small leak, so unfortunately that means taking off the entire turbo/manifold setup to have it repaired, before the first round of the Road and Track series on April 12th.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby JZCrazy » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:02 pm

Lowered the 1uz. Electronic air bag suspension, yay.
I'll sort it, been there done that, height controllers and all. 8)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:58 pm

Put it on charge.. apparently 8 days from fully charged to alarm going nuts due to flat battery is all I can expect.
Reality: A nasty hallucination that is caused by excess blood in the alcohol stream.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby iOnic » Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:07 pm

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Revhead » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:10 pm

Just going for a drive wil now take you like 6 hours 8O
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby ®usty » Mon Mar 24, 2014 6:44 pm

Myself & AE111_JAMES had our cars in 4&R Jamboree

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Bling » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:45 pm

So shiny! 8)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:10 pm

Grrrrrrr! wrote:Put it on charge.. apparently 8 days from fully charged to alarm going nuts due to flat battery is all I can expect.


Best to buy a battery maintainer, and leave it plugged in when its parked up. Alarms kill batteries :(

They are around $90 for a half decent one.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:36 pm

2 mins with a 10mm spanner is free, and works even with non-garaged cars :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Mr Ree » Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:38 am

That will clear all of your ECU's fuel and ignition tables though, so that wont suit everyone.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Jdawg » Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:08 pm

I remember Jaycar having solar powered trickle chargers for around $30
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby thegreatestben » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:57 pm

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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby ~SlideWays~ » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:45 am

thegreatestben wrote:bought this (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =710021292) for a SHARP price


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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Grrrrrrr! » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:54 am

It was an ae101 levin/trueno with a link ECU, not running for some reason.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Leon » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:21 am

Got a vehicle recall notice from Toyota about the passenger airbag actuator on the Corolla :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby ~SlideWays~ » Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:19 pm

Grrrrrrr! wrote:It was an ae101 levin/trueno with a link ECU, not running for some reason.


Oh I know the one, was tempted myself but have too many cars and projects as it is.

If its the Link that is not working, its actually pretty well priced to send back to Link Electro themselves to find the problem. I had a Link Plus die on me and it was fixed and sent back for $95.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby thegreatestben » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:22 pm

I think it's got a flat-ish battery. Links do not like less than 10.5v when starting.

Gonna be so happy if I whack a decent battery and it fires up
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Re: What did you do to your car today?

Postby Kiwi-Corolla » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:11 pm

If you don't have any luck after trying a different battery check the EFI relay in the engine bay fusebox. A couple of months ago the GF's AE101 Levin suddenly wouldn't start in a shopping mall car park (would crank fine though), wasn't getting spark so I assumed it was a faulty distributor, whacked another one in from Pick-A-Part while it was still sitting in the car park and still no luck. Got it towed home by a mate, scratched my head a bit, was going to try a replacement ECU next but then deicded to swap out the engine bay relays one by one from my FX. As soon as I swapped over the EFI relay it fired into life. Went back to Pick-A-Part and grabbed two more relays, the second one is now in her glovebox, just in-case it ever happens again :lol:
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