^^ cool i'll see you thursday!

 

step 1. Go to my friends shop at night ... put car on lift
step 2. Take out absurdly long torque wrench and WD-40
step 3. ???
step 4. Profit

 

^^ Installing the midpipe is an easy task, apply lots of wd40 and make sure there are no air leaks afterwards, if you need a hand let us know!

 

yea ... I installed my catback myself .. the biggest issue were the exhaust hangers .. they are a major pita ... I do not think I will have any trouble ... but thanks tho, I def appreciate the offer

 

Im kinda bummed i cant come out to a meet for 2 weeks.
Got work until 10ish tonight and next week i just found out im working until 12.

Next time yous see me ill have the AEM intake on and my coils wires and plugs will all be done too.

hoping to see a difference in MPG with the changes.

 

^^ last week week we stayed until 1130 pm

 

I'm going to revive failsafe's rx8 so another shinka will be there

 

^^ revive like mouth to intake??

 

And seafoam

 

seafoam?? i hate the thing be prepare for a cloud of smoke! I have to do that to my car soon ...again.

 

clean all the carbon out?

 

yup his car has been flooded for months, iirc. so we need to get all that crap outta there.

 

Tell failsafe to take the sparkplugs out and dry them really good (burn the tips a little with a torch or gas stove), charge the battery to the max, and i think there is a fuse for the gas pump that it needs to be taken off than crank the engine with out the sparkplugs in a couple of times (to get the gas in the engine out) then plug fuse in sparkplugs in and crank it up. This is how i used to deflood my rx7 back in the days, or call my mechanic mario i could pm'you his number

yeap!

 

We did everything but the plugs. He's running BHR's ignition kit now, which is beefy to say the least.

 

bhr nice!, but check the plugs if they wet there is no way the car is gonna start. I'll see you guys next week

 

All I have to say about the BHR kit is....



CHARRRRLES!!

 

I have new plugs. I could put them in, which would solve the issue entirely, but the concern is that the plugs are *not* the issue and then I'd screw up another set of them. Guess I'll have to grab a torch somewhere and try drying the original ones first.

We did the 'pull the fuse/crank/etc' method last night, although we didn't take out the plugs when we did it. I'm going to jack the car up when I get home from work to put new fog bulbs in, so maybe I'll try that while it's up. Like I said though, I don't have a torch to dry the existing ones out.

Does he do house calls? lol. I really don't feel like having the car towed at the moment. Although I could use my AAA membership if he's close enough I suppose.

 

^^ just put in the new ones and make sure the battery is fully charge, i had the same problem many times in my 7 I remember there was one time i had to use 2 batteries to get it to run

 

YES! ******* with my head Charles!

 

I may have to bite the bullet and just put the new ones in. The originals are more than likely completely shot.

On Friday, I pulled the plugs, pulled the fuel pump fuse (the 20A one), tried cranking a bunch of times to clear everything out. I let the car sit all day saturday in the heat with the plugs out and took a wire brush and torch to the original plugs to clean them off. Francesco can vouch for how bad they were since I sent him a picture. Dear god. lolol.

Sunday night, I put them back in and tried getting it going and still nothing, although at least this time, it actually felt like it was trying to start. It almost did at one point, but after a while of trying, it still wouldn't.

Needless to say, I'm beyond aggrevated at this point. I had to restrain myself from calling the stealership this morning.

I can't believe that my optima red top is still going strong at this point though. lol

 

wow still didn't come on?? that's weird, I'm sending you my mechanic's number in a pm. where do you live? I might be able to stop by with carlos and probably jose to take a look at it

 

Wow, didnt see this thread until now guys damn lol, im definitely down for meeting up whenever, gotta let me know the next time

 

I'm good for thursday.

failsafe, any luck unflooding?

 

we're meeting on thursday.

hey francesco how about we meet at the tst meet around your house?? the one they do every thursday, also I was thinking we can stop by failsafe's house before the meet and help him with his car.

 

the ross meets were shut down. last meet was like 400+ cars. Talks are still going on for a new location.

Id say we could do a garage meet, but thats not happening until failsafe is up and running.