Been a while since I bled one , maybe a year, so 10mm size was off the top of my head as best I remembered

I do it from the top

 

Ah gotcha. No worries, I appreciate the advice! I have equally difficulty getting to it from the top because of my oil sandwich plate. To get that off I have to remove the UIM. I might just need to do that...

 

IIRC it's an 8mm. Even with the UIM off it's a bitch IMO. But I'm also fairly short.

 

If you want to do it from underneath then dropping the two chassis underbraces, loosening the 4 PPF nuts at the trans, and letting the trans rear drop down will give you a lot more access.

 

After trying various wrenches and sockets I finally landed on a cheap $1.98 wrench from Home Depot that worked from the top, even with the oil sandwich plate in the way. The end was nice and thin. It wasn't "easy" but it worked. 9K, I don't know how tall you are but I am fairly short too at 5'8" and I was able to do this from the top drivers side over the fender. Mostly by feel, too much stuff in the way to see.

Of course, the victory was short lived. As I was pulling into the parts store to return a $4 socket that was too long some idiot in a huge truck starts pulling out right in the MIDDLE of the turn in blocking the whole entrance I can't back out because of traffic behind me and he can't back up because of people behind him so I was forced to try and squeeze by him. Caught my freshly PC'd wheel on the planter concrete A little black marker and it doesn't really stand out now unless I am looking for it but still so pissed... I should have kept the socket and stayed home.

 

After a little filing and some black nail polish it's a lot less noticeable. Standing next to the car i really have to look for it. Not perfect, but...

Thanks, Fazda, for the nail polish tip! I haven't bought black nail polish since the 90's goth days lol...

 

Pretty much but i would put afrs in the 10.7 -11.0 range per your wideband . Low 11s is too lean at the loads yours is at .

 

My stock wideband is bottomed out. I think it actually might be going bad. It used to bottom about at 10.88, now it bottoms out at 11.02. There is a log, I think 1.71, where it was bouncing between 11.02 and 10.88 which first made me think I had things pretty nice, but now it reads 11.02 flat so I think the sensor is going bad. The ProSport gauge is showing deep in the 10's. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to log it. I was able to capture one video, 1.69 I think, that shows it diving from about 10.8 to 10.2 and back up.

 

I keep mine around 10.8 on the wideband

 

Dyno Tomorrow ?

 

YES! 4PM PDT tomorrow. GoPro is charged, I plan to have some video to post tomorrow evening.

 

Good luck man . You can make 374whp................ and that's it !!!!!

 

Haha ok you got it, thanks man! What about 374.998?

Watch mine completely flop, like 274.998 As long as it doesn't blow up I will be happy to know where she sits!

 

can't wait to see the results

 

Appreciate the support! Now I'm getting nervous and starting to look over my shoulder watching for Murphy to throw down his law. Down to 174.988 hp now haha!

 

Dyno results

 

Um ...................is that WHP ?

 

Got video as well. Will post later tonight. Fazda got some video too of fire from the screamer pipe

 

holy crap! I'm freaking boosting asap. those are great numbers. I'm assuming it's on a dynojet?

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Flywheel HP or WHP ?

 

Rwhp

 

nice

 

Thx! I'm pretty happy

 

I keep refreshing hoping to see video...

 

I'll post as soon as I can, I promise. Got same family things to do first...