What did you do today to your 3/S?

**ntcmpjg** · 08-13-2012, 07:53 AM

GTO spark plug cover on my real GTO

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**ntcmpjg** · 08-13-2012, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by mb3000

Never had any problems with the MBC, glad it's working great for you as well!

Yea it's fine but I can't adjust the boost setting it seems to be stuck in place

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**james92tsi** · 08-13-2012, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by 2fnloud

I LOVE the white

Thanks! The white/red combo should go pretty well with these. Camera kinda exaggerates the difference but the color match and intensity match is really close in person.

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STRI DSD-CS 60mm... water temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure to replace the stock center 3.... from Terry @ Maximal Performance.

**keo92stealth** · 08-13-2012, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by TurboSinceBirth

It isn't that hard to time one of these engines if you can read and follow the service manual. Running solid lifters and/or a solid tensioner pulley can prove problematic if you don't know what you're doing. I say take it to someone that has worked on these cars before or ship it to a shop. You've already spent 2-3x more than it would have cost to have Ray do it for you.

Today I swapped out plugs, found out my BOV port on the stock intake bubble shot out my bottle cap I had in there plugging it, ended up recirculating my BOV instead, fixed a few cracked vacuum hoses, and determined that either my 120 mile old Aeromotive Stealth fuel pump is dying on me or the 50 mile old fuel filter is clogged up because I'm definitely not getting the fuel I need. It takes about 5-6 seconds to crank and start it to. It barely wants to run the first 1/2 second.

I do have a clue to what's going on. That jackhammer timing video helped out a lot. It weird man because you can run the car at idle and rev and shit and the belt didn't give up. But as soon as a pulled off and went down the street she acted like she was gonna cut off and within a sec shit got real fast . Pistons were beating the fuck out if the values . Ping ping. I'm so sad right now lol. I just fixed the shit at the beginning of the year from belt valves. I wish I had the money most of your older guys here have. Then of course I would have already taken it to Matt at Dr as he is only 300 miles away .

**mb3000** · 08-13-2012, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by ntcmpjg

Yea it's fine but I can't adjust the boost setting it seems to be stuck in place

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You've got to loosen up the lock washer that's located below the knob.

**TurboSinceBirth** · 08-13-2012, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by DK77

Your filter is most likely clogged. When you put E85 in it cleaned all the shit out of your tank, which all got caught in the filter.

Probably. I just bought one and literally only ran it on E85 for all of 5 miles before I drained the tank and ran 91 through it for another 100 miles or so. I knew ethanol didn't play nice with the mesh fuel filters but I thought it would at least let you make a trip to the gas station. Lol. My car immediately acted up as I was coming out of the gas station so maybe I got bad gas. I've already been through 3 new filters. I'll try another one and also the fuel pump. I'm definitely making upgraded lines and a SS filter my next mod though after going through this. I can put my fuel pressure gauge and AFPR to good use I have sitting on the shelf.

Originally Posted by keo92stealth

I do have a clue to what's going on. That jackhammer timing video helped out a lot. It weird man because you can run the car at idle and rev and shit and the belt didn't give up. But as soon as a pulled off and went down the street she acted like she was gonna cut off and within a sec shit got real fast . Pistons were beating the fuck out if the values . Ping ping. I'm so sad right now lol. I just fixed the shit at the beginning of the year from belt valves. I wish I had the money most of your older guys here have. Then of course I would have already taken it to Matt at Dr as he is only 300 miles away .

I don't have the money to send it to a shop considering I would have already spent $40k+ doing what I did myself throughout the history of my 3S's plus I get more enjoyment driving my car when I've done the work myself and get to see how it all works together. I have quite a bit of school loan debt and am going back this semester to finish up my degree so that doesn't help either. I was put into the position of working on my own cars ever since I had to drive since I had to pay for everything and couldn't afford shop labor, but working on cars hasn't been something I never didn't enjoy as a hobby. It helped that I've spent almost every day the last 7 years reading about these cars and working on them here and there to know what I'm doing now. I would have been lost without the forums or google. Lol.

**Boomer3000** · 08-13-2012, 07:38 PM

Finally put together a parts list, included pricing for new items. Thinking about buying a cherry picker

**keo92stealth** · 08-13-2012, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by TurboSinceBirth

Probably. I just bought one and literally only ran it on E85 for all of 5 miles before I drained the tank and ran 91 through it for another 100 miles or so. I knew ethanol didn't play nice with the mesh fuel filters but I thought it would at least let you make a trip to the gas station. Lol. My car immediately acted up as I was coming out of the gas station so maybe I got bad gas. I've already been through 3 new filters. I'll try another one and also the fuel pump. I'm definitely making upgraded lines and a SS filter my next mod though after going through this. I can put my fuel pressure gauge and AFPR to good use I have sitting on the shelf.

I don't have the money to send it to a shop considering I would have already spent $40k+ doing what I did myself throughout the history of my 3S's plus I get more enjoyment driving my car when I've done the work myself and get to see how it all works together. I have quite a bit of school loan debt and am going back this semester to finish up my degree so that doesn't help either. I was put into the position of working on my own cars ever since I had to drive since I had to pay for everything and couldn't afford shop labor, but working on cars hasn't been something I never didn't enjoy as a hobby. It helped that I've spent almost every day the last 7 years reading about these cars and working on them here and there to know what I'm doing now. I would have been lost without the forums or google. Lol.

Yea and with school coming up on Aug 20 I don't have much time either right now. This is gonna be a important semester for me. With all the parts to fix The heads its around 1000 dollars. Me and my father will do the work ourselves this time and I will read the shit out of this service manual on putting the heads back on. And with the school money lol I might as well buy good turbos. The ones I have are garbage as fuck as I only got them to get the car to run the first time . I'm thinkin 5857 or 5557 with .63 ar as I seen jrods dyno numbers with the small ass housing for those 5557s.