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    Scrubbed down the engine bay, It was nasty! Didn't take a specific "before" picture but you can get an idea with this older one, nasty stuff everywhere! Used purple power and some pretty stiff bristled brushes (used for cleaning wheels i assume) and scrubbed and scrubbed until it cleaned up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MDoe8 View Post
    Scrubbed down the engine bay, It was nasty! Didn't take a specific "before" picture but you can get an idea with this older one, nasty stuff everywhere! Used purple power and some pretty stiff bristled brushes (used for cleaning wheels i assume) and scrubbed and scrubbed until it cleaned up.

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    Surprised that more paint didn't come off the rail there under the brake booster and master. So often people are careless when they top it off and end up spilling brake fluid on there.
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    All that paint damage is under the battery

    Going to repaint the engine bay anyway but that's still no bueno.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MDoe8 View Post
    All that paint damage is under the battery

    Going to repaint the engine bay anyway but that's still no bueno.
    Indeed. I tried to sand mine, but paint just kept peeling off and clogging the sandpaper. Eventually gave up and put a wire wheel on an angle grinder to power through it.

    Today I didn't do much, thought I was getting better and could finish cleaning up my garage in preparation for dragging a shell here..So very very wrong. Ears feel like they need to pop and my sense of balance is nowhere to be found.

    As an added thought, anyone ever hang a 3S hood on the wall? I'm thinking just bolting a 2x4 across the hinges and then running it into the studs for the wall with lag bolts is probably the easiest solution, but open to other suggestions.

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    My car had been leaking ps fluid since I bought it. It was hard to tell where it was coming from. A few weeks back there was a huge puddle of ps fluid in my garage. Looks like a seal on the pump went out as it was pouring out from around the pump when I tried refilling it to identify the leak. Finally got around to working on it yesterday. I didn't realize just how little room there was to work around in these things. It's been a slow process but I'm hoping to have it done today.


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    Tried my RPS light flywheel out for the first time. I have no idea why people bitch that these are hard to drive. Grandma could drive it with the spec 4+ in it. If I didn't tell someone they'd probably not realize it wasn't a stock flywheel. They might think it was a stock clutch. It just revs easier and feels a little smoother. It doesn't want to die at all taking off, very easy.

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    It's the 3s community. If a turbo requires more than 3000 rpms to spool or the clutch is 2 lbs heavier than stock...bitching occurs lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MDoe8 View Post
    It's the 3s community. If a turbo requires more than 3000 rpms to spool or the clutch is 2 lbs heavier than stock...bitching occurs lol.
    Someone finally said it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MDoe8 View Post
    It's the 3s community. If a turbo requires more than 3000 rpms to spool or the clutch is 2 lbs heavier than stock...bitching occurs lol.
    I have come to realize over time that 95%+ of naysayers on the forums have never actually tried the parts in question. You have to try it for yourself.

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    I had a lightweight flywheel on my NA for a while. I noticed that if I accelerated hard and then pressed the clutch the IAC wasn't fast enough to catch the engine and it would die. It did let the engine rev faster though, I learned to drive it like that anyway. Then my POS SPEC clutch blew the spring cages out and ruined the flywheel. I now have a lightweight steel flywheel on my TT and it is best of both worlds for me. Each car is different, sounds like yours behaves a lot better.

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