Re: Official Car Thread

by sketchy on Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:35 pm

Is your car an automatic?

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:49 pm

yeah :/ it will be gone soon. im doing a 5speed swap on it. but i decided before i did that im going to build the piss out of the car, because when i do swap the more power i make the bigger difference its going to make swapping a 5 or 6 speed in it. because of the drivetrain loss

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:50 pm

also im ordering a 4bar fpr tomorrow and im going down to get a stage 2 tune which is another 15% power

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:13 pm

i got a box full of goodies from ECS today!! i dropped in the last two sets of LEDs in the car today, sun visor lights and door lights, also dumped the smoked tails for R/C/R/C, also put in clear bumper markers to replace my color matched ones, and i blue a blue LED in the boost gauge to make it look better than the ugly yellow bulb

by **Dylan** on Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:51 pm

Got a little problem with my car, maybe you fine gentleman can help. I was preforming in some typical college shenanigans and backed my car into a curb. It left a small nick in my muffler, and bent my exhaust pipe a bit. We took off the exhaust and rebent it to where it is supposed to be. The muffler was fine. So here is the trouble:

Every once in a while (3 out of 10 times) my car will start sputtering and have symptoms of stalling at a red light. It doesn't actually stall, but I will have to floor the pedal to get it going again and its all fine and dandy. I know there is a small exhaust leak as well. I checked the O2 sensor and air filters and they are fine. Its not dangerous or causes major trouble, just annoying and want to fix it (preferably myself if possible).

edit: btw its a 2002 Toyota Corolla CE

by **Tyler** on Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:17 pm

my car did that for about a month....and then it just went away it drove out of it.

by **Dylan** on Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:22 pm

about how long did you have to "drive out of it"?

by **Tyler** on Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:25 pm

it did it for about 3 weeks and then all the sudden stopped. and i know what you mean buy its a pain in the ass. im not saying your car will just drive out of it but it might.

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:03 pm

loose of back pressure id say, you might have tweaked a gasket.

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:11 pm

aristos got a facelift

by **Dylan** on Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:52 pm

I think it turned out pretty good Roger

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:45 am

thank you! everyone seems to love them and i love them so i think it was a good choice

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:27 am

muuuuhahahaha i went stage 2 yesterday. OMG is all i have to say

by A SNEAKY PANDA on Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:22 pm

i got my new state plates in

by **A.Perry#21** on Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:28 pm

So i have been working on my car as well!!! I finally got a new (used) engine for my Focus!

Here are some pics of the progress!

The New engine in the back of the truck... on my way back from Canaan, NH. (4hr drive to get this ONE WAY!)

Here is the work on the car

LOOK AT ALL THIS ROOM!!!.... i feel like something is missing