My Winter Upgrades

[sleepydsm]

Nice. Im ready to see a 10 on sunday.

[Halon]

Ha, we will see. But I'm still pretty new to it all, so who knows what I'll run.

Anyhow, the other day the car sounded a bit louder. So I popped the hood to have a look, and there's the turbo, crooked, hanging on by 1 bolt... I'm getting sick of these suckers backing out. In a couple weeks I'm going to take the head off to get it rechecked out by a better shop, and replace the headgasket. At that time, I'm going to drill the 4 bolts holding the turbo on, for safety wire, and that should hopefully be the end of that issue.

Also, just picked up a used (but never actually been used) Arc-2 ignition system off the Link forums for a pretty decent price. That'll probably go on around the same time I'm doing the head gasket. So hopefully that'll be the end of that issue.

Yeehaw :)

[scheides]

Awesome brandon, keep up the good work! ;)

[Kracka]

That sucks about the break-in Brandon :(

[viridionplague]

you still need a link cable to borrow, i didnt see this untill just now, sorry to hear that happend, that really sucks, at least they didnt get into to much stuff

[Halon]

I got my new USB Link cable :)

[Halon]

Well as seen in my other thread, she's down for a little bit due to a shifting error on my part. While this is going on, I will also be installing my new Arc-2 setup. I will also be installing the new lifters I got as well which will hopefully take care of some of the lifter tick I was experiencing.

One thing that I have been thinking long and hard about, is while all this is apart, possibly removing the AC. I've retained it thus far because I would like to have it. But the car has been running hot for the past couple years, so even though I have it, I've never used it. Even this year I haven't used it yet. I'm about 50/50 on the decision right now...

[Kracka]

Removing it will eliminate a lot of clutter and weight from the engine bay. I regretted removing it on my 1G, but that was my daily-driver; as a 2nd car I'd be more inclined to shed the pounds.

[4g63tcrazy]

Assuming you don't drive you're car in the winter.. Just remove it. What else do we have windows for? :)

[Halon]

I don't drive it in winter.

I think what I'm going to do is leave it in. And if for the rest of the summer, I get to use it and find the car still wants to run hot, then this winter I'm yanking it :)