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Did you at least have your tubular manifold ceramic coated?

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Yuppers, I'll make time man. Lets get through the weekend then pick a day that works!

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I thought he did.

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Whats wrong with the stock fluid? Are you really going to be pushing the car that hard? Racing/autox?

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I think he is heading up to BIR.

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HPDE on Monday and the auto-x novice school on the 5th & 6th. TTM's inspection checklist says that your brake fluid should be no more than 6 months old. I've owned the car less than a year but it was manufactured some time in 2007, I'd imagine.

My first time up at BIR I actually didn't use the brakes enough to experience fade...I drive like an old lady. That will probably change at some point this Summer, though.

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He is going to be spending a lot of time at BIR this summer so I commend him for proactively maintaining his brake fluid. The stock fluid is probably fine, but putting in something like ATE Super Blue is never a bad thing.

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I took my car instead of my brother's blue one. No issues aside from needing to change tires. I used these rear tires at prior HPDEs so they had some wear to begin with. I ended up stealing my brother's rear wheels and finishing his tires off as well :)


They probably won't actually inspect your fluid, but it is always best to make sure it is fresh. I bought some of the super blue from MAP and put that in before I went. Still managed to experience brake fade if I was heavy on the brakes for multiple laps.

Not sure what you have done to your brakes, but mine at still 100% stock on my car. I will probably try to upgrade them before the next track day I attend. My car has only 14k on it so there is still some life in the pads/rotors. Would probably benefit greatly from some better ones though.

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Stock, factory brake fluid and all. The plan is to put on the Technafit lines & ATE Super Blue next week.

With only 7k miles on the car there should be plenty of brake pad left on there. I intend to burn them up in the next couple of months and then I'll go to Girodisc rotors and DS2500's.

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Ignorance bit me again. Valvoline put a quart too much oil in at the last change and I didn't know that being a little too full is very bad on turbo cars.

Swifty coated DB's dyno with coolant and very late last night my car covered it and my engine bay in oil.

FML. Only got one pull in...said it did 350 at wastegate (21-22psi).

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Any damage?

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Badass on power, just bad on the motor oil thing.

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Oil can be cleaned, don't worry. Hopefully it's not indicative of a bigger problem.

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You know what else is bad for turbo cars? Taking them to Valvoline.

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Too early to tell but he voiced concerns about the turbo seals if the return line couldn't function.

He said that dialing in the ID2000's was a pita due to having fewer tables available so that took some time. It was 1am by the time Shane cleaned things up and drained some oil from the car.

No, this one is on me. They show you the dipstick before you leave and I checked the level multiple times. I just didn't know better.

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You dont know how to read if the oil is over the level on the dipstick??

That sucks dude, hopefully the turbos ok.

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Hopefully the turbo's fine and it's nothing more than spilled oil.

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It was a little over the top line when measured cold. It was on the top line when I changed it at 1k miles (using the amount listed in the owners manual) so I didn't think anything of it.

I guess we need to use less than book and have it between the lines when cold so that when hot it isn't too full.

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That was a good zing, gotta admit. :)

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sucks man, good luck getting it all sorted out.

I think someone needs to invest in a jack?

ignore the hate, it's just people feeling superior for whatever lame reason.

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Welcome to DSMStyle!!! Where when you screw up, people let you know rather than giving you some sugar-coated response.

Just learn from it, take the comments for what they are and just move onwards and upwards!

Just be glad no one has brought up flamadation valve issues to you yet :)


Good luck and hopefully their is no real damage.

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I would have laughed if any of my friends on here said it.

The first thing I did, of course, is to Google the matter. The manual says 5 quarts. Valvoline used 5.1. Consensus on the forums is to use a little less, perhaps 4.8.

Shane thought it was a quart over. It must have been due to heat expansion while on the dyno because 4.1qts would put it at the bottom of the fill line, I should think.

It didn't pop the dipstick while I had it but I kept it under 5k rpms.

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Yep, the condescending comments lately are getting old. This is MistuStyle, not NABR.

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I have a nice one...some of the guys used it on the newb mod day. I don't have a garage and buying one of those isn't in the budget right now.

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Even if you put 5.5 quarts in it, I doubt that the turbo return line would be covered up, if it is, thats a crappy pan design. Filling it to the max is common so I dont know if thats the issue here.

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I've changed my oil outside more times than inside. :P Totally worth it, just to have the piece of mind that you knew what came out, and what went in.

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Bummer...i was actually thinking of heading up to DB today to check the dyno tune out.

So is he putting the car back on today at all?

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+1. I think it would need to be quite a bit over to cause any real damage. Haven't worked on or even seen the motor on a X though.

BTW, how did the car lose the oil?

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The only time you would be able to get the factory capacity into an oil change is with a totally dry motor. Like a new build with a totally dry/clean oil pan, dry oil cooler, dry, oil cooler lines, etc. Most of the quick change oil places are also not going to let the oil drain for 15 mins either and try to get as much out, they will pull the plug, let it drain quick, throw the plug back in and then if they put in the factory oil system CAPACITY, then you might have too much. Too much oil can blow turbo seals, other engine seals, rod HP, etc. The turbo oil return lines are usually right at the oil level and it you unhook it with the car off, oil will drain out. With the car running the level will be a little lower and allow it to return ok. A little bit too much and the oil starts to back up into the return line.

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Sounds right for power, i checked my thread and i hit 355 at 20psi, checked my "twitter" feed in my thread, lol, when i was posting all the results.

Damn it, i wanna see what this makes.

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+1 keep it above the belt guys, maybe a little higher.

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So did the dipstick just blow out, and that is what covered things in oil? Blowing out a dipstick on these cars isn't the most uncommon thing ever.

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Yea, it blew the dipstick and then a geyser of oil shot out. Kinda like a 4G63, but instead of a little spray, it was a fountain.

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Was this the new performance lube BOV I've been hearing about? get's ya vtec numbers from what I hear..

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Geebus. I'm trying to imagine if that would have happened and you had you're cool little "knock headphones" on and your head down in the engine bay, and BOOM OLD FAITHFUL IN THE FACE!!! Man that woulda been rough!

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Better consult Kevin Costner.

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Sounds like my friday night.

(LOL)

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Hahaha! I don't think I even want to ask :D

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Hmmmm I would think she would say that, and not he? hahaha