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Congrats on taking the stock appearing class!

Pics of your manifold cover! I have been thinking about doing one as opposed to heat wrapping my header too.

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In other news, I have been enjoying the car on these longer trips...drove it to BIR and back two weeks ago and up to Fergus Falls (my home town) and all of the lake areas around it this past weekend for the 4th of July. Had a great time, gave lots of fun fun rides to friends and family, the car ran perfect, and e85 stops were not a problem anywhere.

On the way home, I feel some vibration...it goes away...crap! it comes back, I pull over, flat tire.

I see this hole, figure I hit something:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/photo.sized.jpg

Pull the wheel off and see this:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/photo_1.sized.jpg

Fuuuuck...I have about 10,000 miles on these tires and with all of the pressure checking I did at BIR I didn't get a chance to rotate the tires yet (I did at ~5000 last fall)...I should have, I would have noticed this earlier. I feel like an idiot. So I order a fresh set of sumi's and had Ricer Pete swap them for me. While the car is up there (Youngstedt's Maple Grove Goodyear) I have them throw the car on their fancy new alignment rack--there HAS to be something goofy with the alignment, I only have maybe 10k miles on these tires!

Please note the toe:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/photo_2.sized.jpg

Good god I must have hit some crazy potholes this spring!

I saved my rear tires, they have 7/32 left on them, they will be a good start to my collection for road racing :)

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Yea that tire looks like it has problems, lol.

Glad you are enjoying the ride and E85! Rock on.

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Wow, Id say that tires a bit toast!!

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My guess is Jeff's alignment rack is out of calibration, the exact same thing happened to my IX; insane inner wear, got the alignment checked elsewhere, and the toe was fucked like yours.

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Well that isn't very comforting. He did mine. I don't want my new $1100 star specs to get screwed.

Looks like I am going to head to stellar for an alignment this time around.

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Take it for a free alignment check at one of the chains, no reason to be super alarmed yet, it's possible that Scheides and I just have shitty luck :)

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Someday I will, someday.

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Originally Posted by Kracka (Post 387745)

My guess is Jeff's alignment rack is out of calibration, the exact same thing happened to my IX; insane inner wear, got the alignment checked elsewhere, and the toe was fucked like yours.

oof dah, I better check mine too. This also reminded me I need to rotate my tires this weekend.

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Those wires in the tires are just for more grip, no worries lol. I used to work at Discount Tires and we always used to bs about funny stuff like that.

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Did I see it correctly on my phone but the in car video says July 26 2011??? Btw great run!!

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Golden Valley tire doesn't mess up. I always took my car there for tire mounting and alignments.

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Originally Posted by PlanoEvo (Post 387779)

Did I see it correctly on my phone but the in car video says July 26 2011??? Btw great run!!

Nope checked again its July 26th 2011 and I can quote myself since the date is my :bday:

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Originally Posted by PlanoEvo (Post 387824)

Nope checked again its July 26th 2011 and I can quote myself since the date is my :bday:

Heh typo! Fuk it :P

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Originally Posted by scheides (Post 387742)

So I order a fresh set of sumi's and had Ricer Pete swap them for me. While the car is up there (Youngstedt's Maple Grove Goodyear) I have them throw the car on their fancy new alignment rack

:smoking:

Thats actually what I do while your alignment is being done. :)

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Changed oil in the evo on Tuesday, drove it to work and back Weds. On the way to work Thursday I think it sounds funny, oil light comes on and I hit the ignition off instantly....coasted down to a parking lot and voila: oil dumping out the drain. I must not have tightened the drain bolt!

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/...lick.sized.jpg

Got a new drain bolt and some oil and she sounds ok....hopefully no issues down the road, only 7500 miles on this engine. Enough came out of the pan and onto the lot that I think it'll be ok but man I'm neeerrrrrrvous.

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We don't need another local with their 3rd motor in less than 2 years. I bet you'll be fine. Fingers crossed for you bud.