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Andrew7dg · 04-22-2006

I hope no one mind that I keep updating this, making a journal of my car.

SO i just got done replacing a good majority of my fluids. The oil filter was pretty stuck on there REALLY BAD (O the joys of buying a used car). It was so bad I put a dent in the oil filter trying to get it off. I got it though and put a heavy duty oil filter on though. I put Mobil 1 synthetic in there. It seems to work pretty good. The old stuff looked pretty black but I think that because it was recently changed to synthetic and was unclogging all the carbon deposits in the engine.
SO here is the good news. I found out the problems with the car and the hesitation. It was the spark plugs. The plugs in there were new however I now know that brand of plugs makes a difference. NGK are a bad brand (if it makes you guys feel better i wasn't the one that put them in there) and make your car run like poop and give you bad gas mileage, Autolite copper run very good and cheap but need to be replaced every 6000 miles. I can live with that though.

So I am very happy. The car is running strong, has good fluids, new plugs and wires, and good belts. This is a very good start.

So the next step is modifying the car SLOWLY. I am going to try to take my time at this and enjoy every minute of it. I could stick a lot of money all at one but whats the fun of that, plus i am broke.

Next though I would like to put a Boost guage on the car and start modifying the exaust.
I don't know if I want to buy a MBC yet because I will be too tempted to twist it and I want to get the exaust flowing nicely first. There are other ways of increasing boost without adding that yet.

04-22-2006	#20
Andrew7dg Built it from scratch! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Paul Drives: Currently Mitsu-less Posts: 851	Re: Hello From Rosemount MN I hope no one mind that I keep updating this, making a journal of my car. SO i just got done replacing a good majority of my fluids. The oil filter was pretty stuck on there REALLY BAD (O the joys of buying a used car). It was so bad I put a dent in the oil filter trying to get it off. I got it though and put a heavy duty oil filter on though. I put Mobil 1 synthetic in there. It seems to work pretty good. The old stuff looked pretty black but I think that because it was recently changed to synthetic and was unclogging all the carbon deposits in the engine. SO here is the good news. I found out the problems with the car and the hesitation. It was the spark plugs. The plugs in there were new however I now know that brand of plugs makes a difference. NGK are a bad brand (if it makes you guys feel better i wasn't the one that put them in there) and make your car run like poop and give you bad gas mileage, Autolite copper run very good and cheap but need to be replaced every 6000 miles. I can live with that though. So I am very happy. The car is running strong, has good fluids, new plugs and wires, and good belts. This is a very good start. So the next step is modifying the car SLOWLY. I am going to try to take my time at this and enjoy every minute of it. I could stick a lot of money all at one but whats the fun of that, plus i am broke. Next though I would like to put a Boost guage on the car and start modifying the exaust. I don't know if I want to buy a MBC yet because I will be too tempted to twist it and I want to get the exaust flowing nicely first. There are other ways of increasing boost without adding that yet.