The Spazmobile - Page 4

**goodhart** · 01-06-2010

holy shit, that couldnt have held up well in a collision!! lol Good to see ya got it fixed.

**scheides** · 01-06-2010

Holy CRAP! That's insane, did your car get parked in a swamp for a few years or what? Now get back to modding and forget this crap about selling it

**cmspaz** · 01-06-2010

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Originally Posted by scheides

Holy CRAP! That's insane, did your car get parked in a swamp for a few years or what? Now get back to modding and forget this crap about selling it

No, Duluth, but I guess they're close to the same thing.

Anyway, yeah, I'm thinking this isn't going to stop me from continuing to mod the car, all I've really got left are easy things... Exhaust, Injectors, ECU, hardly anything that can't be transplanted down the road with little effort.

**Kracka** · 01-06-2010

LOL Duluth actually uses less road salt than the Twin Cities. Since pretty much everything drains directly into Lake Superior they use a lot of biodegradable ice melts.

**cmspaz** · 02-10-2010

Well, there's no build progress to report, but I've got pics detailing this past week in spending:

Rotors:

Pads:

MAF-T and GM MAF

I don't know when it's all getting installed, but the plan is sooner rather than later.

**cmspaz** · 02-17-2010

Story time.

Last night I was driving home from a buddy's and the car felt a little down on power. I figured it was being dumb and pulling timing, since it didn't feel jerky or anything at the time, I was tired, and I had to be up early.

This morning on the way to class, it was alright for a bit, then it started missing on a single cylinder, first under boost, now it does it a bit into vacuum. So I pulled off and checked things out, all pipes are tight, plug wires are solid at both ends, idled fine, but the distributor was clicking pretty hardcore to the point of sounding like a decent exhaust leak (but we know those don't come from the intake mani).

So would I be right to start there? AKA Do the symptoms fit the diagnosis? Never had one of those things fail on me and I don't know how quickly they can go.

**Kracka** · 02-17-2010

Your EGR could cause an exhaust leak at the intake manifold and will make your car run funny under boost if not functioning properly.

**cmspaz** · 02-17-2010

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Originally Posted by Kracka

Your EGR could cause an exhaust leak at the intake manifold and will make your car run funny under boost if not functioning properly.

It's directly under the center of the mani where the plug wires go, not from the side by the valve.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure the coil pack shouldn't be loud enough that I think I have an exhaust leak, and I know that's where the noise is coming from.

Scheides, you gonna be at OC tonight? If not, I'll probably just pick one up at O'Reilly after class.

**Kracka** · 02-17-2010

Nice looking brake setup though! I assume those are the newly revised Reds? Should be a great street/autox pad.

**scheides** · 02-17-2010

Looks good! I had the old-style EBC reds on my 2G and was less than impressed, hopefully this new compound they've developed actually make the car stop

I *may* have a spare set of 2G coils laying around at my house if you wanna try them.

**Kracka** · 02-17-2010

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Originally Posted by scheides

Looks good! I had the old-style EBC reds on my 2G and was less than impressed, hopefully this new compound they've developed actually make the car stop

They have a higher friction coefficient than your DS2500's.

**cmspaz** · 02-17-2010

And they probably still eat rotors. Oh well.

t-revzr · 02-17-2010

Brakes look good spaz!

Kevin 1G Drummer · 02-17-2010

Well first off, your car doesn't have a distributor

haha But yeah, I would say that the coils are a good place to start. If that doesn't cure the problem pull the valve cover and make sure you don't have a collapsed lifter.

tpunx99GSX · 02-17-2010

Go to napa or another parts store and ask for a Distributor for your car. See what they say. LOL

turbotalon1g · 02-17-2010

^lol, awesome.

I was gonna say, I thought we found the problem with my car as well because I can't find my distributor anywhere!!!

**cmspaz** · 02-17-2010

Yeah, I know, I was on 4 hours of sleep. Normally I could tell you there's not one, but that post was made before the morning caffeine.

Plug on #4 fouled. Pulled it out and there was moisture on the threads and in between the terminals. Looked down the well, there was a drop or two of water sitting on the piston, but just looked like it had dripped off the plug. It smelled very slightly of coolant, but I'm sure the HG's fine, compression's still factory, I'm not mixing, and I'm not losing coolant. Threw it back in to go picked up new plugs, it missed initially but then stopped doing so below 10psi. Got the new plugs in, problem solved. Cylinder moisture was gone when I put the new plug in.

So it looks like I probably got some water down the plug well. I was initially thinking I sucked it up, but after looking at the plug there's a decent amount of water deposits above the threads as if there was water sitting there and evaporating. The only thing I can think of is if I hit a puddle and splashed water up there, but there wasn't any water on the valve cover so... I dunno.

I also found an exhaust leak in the flex section on the downpipe, but that's a different story.