Evo X upgrades - Page 62

**Murlo26** · 07-29-2010

He's not sure right now...no compression in 3 of 4 cylinders, sounds like the motor is dead now. Funny thing is he went back to stock and was on all stock components...one theory is a piece of the wheel may have gotten into the motor after the failure.

**mlomker** · 07-29-2010

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

He's not sure right now...no compression in 3 of 4 cylinders, sounds like the motor is dead now.

Yeah, I exchanged a couple PMs with him on EvoXforums. This is the same guy that swapped turbos 5 or 6 times (outdoors), in front of his townhome. He's industrious but I don't know if he's competent.

**Murlo26** · 07-29-2010

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Originally Posted by mlomker

Yeah, I exchanged a couple PMs with him on EvoXforums. This is the same guy that swapped turbos 5 or 6 times (outdoors), in front of his townhome. He's industrious but I don't know if he's competent.

Jake's Evo couldn't help but come to mind when I thought of his situation, drill bit in the motor, lol. Hopefully it was something like that and not the turbo.

rose0529 · 07-29-2010

LOL nice work. Glad its fixed!

**Murlo26** · 07-29-2010

LOL, +1 for Scheides i guess. did the clip come off or something?

**Kracka** · 07-29-2010

Cotter pin FTW!

**Kracka** · 07-29-2010

I say enlarge the holes and run a suitcase padlock

**mlomker** · 07-30-2010

I'm sitting at the office and dreaming about the short course at BIR. I can't wait for the next TTM date on the 23rd.

Scheides helped me square away the WGA issue in just a few minutes last night. I hung out for a couple hours and handed him tools...I think there was only one bolt holding the turbo/manifold on when his 11pm curfew rolled around.

turbotalon1g · 07-30-2010

lol curfew. Glad to hear its taken care of. If you are cruising around I should be wrenching a little bit before hitting the streets myself tonight.

**mlomker** · 07-31-2010

Not a great start to the day. Was driving over to Dad's to do an oil change and heard a strange sound...started looking around and discovered a nail in one of my tires. No problem, I paid the stupid 'hazard' insurance at Discount Tire and ran over there.

Turns out that Stellar had stripped out some of the aluminum caps that screw into my Rays lug nuts. I had previous noticed a couple light scratches in my rims that weren't there before but shrugged it off since I wasn't 100% how they happened. No doubt about this one.

It'll probably take an easy out to get it off...then the misery of trying to special order a JDM replacement part (often can't be done and you have to buy a complete new set). Discount has a new tire on order for me, anyway.

**scheides** · 07-31-2010

That gets two sad faces:

**mlomker** · 07-31-2010

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Originally Posted by scheides

That gets two sad faces:

Think I should go buy an easy-out and an electric drill? I'm not sure if I should wait and bring it to Stellar or not. That's a longish trip on a tire with a nail in it.

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I started typing an email to Justin but I'm just too mad. I can see what they did--they stripped out the plastic hex key that Rays sent with the lugs and switched to a steel hex wrench. The reason Rays sends out the plastic one is because aluminum is softer than steel and will easily strip it out.

I was mad when I ruined my first set of aluminum lugs because I was dumb like that but an alignment shop that works on nice cars all the time? They should have known better.

**goodhart** · 07-31-2010

WTF, Sounds like Stellar, isn't so stellar.

**mlomker** · 07-31-2010

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WTF, Sounds like Stellar, isn't so stellar.

I'm a guy that tends to give people the benefit of the doubt for a long time but so far:

1) Lip scratches on two of my wheels. They are light scratches but they weren't there before I brought them in. It's hard to be sure where these things come from so I didn't say anything.

2) Left the adhesive from the old wheel weights on the rim. Not a felony but it struck me as lazy.

3) Now the problem with the lug inserts. I'll probably end up removing them all and running without them. That feature is unique to the Rays Formula lugs but it gave a nice, clean look.

**mlomker** · 07-31-2010

Either these were cross-threaded or the heat from the track day caused the threads to stick? Now I'm not sure which it is.

At Discount Tire can get the new tire on for me on Wednesday. This was the first time that I actually paid for their $100+ road hazard and I'm glad I did. $240/tire!

**Murlo26** · 07-31-2010

Man, that blows Mike...it'll work out though

**goodhart** · 07-31-2010

Are they going to shave the tire so it matches the same rolling diameter of the other 3 tires? Pretty damn lame about the lug nut situation, I'd bitch and make them pay for a new set. Or get these baller ass lugs: http://www.cbrdspeedfactory.com/Abou...5/Default.aspx

**Kracka** · 07-31-2010

Oh man, that really sucks. I'd take the car back to Stellar, raise some hell, and demand they replace every damaged component. Taking proper care of a car is easy, not doing so is pure laziness which is unacceptable when dealing with expensive components on a car that someone is obviously very anal about.

**mlomker** · 07-31-2010

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Originally Posted by goodhart

Are they going to shave the tire so it matches the same rolling diameter of the other 3 tires?

Good question about the tire shaving. I don't know if that's something that Discount Tire can do or not. Every other car that I've owned it wouldn't matter.

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when dealing with expensive components on a car that someone is obviously very anal about.

Kracka, there are times that I wish I had some of your fire.

It seems like there are two types of people in the world...careful and not careful. It only takes one 'not careful' person around your stuff to wreck it for good. It's pretty much inevitable at some point. Growing up it was always my kid brother...he doesn't even have to try, damaging things is like breathing for him. <sigh>

**Kracka** · 07-31-2010

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It seems like there are two types of people in the world...careful and not careful. It only takes one 'not careful' person around your stuff to wreck it for good. It's pretty much inevitable at some point.

So true man, so true

Example: Bright yellow/black Lambo Superleggera in my parking garage at work; he has the first reserved spot with a Bentley on his driver's side. Problem is on his passenger side is a handicap spot... I come out from work and see a Ford Taurus with handiplates on it parked about a foot away from the Lambo. Look a bit closer and there is a HUGE dent in the passenger door, looking a bit closer you can see the yellow paint still stuck on the Ford's driver door! The dent has since been fixed, but I can even imagine what paint and dent repair must cost on a Lamborghini.

Reminds me of my old coworker who flung my other coworker's Cadillac door right into a minivan dinging the hell out of both and paint chipping both.

I really hate how most people treat cars as an appliance and think we're nuts for caring otherwise. This especially irks me when you're at an automotive shop. It's like going to the doctor for a prostate exam and getting kicked in the balls.