yo vanilla
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| 10-11-2009 04:53 PM |
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AKA this forum is super slow lately!
Today I replaced the PCV valve and its hose in my wife's Mazda6. This is much harder than you think. To get to it you have to remove the intake manifold, the TB, a mess of electrical connectors and vacuum hoses. Some people pull the fuel rail but I got past it. Some of the bolts are very hard to get to (tight spaces) and require tricks like putting socket extensions together piece by piece due to the small clearance space between the mani and the radiator.
It me took four hours which included a trip to Autozone and some pondering on how the heck to tackle the job. (redneck) I ain't never seen such a sh it-all stupid design for a maintenance part like that b'fore (/redneck) 
So, what have you been up to?
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smartbomb
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| 10-11-2009 06:27 PM |
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Helped knock down a gate! |
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canyoncarver
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| 10-12-2009 05:43 PM |
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New battery in the wifeys Camry. After that it wouldn't idle for shit. Spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what I burned out. After giving up, I did some internet searching and found that I needed to clean the throttle body. Did that, and it ran as good as new.
It ends up, as crud builds up on the t/b, the ecu map adjusts for the restricted air flow. After removing the battery, the ecu resets to it's base map and there wasn't enough air flow for the base map to keep the motor idling. Moral of the story ........ clean the t/b at every air filter change. |
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Wes
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| 10-12-2009 06:11 PM |
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I need to fix my G35. Car runs perfect but has a parasitic draw somewhere. If I drive the car every day ZERO issues. If it sits for a full 24 hours it won't start. I had the alternator checked, checked the grounds, replaced the battery all of it checks out. ZERO aftermarket parts on it...
Last thing I fixed.... Changed the oil in the 200SX for a track day this coming Wed. |
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yo vanilla
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| 10-13-2009 07:34 AM |
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Wes, you're making me recall a time when I worked at a BMtroubleyoo delaership in like... 2001. We had a new 540i on the lot that had an electrical draw like that. Every day it the battery would discharge on the lot, and every time the techs couldn't find the draw. Until finally they traced it to inside the instrument cluster of all places. Random thought to keep in mind!
Today my wife's car is getting new tires, since I don't have access to mount and balance equipment anymore it's being done for me. |
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canyoncarver
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| 10-13-2009 02:24 PM |
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Posted By yo vanilla on 10-13-2009 09:34 AM
Wes, you're making me recall a time when I worked at a BMtroubleyoo delaership in like... 2001. We had a new 540i on the lot that had an electrical draw like that. Every day it the battery would discharge on the lot, and every time the techs couldn't find the draw. Until finally they traced it to inside the instrument cluster of all places. Random thought to keep in mind!
The best way that I've narrowed problems like this down is to start at the fuse boxes. Remove each fuse one at a time, and with a digital multimeter set to the lowest resistance setting (if you don't have auto-ranging), check each contact to ground. Any reading except infinite suggests that that circuit is shorted, |
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smartbomb
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| 10-13-2009 02:49 PM |
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Dai Yoshihara's drift car. |
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eric
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| 10-13-2009 11:57 PM |
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Rebuilt a Q45 throttle body last week. |
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jwest
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| 10-14-2009 09:39 AM |
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Mmmmm... learning from lots of multi-colored squiggley lines.
Other news: a new Atlantic qualifying record, for Lagune Seca, was set this weekend 1:15.44 by John Edwards.
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smartbomb
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| 10-14-2009 10:14 AM |
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Posted By eric on 10-14-2009 01:57 AM
Rebuilt a Q45 throttle body last week.
If you need one, I think I might have a few lying around. |
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KillerBee370
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| 10-14-2009 07:15 PM |
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I'm in the process of constructing an infinity wall in my photography studio.
BTW... pulling up the carpet on concrete and getting all that glue off the concrete ain't no fun  |
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yo vanilla
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| 10-18-2009 03:35 AM |
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Yesterday I installed new front pads and rotors on my wife's Mazda. I broke the head off my brand new Craftsman screwdriver trying to take the retaining screws off the rotor So I drilled 'em out. |
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spdracerut
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| 10-18-2009 02:00 PM |
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Installed an alarm system and scoped out what I need to do for a speaker install (need to fab up spacers for the speakers). Eh, don't like do electrical crap, but I just don't trust anyone else to do it. |
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yo vanilla
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| 10-19-2009 07:32 AM |
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^^ Crutchfield has speaker adapters and such for just about any car  |
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gloreboy
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| 10-19-2009 08:26 PM |
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changed the oil on my dad's landcruiser. but seriously I install my old pioneer DEH-P3900 head unit into an even older 94 tercel. It was a bitch when the guy at auto zone told me that 50ft. was long enough(speaker wire) to reach from the front to the rear speakers, after cutting them and ruining my chance of returning them back. |
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GCMBob
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| 10-21-2009 10:44 AM |
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Cleaned out the intake and turbo on my frontier (deisel) |
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smartbomb
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| 10-21-2009 04:55 PM |
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putting together my Aprila RS50 tonight. |
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GCMBob
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| 10-21-2009 06:30 PM |
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Replaced my buddy's blown out dp gasket (launch control) with a metal type one on his highly modded STi |
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urbanjacup
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| 10-22-2009 05:15 AM |
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ECU swap...Technosquare ECU installed and converted nats to non-nats:
I have to give most of the credit to Pregunta, he also re-routed the wiring inside the car to basically a Bus connector for datatlogging...he tapped into the wires that connect the APEXi safc II to the ECU. (Throttle pos, rpm, power, ground) and ran the y to one side of the bus clip then on the other side you can basically attach wires for the appropriate conncetion...(some nice soldering)
Technosquare's reflashing/7200rpm ECU feels like more than a rev limiter increase...I'm on my second QR (under 35k), the car has 106k miles on it...so I have been running the same ECU that entire time...I had a P0507, rpms were not responding and the voltage measured at the RPM wire via the SAFC was @ *8 (wire was cut to protect OEM ECU) ...though the car still ran pretty good...After install of the Technosquare's ECU, all of the aforementioned was resolved and the car feels more than rejuvenated...I mean, I thought it was running pretty good despite the issues...but its pulling really well now and it feels like anything the OEM ecu didnt need was eliminated via reflash...I dont know what the truth is, but to say its communicating well with the car is in an understatement...(I wonder if any bugs with OEM ecu were worked out?)
I purchased the car brand new Sept. 2003, I was always waiting for some sort of ECU upgrade, and right now, after 6 long years, this B15 has never felt stronger...thanx Technosquare and a big thanx to Dennis/Pregunta... |
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