I joke that I got my bike for gas savings but really it would take me 5 years to recoup the fuel costs offset from the price of the bike.

Meh, drive what you like man, you can do what I did, get a new car for a DD and keep the DSM for a weekend/track toy. My DD is a 07 VW GTI, the car is fun as hell to drive and sadly smokes a stock 2g GSX in the quarter mile, I almost want to start modding the VW but I don't want to void the...

Cash, cashiers check, or money order, those are the only ways you should ever take payment for stuff sold for non commercial sales.You should be able to get the money back but you might have to do it via small claims court, all personal sales are assumed as-is unless otherwise specified on the...

Likes=The ability to lay down a 60+ foot set of 4 burnouts, the ability to spank most US cars o the road that cost 2x more then what I have in my car. dislikes=the engine in this car is basically disposable every 2 years, and the body is starting to fall apart.

If you are going to ban one drug you should ban them all and I mean all, alcohol, tobacco, sugar, caffeine, all pharmaceuticals, anything that can alter brain chemistry, nerve impulses, and or cell growth. All of these can and will cause damage to the body when used to an extreme, if one person...

Unported my Evo3 would creep up to 24psi when WOT from 5000 to 6500, after porting it would only creep up to 18psi in the same range.I am rather disappointed with this turbo(spool isn't any better then the 18g my friend has, and it drops off in pressure from 6500+), I wish I would of just...

You can turn off CEL's with DSMLink, I have run my car with only a CAT and passed emissions for the last few years.

Rod bolt failed, rod end cap separated, piston met crank, I had just run a high 10's at the track 2 days before, 110 octane + meth/water + 26psi ftw!.

Looks like the entry test into the mechanical engineering department at Purdue, only it was about 5x longer.Um something is wrong with this test...I went back and reviewed it, question 44 is wrong b, constriction causes it to be higher.Question 39 is ambiguous, torque is the force of...

Valparaiso Indiana here for another week or so, I am about to move to Houston Texas for a new job. My 95 GSX has been down for a year and 3 months but I use to be a regular at the US41 drag way and with the NW Indiana SCCA peeps.I am kind of a split personality being both a DSM and VW guy...

QFT! +1 I started a rather nasty debate in a class for saying something on that line."Aliens" are more then likely test planes or other natural events like rocks falling out of the sky.

The GSX has been in the garage in several pieces for over a year, I built up a nice motor and have been collecting odds and ends as I had the money, when she is done she should be a 450whp drag beast.2007 VW GTI = DD 1988 GMC 1500 4x4 = 11mpg!

I think this project is not the best of ideas, if you do manage to get everything mounted and all the linkage working and the electronics working, and the fuel system working you will end up with a car that is so under powered that it will barely get 15mpg because you have to floor it just to...

Cool, thanks for the reply, that is exactly what I was looking for.The crack is from the upper bolt hole to the right side when facing the car, I think the top bolt came loose and let it slack a bit which can cause cracks quickly.The rear engine mount was worse then the front, one whole...

If you do the prep work yourself then you shouldn't have any problems with the paint, I did the prep work for my mom's truck and we had it repainted by them, now nearly 6 years later it still looks ok, no bubbles, chips or orange peel.

Try this one, jack up just one wheel in the back and try to turn it, if it does turn then you could of broken an axle or the rear diff.I only say this because I managed to destroy the rear diff spiders on my car a few years back and it drove me nuts trying to hunt down the problem.

So with my rebuild I have discovered that my front engine mount bracket, the one that bolts to the trans has a nasty crack. This obviously needs to be replaced... I just built a new computer a few weeks ago and put Vista64 on it, well I tried to install CAPS on it and doh Vista64 says sorry...

Very nice rims, I was actually looking at getting a set in the anthracite color for my GTI for summer tires and tossing some blizaks on the stockers.

Helium is a very small element and will escape most "sealed" containers, ever noticed that helium rubber and mylar balloons go flat after a few days where a regular air filled balloon does not?You would have to get your tires refilled every day just to offset the loss due to the porosity of...

I have a friend who had a very similar situation happen, he has an odd genetic disease that both he and his brother share, the brother had a child that had major development issues and died less then 6 months after birth so my buddy had the vasectomy to prevent another such occurrence.He...

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Snapped rod, punched holes in the front and rear of the block and 2 holes in the oil pan, autopsy has yet to be concluded but I pulled the upper half of a rod with the wrist pin still attached out of the bigger oil pan hole. As you can see in the pic, the two center rods both broke, I will take...

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You didn't connect the HD while the computer was on did you? :nono: You can fry your PSU doing that by putting a sudden unexpected surge on it.You can try power cycling the PSU, flick the switch in back and let it sit a few sec then turn back on and try to power up the computer.If it...

In Indiana it takes 2+ cops for every traffic stop. I got pulled over in Valparaiso for speeding, 2 mins after I got pulled over 2 more cops show up and they chat for 10 mins or so, then another cop shows up. The cops now 5 of them talk for a few mins then the first cop comes over to me and says...

If the EvoX auto trans can hold up and shift like the VW/Audi/Ferrari DSG then they have a winner. When I first went to VW looking for a car I wanted a stick, I drove one and liked it but the sales guy insisted that I drove the DSG in S mode with the Traction Control off. The car blew my socks...

It has been upper 80's low 90's for the last week up here in NW Indiana, today it dropped a bit after a big storm rolled through last night, right now its 74.You can keep the snow, I am quite thrilled to have these nice warm fall days.

I have not done it myself but my cousin did a 18 month HVAC cert that included controls stuff. He went to ITT in Chicago.

I don't even want to think about some of the worst things I have seen on line.This thread is doomed for the lock.

ABS prop valve has 4 ports, non ABS prop valave has 6 ports.

Sure makes sense to me, gas prices go up, things cost more, you now have less luxury money for things like ice cream and other junk food.The idea of public trans is nice, if you live in a city... Out here where everything is 5-10 miles away or worse we have no options for public trans and...

Yep, been there. Punched the side window in my S-10, broke the window, my middle finger metacarpal, and needed 6 stitches.

Not 100% true, an axle can break but not come apart, I had it happen and it drove me nuts for 2 months trying to figure it out. The splines stripped off one of the axle end but stayed in place, the axle would spin in the CV spider.If you broke a U-joint it would be obvious, your prop shaft...

I strongly suggest you get this and turn on the spelling and punctuation settings, reading your post is painful.Ah, if you think you broke an axle then how about looking at it to see if it is broken? If you suspect it is broken then stop driving on it or you will damage something.

transfer - cast iron with steel gears and shafts(~ 50lb) rear diff - aluminum case, steel gears/housing trans - ~10lb of AL, the rest is steel

Your problem sounds very similar to what I went through when I put in the first ACT2600. The clutch disengagement point would keep dropping further and further to the floor till the point where it just wouldn't disengage as the day went on but it would be fine after sitting around for a few...

Failure is on your part friend, ds-map is for the 1g, a 2g variant is not out yet.

Crankwalk is about a 1:1000 occurrence which typically crops up when people start modding the heck out of their car without thinking about the increased stress vs old stock parts.I have put 140k miles on a 7-bolt with 0 indication of crankwalk, 50k of those miles were pushing 350+whp. Granted...

If you have no intention of ever going over 300whp then the 190 lph fuel pump is fine, if you plan on going over 300 then get a 255 and an AFPR.You need something to do fuel control, a good old Apexi AFC works just fine if you spend the time to understand what your logger is telling you...

Try this... /edit Wasn't sure if that would post, the mbc wasn't right, now it should work.

Do you already have an eprom ECU? This would be a 95 GST/X computer?If you are looking for the ECU itself then try ebay, the classifieds on this board and other dsmboards, Mitsu Graveyard, and maybe even your local junk yard.If you are looking for a eprom chip then dsmlink is the best...

Why not get your auto trans built up? There are several guys on this forum running IPT trans parts running sub 10's.Heh my Ex-GF couldn't drive my car back when I was running the ACT 3200# clutch setup, she only weighed like 105, she just didn't have the leg strength to push the clutch down...

When was the last time your water pump was replaced? never right? This is likely the rumble, the water pumps bearings failed.Do you still have all the stock radiator shrouding in front of the radiator?Does the pass side fan run when the car is "hot"? Does the drivers side fan run when your...

I passed emissions on the same tune that netted me low 11's... with no cat(hollow), evap can, egr, etc.

Umm DSM toolbox? Adjustable wrench Klein 10-1 screwdriver Flashlight Caution flashy cones Cell w/ flatbed tow truck drivers personal cell on speed dial 880w power inverter w/ cell charger /laptop cablesThe last 4 times my DSM broke down it required a flatbed ride home or to a shop... Blown...

I have been using an Ebay B&M knockoff shifter for ~2 years with out a problem due to the shifter. I did how ever have the bolt in the shifter assembly that the shifter mounts to break off. It was a pita but I was able to drive home with a vice grips holding the bracket together for the ride...

Reciprocating mass = pistons and rods and in some cases the crank if it isn't balanced vs the weight of the said pistons and rods.Don't worry about stall from low rotating mass, the only time you will even notice it is when the engine is cold.You don't even need to touch the engine's...

Get a Lawyer NOW, stop any downloading/uploading NOW.Don't out yourself on the web, it will be used against you, DON'T say anything stupid.

Well, first off I would ask how many running processes show on the task manager? You should see 22-26 depending on what kind of hardware requirements you have such as wireless cards, bluetooth, or itunes ipodservices.You said your running 1g of ram but only see 687meg? Sounds like a ram stick...

I remember seeing a CF pass side airbag cover but I think it required removing the airbag.The 2g dash and airbag covers are covered in vinyl that stretches and shrinks with hot and cold, there really isn't much that can be done to prevent the problem.