When I was living at my parents house, their driveway is between their house and a 3-flat, with a garden-type apartment on the lower level. So literally the windows are on the ground and even with car exhausts when open. I would always lets the Talon warm up and would hear about it all the time...

If the water pump itself was shot you'd be having overheating problems. With you saying that the temps stay perfectly at the middle on the gauge, it should be good. Always starts with the T-Stat since it's the quickest and easiest and cheapest. That's usually the problem anyways. I personally...

2 weeks after buying the Talon, 50 in a 35. Actually was clocked at 49 but cop bumped it up so I got the higher ticket. Was $120 or so with driving school. Paid off, went to class and all clean record.Lots of warnings in the Talon, but that was my only "moving"' ticket ever.Got a red light...

My good buddy drove my Talon a couple times just to see what the turbo felt like. He helped me with a lot on that car and was always my ride when it broke so I felt I had to. Only let him have minimum time behind the wheel though.There is one time we were drinking at my place and I got pretty...

Buddy in his MX6 had his CF hood fly up. Ever since then, I refuse to even move in a vehicle with a lightweight hood unless it has hood pins or some kind of tie down.

C-Clamp and a Brass T-fitting (slightly cut down), and a rag on the bottom.

Glen, I shot you a text this morning.

Couple weeks ago. Actually been storing it in my shed for awhile, but decided to buy it and get it running again.

Does anyone know of any good carb rebuilders for bikes? Got a Kawasaki GPx750 that needs rebuilds bad. I don't mind if I have to ship them somewhere. But if they're in Chicago that'd be even better.Any recommendations? Thanks

Bought one of these last night. Pictured below is not mine, but exactly the same. 82 Ninja KZ750H. Been in storage for awhile. Got the carbs all cleaned last night. Front cover is off (looks like garbage with it on)

You may be right on that and that being the TTY ones. I withdraw my 1/4 past statement on the ARPs. 30-60-90 for sure though. Sorry.

I used to do the 30-60-90. Make sure you do it in the proper order though or it won't seal. Never had an issue with the head not sealing properly with doing it that way.

Had the Crowers Stage 2 (don't remember the specs on them or how similar) but had ended up losing some low end power but had a nice kick in the power curve at around 3600rpm. That was before I had turbo. Add the turbo into that mix and it kicked pretty nicely.

Intake, exhaust and intake does not need MS. Early on, I had all that, fully built head with cams, and only added a SAFC to lean it down some when had some dyno time.You paid good money for that motor and work. You can do a full high performance rebuild on your own half of that. As much as...

No missing link needed on a 95. ECU has no with boost.

Love mine. 1975 Monte Carlo Landau. Although some don't consider it a muscle car, I consider mine one. Has a SBC400 modded pretty good, mild cam... has a bom bomb bom when rolling up. It's a head turner for sure when rolling anywhere. Loud too with longtube headers and 2.5" pipes. Neighbors...

Hey everyone. Not DSM, but same concepts apply. Got a bunch of shows that I'm taking my Monte to this coming month and getting her all prepped. She's usually clean under the hood since garage kept and rarely ever gets taken out. However, the vac hoses always look crappy. They're all less than...

You people actually read the comments on YouTube? I thought that was just a place to be stupid and talk crap about everyone who is not the author of the post.

I replaced my OEMs with the black housing (clear lenses) with halos off eBay. Don't know if they're still out there anymore since it's been years. But The black housing blended perfect with black car. I had the halos wired up, but one ended up getting a flicker to it within a year so unhooked...

Was going to say my best upgrade was going from the Talon to a 75 Monte. Loved the Talon but old school always wins.Best upgrade for the Talon was going NT to Turbo

What are you using to see the TPS readings?I had the same issue when using a SAFC; it only read the TPS at around 75% at WOT. The ECU was seeing 100% but the SAFC would rarely ever. And that was after the cable was adjusted over and over again. When I installed MSnS, was 100% right off the...

So you're running the car with the stock fuel pump? Don't boost at all then. Hell I wouldn't even drive it at all until you get the FP."Tie in" meaning installed? Not 100% sure how the AFPR gets installed, but would assume that it's in the return line just like the FMU.

Do you have FMU or SFMU?My original setup had a 12:1 FMU and a Wally 255fp. That's all you need for 8lbs. When I built the motor I went with a SFMU, 750 injectors and MegaSquirt. I did have to modify the rail to cut out the FPR when going that route, but not needed to do with the FMU and...

How about "In This Moment"? Maria Brink... mmmm I'd do bad things all over. I can't think of the one hit that's all over the radio right now sadly and not finding it online.Found it... Called Blood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZF5m-vmDzM][/youtube] Seriously though, google her name... damn!

There are almost TOO many DSMs in Chicago and the suburbs. I'm on the Southwest side (Midway area) and used to always hit up the cruise nights and meets with the people around. Lots of good people around though. Stay away from the DSM Ricers though. They think they're the shit.

1988 Olds Cutlass Ciera 2dr (rusted) 1995 Talon ESi (turboed, built, parted) 2003 Pontiac Grand Am (cracked block) 1975 Chevy Monte Carlo (sbc400, restoring) 2012 Chevy Sonic (current DD)

Blocks are cheap. Check Craigslist too. That's where I find my blocks. Get machined, spend under $300 each time.Also check the Classifieds here. Lots of people have stuff that are slightly used. I've got rod/piston combo in there right now. When I parted out my car sold a lot through the...

Got ya. Thanks guys.About the weight, I've put on a lot more muscle then what I had then when first on it, but figures it would still be heavy for a while.Guess I'll start looking late winter next year and see what I can find.

Hey all; Figured I would ask you guys here since it seems a lot of you know about bikes. I've been getting interested in picking up a bike, but not looking to spend too much since my 75 Monte Carlo takes up most of my spare cash. My buddy has a 1983 Kawasaki Ninja sitting in storage in my shed...

Pretty easy. Just find everything and pull it all out. Any lines still left in the car, just cap off with vacuum caps. For example there's one hard line coming from the fuel tank up to the canister. Just cap it, or vent it. No real difference, but if you vent, make sure it's not in the engine...

Just by the oil filter. Is this a new problem and just start happening out of nowhere or did you make any changes to your setup?

I believe the Neon clutch will work as I think it's the same as the n/t 2G. I remember specificially looking for a 2g cluitch though. The bolts holding the flywheel to the crank has to be Neon bolts though.

I can personally vouce and always tell people to always use at least the bottom cover. I ran my new motor without a cover while I was still working on her and trying to find one in good shape. I was driving, had the alternator belt get ripped, shred and run itself through my timing belt. Lost...

I had the crank scrapper on my 420a. No baffles though. Never had any issue with it besides some leaking issues when first installed. Gasket fail. There's no 'noticable gains' from it, but can't do any bad.Still have the scrapper too if you're intereseted. PM me.

1) Knuckles... when they break. 2) Pretty sure they're not. Fronts are different from the rears. The ABS fronts are different from non-ABS fronts 3) Dealer / AutoZone? 4) 5) I believe you'd get the GSX for the front if you do the converstion. Then any 2G Eclipse FWD for the back. I believe...

I had a full Fidanza setup on mine. 8lb flywheel, 4puck disc. Was a great setup for the time, granted I didn't put too many miles on it though.The lightweight flywheel will help the engine rev up quicker. Had to relearn how to drive after installing the setup. RPMs drop much quicker and just...

Agreed, very annoying.Nonmodular is the way to go IMO. The flywheel bolts canm be found almost anywhere. The install is really straight forward. Took a matter of minutes to do mine.

Originally had stock internals, fully built head. 8psi on a little T3 with FMU, SAFC and FMIC. Ran for about 10k miles or so to about 120,000 miles. I'm sure would have lasted longer if didn't get in lean conditions as often as I did. Stupid me.

Just wanted to post an update on this. Started driving to work last Friday, and the GA died on the expressway in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I took the day off and ended up driving to my shop. Trans checked out perfect. The CEL has been on for the cat, but no big. Turns out, the cat was so...

Would go with bearings as well. My front passenger side was pretty bad. Got to be more of a moaning at higher speeds.

Thanks for the responses.Bought the car with a warped head off a buddy for $250. Can't go wrong for the price I paid, getting it running, then the little I've put into it since. Have had for 2+ years now... lasted longer than I expected it to.No clue on if/when trans fluid was changed...

Thanks for the reply. Amazingly someone attempted to help.No it doens't have tap shift. I was supposed to take it in this weekend but failed at doing so. Possibly this coming weekend, since I just got an emissions notice and my muffler on this thing is half hanging off, so time for some...

What's going on everyone? Quick question about my 01 Grand Am. I've never had an auto trans issues, so really don't know if it's a common issue or anything. I'll giev a quick background to it to, incase it may tie in with another problem. Here's the situation.I took the car in back in...

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I agree with the "low-balling is the start of negotiations" comment. However, most of the time on Craigslist, you can tell EXACTLY when it's one or the other. When people reply with "yo i sEn your ad on CL and them parts. Still got braw?", you know that's not going to be good. Every great...

Done this all numerous times. :notgood:I use chaulk to mark on the cap where the distrib is at.Dampner is new. Used installer to get on there tight. Crank has a little key piece, so can't slip anyways. Made sure when I tore her down this weekend that the marks on the dampner were...

When installing the distrib, both valves were closed, #1 at TDC. Again, pointed distrib to #1 and wired it up. I'm 99% sure the wires are ran right. Pretty easy once you do that a million times.Aluminum heads came with the car (no clue on brand or specs). They were slightly warped and got...

Ok so I was at the garage all weekend. Still failing. Here's what I did. I know that it should work have the way it was, but I tore down for a piece of mind.Tore down with block still in car. Got cam at 6, crank at 12 Assembled back together Crank @ -12BTDC Distrib pointing toward...

Love it. Love the IC one too... always will be a classic.

The Haynes book actually. From what I read in it, all models except for V6 were supposed to be at 12 and 12.Still when drawing pics, one full turn of the crank and the cam would then be at 6. So I don't get how that would be the issue. Maybe i'm just not getting the visual properly.