Never go full retard.

Yikes OMG

That turbo...is the size of my torso :applause: Any idea on spool time and/or eventual boost levels? Holy balls...

Wow. You must be the flipping jesus of body work to be able to say that it's nothing to brag about. I urge you to check out NASIOC; you'd fit right in :ohdamn:

Why not buy a stock WRX? Come on guys :nono: A stock WRX does not look like a Honda. Obviously the guy loves the way the car looks and wanted to do something innovative with it.As for calling it a "waste of time"...the same can be argued for most of our 15+ year-old cars. Those living in...

Why do you dislike direct injection?Also, I forget who was raggin on god's chariot aka the SVX, but you are wrong :p Those cars are made out of 4 parts steel, 2 parts aluminum and 10 parts AWESOME.

It doesn't necessarily have to be torque on top of what the engine makes...having another source of power for the drivetrain must certainly give them greater flexibility on ICE design.

Hehe, I laughed :thumb:

Nickel-cadmium battery packs are pretty hefty, it's true, but the whole industry is moving to lithium batteries, which are much much lighter. Any new(er) laptops run these batteries precisely because they weigh so little.Also, even if Mitsubishi decides to make a hybrid Evo, it's highly...

YES. We need more stories like these. I have too many to count. Keep on keepin' on dude :applause:

What's the deal with the ape?

Pandora. Every time I open the damn hood, another problem seems to pop up.

I had a similar problem with exhaust after the car had been sitting for a bit (holes eating out all around the back facing on the muffler). I picked up a 3"inlet/3"outlet muffler from Megan Racing that also included a silencer. I believe I paid a little over $100 for it. A side perk is that...

Bahahaha this happens to me ALL THE TIME hahahahaha:cool:Nice to know there are others out there in the same situation :rocks:

1995 Tsi.Finally have the old girl running right, no CEL any more, and now I'm down to the aesthetic stuff--like a dipstick ;)

It came from here:I haven't matched anything up yet as this was just a temporary fix to get me home and back last night. I'll be cutting another (metal) dipstick to length to fit until I get my hands on a 1g stick.

Hourly update = fail. Teh Interweb was down at my apartment last night (yay Comcast).However, since I'm posting, I have obviously either a) manipulated a compooter via the afterlife or b) made it home and back to school.Hint: pick B :)So the foil/zip tie thing didn't work out...drove to...

So here's the deal. I'm looking at a combination of aluminum foil and zip ties. I'm a little worried about the zip ties since the plastic melted once already. Hopefully it will hold up.About to head home. Will update hopefully within the hour.Thanks for the suggestions. Fingers...

When you say "do not boost"....I have a teenie turbo that boosts as soon as I breathe on the throttle. I will try not to. But what else can I do? I don't have anything that will fasten to the top of the dipstick that won't just melt like the old one.

Here's the deal. The plastic on top of my oil dipstick melted today. I need to rig something together to a) keep the stick from falling into the tube and b) seal the hole so nothing falls into it while I drive the 25 miles home tonight from my shop.I am sitting in the student garage at...

I had it laying around the shop and had some time to kill on Friday so I figured, why not? We'll see how it holds up.Dipstick:

I installed my new coolant lines. They do indeed smell like cherry. They taste like coolant though; probably just dirty :hmm:. Both radiator hoses were too long, so I cut them to fit. There's still a little bend in the upper one that you can clearly see but it seems to be holding up well so...

^Lives where it's cold.

Out of all the stock cars to pick a fight with...why on earth would anyone choose a DSM?If it runs long enough to get to the strip and line up to race :pray:, it'll walk that dude's rig no problem ;)

This thread is like asking a community of alcoholics if you should try Budweiser. :cool:

I realize I recently posted about being super-psyched that my Tsi was finally running right. Since then, several things have happened.1) I installed new rear calipers 2) I failed to resurface the rear rotors after caliper install :banghead: 3) I ordered a coolant hose kit from Import...

Does Bioshock qualify?One word: Amazing.P.S. - Bioshock 2 is coming out shortly (or may have already been released).

So is he really trying to sell that or was he just offering it to you hoping you'd agree?

Holy balls dude :cool:

Dude. I don't mean to harsh your mellow, but you don't need an apostrophe in every word that ends with the letter "S".Other than that...good job?

Pffft...up in the great white north we sneeze at 24" storms... :p

I don't understand how the violin-playing beaver hasn't been mentioned yet.

Look dude, I'm not trying to be a prick here, but I think you may be assuming that I know a lot less than I actually do. I know what the downstream o2 sensor does. I understand that many people use simulators. I also know that neither of these things have any bearing on my question.What I...

I wonder if the downstream o2 sensor malfunctioning could cause it to stay in open loop.

I know exactly what was triggering the CEL: downstream o2 sensor heater circuit malfunction.It's fixed now.What I want to know is whether the status of the CEL affects open/closed loop operation.As far as your hijacking goes, well, I don't really see the point. I'd imagine you'd get...

Mosquito.

Thank you for being nice. For what it's worth, however, I read both of those already this morning. Neither one directly addresses my question. :hmm:Am I to assume, then, that because the CEL/MIL is not listed in either as a trigger for open loop, it has no bearing on open/closed loop...

If the CEL/MIL is illuminated, will the ECU ever enter closed loop?Will the ECU enter closed loop with the CEL/MIL on if the cause of the light is something less-than-critical (i.e. catalyst efficiency)?

Well, it was a little cheaper to buy a cat and o2 sensor than it was to buy DSMlink and an EEPROM chip.Plus, I feel like using something to just turn the light off is sort of like cheating on a repair...no offense intended to those out there who do this if (as knochgoon24 pointed out) they...

I drive a '95 Tsi AWD. I paid waaaaay too much for it four years ago, and the previous owner claims an "evo3 engine + transmission swap". I have my doubts...more likely a donor RVR powertrain. Regardless...Today, my goal was to diagnose a TPS "closed throttle switch" problem. Turned out to...

Wiring his horn relay to the brake switch is always good for a few laughs.

You determine that it's just barely closed by watching resistance on pins 3-4 until you go from closed to open continuity, correct?

What exactly do you unscrew? I'm getting bucking in gear at low rpm when letting off the throttle but want to test my TPS for sure before I install the $150 new one.

So I'll need to extract the studs and replace them with longer ones, as well as longer bolts. When going with a longer bolt/stud, is there any adjustment to torque spec required, or should I go with the factory specs for the intake manifold?

Didn't know the intake manifold has studs, thought they all were bolted to the head? Or are you referring to something else?I won't pretend to be an expert here. Just trying to get some ideas straightened out before I start pulling things apart. But I was working under the assumption that...

.250 as in .250" ? I was thinking thicker = better since it would afford a more gradual transition between mani and head. Is there some limiting factor for thickness besides firewall clearance?And yes, it is a cyclone intake. Otherwise I wouldn't bother with all this.

The car isn't going to the track/strip so I'm not interested in top-end. Low-end sounds nice but mostly I want to slap this intake on and see what kind of a difference it makes compared to the stock 2g intake mani. My priority is finding a way to do this that circumvents head porting or...

Somebody please explain to me what will go wrong with this:Take a 1g intake mani. Put a solid spacer (aluminum?) between that mani and the 2g head. Carve out tapered passages in the spacer to transition from the larger intake mani ports to the smaller head ports.Worse comes to worse, I'm...

Holy balls.

Let's see em! Been reading through a couple threads of people asking for advice and whether to go wingless or not and I've been considering the same thing. I figured it would be handy to have a collection of examples for everyone to see.So...if you've got your hands on a wingless 2g, or...