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Yes, I do actually, and my point still stands.
The I6 in my truck will throw flames out of the collector of it's exhaust manifold. Your point?
ALL gasoline burning engines spit fire. ALL of them. Yours, mine, the weedwhacker the neighbor annoys you with at four in the morning, all of them. Two or four stroke, piston or wankel, it does not matter, they all spit flame out the exhaust port. The fuel-air mix just doesn't have enough time to burn completely before the exhaust valve opens if you've got any significant amount of throttle or RPM on.
Only if you're building a race engine. If you're building a street engine you do not need to wrap the headers, even on a wankel. Yes, it will get hotter than it would on a piston engine, but it's still not going to get hot enough to warrant wrapping it.
That's pretty standard for every car ever made. The factory manifolds are designed for packaging and noise reduction, so they end up quite restrictive. My engine stands to get the same boost when I install a header.
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I've seen headers for my sbc on Craigslist for $15. No pictures, and when I asked for them my phone wouldn't load them.:(
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Ok, your old post i rated funny. This one I'm resorting to a simple dumb. Sorry.
If you don't know how hot rotary exhaust actually is, then no, you don't know what a rotary is. Aside from the typical "IT HAS TRIANGLES AND OVALS LOL" anyways. If wrapping a header on a rotary (my rotary) has been seen to increase power even more than not wrapping it, then i don't give a shit how unwarranted you think it is, I'm wrapping it. Argue all you want about how you think you know everything and pick apart every part of my post to stir shit up, i already wrapped it and it's staying that way. Deal with it.
I started out trying to be reasonable but fuck it, if you don't like it ignore it, i don't care.
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Re-reading this, i didn't mean to make a flaming or ranting post, i just don't understand why after i make a perfectly reasonable response as to why i felt like wrapping my header (Which isn't a big goddamn deal anyways, don't know why you're calling me out on it) you feel the need to pick apart my post piece by piece and argue with every little damn thing i said, acting like I'm some idiot. It's a bit annoying.
So there. That said, I wrapped it because i wanted to not only lower the underhood temps (Because yes, rotaries do get extremely hot, not just a little bit hotter than pistons but REALLY hot) but also to help with horsepower gains. I chose to go with wrapping because like i posted above i got 100 feet of it for 20 bucks, whereas sending it out for ceramic coating would not only take ages, but also cost triple what i actually paid for the damn thing.
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You have fun needlessly replacing headers every few years because they rot away underneath the wrapping. I tried to save you some money, but oh well.
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Please, both of you, Knock it off. the fighting doesn't add to the thread and makes everyone unhappy.
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I AM SO UNHAPPY
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MY UPPIPE IS WRAPPED
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i put in an SCT 4-bank eliminator tuner today
the car revs up faster
yay
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Replaced original headunit, put in a cigarette lighter and repositioned the holder thing for the sunglasses
Had to upgrade the fuse from 10 to 15 since the headunit fried it after being on for a couple of seconds
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Also I think I'm gonna just paint the silver parts on the headunit black. It was cheap and it's starting to show alot of wear so it'll probably look better no matter how badly I do it
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I made Jap put his damn projectors in himself
My friend B on the left and I chilled while we watched him fumble around with it. We're hella CRX bros. He has the red rex I redid some of the harness on a while back.
Then I rolled Jap's fenders because he's got my bigass 14" tire/wheel combo I ran on the CRX for a while and they rubbed a bit.
He also finally got his window fixed.
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Added diamond plate railings, toolbox, and train horns to my boss's truck. Also fixed his muffler and blower fan too. I got so much damn rust in my eyes I think I ate about 5 pounds of rust.
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Painted some old black wrinkle 273 commando valve covers from the cuda out back for my truck.
Before
After
Pictures tomorrow when I get them on.
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Lets see, what did I do to my car today. Blew the transmission and torque converter. Took to shop 1,800 to fix it. Getting it fixed then selling it. FUCK FORD its an explorer with only 124k miles and meticulously followed service schedule. Time to get an impreza, corolla, or camry. And manual too this truck will be last automatic I EVER get.
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Good luck with finding an Impreza. I searched for months here and couldn't find one. The only non-wagon I found was a Legacy SS but it was riced out and automatic. D:
Then again, we have a shitty selection of cars here. Smaller than Vancouver and very touristy, so not a lot of cars for sale here.
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What year was it and did it see any heavy towing or off-roading?
This is never a bad idea if you have all your limbs about ya.
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I ebay'd some LCAs so I can get my sway bar back on. Still gotta fab up some sway bar links iirc, I thought I had some laying around but I don't think I do now.
They're pretty nice quality for ebay junk. If they had some good bushings they'd be a quality piece. Still totally worth the $55 I dished out, though. Might sink some money into Energy bushings later on and have some decent LCAs.
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When it comes to ebay parts, I've had minimal issues with suspension. I've run Godspeed coilovers with no complains, they got a little rusty after a few months but I just cleaned 'em up and gave them a coat of clear and that fixed it. Ebay strut braces are just as good as more expensive brands, and I just tack weld them so they don't flex on their mating points. I never understood why they aren't solid to begin with:
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Replaced fuel filter yesterday with the help of my grandpa. Yet my car STILL runs like shit
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My strut brace is the same way. I haven't had to do anything to it, but it was on the car when I bought it so I haven't fucked with it.When it comes to ebay parts, I've had minimal issues with suspension. I've run Godspeed coilovers with no complains, they got a little rusty after a few months but I just cleaned 'em up and gave them a coat of clear and that fixed it. Ebay strut braces are just as good as more expensive brands, and I just tack weld them so they don't flex on their mating points. I never understood why they aren't solid to begin with:
I don't think I've ever had a problem with any ebay part I've ordered. I've run two ebay turbos and they did fine too. Not saying it's all good stuff, there are shit pieces out there, but generally common sense will help you avoid them.
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i have an ebay oil feed line but i'm afraid to use it
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I've run a couple of them, you just have to be careful about tightening them down, I ended up twisting one and I was afraid it'd leak after that so I used my other one. Had no problems out of it.
Don't use the returns though. The one I had leaked from the hose itself, like it was full of pinholes. It was free, but still. I ended up using two barbs and some good high pressure hose with a couple of clamps for return.
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It was a 2002 Sport Trac, never towed anything, I had actually just put a tow ball on it a week before so I could get a trailer for my bike. Only time I ever offroaded was a gravel road trail thing; wasn't even really offroading.
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Got the ebay LCAs in. They're alright.
Waiting on some drop springs now.
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This, I believe is why people refer them to "Exploders". They are just not built to last anymore...
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Well, I walked outside and stared at the Cobra. Said fuck-it, its too cold and walked inside. Alot done today ay?
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bought 3 copies of the 1995 cobra r from the february DLC pack in forza 4 and fucked around for hours
the joy i felt
the joy
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At least your car is in games, shortbox d150 is nonexistent in games, not even as a shitty background vehicle. Would love to play forza or GT5 with my truck, would spend hoooours.
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Not gonna find a longbed Gen 7 F150 in them either :\
Sometimes you'll find a Gen 8 Lightning though, which is close.
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No. They call them Exploders because of the firestorm tire fiasco.
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Huh, odd. I never did like Sport Tracs though, thought they were ugly and disposable. Guess my thoughts aren't far off.
We just bought a '97 with 200K on it and it seems to be running like a top, automatic and all. If it does throw a gearbox we're putting a manual in it.
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Hey, I feel you man. The CRX might be in a few games (It's in Forza 4 and GT5 in SiR trim, which is B-series), but I can't think of any games with my EF in it. If they have Civic hatchbacks they are usually the fifth and sixth generation.
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I must get Forza 4 back from my cousin. He's had it for months. :saddowns:
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I finished design of the circuit for my Picasso-Wheel-to-Sony-Head-Unit control box.
It works... Perfectly :D
Now to just rebuild it on some veroboard as a permanent circuit... When my new reel of solder arrives.
For those who care, I was using transistors to switch varying resistances to control the Sony head unit, but I am now switching arduino pins to input mode for high impedance and setting them to Output and LOW to ground them, presenting a resistance to the head unit. Eliminated 12 components by doing that.
... Hey it's car related, electrical but still car related.
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Everyone I know calls them Exploders for reasons that have nothing to do with tires...
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I want to work on my truck, thinking about getting some new spark plugs, etc. but I'm broke until payday. :(
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Sanded my crossbraces, cleaned them, got rid of rust on my dog bones, painted them back, painted my crossbraces, painted my intake elbow.
Wondered what do to today, so I ended up doing this to occupy myself.
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My civic is in no games :(
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That would be the "Firestone tire fiasco". And No, they call them exploders because a rather large portion of Ford's explorer had a tendency to explode their parts, such as engines, fan clutches, axles and so on.
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That's what i was going to say. We used to own one and i can say from experience, they are called exploders because shit is ALWAYS BREAKING. They're/were pretty shit to be honest, we didn't own it for very long before trading it in.
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I'd love one of the new ones though. Assuming I had a family.
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My mom has a 2004 explorer, V6, it gets shit has mileage, about 14-16. It has 160 thou km on it right now, the heated seat and sound dial has gone but other than that it serves it's purpose as a a-b vehicle. Was an EX rental vehicle so once it his 200 thou it should start exploding, then we get a diesel jeep or something cool.
Also, got my valve covers on today, I love how they look.
Before
And after
After I got them on I messed up the spark plug wires somehow and me and my dad had to spend half an hour figuring it out, just so happened that it was snowing and I was doing to swap outside so we were forced to do it before I parked it back inside.
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Going to put some MSD wires on tomorrow for shits and giggles, they are for the coronet so it would be temporary.
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Need some shorty headers! :D
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Well, it seems like the PS and Alternator belts in my car are loose. Alas, fixing the problems of a new
used car. Heh. I'm gonna tighten them up tommorow and see if that fixes the squealing (Loud squeal for up to several seconds on a cold start.)
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And I now have my wheel controls back, yay.
OK, it's not the neatest board in history...
Still a small software bug that causes the volume down button to bug sometimes but I can sort that later with a one-lien code change.
At least my car has a gigantic void behind the radio to drop this crapload of cabling into.
And although it is fused inline I may also add a further 100ma fuse just to be safe. (This thing only draws like 20-30ma)
Dumb x 2
Agree x 1
Winner x 1
Friendly x 1
Disagree x 2
