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Teggykid952

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Well the other day I decided to finally use the header wrap I had acquired because I got tired of looking at my chipping paint. So, here's a pic! Shit's a pain in the ass for anyone thinking about doing it

 


Teggykid952

New Member
Well, some bad news everyone. Not a whole lot has happened with the teg until Friday night. I left for work an hour early to get some food, and while in line I heard my car making a strange noise like something was rubbing against a moving part or something. So I drive to work, eat in the parking lot, then proceed to pop the hood and see what's up. The noise seemed to be coming from under the timing belt cover, so I thought it would be wise to make sure my timing belt was ok. In the process of pulling the top part of the cover off, the little rubber gasket that attaches to it that fits around the motor mount fell off and down into the lower part of the cover, unknown to me. When I saw nothing wrong, I went to start the car. When I tried to start her up, she wouldn't turn over very much, almost like having a dead-ish battery. So while looking around I somehow saw the little piece down in there. I went inside, bought one of those bendy claw things, and got it out. Thinking I had solved the issue, I went to start the car again. Same thing. So after some help from a friend, I couldn't get it started and gave up, going to work instead since I was already 2 hours late clocking in. I got a ride home from a friend and my dad came up to where I live now the next morning. That night, when I picked up the rubber piece that had fallen in, I noticed it was a little chewed up, causing me to believe it had gone through the timing belt and caused it to skip a tooth or two. Boy was I right. The next day my dad and I put it back in time, but it still wouldn't run unless I had the gas pressed, and even then it ran like complete shit and made a weird noise once I stopped. We did a compression test and sure enough, cylinder #3 comes back 50psi low, all the rest being at a perfect 145-150 range. So tomorrow the car is being towed back to my parents house where the head will be coming off and sent to a local shop the get the valves that are bent fixed. What a great Christmas!

On a semi-happier note, I ordered a set of Yonaka full coilovers for her as a Christmas present from my parents and myself. I'm paying what the money they gave me from Christmas doesn't cover, so about $375. Hopefully this repair won't be too much so I'll be able to keep them. Shop should charge right around $150 to fix the valves. Stay tuned for some updates. The coilovers will be in on the 2nd so I'll be writing up a review since there aren't very many for that brand.
 

jbrown97ls

Active Member
Such a bummer! :( hopefully all goes smooth and you can get it back on the road fairly quick.
 


justjdm

DB8 Whore
Make sure u get the head resurfaced so the head gasket doesn't go! I would swap the head studs with ARP ones while the head is off too! Hope u can get it up and running soon!
 

Teggykid952

New Member
Well the car got towed home today and we also started the process of taking the head off. Honestly so far it hasn't been too hard. The head bolts are on there pretty good and the extension and socket we were trying to use started bending a little too much so we decided to call it for a night and pick up an impact socket and extension tomorrow. Here's a couple pics





 

Teggykid952

New Member
Sorry for not checking in for so long. Basically the car hasn't changed much. Raised it some and looking into trading wheels. So far I haven't been too successful haha. Ordered another axle from Raxles today in preparation of Import Alliance and SouthrnFresh: Welcome to Alanta! Supposed to be in by the end of the week, so I've got time :) Here's a pic that I snapped one day on campus! Also, went to the track the other night with some friends and did a couple runs. Finally broke 15's! Ignore the reaction time of course as it was just practice and I only did 3 runs. Wheel hopping like crazy, probably because I never dropped the pressure in the tires so I was still at 35psi haha. Here's a pic of the time slip as well. Stay classy everyone. I'll try and check in more often!


 

Teggykid952

New Member
Well I got my rear tires swapped, camber wear was pretty bad haha. Also FINALLY figured out why my car shakes between 70-80mph while installing my new Raxles axle yesterday. I think before it was shitty axles, but now it's this:



Yeah, that's my diff bearing if I'm not mistaken. It's not doing too well haha. I guess that also explains why I can wiggle my axle a little bit. Going to just buy a new trans this summer. Hopefully this POS will hold off until then. Only about a month or so to go before I'm out of school. Also a pic of the tires. Getting the fronts swapped this week to. Hopefully I'll be rolling on new wheels after Import Alliance this coming weekend.

 

Teggykid952

New Member
Pics from IA!









And new wheels! Going to get the retarded amounts of camber corrected this week probably and then in the near future I'll repaint them to a nice silver!



 
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