Prices are higher for sure. I can only remember supreme gas at 99 cents and Marlboro's for 2 bucks.

In the mean time, I just got a new rear tailgate garnish. My CF one is just not lasting in this Texas weather so I decided to make it simple.

 

Marlboros were $1.30 a carton in the PXs on base camps in Vietnam but being in a Marine Corps infantry company I usually got then for free... They were .35 when I left for there and .50 when I got back to the states.. During gas price wars it was common to see regular down to $00.23.9 a gallon and lower when I was real little and mowing yards... I have seen very few carbon fiber hoods that didn't look like hell. I'm pretty sure it is ultra violet rays and high temperature that uglifies them.. I made up that word uglify... I think it should be accepted as mainstream and be in the dictionary.

 

It's not the yellow badness that's making it look bad. The CF is warping from moisture/cold/heat. It just doesn't work as an overlay as I've gone through many different ways to try to make a permanent solution. Best way, just leave it alone or have one made from scratch.

 

BlueCell, you have a lot more patience than I will ever have.... I've noticed that patience is a common trait that a lot of people of Asian lineage have....

 

LOL, If I fail with that piece, I take it and destroy it. Don't you know Asian's are hot blooded?

 

I saw great looking watches being sold by little kids smoking Salems in DaNang.. They were in your face little guys that wouldn't give up on selling you one.. Now here is where the patience comes in, the damn things worked great for a little while.. I took one apart for a guy and found that the action had gears that were cut from a Budweiser beer can.. Now that took a great mind and lots of patience to make the thing tick and keep time even if it only did it for a week.

 

nothing special..
im bored so put a color on my brake pad..






sorry i just use iphone to take the photo ^_^

 

You rattle canned your brake caliper/pads, bleeder and hoses while they were assembled?

 

he sure did1 You don't think that will cause problems down the road when... oh I don't know... its time to do maintenance on them, do you?

 

He's gonna be using my angle-grinder ghetto rotor change method..

 

MNFit-

Any luck with your fuel signal trigger issue?

Bad trace on the ECU? Loose pin?

 

I checked and cleaned up the grounds yesterday, though they looked pretty clean. Still no real luck.

 

Check the fuel pump relays, I believe there is 2. Also reading that other people where having the same problems with their Kpro motors. The ecu would not recognize the relays after a while.

Just thinking that the battery might not be putting out 12 volts and also check the fuses. There should be 2 panels one in the engine and under driver seat and 1 on the battery.

 

Hmmm... Everything makes sense except he said the car starts fine with the laptop hooked up... Fuses and relays should be bad either way... Now the ECU part...

ECU issues can get deep very quick. Don't know if it's worth signal-tracing. Wonder if a re-flash would do the job.

If not, then a new ECU.... Or just mount your laptop on the car... and unmount when you park... ala radar detector/GPS... Cheer up bud, hope you figure out what's wrong...

 

Picked up a Fujita SRI today, so tomorrow I'll wash the GD3 and install that. T1R B-Max for sale! lol Next weekend I'm putting a deposit down to get my Tein Street Advance coils.

 

I missed that part that it worked with the laptop. Sounds like the ECU ground problem. The laptop completes the ground.

Electrical problems are hard to trace. Isn't he running two ECU's piggy backed? I hope he finds the problem, I like that car and motor.

Remember how we checked the OBD1 codes by grounding A and B with a paperclip? I wonder if that would ground the ecu to start.

 

Before washing my car this afternoon I decided to try and clean up my headlights.
My car is 10 years old now and the headlight housings had started to deteriorate quite badly, turning yellow in places and looking as if the top layer is chipping/peeling away in others.

Setting to work on them with a bottle of T-Cut, a clean rag (and plenty of elbow grease), they now look like this...






I'm afraid I forgot to take a "before" picture, but they certainly look much better now.
Glad I spent the time working on them.

 

I need to try this. Mine are 5 years old and already starting to get a bit of a haze over them. Good job man!

 

they are going to haze very quickly now.

 

Really? why is that?