Spectator

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While working on a 240sx.

So we had to remove the valve cover ( I dont remeber why ) and then we had to put it back on. While putting it back on, without noticing, we squeezed a small part of a wiring harness between the cover and the head. Just enough to ground some wires but not enough to fell it out of place. So when my friend started his car, the wippers and wipper juice started automaticly. It would only turn off is the car was turned off...
So he had to pull the fuse to drive home because it was getting to dark to work in the engine bay.

I was laughing my *** off. He was pissed.

Good times.

Twins80s

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Shortly after I got my rx it needed to have the emissions done. Well its idle was higher then what the guy would let test. So I just take a screw driver to all the screws I could see trying to get it to lower. Turns out I messed up the TPS and had to readjust it. Lesson learned lol

rotary#10

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this is a good thread
one time i was working on my FC and i was replacing the diff in my na 91
and i was lowering the subframe i took off the some of the bolts near the drivers and passagers doors. little did i know the day before that i had loosen them up.. and im under the car with 2 jacks and 2 jackstand thank goodness. and bam the subframe drops right on my chest crushing me to the ground which is uneven its nothing but graval rock.( this is not the whole subframe just the front where the diff. mount is) OUCH!!! good thing i could still push the subframe up and hold it with some bricks i had near by... man that was painful.. i learned my lesson the hard way.. i had a bruse on the center of my chest for about 3 days...
then i found some forums on here how to do it alot simplier... i got owned by the subframe

LOL i remember my friend has this 87 toyota carolla 4 door faded gold.
he had put some oil in his car and didn't put the oil cap back on!!! he was going to one of my friends house to kick it. and BOOM!!
Rattle-rattle - thunder- craddle... he says there was like a burst of smoke coming from his engine. LOL and there was nothing but oil on the inside of his engine bay and the oil cap was on the side hahah. so we let it sit and cool and bought another 2 quarts of oil.. hahaha i won't forget the look on his face that day PRICELESS! of course the car still ran after that..

simoncbrr1

I think i destroyed at least 2 100amp fuses before figuring out the right way to remove them, But the wors by far is when i bought a old 87 SE that had been sitting for a few years and while fixing her up i was removing the oil metering system. I always over tighten **** cause im paranoid it wont be tight enough and i overtightened the bolts i used to plug the oil injector holes. It was so tight that there was a indention on the inside of the rotor housing that caught the apex seal as it passed over it and blew the motor! I was so pissed!

eraser13bt

Ok i have to add my stupid stories. some are while working on cars and one is while cutting a dumb a$$ out of the car he wrecked. So this guy wraps his brand new Mazdaspeed 3 around a tree. so we decide the easiest way to get this guy out is to use a pair of "O" cutters to cut the a pillars, and b pillars and flap back the roof. no i have been doing this for a bit, this is not my first rodeo well i wasn't paying attention and long story short i forgot that the speed 3s have air bags in the a pillars. when it went off it scared the crap out of everyone on scene.
As far as car stories:
My dad an i were finishing up an SR20det swap on my 91 240sx, ( before they were the cool things to do) and say the high pressure line on the Power steering rack. soo we decided to replace it, for some reason the fact that it was a high pressure line never sank in and we used to some low pressure line. so we finish it up and refill it. i get in the car and crank it up and turn the wheel as my dad is looking down into the engine bay watching for leaks. suddenly i hear a pop and my dad looks up over the hood and he is covered from head to toe with power steering fluid.

I used to work for a performance shop worked and i was installing a set of turbos on a 300zx. so i finished up and the customer comes back about 2 hours after he left. and is complaining about this horrible noise. i put it back up on the rack and start looking and i realized i had forgotten to hook up the oil feed lines to both turbos. so i got to redo all the work including paying for a new motor cause the old one blew.

here is the dumbest thing i have ever done. i recently purchased a 87 turbo 2. i have since installed a full 3" turbo back exhaust, k&n drop in filter, boost gauge and air fuel ratio gauge, and a manual boost controller at 10 psi, FCD. so my Fiance needs to go to the store and i am parked behind her. so she decides to take the 7 and run to the store and sees i am at a 1/4 tank so she decides to be nice and fill it up. next day i am driving to work and the car decides to sputter. i back of the throttle and it runs fine. i boost it a little at a time and pings, so i let off. next morning i am leaving work and have had a really long shift ( 24 hour shift we ran 25 calls, calls take 1-1.5 hours) and i boost up and all of a sudden the car makes this horrible noise and shuts off. so i pop the clutch and it start back up with a horribly rough idle and shuts back off. now the car is getting a S5 jdm swap. she put in 87 octane in. in her defense her dad has a miata and it says unleaded only, and she saw that mine said the same thing. sigh.

eraser13bt

Forgot one, called a U-haul store to rent a tow dolly and told them i was going to use my 95 Tacoma to tow it. turns out the rx7 weighs more than the truck....

SpeedOfLife

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haha, your '7 needs to go on a diet

RockLobster

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This one was just a couple months ago. Dropped the car down after some suspension work and forgot to pull a jackstand from underneath.

Tie rod end became "J-shaped".

ivegonemad

Shenti

I wish my 7 would run.. im parting it out now for pretty cheep.. pm for details

lax-rotor

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That's a shameless plug if I ever saw one.

I don't know how many people live with an HOA but my Pilot Bearing went out recently and I put up the car on jackstands and started pulling the tranny. After working for a couple of hours it was getting rather windy/cold so I pack up and call it a day still leaving it up on jack stands. Unfortunatly the next day was even colder and the day after it rained. So I was not keen on working on it at all. I eventually had a chance to get to work on it and a guy drives up as I'm in the middle of trying to drop the Transmission. He was from the HOA--long story short he wanted me to move the car. All I could think about was how it's my daily driver and he didn't even offer to help me with pulling the transmission... So I pulled the transmission and took it off the jack stands. Rolled it four feet and locked it up. Now I'm still waiting on the clutch kit.

phoenix7

What's HOA?

Richter12x2

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Yep, sounds like a stupid FC owner to me. Oh, not because you drive a rotary.

Richter12x2

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Home Owner's Association. You may have heard them referred to as the "Neighborhood ****'s". Usually just bored people with an over-inflated sense of their own worth who sneak around the neighborhood at night with a ruler making sure your grass isn't more than 5" tall.

When I was working on my RX7 they had the police come out and threaten to tow my car away because my car was disassembled and uninspected. (The seats were removed because I was putting in new carpet.) So I pushed the Rx7 in the garage, pushed my daily driver outside, and disassembled the entire front end to put a new engine in. No, I didn't NEED to disassemble the whole front end, but it looked like absolute *** for three weeks while I put the new engine in. They couldn't do a thing about it because it had a current inspection sticker.

phoenix7

oh, THOSE BITCHES! I hate them too. I totally forgot about HOA and how much they rip ppl off.`

texFCturboII

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Oh yea, those guys are BASTARDS!!!! Try designing a house w/ solar panels on it.... maybe they are a little ugly, but if they are hidden enough, and for ***** sake, it's helping the environment! They will tell you to take em off, EVEN after yu payed out the *** for them!

Cpt.Zanzibar

i got a good one. When i first got my FC me and my friend were changing all the fliuds and ended with the brakes. Well i had the caliper off to change brake pads as well. Well my dumbass decided it would be a good idea to bleed the brakes with the caliper off. So i tell my friend to hop in and press the brake pedal and the piston pops out and the seal shreds. So i have it up on jack stands, me covered in brake fluid, and i have no idea what to do next. We tried to put it back in and I said screw it and got another one from the local Napa. Good times......

KompressorLOgic

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one time i was helping work on a freinds FC a few years ago. we were changing the slave clyander, and swaping an exhaust system. well to make more room i removed the oil filter.... i finished replacing the slave, swaped the ehxuast. all seemed ready....
then we fired up the car, INSANCE OIL GEYSER!!! had a 5ft geyser of oil!!!! DOH didnt put oil filter back on.we shut it off right away but it still sprayed a couple quarts all over the engine and windsheild and hood.....

Richter12x2

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I just did that trick today- finished a new engine build all nicely painted engine, freshly painted engine bay and EVERYTHING. Got it all put together and forgot to put the oil pressure sender on.

st1llet0

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On my first clutch change, I figured I'd save myself $300 and do it myself, ended up taking all weekend to do it (mostly because I couldn't get a ride into town to rent a puller for the pilot bearing) Got the old one out, started to put the new one in tapping a socket... broke the new f***ing bearing. Got mad and cleaned up the old one real good, realized it was in as good of shape as the new one, repacked it and put everything back together. I did the whole thing with one eye, when I was removing the transmission a tiny little drip of transmission oil dripped into my right eye, effectively disabling it for the weekend, leaving me squinting for 3 or 4 days. So glad when that was over with, broke in the clutch carefully for 600 miles, so happy that I didn't have to be super careful anymore. Driving home from work that night I blew the engine... Sold it for $1000 (USD) the guy put an atkins reman, 4 piston calipers, new struts, and repaired some of the body damage. Buying it back from him next week for $2200 lol

Spectator

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Oh yea....another great one.

While swapping in an engine on my cousins car outside in the driveway. So we remove the Aluminum hood. Everyone knows they are light as hell. So we lean it against the wall...start working on the car for a few hours and all is good. But suddenly, a gust of wind picks-up the **** and it flew 3 -4 feet, landed right on a rock that dented it right in the middle. Woohoo....

Spec.

Spectator

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Anyone like when you are trying to unscreew a bolt that is so tightly screewed that a vain is poping from your forehead and you just know that if and when you will succeed you are just going to mangle your hand on whatever is in front of it?

I got scars.

Spec.

FC3Sdrift

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When i first got my S5 motor swapped in , i was totally new to rotary's, but mine was running rough (turned out to be the jdm ecu) but i was checkin over the BAC thinkin it might be causin my problems and i pulled the coolant line off with the motor running to see if it was getting coolant ......BELIEVE ME IT WAS HAHAHAHA
i was by myself too trying to hold the hose closed...cuz it was dumpin coolant right onto my turbo lol...after tryin to figure out how the hell i was goin to shut the thing off i just made a mad dash to kill the ignition
definitely not a smart thing to do hahahahaahaha
LOTS OF SMOKE!!!

well uhhh

me too... i had a stuck oil filter and i tried the good ol screwdriver hammered through it. well, i was pulling as hard as i could with both hands, shredded the filter and sent my right ring fingernail directly into the edge of the intercooler bracket ( i know i should have taken it off). It split my fingernail halfway down and then at a 90* angle to the edge, effectively putting me in shock. Doc told me i was lucky to not have permanent damage. the bracket edge went through the nail, nail bed and into the fingertip tissue, just missing my bone. not my first injury but the most painful thing i have experienced.

rmjmotor

the time i forgot to put the lower grommets on the primary fuel injectors and we scratched our heads for a week trying to figure it out as to why it was cutting out at 5000 rpms. lol man I double check all my fuel injector o-ring and grommets now, lol