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Old May 6, 2005 | 01:12 PM
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That knock sensor RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O) :d :AwesomeGreat:

I donno, the mustang was biult a lot like a truck :p It had HALF frame rails, and this primitive unibody method.
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Old May 6, 2005 | 01:14 PM
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Jason Viw: YATTA YATTA YATTA
hachi AE86 roku: then gotta go back out at some point
hachi AE86 roku: for the performance
Jason Viw: IS SO EASY!!!!
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hachi AE86 roku: oh yeah, dude, check this:
Jason Viw: WE ARE THE WAD OF DOUGH!
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Old May 6, 2005 | 01:34 PM
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Old May 6, 2005 | 04:24 PM
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Old May 7, 2005 | 12:37 AM
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Wow, ok, I"m confused... In all my years involved with cars I've never experieced this. I get in my 7 turn it on, let it warm up and all that good stuff. I put it in first, start driving shift at like 5k and POP, something odd happened. Engine is fine, but the tranny wont let me put it in gear. and the pedal stayed at the ground...

now:
-when pedal pushed in, it dosn't make a difference. Its like the clutch is always engaged.
-I cant put it into a gear unless the car is off.
-I'm getting grey hairs.

I have never really werked with trannys and more over never even heard of this happening. I missed a date with a REALLY good looking girl who made me laugh (something that hasn't happened in awhile), so this car is GOING to be fixed whether it likes it or not.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Icesickkle
Wow, ok, I"m confused... In all my years involved with cars I've never experieced this. I get in my 7 turn it on, let it warm up and all that good stuff. I put it in first, start driving shift at like 5k and POP, something odd happened. Engine is fine, but the tranny wont let me put it in gear. and the pedal stayed at the ground...

now:
-when pedal pushed in, it dosn't make a difference. Its like the clutch is always engaged.
-I cant put it into a gear unless the car is off.
-I'm getting grey hairs.

I have never really werked with trannys and more over never even heard of this happening. I missed a date with a REALLY good looking girl who made me laugh (something that hasn't happened in awhile), so this car is GOING to be fixed whether it likes it or not.
Bad clutch hydrualics. Replace the master cylinder and slave together, because when one goes, the other is not long to follow.

Replace the hose too if you wanna... It's about $100 for all the parts together (At least for the 1st gen. 2nd gen shouldn't be too much different.) Takes about an hour or two.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Pele
Bad clutch hydrualics. Replace the master cylinder and slave together, because when one goes, the other is not long to follow.

Replace the hose too if you wanna... It's about $100 for all the parts together (At least for the 1st gen. 2nd gen shouldn't be too much different.) Takes about an hour or two.
That's what I would have guessed... sounds like the same thing that happened to suds' car. except the retarded transmission shop said he needed a new transmission, but then he found out later (when it broke again) that it was the hydrolics.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Icesickkle
Wow, ok, I"m confused... In all my years involved with cars I've never experieced this. I get in my 7 turn it on, let it warm up and all that good stuff. I put it in first, start driving shift at like 5k and POP, something odd happened. Engine is fine, but the tranny wont let me put it in gear. and the pedal stayed at the ground...

now:
-when pedal pushed in, it dosn't make a difference. Its like the clutch is always engaged.
-I cant put it into a gear unless the car is off.
-I'm getting grey hairs.

I have never really werked with trannys and more over never even heard of this happening. I missed a date with a REALLY good looking girl who made me laugh (something that hasn't happened in awhile), so this car is GOING to be fixed whether it likes it or not.
yeah
sounds like the slave cylinder popped. happened to my car the day before i was gonna pick it up from the shop. but like pele said....might wanna replace both master and slavee just to be sure. replace hose too (can be ricerish and get a stainless braided hose if you want )
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Old May 7, 2005 | 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by AkumaKuruma
yeah
sounds like the slave cylinder popped. happened to my car the day before i was gonna pick it up from the shop. but like pele said....might wanna replace both master and slavee just to be sure. replace hose too (can be ricerish and get a stainless braided hose if you want )
stainless braided isn't ricer dude, haha, it makes a HUGE difference on the feel of the clutch. I put one in the hachi, and the difference after putting it in was VERY noticable. (same with steel braided brake lines).

Ken
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Old May 7, 2005 | 12:41 PM
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*yawN, not visiting for 2 days and im lost in this thread >.<
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Old May 7, 2005 | 12:56 PM
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Tends to happen ALL to often
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Old May 7, 2005 | 01:01 PM
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I also have one it's blue it didn't make much of a difference. but it's not ricer. It won't wear out like a regular rubber hose, and it cost about the same to replace.

-Mike

Originally Posted by muythaibxr
stainless braided isn't ricer dude, haha, it makes a HUGE difference on the feel of the clutch. I put one in the hachi, and the difference after putting it in was VERY noticable. (same with steel braided brake lines).

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Old May 7, 2005 | 02:01 PM
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F1blue....

I think the question in your case is...."what don't you have?"
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Old May 7, 2005 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by eage8
That's what I would have guessed... sounds like the same thing that happened to suds' car. except the retarded transmission shop said he needed a new transmission, but then he found out later (when it broke again) that it was the hydrolics.
Of course! The profit margin they'll take in would cover either the master or the slave... Then shortly thereafter, when the opposite one goes, you'll bring it back and they can point out the failed hydraulics and make another quick buck.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Pele
I'm daily beating a 1985 Camry... (Truck gets crappy mileage, and the friend who I was selling this Camry to for $400 has lost his license.) Odometer broke at 190K miles...

And I'm doing something I NEVER do... I'm driving it without basic tools. Every car I've ever driven has had a set of Metric Sockets and combonation wrenches in the back, along with assorted hoses, belts, wiring, and Duct Tape.

It feels kinda weird knowing that if it breaks on me, I have NOTHING in the car with which to make ANY type of repairs... Yet somehow, I'm comforted by the logo on the Dash.
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Actually I found one serious problem with the Camry... It's something to do with the kickdown cable and the torque converter.

These devices work fine, but there is a major problem with them. Perhaps someone can guess what that is.
/me kicks self in head for saying this.

The Auto tranny popped yesterday on my way to work. All gears = Neutral.

My buddy has already paid me for $200 or so in parts that have gone on the car. (Full tune-up, rear brake hardware, shoes, and hydraulics...)

And the guy just got his license back today too.

Anyone think it wouldn't have broken if I hadn't said something like that?

Man, I hate automatic transmissions. So complex... One failure = immobility. Strip a gear in a manual, just skip it. Eh Jason?

Ugh. At least it's safe in the work parking lot, so nobody'll hit it and leave a note with their insurance information.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Pele
Anyone think it wouldn't have broken if I hadn't said something like that?

Man, I hate automatic transmissions. So complex... One failure = immobility. Strip a gear in a manual, just skip it. Eh Jason?
at least yer not getting it where you can DRIVE in neutral. THATS scary. my old Tercel's tranny screwed up like that.
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Old May 8, 2005 | 12:06 AM
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when i heeltoe my corolla into neutral it switches over to the oem ferrari exhaust
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Old May 8, 2005 | 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by f1blueRx7
I also have one it's blue it didn't make much of a difference. but it's not ricer. It won't wear out like a regular rubber hose, and it cost about the same to replace.

-Mike
I think it made a difference in the hachi partially b/c the old hose was about to go...
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Old May 8, 2005 | 09:01 AM
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wee! I'm changing the subject!

Yesterday Jason and I took his 7 to 8800 rpms... (and it was still producing power), but in the process fried his ignition module (it's some POS GM rigged up stuff that I set up till I can get the stock leading working this week with the stock CAS). It kinda sucked; he took it to 8800, then we drove it like 30 or 40 miles, then suddnly the tach signal from the module goes frickin haywire. I get out of the car, and go futz with the wiring and stuff, start the car back up, and it seems fine. Start driving it again, tach signal goes haywire and takes the TPS signal with it (musta been some interesting electrical interferance in the engine bay at that point). So we called brandon, who rushed from home with the cheaper but better replacement module, I do a quick replacement of it, and bam! it works fine... and actually runs smoother than before.

I think the fact that we had dwell at 3.3 ms, and discharge time at .5 ms (total 3.8 ms) is part of what killed it.... we ran the poor module at 114% duty cycle at 8800 rpms. So I dropped the dwell to 3.2 ms with the new module, but I think the new module was made to handle more dwell than the other one, b/c the car ran a lot smoother, and the tach signal is now a lot more stable.... the coil pins on the module are a lot thicker too... which tells me it can probably handle more current.

OK enough rambling... just thought it was cool we are tuned well enough to hit almost 9000 rpms now... and the AFR never got too far away from 13.2:1 which is what we tuned for... (although there is some question on whether that is the BEST AFR to be aiming for).
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Old May 8, 2005 | 12:47 PM
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and yay! for Ken, the god of megasquirt and being awesome

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Old May 8, 2005 | 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by AkumaKuruma
at least yer not getting it where you can DRIVE in neutral. THATS scary. my old Tercel's tranny screwed up like that.
My dad had an old Saab with dead synchros and a leaky manual tranny. So he decided to swap out the old 80w90 for some 140 weight gear oil...

He had to hold the clutch down to stop it from moving in neutral... THAT'S when **** is bad, when you can move a manual tranny car in neutral. He promptly drained it and put proper gear oil in.

Originally Posted by muythaibxr
wee! I'm changing the subject!

Yesterday Jason and I took his 7 to 8800 rpms... (and it was still producing power), but in the process fried his ignition module (it's some POS GM rigged up stuff that I set up till I can get the stock leading working this week with the stock CAS). It kinda sucked; he took it to 8800, then we drove it like 30 or 40 miles, then suddnly the tach signal from the module goes frickin haywire. I get out of the car, and go futz with the wiring and stuff, start the car back up, and it seems fine. Start driving it again, tach signal goes haywire and takes the TPS signal with it (musta been some interesting electrical interferance in the engine bay at that point). So we called brandon, who rushed from home with the cheaper but better replacement module, I do a quick replacement of it, and bam! it works fine... and actually runs smoother than before.

I think the fact that we had dwell at 3.3 ms, and discharge time at .5 ms (total 3.8 ms) is part of what killed it.... we ran the poor module at 114% duty cycle at 8800 rpms. So I dropped the dwell to 3.2 ms with the new module, but I think the new module was made to handle more dwell than the other one, b/c the car ran a lot smoother, and the tach signal is now a lot more stable.... the coil pins on the module are a lot thicker too... which tells me it can probably handle more current.

OK enough rambling... just thought it was cool we are tuned well enough to hit almost 9000 rpms now... and the AFR never got too far away from 13.2:1 which is what we tuned for... (although there is some question on whether that is the BEST AFR to be aiming for).
New brand module or did you switch from 7 pin to 8 pin?
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Old May 8, 2005 | 11:03 PM
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I've been checking the forum for like 7 hours now...and nothing...i think you all are dead or something.
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Old May 9, 2005 | 01:26 AM
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/me checks pulse.

****!

/me taps chest.

Ahhh. There we go.

/me shakes ***.
/me watches self.
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Old May 9, 2005 | 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Icesickkle
I've been checking the forum for like 7 hours now...and nothing...i think you all are dead or something.
maybe we have lives? i know i was spending the day with my mom, since it was mother's day...
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