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[nando]

could be worse - at least they're not volcanos! :o

[FredK]

hmm nando. You seem a little TOO familiar with the TSW: Attitude Metal lineup. :mrgreen:

What's wrong with the Volcano? Sure the spokes stick out FAR, but I think I've seen worse.

[nando]

I guess the worst part is whenever I think of them, a certain blue four door comes to mind....

[dom]

respekt.

[2002maniac]

I guess the worst part is whenever I think of them, a certain blue four door comes to mind....

lol, whatever happened to that guy?

[Firestorm]

So how much have you spent to nearly maybe possibly make 300hp at the motor? :p


:D

[dom]

bad news guys. car nearly overheated while jason was breaking the car in. water hose popped off, and some other stuff. I'll let him explain later.

[nando]

hope it's alright - he know what went wrong?

[Slyder]

the water pipe on the backside of the head (between the motor and the firewall) failed, the other item prior tothat was a hose clamp broke (no idea how), so when the motor hit about 7500 rpm the upper radiator hose came off the radiator and I lost a good chunk of the water.

I'm debating at this point whether to pull the whole motor out or just the head. Working on the head is much easier if the motor is out of the car...but I'd rather not go through all of that again. Kinda sounds like I've already made up my own mind...just coming to terms with it.

I don't think anything catastrophic is wrong. Once the motor was cold I was able to drive it up onto the tow truck to bring it home and it sounded just fine. Just can't run it for more that a couple of minutes at a time.

I got about 6 good pulls in 3rd from 2k rpm up to 7k...and I can believe the power this thing has. My Tacoma X-Runner has a lot of torque, decent HP (~265) and accelerates pretty fast...but this was incredible.

[nando]

ouch, that little coolant thing on the back is a bitch too. it doesn't sound like it hurt your head any, but replacing that thing with the head on the car is a bitch. good luck!

[BeirBrennerE30]

ouch sorry to hear that... have any more pics of the car? looks good

[formula driver]

ouch, that little coolant thing on the back is a bitch too. it doesn't sound like it hurt your head any, but replacing that thing with the head on the car is a bitch. good luck!

Its been a long time since Ive been back there, but you should just be able to drop the engine mounts and raise the engine a bit to get to the hose.