Nonsense Thread

[2mAn]

Then drive it up the coast to the Bay and help my tune mine in SF. Do it!

Could make it worth the trip out. You'd get a great flavor of California, you'd get to tune a bunch of awesome BMWs (maybe even my buddy E30Bastard ) if he hurrys up and turbos his M20 also...

[MrBurgundy]

Never moving to Florida!.. E46 o2 sensors are fixed and I have the good ECU back in the MR2. Besides there’s things happening

...if anything you should take a trip out here and help tune my cousins 2002... he’s selling it because he can’t get any good help

whats wrong w it

[McGyver]

Could make it worth the trip out. You'd get a great flavor of California, you'd get to tune a bunch of awesome BMWs (maybe even my buddy E30Bastard ) if he hurrys up and turbos his M20 also...

Yeah, I need to hurry up with my turbo build as well. I just need to get my daily back on the road so I can jump in with MegaSquirt.

[2mAn]

whats wrong w it

Its running, but needs the exhaust finished and needs to be tuned.

[2mAn]

Ok, next quick poll question:

Would you rather deal with repairing fiberglass or non-structural rust?


...asking for a friend...

[rturbo 930]

Rust probably. Repairing fiberglass sounds itchy and like it'll take lots of sanding. Depends on the severity and complexity of each though.

[varg]

Never moving to Florida!.. E46 o2 sensors are fixed and I have the good ECU back in the MR2. Besides there’s things happening

...if anything you should take a trip out here and help tune my cousins 2002... he’s selling it because he can’t get any good help

Can't get help? I thought Ca was car guy heaven?

Ok, next quick poll question:

Would you rather deal with repairing fiberglass or non-structural rust?

...asking for a friend...

Depends on where the rust is. Floor pan? Easy to fix because it's not cosmetic. Compound curved exterior facing panel? No thanks. That's a can of worms. The good thing about fiberglass repair relative to rust repair is welding is removed from the equation. To fix rust you have to be anywhere between a half decent and very good welder with a good machine. You can't really fluxcore spatter weld a visible panel with a HF welder like mine and expect it to go well. Fiberglass repair certainly has its own challenges, and requires a suit and quality respirator, but you don't have to worry about burning through the panel, warping it with poor heat application, or buying a nice welder and gas setup. Fiberglass is also easier to build up and shape than metal is. Producing a curved steel patch panel is an art all its own.

[roguetoaster]

Ok, next quick poll question:

Would you rather deal with repairing fiberglass or non-structural rust?


...asking for a friend...

Making a wild guess, but don't buy a crashed Lotus.

[Melon]

Whoops.

Finishing my run at an autocross yesterday, full throttle 7k RPM, and someone installed a fresh copy of Windows 95 in my G260.

[2mAn]

Can't get help? I thought Ca was car guy heaven?

I want to say something about making assumptions, but Im guilty of assuming everyone in Florida does Bath Salts and has an alligator as a pet.

He lives in the middle of farm country and isnt really a car-guy like you and I. The last megasquirt guy that was supposed to help him sold him thousands of work on a turbo upgrade and then didnt want to deal with the megasquirt. ~100 miles away from him.


The rust is in the rockers, which on an Alfa is 3 layers. So the outer rocker with bubbling scares the sh!t out of me.. whoops, I mean... it scares my friend

Making a wild guess, but don't buy a crashed Lotus.

Melon what exploded?

[Melon]

If I had to guess the disc lost a spring. It's still drivable, but is really unbalanced. I'll know more once I get the car in the air and take a look. Hoping to have it dropped this week.

[2mAn]

E30 got jealous of the 345

[Melon]

Pulled the trans last night, it's pretty bad.
Full carnage photos here: https://bit.ly/3tXcXgU

[roguetoaster]

Pulled the trans last night, it's pretty bad.
Full carnage photos here: https://bit.ly/3tXcXgU

Nice, haven't see that level of damage within a bellhousing on a regular car before.

[Melon]

Means something coming from you sir.
Does make me feel better actually, that this was a bit of a fluke.

And don't use the Clutch Masters FX 250 on an M20, this aside, it's an on off switch and sucks.