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"buy a scooter so you can save money for upgrades!" - Shanoqueeb Hehe go the scooter :) Unforntunatley it takes me 30 mins to get to work at 60-100 km/h. It'd kinda suck doing it at 30-50km/h. "I reckon you should go for the 2.4ltr Camry" - holden007 The prob i have is that from what i...

Its dumb i know but check all your leads are goin to the right place eh :) Apoc.

"The welch plugs are all corroded which is a pain!" - Shortstuff Dude id shop around for this one when u get it done (maybe youll do it yourself i dunno). When i got my welsh plugs done i had just a wee bit of a difference in prices. I think there is like 8 or 10 welsh plugs in total so...

To all those who suggested the S-Pac etc. I am tempted to go down this road but i tend to think that these cars would have had a harder life than the standard exec models. People like you or me have already had this car and probably used the ability to get to 100km/h in 8.0 - 8.5 odd seconds...

I must confess i havent looked at the ford side of the fence, id prefer a holden but i guess that automatically wipes half the cars i could buy. As for a pain in the arse to work on, i was hoping i wouldnt have to... but this could be alot of wishful thinking. As for the kingsy etc nah. i want a...

Its stupid i know, but i fckn HATE zip zips, despite the fact they run off a sniff of petrol and are prolly cheap as piss im not really interested. This car will become my main car for goin to work etc for the next few years, i dont want something that cant drive up hills at full pace cause the...

Hey peoples i will be getting my tax refund soon and am looking at getting another commo so i can have the VN garaged and be able to do some serious work to it without worrying about bein of the road for more than a weekend at a time. I dont want to spend heaps of cash and am NOT interested...

Cheers Okay cheers for that, sounds okay to me and im full out of ideas anyways :) With a bit of luck youll never hear me ask a question about the IAC valve EVER again ;) Cheers Doctor Bob, Apoc out.

Doctor Bob - "resetting it sets the zero point, thats why you do it..." So the pintle moves from where it is to fully in or fully out when you reset it? or somewhere else within the range? I would like to have my pintle out when i reset it to see what it does for the following reason...

Ive thought about that too but i tend to think the power lost to having the air conditioner on is going to offset any benefits that might be gained from cooling the air. Dunno for sure though... Apoc.

Dug up some new information that may change my mind on the To adjust or not to adjust IAC Pintle position debate.... According to a website i found "General Motors EFI engines typically have 4-wire, 56 Ohm stepper motors. (The measured DC resistance can be ~35-45 Ohms). Two GM style...

Cheers all for the feedback, fitzy2005 - "u may have the iac valve pintle back to far, its ment to be 28mm from bottom to tip, it may be locked in a certain position..." Nope its not locked up dude it is doing something just not enough maybe... boona's@walking_pace - "did your engine...

Hey all, In my newest battle with my cars idle (too fast... which i thought id sorted) i fitted up a new TB which i cleaned up nicely which also had a new TPS with it. After cleaning up my IAC and whacking it in the TB i adjusted the butterfly so that i couldnt see any light around the...

Proper interceptor rims are 7" wide and you can legally run 235's on them thats for the VN interceptors. I have a set myself, compared to stocko's running 215's, 225's on the ceptors grips like s*#t to a blanket. And in terms of takeoff the bigger the rims + tread diameter the slower you car...

Just pull the engine fuse, its located in the engine bay in the smaller of the two black plastic fuse boxes on the drivers side of the car(big one in front of wheel arch and little one a bit below and forwards from the big one). Then wait 30-60secs and your computer should have reset. Plug fuse...

From a thread "Car smells like s*#t" Posted by PaRaDoX616....

Just found this in another thread can anyone confirm this error code as my manual says nothing of it. Error Code - "35 Closed throttle idle speed is more than 75 rpm above or below correct value for more than 45 seconds" As i thought (no tacho) my car was idling too fast b4, but didnt get...

Hey peoples for the umptyth time this year my exhaust bandage has blown out. I have the exhaust badaged at the join of the two pipes that come down from the engine into the "Y" piece b4 the cat. One pipe like slides onto the other one and has two slices 180 degrees appart and like say 4-5cm...

Cheers for some feedback Don, "2] Throttle spindle worn or seals/bearings buggered." what exactly are these though? you mean like the bit that holds the butterfly (the flat disky thingo) and its bearings? Apoc.

I recently changed from 215's on stock 14's to 225's on pursuit rims and damn she handles soooo much better, not as much fun for those traffic light take offs in the wet though you have to be a fair bit more aggressive to stop the traction commin on in second (auto box), with the exhaust...

Just curious i recently changed my intake manifold gasket to solve an oil leak and my fast idle i thought.... I never used to have a fast idle... so anyways after i changed the manifold gasket and my rocker cover gaskets i still had a fast idle and i thought this was bad news as i thought id...

When they say "RRP - $130" and they are going for $11 on ebay you know something is bllsht... people dont sell stuff for $119 less than RRP unless its fked or just didnt work in the first place NO SALE!!! Apoc.

Just wondering how that clips/bolts to the engine...? Looks tidy but does it serve any other purpose? Apoc.

Sorry to bitch, but people tend to go on and on about spelling mistakes..... "R" is right next to "T", not real hard to figure out what happened there... Apoc.

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Warning 5000 word essay below... :) Cheers all for your input, i have checked all the vacuum hoses etc and they all seem fine as for whistling noises well the car sort of sounds like a turbine :my: (only way i can describe the sound) when the revs are up i dont know whether this is what people...

Ok peoples, i have the following symptoms and am pretty convinced i have a leaking inlet manifold gasket just looking for a few people to go yep sounds like thats it. so i can fork out my cash on the right thing. Symptoms: 1. Car seems to be idling high, suggesting some sort of vacuum leak...

Went to the commodore shop and asked if i could have a look at some of their pumps. I had a box of like 15 2nd hand ones that i fckd around with and like 7 reconditioned ones. Anyways all of them had the same sort of end float of like 1mm anyways both new and reco'd so for $145 i didnt buy...

Is it just me or is "V" right below "F"......, maybe some people have the intelligence to perform letter substitution as they read, knowing full well what was meant..... Cut the guy some slack....

The rear demister thingo came off i the folks old mitsubishi colt :sleeping: and anyways the old man is pretty damn proficient with a soldering iron and whacked it back on, ........... , and then back on, ......... and then back on, you might have better luck with your commo though, dunno the...

No it not injectors Just in case someone says injectors, yep they go clack they sound fine cheers. Apoc.

Hey peoples I have been noise hunting again, i still have a clicking noise under the bonnet but i think i might be onto the culprit this time. I took the accessories belt off and spun all off my pulleys around and found that my powersteering pump made a bit of a clicking noise. So i then went...

And yes probably that guy is bullshiting, but i havent seen the car nor am i a mechanic by trade. But i have played with my kickdown cable and gotten what you sound like you have goin on.

Check you kickdown cable Check the kickdown cable is adjusted properly, if the car still kicks into the next gear nice and hard then the transmission is still probably fairly serviceable. To adjust the kick down cable pop the hood and locate your Throttle body, this should have two cables...

Update: i am still doin em :) Sprayed the rims with "Septones - Wheel Silver" - Looks good, just gotta get the clear on them. The painter at work is buried in sht at the moment so i havent hit him up, hes stressn bad :). The silver is prolly a lil brighter than of old, dunno how much of that is...

200km/h Im not used to absolutely hootnannying, and my vn is pretty much stock cept CAI and 2.5" from CAT back and ive hit 200km/h also, i was pretty freaked out and a roundabout was comming up, glazed the crap out of the breaks to take it. I dont reckon it had anymore than 10km/h MAX. 5 more...

Well definately b carefull with a load of kids if 100km/h dont feel right and car slides maybe just go slower. Not preaching, dont even have kids :thumbsup: If your tyres are at about 30psi just go for 34psi to start with you should notice a bit of a difference.

Center caps Are there any other sort of center cap other than the ones shown in the picture below? i dont like those much at all, i think when i get the rims done i will laser cut some flat disks that plug into the center at work. Just spray them up silver what do people reckon? I work at a...

Have u checked ure tyre pressures? also are ure rims 7" wide? running 215's on a smaller rim as i am at the moment, gives a kind of boatish feel when cornering and is very dangerous at speed especially when at low pressure had mine at 31-32 psi BAD. when i was doing about 140 cruising at night...

Hey just wondering if anyone knows how stiff the valve springs should be... Last time i had the tappet covers off for a bit of gunk busting and general inspection i noticed that around the base of the valve springs was a little worn or at least the deposits hadnt been able to form there (from...