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Car is all fixed now with Statesman front and back bumper a silver vp bonnet so no more hood scoop and cheviot 14s. Its a shame the only reason i picked this car was because of how SHEXY the bodykit was and now its just standard. GO the P platers! we've almost made the vn's rare

Yeah my car ticks 1k after 2 lamposts which im sure is only 200meters. at most. **** i thought i had a wee jem on my hands but so far a weeks worth of driving is costing me about $144. Time to get back into my Honda city

Yes with both of my posts you replied to, i now know what im looking for ^^ cheers

My friend did this to his vk but his heat shield has piping that leads out the bonnet, he said the heat doesnt fall under the car when idling and just heats up the alloy and sends it back into the engine hotter than it would be without it. Im thinking of something like this do you think a...

This thread is TiTs! Got me all amped up and excited to build a 14s car for under 1grand. im looking at getting vl though as my run around is vn. And vls are even cheaper. ive got a chasi lined up for free with front end dmg and a cefiro rb20det for $800 that leaves me with $200 for a diff...

so if i was to be buying a 88 vl calais turbo how would i know it has the right gear box?

I learnt to drive in a vn... it slid out one dark night in the rain and i killed a cat. there was blood all over everything! Sometimes at night i still wake up screaming.

is there a difference in the VIN that indicates whether it is s1 or s2?

I noticed this week that i still have this problem. ****!

I had this problem and was told it was a loose pushrod. but it was just a loose exhaust at the engine manifold. Also the rod that holds up my bonnet was loose. i suggest trying to fix the free and easy things before you open anything up.

I'd love to see a pcture of how close your pod is to tb

I put in $77 at $1.75 per litre and so far it reads 712 km and its on half. i think something must be broken

I was wondering what the difference would be to swap my s1 buick v6 3800 for a s2 ecotec v6 3800. is there anything any one know about the conversion that might be handy for me to know before i buy the engine.

I got the same problem, got a mate to do my gaskets because i have no idea what im doing. Now the cars runs worse than it did when the heads were blown. he hasnt sealed anything properly. I just got a can of silicon spray but, yeah...

OTR? over the radiator?

I ran mine with just the hose for awhile when i stacked my car, it whent pretty hard maybe just because i was giving it ****. i put a sock around the hose though.

You should do a few consecutice runs without the filter and tell me if anything bad happens.

Yeah thats what i was thinking of. The reason i wanted to do it is for the noise of the pod filter but i was told Cai of the K&N was better, i just assumed a pod filter with a housing would be like Forced Cold air intake.^^'

What are you guys on? I have an 89 vn exec with $70 bucks in the tank i get 800km. thats like 40 litres... that can't be right im going to check.

I had this in my vn, my hanbrake spring and button and small metal line thing all flew out one day and i ended up replacing it with a vp handbrake. The only thing i touch was the hand brake cable and what holds it onto the handbrake and i havent heard that noise since.

Yeah Sounds easy but im on day 3 of getting the fluxing Dash out!

I was thinking of removing the K&N filter and replacing with a pod filter. I've seen pictures of a street legal skyline the had the left front headlight removed and instead it has an air intake hole and am wanting to do the same with my car, and having the hole lead into a housing for the pod...

got all the parts i need for $100 and now i just need to pay off a wof guy to over look the damage behind a strut tower and shes all sweet

Damage to front, kit came off all sides and theres a photo of the kit in my car. Am loooking at buying a rolling body with live plates for hopefully under $400, damage behind a strut near the a/c looks irrepairable. But in the process of inspecting the damage realised that a vaccume hose and...

It rained so i took it for a drift, but um a couple of trees tried to stop me. Ill post some pics of the damage... think it might be the end of this car.

I got tired of not knowing why this problem happend and took my car to a mechanic he looked round and said that 2 plugs werent pluged in and a vaccume hose wasnt attached ^^' then he said dont worry about cash mate i cant do the math for 2 minutes of work.

the fuel pressure thing still works i can hear it turn on. how would i tell if tis the iac?

I had the head gaskets replaced and re sealed a valve grind and the exhaust gaskets replaced as well as having the heads machined on my series 1 buick 3800i and since the car has come back whenever i rev the engine above 3.5k revs when the needle drops back down the car will either cut out or...

yeah some lines were split, not to the point of leaking but still pretty bad. And do you mean the fuel cap on my fuel tank? that i remove to refuel

How do you get error codes? i dont really know anything at all. Is it a fuse you put into something to make it run in diagnosis mode?

yeah meths works a treat i always use it to do a solvent wash before i paint anything, don't know if your supposed to but it works out fine

my car got done for eing too low, i drove it around till it was on empty and took the tyre out of the boot as well as a few other things and the guy who inspected it said the cop must have been blind the car was 140 110

Looks really nice and youve got pretty much every mod id be wanting on my car. And you've also got about twice as much wiring in your engine bay. which worries me.

What would be the precedure to remove A/c? ive been told just to unhook everything and through it all away (mines ****ed) but surely there must be something you have to do with all the hoses coming off of it.

other than a bucket of water and replacement what would be every step to go through to repair it?

What are the troubleshooting methods?

I am having this problem too. I had the heads machined and all gaskets replaced and when the car came back it started doing this, the mechanic said he didn't know what it was. Great Info, im going to start with the first thing and then do everything after it!

my god thats a clean car, good work mate that is the tidiest thing ive seen.

Recently had the head gaskets replaced, seals replaced, valve grind, heads machined and power steering replaced on my vn 89' executive 3.8 Now when i floor it and get the revs up (around 3.5k) when the revs come back down they fall too far below and the car turns off. Its automatic. And won't...

Didn't end up getting any pictures of the work in progress. Car has been all fixed, but when idling-driving if i hit it up on the rev's when it drops down it cuts off.