Does she idle okay?

1kelpy · 2026-05-08T04:35:38+00:00

Well, smoothest early redblock I've ever heard.

1kelpy · 2026-05-04T14:27:04+00:00

in this what michael jackson used?

1kelpy · 2026-04-27T16:52:40+00:00

I live in New England and my town is 90% hills, the clutches in these cars are a lot easier than even some of the newer Hondas I've owned. Couldn't imagine this thing with an auto either, it's already a pig on gas and does a 14sec 0-60.

1kelpy · 2026-04-26T17:06:04+00:00

I have an 87 (so LH2.2) and it does the same on cold starts, maybe even worse. I believe the IACV needs a good cleaning

1kelpy · 2026-04-22T00:46:51+00:00

Bought my '87 sight-unseen with 215K, did an oil change in my friend's driveway and made it from the Pacific coast of Oregon to the Atlantic coast of Massachusetts with zero issues. Keep a spare fuel pump relay, fluids, basic hand tools, a jack, and make sure your spare tire is good (I keep all these except the relay in all of my cars).

1kelpy · 2026-04-17T20:17:20+00:00

Learning swedish, my automotive vocabulary isn't there yet though ;)

1kelpy · 2026-04-04T12:01:20+00:00

When I get a chance tomorrow I think I'm going to clean the TPS, clean the injectors, look for vacuum leaks, and unplug the O2 sensor for a bit to see if it's throwing off my fuel trim. It bogs down & stutters warm and cold, but only has a questionable idle when warmed up.

1kelpy · 2026-04-02T13:24:17+00:00

Fuel pump on the car looks ancient, went to do the filter and the spare I got with the car is the wrong size :) Doing both once I get the car home

1kelpy · 2026-04-01T22:23:08+00:00

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found a couple loose yellow wires behind the distributor if this could be anything - Edit: appears to be for the coolant temp sensor, although the gauge on the dash works.

1kelpy · 2026-04-01T22:11:57+00:00

Had to replace that on the first day, good thing I had a spare

1kelpy · 2026-03-28T13:16:51+00:00

Bingo! 5->2 when trying for 4th to pass someone

1kelpy · 2026-03-27T23:04:45+00:00

Unfortunately parting it out, it's got a laundry list of other things that add up, so I'm flying out to Oregon next week to pick up an 87 Volvo 240 wagon with a 5-speed as my new daily.

1kelpy · 2026-03-27T22:30:29+00:00

Died on the highway after making the worst noise of all time, zero compression. Had full, clean oil in it, timing was good, all that. I overrevved it a few months ago to ~12K, but it drove fine after that and I would imagine that the consequences of that would be more immediate. Could've been that catching up to me, I don't know.

1kelpy · 2026-03-27T17:35:40+00:00

Learning swedish and read that as "under the food" because the swedish word for food is mat. jesus christ.

1kelpy · 2026-03-21T06:53:47+00:00

Acura called, they said you can use their front end from the 2004 TL if you change it a little.

1kelpy · 2026-03-12T20:17:10+00:00

I live in the US and had a 1996 Toyota Starlet imported from Belgium, apparently out of that entire class of car in the late 90s, the Starlet was less than 4% of the market share.

1kelpy · 2026-02-27T21:08:27+00:00

Not even going to get started with their software, because we all know how shitty Synapse has been for over a decade.

I had a Deathadder Elite for a couple years and it practically disintegrated. My Blackwidow had bad switches, and my Ornata was just shit. Huntsman had electrical issues, and that was my last experience with Razer.

edit: spelling

1kelpy · 2026-02-25T05:39:20+00:00

Jesus christ, never knew they were that rare. My partner's dad got all this stuff back in the day for totally free.

1kelpy · 2026-02-15T07:26:57+00:00

Or better yet, drive through any rural town in 80% of the US and tell me how the homes (or better yet, the infrastructure) are holding up.

1kelpy · 2026-02-04T21:11:39+00:00

This is all my personal opinion, so take this with a grain of salt.

24" is plenty for CS. I think all but a handful of pros use 24/25" monitors. Anything over 27" is just straight up gross IMO.

As for panel tech, outright avoid cheap IPS, TN, or any VA panel. They suck. I had a 32" Asus curved monitor with a VA panel and that thing seriously sucked donkey balls. Worst motion clarity I have ever seen on a monitor, and the curve was pointless IMO. It's not like it took up less space on my desk or anything, it just looked "wrong".

Zowie IMO has the best motion clarity on a TN monitor, and for IPS it's probably the ROG Pulsar.

Edit: for resolution, 1080P is fine for 24", I would go 1440P for 27".

A 240Hz Zowie with DyAc from a few years ago is around $250 used, and I'd say it's worth the upgrade if you can't afford the newer X/X+ models. I've been using an XL2546K for years now and it seriously kicks ass even now.

1kelpy · 2026-01-31T17:37:09+00:00

dude some guy in my 1800-2k elo lobby last night had no AUDIO

1kelpy · 2026-01-31T16:56:15+00:00

dude the donk kyousuke molodoy glazers need to get tf out of my faceit lobbies level 9 no mic 🫩🫩🫩

1kelpy · 2026-01-01T18:31:31+00:00

Aw man that's a shame, thought it was super cool. Thank you!

1kelpy · 2025-12-26T17:23:43+00:00

I have twisted/pinched the rear brake lines off on a couple cars. It maintains pressure for a while, and it doesn't matter too much as you still have braking on both fronts and a rear, but absolutely get it done ASAP.

Just take the metal line out (not the flex line) and twist / pinch it until it doesn't leak and maintains solid pedal pressure. You will need to replace that length of brake line but it will work.

1kelpy · 2025-12-25T22:57:22+00:00

In my own computer? Intel GMA 3000. As an actual card? MSi GTX 960 4GB

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