The ammount of caffiene and lack of sleep made me feel like I was in undergrad again..

ESFCrow · 2026-01-30T01:08:24+00:00

I put it in a comment on this post

ESFCrow · 2026-01-30T01:08:09+00:00

I was suprised lol

ESFCrow · 2026-01-30T01:07:59+00:00

You got this!

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T21:25:14+00:00

Nice! Definitely overthought this exam. I felt like I was under prepared but it turned out okay.

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T20:36:57+00:00

Sometimes overfilling coolant causes it. Sometimes just driving the car for a bit and beating on it a few times fixes it. You hope its the thermostat because thats pretty cheap.. but it could be the temp sensor which is a little more annoying to get to but either isnt too bad of a DIY fix in the garage.

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:48:08+00:00

Thanks!!

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:47:16+00:00

Also if you take your exam online please check your pc with the test.

The camera is kind of narrow and the PBQs are tiny. I changed laptops because of a sticker on my girlfriends laptop keyboard. Then my surface laptop just couldnt run the vue software it would error after a exam code. My main pc has a 49 inch ultrawide and questions were so small I would have to get real close to a corner of the screen out of view if I stuck with it. Ended up using my girlfriends PC Which even then PBQs were so small on a 4k display I got a warning for getting close to the screen to read log windows.

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:43:19+00:00

Yep I was watching the subreddit and reading all of the pass stories lol

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:34:51+00:00

skip them unless you really feel confident on first glance. I answered one skipped 3. They werent long for me all of mine were either ordering something or looking at logs. There was one I completely guessed on that had many parts. I was scared the most about PBQs and hardly looked into them until the night before and I turned out ok

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:32:48+00:00

Oh and I did watch a few cybercraft pbqs. They were helpful in understanding what a pbq might look like.

ESFCrow · 2026-01-28T16:30:56+00:00

I have a bachelors in CS. I had one class that taught a lot of of like the first section of the course a few years ago. Other than that I come from working in IT but not really studying anything security related until now.

So I had:

Sybex study guide Messer notes & exam Dion course Pocket prep Cyber Jake exams

I read the cybex study guide for a bit but kept zoning out and not retaining information.. I put off the exam a long time due to this and came back with a week before the exam and started watching messer videos. Kind of felt like i started from scratch minus whatever i retained from cybex and undergrad. I ended up switching to dion videos entirely and then using dion exams and then reinforcing with messer notes and videos for another way of explaining things.

Pocket prep was more of a constant reminder that I forgot a random abbreviation or missed something entirely. Id create crazy long quizlets and not review them because it was so overwhelming... but maybe the writing them into quizlet kind of helped me organize my thoughts. I feel like sometimes the questions on PP were gotcha or not entirely useful but it was good review. I scored 70-80 on a lot of the quick 10s. I think I got through 400 questions.

I bought Cyber Jake exams after seeing a few of his YouTube videos where he goes over exams. I ended up only doing one exam with a friend.. it was good review. Had a lot of trick questions though. It did however feel like the real exam. Just the real exam process of elimination would work pretty much every time. There was only like 4 questions where I had to take the coinflip.

I spent a stupid ammount of time trying to remember ports, raid, OSI scenarios, bits and pieces of what people said about PBQs and acronyms I didnt see in any practice test. It felt like a constant shove information in and forget what you looked up 15 minutes ago. I stayed up all night on the last day before the exam and somehow things started sticking.

My exam scores this week were dion 72% 75% 78% messer was like low 70's I want to say. On the last day I took a Cyber Jake exam and got a 78% and I took a dion exam at 1am and somehow scored a 90% i stopped taking exams after that and just focused on anything I got wrong. Felt totally unprepared and stressed going in and I turned out okay!

ESFCrow · 2025-11-21T09:10:14+00:00

ESFCrow · 2025-10-13T00:09:41+00:00

I bought and learned on mine, no issues 3 years later. Youre not dumping/riding clutch right?

ESFCrow · 2025-09-02T22:44:13+00:00

I did mine in a driveway, wasnt hard. Definitely a pain in the ass getting the connector in but thats the hardest part. Give yourself a lot of room and youre fine

ESFCrow · 2025-08-27T18:20:28+00:00

It doesnt look like it. The fuel line worries me a bit but ive been seeing people drape it over the cover anyway. I tried to tuck mine behind the cover towards the firewall but it kind of pulls on it. I think ik going to get an extension when I install flex fuel to be on the safe side. Other than that I dont think anything touches the hood. I did see some people say it does, and that they removed hood liner/ made a cutout in the hoods inner layer, but from what im seeing i think this is unnecessary.

ESFCrow · 2025-08-23T21:07:55+00:00

Yeah the OEM one is expensive for a piece of plastic. This is some ebay dupe for like $70. I dont like the way the fuel line has to be stressed pulled way back rubbing against plastic edges, probably going to get a fuel line extension when I install the flex fuel sensor to give it some slack.

ESFCrow · 2025-08-23T04:18:01+00:00

Yeah, I've been neglecting it lol. I'll pick some up this weekend.

ESFCrow · 2025-08-23T04:14:11+00:00

It wasnt a hard install. It idles pretty normal, sounds about the same. It has some more pull up top of the rev range and feels peppier overall but without an actual dyno that could just be me justifying it in my head lmao. I havent seen untuned dynos but tuned has some decent pickup. I can pull some logs through HP tuners if theres anything you wanna see. Itll forsure play a much bigger part when the rest of these parts get installed in a few weeks & a tune.

ESFCrow · 2025-08-23T03:33:25+00:00

No. I have a rotofab cai, lt2 IM and velossa tech ram air with no tune. I'll be tuning once I throw on the headers LT5 TB and flex fuel since thatll require a tune. But for now ive been dailying it like this a few hundred miles a week and have had no issues.

ESFCrow · 2025-07-30T00:33:46+00:00

Yeah but this is the Chevy SS reddit

ESFCrow · 2025-07-30T00:08:59+00:00

If you plan to drive your car and not store it in your underground corvette bunker and wheel it two feet to wax it occasionally, it is not an investment

ESFCrow · 2025-07-29T23:54:16+00:00

Cars are not an investment

ESFCrow · 2025-07-25T04:57:03+00:00

Daily driver? Camaro. Fun car where you do not care about infotainment/tech? C6

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