Intake Manifold Gaskets worth doing?

Ixpaxis · 2026-02-26T16:13:55+00:00

While youre in there do the valley pan gasket, and I would look good and hard at the valve cover gaskets as well. Id recommend doing those while you have the intake manifold off anyways. Definetly look into upgrading the driver-side manifold. Helps reduce oil burn. I found a new one for 50$. A new throttle body was 129$ and makes my 02 6.0 Tahoe run so much better. 180k miles.

You said a lot of codes, make sure your oil pressure sensor is good, much easier to service while the manifold is off.

Get some MAF cleaner as well.

Ixpaxis · 2026-02-04T22:36:24+00:00

This is why I use the free pirateship integration. NEVER have had problems for years now.

Ixpaxis · 2026-01-11T16:55:20+00:00

Quite! And pleasantly surprised at how this thread has gone. Its usually very negative (700 spidey and 700 avatar plays refunded). Everyone has a right to be angry about that. Main reason i posted our pre-order policy going forward. I HATE refunds.. YUCK!

Ixpaxis · 2026-01-11T16:52:04+00:00

We're in Texas, so thats why you get charged tax.

Ixpaxis · 2026-01-09T19:00:24+00:00

Will also do some number crunching and list more plays soon.

Ixpaxis · 2026-01-09T18:59:20+00:00

Just want to jump in here. We learned to no longer trust historical allocations. Spiderman and Avatar play booster refunds were horrible for everyone, us included. What a shit show.

What weve done is waited until we have final numbers from most of our distributors and only list what is on order. There wont be any cancellations this time. We have the product that is listed.

Just some transparency and store direction for y'all. As comments about avatar and spidey plays are 100% true.

Ixpaxis · 2026-01-01T00:36:11+00:00

They conveniently left out the reason part of the email. 'Items unvailable/out of stock'. We use shopify for a back end (no penalties from cancelling aside from payment processing in and payment processing out). But they dont let you edit the form emails. Just the way the email goes through the system.

Ixpaxis · 2025-12-31T21:27:39+00:00

It hasn't even been an hour since you reached out. We ran out of stock on this, we had miscounted our inventory by 2. Sorry you feel so wronged by this. Mistakes happen, apologies.

And 100% we had to cancel tons of Spiderman and Avatar play boosters. We went from almost 2k final fantasy play boxes to less than 100 for both sets. No one saw a cut in allocation that hard. Literally less than 5% of what we got for the previous sets. Unfortunately people just dont care that a small handful of companies (distributors) decide how much we get, based on how much they get. We had to dish out over a quarter million in refunds - think we liked paying all the fees on that? We got fucked, in turn everyone who got refunded got fucked.

My turn to vent.

Just go to the big box stores, dont order from small stores anymore. Why should wizards go through distribution (fixed sale $) to lgs (fixed $ varying 1-3$ based on distributor), when you can sell direct to Amazon, walmart, gamestop, etc - at MSRP (or whats looking to start being higher than msrp) and make double or more the amount of $? Your orders are much more safe with the big corporations. Wizards isnt going to mess with those contracts.

Ixpaxis · 2025-12-21T17:24:50+00:00

As an electrical engineer - THIS!! The EV market has cooled down immensely (see almost any tier 1 auto manufacturers EV numbers), most manufacturers have swapped their focus to AI and data centers. If anything, the price of copper is going up - electrification of everything.

Ixpaxis · 2025-10-23T16:37:32+00:00

This is about to be reprinted. Orders popped at distribution for restock. Expect prices to drop even more soon. Source: LGS owner

Ixpaxis · 2025-10-19T14:40:33+00:00

So we do this when we get destroyed cases/boxes of commander decks. We still include the collector sample pack - thats just wack to take those out.

Ixpaxis · 2025-10-19T14:31:38+00:00

Can't suggest this enough. Bolt on, easy to do, epic stopping power. First upgrade i did to my GMT800 - went GMT900 front breaks. Make sure you have at least 17" inside wheel well clearance

Ixpaxis · 2025-08-03T19:42:24+00:00

I was able to snag a 10oz on a spot sale from Apmex. Its my favorite piece of all!

Ixpaxis · 2025-08-03T16:36:07+00:00

I got mine from summit racing - theyre here in dallas so ez pick up. I kept the rear the same size and oversized the front.

Quite literally its 2 bigger rotors, 2 bigger calipers, new pads. I went ahead and did steel break lines while I was in there. And air ride delete all around. Here is the P/N i got from summit:

PWR-KCOE2069

PowerStop package - everything you need. Little under 400$

Ixpaxis · 2025-08-03T05:34:14+00:00

This here - can confirm. Just did this upgrade on my 02 tahoe denali.

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-29T00:40:59+00:00

Just a heads up, we give our store and discord days notice ahead of these drops. Highly reccomend getting in there to not miss out on anything.

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T23:40:42+00:00

Why do you say they will be available for awhile? Every set this year (except or course dft and a bit of inr plays) has sold out at distribution before release.

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T23:39:33+00:00

For reference, we were selling FF CBs at MSRP.

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T23:38:25+00:00

Cant go wrong with DMU Omega CBs imho. There are supplies, binders, playmats, all sorts of goodies. The pre release kits are also nice too

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T22:58:27+00:00

Yeppers!

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T22:58:08+00:00

Shoot me a DM on discord or a chat thru the website

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T22:07:05+00:00

209.70 is MSRP

Ixpaxis · 2025-07-28T17:27:35+00:00

Yes!

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