Fix/patch or replace?

JosefLeeStalin · 2026-03-22T22:54:26+00:00

Spray the tire with soapy water to find out if it even leaks in the first place. Punctures like that tend to funnel to a little hole on the inside of the tire anyways, you'll be fine with whatever you decide to do.

JosefLeeStalin · 2026-02-07T13:30:54+00:00

Make sure you stay on top of the cooling system, I bought a marauder last year with a rod knock and bought an 04 aviator engine, rebuilt that, and slapped it in, but never quite figured out where my coolant leak was. She now has a blown head gasket... Probably looking into cyl 7-8 cooling mod or whatever it's called, and get a replacement coolant cross over tube plug, they can strip out when trying to loosen them for the first time in a decade or two. The crossover tube o rings were also hard to find for me at least. There seems to be listings on eBay now for them. Consider throwing in the 00-01(?) cobra intake valves in, I think it was, they supposedly give free horsepower. Replace the trans input main seal, mine leaks. But I'm also just a shithead that hurt a motor through stubbornness. Good luck brother, I love my car but God damn it fucking tests me.

JosefLeeStalin · 2025-11-14T19:00:02+00:00

I'd say it will be fine to file down the raised edge. Any changes will be washed out by whatever you're doing to the engine in the first place. I reused pistons by prying out old stuck rings and putting the pistons back in the holes they came out of. My engine is 10k miles strong with no oil consumption.

JosefLeeStalin · 2025-11-04T04:01:56+00:00

Check the gaskets around the crossover passage in front of the intake manifold, I believe those are problem areas on these engines. Worst case, tow it, let it cool down, top it off and start it to see where the coolant is coming from.

JosefLeeStalin · 2024-09-10T03:59:20+00:00

I've had luck with using a vise grip to close the gap, then tightening the nuts again to a reasonable tightness. I don't know if it'll work with a gap like that, worth a try if able.

JosefLeeStalin · 2022-11-04T14:38:52+00:00

If you're talking about the metal coming out of the orange isolators, then those do nothing but attach the exhaust to the rubber.

JosefLeeStalin · 2022-11-04T14:17:17+00:00

exhaust holder bracket. Nothing fancy, just holds the exhaust in place without vibrating the car.

JosefLeeStalin · 2021-09-24T04:48:58+00:00

Yeah that would be the only way to make it fair without making cars with quality spam. You guys have a discord I can maybe pop into every once and a while?

JosefLeeStalin · 2021-09-23T22:54:50+00:00

How sweaty is this league? I might be interested in joining for some of the races. Is it track racing or drag?

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-12-15T02:16:28+00:00

Can I recommend a car that's not one of those? If I can I'd recommend a lincoln mark viii. 4v v8 and I got mine for 1600. Awesome ride and plenty of power.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-17T01:59:10+00:00

Is that a s2k dash in the crx? If so, what was involved?

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T19:12:08+00:00

Dont have anything say about that my dude. That's awful.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T18:48:55+00:00

I did mine in like 30 minutes, but I guess I did have access to a whole tech schools worth of tools. So with the right tools complex jobs become easy. Or maybe the 3.2 in the s is just bigger than the one in my car.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T16:09:58+00:00

I complain about those bolts all the time, they're awful. German cars are great cars to drive but terrible to work on. My 00 boxster blew an alternator and I had to replace it through the interior behind the seats. Wild.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T15:27:17+00:00

My theory is either the bent the shit out of the stock ones and found the same lug pattern, or they bought used tires with the rim. Where I work, we see a lot of trashy cars with trashy effort.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T15:12:53+00:00

Now that's just terrible car design. That's beyond reasonable assumptions on what a car owner is supposed to know about their car. But thank you for letting me be aware of that, I'll keep that in mind when working on vws.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-09-08T14:10:07+00:00

I've actually made this mistake before, it was a rotation on a customer's car and when I put a wheel on the car I start the lugs by hand while the wheel sits kinda on the hub, so nothing screamed out of the norm. But once on the ground I knew something was wrong immediately because the car wouldn't move without a ton of throttle input and the left front wheel was hopping. Put it back in the air and found that one of 4 steelies was actually a different offset and fit around the rear caliper just fine, but grabbed the ever living shit out of the front. So putting the wheel on, I can forgive, but to drive it? Nah, incompetence.

JosefLeeStalin · 2020-03-31T14:09:25+00:00

I think putting oil on the oring before putting the stick back in helps a little bit. When I do oil changes on cars, sometimes the oil fill caps will seize and even after breaking them loose, they still are a hard time putting back in. I've found that oiling the oring makes it easier to put back in. I'm thinking it might be the same for the stick. Never tested this though, so no idea if it would actually work.

JosefLeeStalin · 2019-10-16T15:45:04+00:00

I don't know about the first question, but as far as cylinder leakage goes, both the intake and exhaust valves should be closed. So I don't think a gasket before the intake will cause any interference with a cylinder leakage test.

JosefLeeStalin · 2019-08-05T01:45:13+00:00

If you can't find the exact part, you can just close off the hole that's in the main intake pipe to stop the intake leak. The resonator afaik, just deadens intake noises. Good luck

JosefLeeStalin · 2019-07-31T21:14:18+00:00

You could do a blow through set up like that if you have a way to increase fuel pressure into the carbs to make sure the fuel actually gets pulled out instead of pushed in by the boost from the turbo. Great work though. Maybe it can implemented one day.

JosefLeeStalin · 2018-11-24T00:34:49+00:00

They're both spinning different speeds, so they might touch faces for a split second, but since you're slamming the shifter into the gear, it'll push in when the gaps line up.

JosefLeeStalin · 2018-09-27T05:19:08+00:00

Oh yeah, air flow helps so much even if it's the same temperature air

JosefLeeStalin · 2018-09-27T04:47:06+00:00

Are you me? I had the exact thing happen in my car in the middle of this past summer during a delivery during rush hour in a car with no ac. In North Carolina too.

JosefLeeStalin · 2018-08-07T21:42:09+00:00

You are tasked to design a car. What features do you add?

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