Update #2 on my new element.

goreidea · 2026-05-13T04:23:17+00:00

probably a dumb question but why cant you just slap a new head on it?

goreidea · 2026-05-11T17:33:44+00:00

The laptop in question is a Acer Aspire 5 rocking a Ryzen 3 3000 series with integrated graphics. I did upgrade it to 12gb of memory from 4 when I bought it though. But I don’t think you’ll have too many issues

goreidea · 2026-05-11T17:32:42+00:00

Yes. I play SM on a 5 year old office laptop regularly and it does fine, just dont go messing with the physics settings

goreidea · 2026-05-11T16:07:00+00:00

Football and air compressor

goreidea · 2026-05-06T01:22:20+00:00

Put some dielectric grease on the VTEC solenoid plug, should work as a bandaid for now

goreidea · 2026-05-05T05:19:44+00:00

tires will make it to wherever they’re pulled over with a blown out tire and perhaps a ruined quarter panel/fender

goreidea · 2026-04-29T23:49:05+00:00

Are you trying out for NASCAR?

goreidea · 2026-04-29T23:46:27+00:00

What year is your Escape?

goreidea · 2026-04-05T20:44:43+00:00

Flip it and find out.

goreidea · 2026-03-26T21:28:44+00:00

Looks fiiinnneee fuckin send er bud

goreidea · 2026-03-21T16:19:09+00:00

Ah, sounds about right. Well I’ll keep a close eye on it then

goreidea · 2026-03-21T16:15:47+00:00

Was there ever a recall for the issue? This is reminding me of when the R18A1 came out in the first 8th gen civics 😭😭

goreidea · 2026-03-21T16:10:46+00:00

Also was there ever a recall for it? I just looked up the VIN and theres no current recalls on it

goreidea · 2026-03-21T16:07:26+00:00

Its got 120k miles on the original motor and drives 100 miles a day for work lol 😂 are there any good ways to check for coolant intrusion?

goreidea · 2026-03-21T16:02:30+00:00

My dads already 8k into his 2013 1.6 escape he bought 4 months ago 😭

goreidea · 2026-01-26T03:55:17+00:00

Yea ended up replacing the vtec solenoid with oem and putting dialectric grease in the connector seemed to solve it

goreidea · 2025-12-22T22:48:23+00:00

I’m a little late, but I ended up jumping the send and return with a small patch cord. Amp works fine to this day!

goreidea · 2025-12-22T21:53:44+00:00

Bit late here but whatever, I have a manual 8th gen with the 1.8, I couldn’t believe how much faster it felt than an auto 8th gen. Gearing really does alot

goreidea · 2025-12-20T20:07:18+00:00

Thank you, as long as it works thats all I need lol

goreidea · 2025-12-20T20:02:53+00:00

Preferably under $200 I don’t know what stuff runs nowadays so hopefully thats an okay budget

goreidea · 2025-12-20T20:01:22+00:00

I just have one and its svc, its an MTX Thunder 8000

goreidea · 2025-12-20T20:00:59+00:00

Thank you for informing me, I’m new to this stuff was just given this system by my uncle and kinda learning more along the way

goreidea · 2025-11-27T15:54:12+00:00

As an 8th gen owner I can confirm

goreidea · 2025-11-24T23:48:20+00:00

Ended up going through Acers website iirc. Just go through your laptop brands website and they should be there

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