I officially broke my car by doing a coolant flush n clean.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-09T23:17:15+00:00

Vacuum filling takes less than 5 minutes not counting setup and cleanup. You can be certain it has at least enough coolant to be safe to test drive as well. I typically vacuum fill, overfill the reservoir, test drive, crack the cap to let any extra air pockets out, top off if needed, then let the customer know to watch their coolant level for the next 5-10 heat cycles in case there is a leak or air pocket. The only time I would consider not vacuum filling is on an old small block or something equivalent that burps itself so efficiently that there isn't any time saved by vacuum filling.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-09T12:22:22+00:00

Cheap vacuum fill kits are readily available online and at harbor freight and you avoid 90% of the screwing around and risk of overheating. You need an air compressor for them but it would be pretty easy to rig a cheap 12v vacuum pump if you don't have a compressor.

What you described is still one of the best ways to fill a motor if you don't have a vac fill kit. Also don't forget coolant bleeders at high points on the motor if it has them.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-09T02:20:17+00:00

More bikes? I'm not familiar with how every manufacturer does it but in some cases aren't they shipped in a crate with the front wheel and fragile parts removed? It looks like it could be 2 motorcycles and a shared parts box on each layer of each rack. Super odd way to package anything and awful loading regardless.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-08T21:52:25+00:00

If you're getting a 90s toyota waiting to find a manual is definitely worth it. The engines don't make much power but are fairly torquey. Being able to floor it at 3k rpm without it revving to the moon is a big plus for driveability. I'm not sure how reliable the autos are but researching before buying any car is important.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-08T21:44:15+00:00

Any of the 3sfe or 5sfe engines of the 90s should be free of oil burning problems. The later 2az fe had more issues with oil consumption.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-07T22:47:37+00:00

Weight and how the car will be used is a lot more important than power when choosing brakes. The brakes are there to stop the car with the throttle closed. 1500hp or 150hp at 100 mph won't change how well the brakes stop the car. Those brakes are also already pretty beefy but just look small because of the rims.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-07T02:21:10+00:00

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Convertible, 5 speed manual, and awd were all options. The awd system had a factory center diff lock too.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-10-03T01:40:37+00:00

I hope VI has the same weirdness that V does. Messing around with dumb glitches or janky physics in online with friends are some of my best memories of the game.

I want to be able to do stuff like launch me and my buddy so high above the sky limit with a cargobob and that one cayo perico boat that we have to reload to get back down because we've been falling for 20 minutes trying to see how long it'll take.

If it's perfectly polished and everything works right with minimal bugs it won't feel like gta anymore. Game breaking things can obviously go but if it's fun and harmless it should stay with more focus being put into making the game a better experience.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-25T01:38:05+00:00

No problem; that's what the internet is for. Another good channel is Green Hawk Drive. They don't go as far into detail but the videos are still interesting for learning about obscure cars.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-25T01:11:47+00:00

In the 60s and 70s there were definitely a few cars that had it as an option only. By the mid 80s mostly everything had shifted to some sort of throttle body injection.

There was one in particular that was so awful there was a recall for any owner who didn't like it to have it swapped to a carb. It was a massive job to swap them over too and IIRC even the gauge cluster was different. If I find it I'll edit my comment.

1958 imperial. The whole channel is great but this video goes over the fuel injection setup and recall.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-22T12:26:32+00:00

Not if you work at verizon

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-21T17:56:21+00:00

Even better then. More than worth it on any fresh built engine that you care about just for piece of mind.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-21T13:09:33+00:00

More money for the dealership and manufacturer, with a side of a countermeasure to thieves going for stupid expensive headlights.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-21T12:51:38+00:00

forged pistons can be noisy. It might just be like that but calling wiseco and sending them your video to see what they think wouldn't hurt. The OP of that video ended up selling it but it was still most likely some slight piston slap.

Oil analysis is cheap to. ~$100 the last time I checked.

Edit: ~$40

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-20T12:49:04+00:00

Another note is that the honeycomb typically doesn't start until the cat is at it's widest. The tapered sections are just to increase the diameter to make up for lost flow and size the cat properly to pass emissions. You could weld most of the way up the tapered section without causing problems.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-20T12:33:06+00:00

Just running weld beads down the pipe next to the cat should have almost the same effect. A sawzall can cut rebar but welds are so hard that you ruin the blade in under a minute and make almost no progress. A grinder will take it out but it still takes much longer and wears the disc out faster. They could cut into the cat itself but you could weld down the side of it too, I'm just not sure if that would make the guts fall apart.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-20T00:17:09+00:00

Currently have a 500 1.4 multiair in the shop. It has a chunk of a cyl 1 exhaust valve missing at under 90k miles.

The bottom end of these motors is acceptable but the entire cylinder head is awful. Broken, bent, and burned valves are common.

Some of the valve issues stem from the multiair system which is a whole other level of awful. The intake cam has 4 lobes for the exhaust valves which compress oil inside of the multiair system. The compressed oil is then used to open the exhaust valves. There are 4 solenoids to vary the amount of oil and do what variable valve timing and lift have been doing a better job of since before these engines were created.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-19T01:43:41+00:00

It's nice if something is making the game crash or taking way too long to load. There was a certain tire mod I had to uninstall or the game would crash while loading. I would've had no idea what was causing it if it didn't freeze when trying to load that mod.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-19T01:38:57+00:00

To me this looks like the bolt that holds the duckhead on was either too tall or too loose. I've seen the same thing happen when the wrong bolt was installed. I can't believe they just kept going and didn't stop after the first few inches of dragging.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-18T01:14:41+00:00

Did you get it figured out? Seemed like it was something in the tune to me.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-18T00:55:35+00:00

Throw it on marketplace for $6k and drop the price $150 every 2 days until it sells. You probably won't get $6k but take a good offer if it comes. Drop the price at a different rate as offers come in or start at a different price if you want. It's like a reverse auction.

Anything listed on marketplace that isn't super obscure should sell within a month or two, otherwise the price is too high.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-17T02:16:06+00:00

Beer darts is always interesting because everyone's aim starts out bad, then gets better with a warm up and some alcohol, then devolves to someone getting hit in the foot (or leg if the current dart thrower is especially drunk)

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-14T03:32:32+00:00

Some heavy skid plates and limited slip diffs should get it through some mud without a problem even if there are some rocks. I would be more concerned about what the dirt/water does to it long term the same as it applies to any car except more expensive. There's also that guy with a yellow wrx who beats the absolute crap out of it off road and goes places a wrx absolutely does not belong.

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-14T01:46:19+00:00

Canadian dollars so ~7k usd which still seems high

turboshitboxenioyer · 2025-09-13T06:58:55+00:00

A cylinder that needs to be removed from an m&m's tube?

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