# What did you do to your car today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [October 16, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557 "2008-10-16T07:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 366
**Author:** ![tdi\_logik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tdi_logik/32/6310_2.png) [@tdi\_logik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tdi_logik)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7301 "2010-09-12T21:41:16Z")
> [@20wrx09"](#): > > nice. but sorry to tell you that you went the wrong way with the wrap, you’re supposed to go from the bottom to the top so that water doesnt collect on the wrap as easy. (it will run off of it better [think of roof shingles]) who cares, it’ll do its job and im sure its stainless steel ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7302 "2010-09-12T21:54:36Z")
> [@tdi\_logik"](#): > > who cares, it’ll do its job and im sure its stainless steel agreed, also, its an exhaust pipe, they tend to warm up quite a bit OVER the boiling point of water, so its not a problem:thumbup ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7303 "2010-09-13T11:50:39Z")
Uploaded my own revamped Stage II tune. Ah, just as I suspected. Much smoother driving from the new timing map. I changed it again from the one I posted. I took a GM Stage II map again, smoothed the FUCK out of it, only this time I kept the 20\* of timing from 3k-redline at WOT. My PE (fueling enrichment, you of course can’t run stoich at WOT) kicks in at 2800, so by the time I am at 3,000 the engine is getting the fuel it needs to run that much timing down low. Wheeeeeeeeeee! I am very happy. What the rough timing did was cause random spikes in the timing during daily driving, which resulted in KR. Sometimes over 10 degrees! However, now that the timing gradually changes instead of going up mountains and falling into deep valleys, the car pulls no KR during normal driving and thus has it’s low-end torque back. It still needs a turbo, though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7304 "2010-09-13T11:54:42Z")
took a picture of this ![http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o21/yo_delprad/20100913141034.jpg](http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o21/yo_delprad/20100913141034.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7305 "2010-09-13T11:58:23Z")
That’s what the rocker panels on my Z24 looked like. Only much worse, and were hidden by moldings/side skirts. ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7306 "2010-09-13T12:01:25Z")
> [@NYI T&T 9-7](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyi-t-t-9-7/34990/4): > > took a picture of this wheres that? firewall? ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7307 "2010-09-13T12:07:06Z")
strut tower ---
**Author:** ![votblindub](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/votblindub/32/6280_2.png) [@votblindub](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/votblindub)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7308 "2010-09-13T12:09:28Z")
yeeesh, get that done quick. ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7309 "2010-09-13T12:12:48Z")
Im still waiting for KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKUSTOMS to respond back to me with a price to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![tdi\_logik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tdi_logik/32/6310_2.png) [@tdi\_logik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tdi_logik)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7310 "2010-09-13T15:37:29Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/34936/13): > > Uploaded my own revamped Stage II tune. > > Ah, just as I suspected. Much smoother driving from the new timing map. > > I changed it again from the one I posted. I took a GM Stage II map again, smoothed the FUCK out of it, only this time I kept the 20\* of timing from 3k-redline at WOT. My PE (fueling enrichment, you of course can’t run stoich at WOT) kicks in at 2800, so by the time I am at 3,000 the engine is getting the fuel it needs to run that much timing down low. > > Wheeeeeeeeeee! I am very happy. > > What the rough timing did was cause random spikes in the timing during daily driving, which resulted in KR. Sometimes over 10 degrees! However, now that the timing gradually changes instead of going up mountains and falling into deep valleys, the car pulls no KR during normal driving and thus has it’s low-end torque back. > > It still needs a turbo, though. ☹ is your brothers 100% stock gti still faster? ---
**Author:** ![LKSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lksi/32/6316_2.png) [@LKSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LKSi)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7311 "2010-09-13T15:39:44Z")
[![http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7478/leooan.jpg](http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7478/leooan.jpg)](http://img13.imageshack.us/i/leooan.jpg/) ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7312 "2010-09-13T16:56:58Z")
Just tightened and re-positioned the heat shield that goes from the firewall to the rear axle. Hopefully that fixes the rattling sound I got at certain resonance tones throughout the RPM range. I hit the bullet, resonator, and muffler with a hammer and they all sounded solid, so hopefully nothing self-destructed too much on the inside from the no-lift-shifting :rofl Aside from the muffler packing being burned away, but that’s to be expected. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7313 "2010-09-13T16:58:58Z")
> [@tdi\_logik"](#): > > is your brothers 100% stock gti still faster? It was about even with my car on low-octane timing. He has a stage II reflash and a new DP, so his is probably faster I would assume. I just realized that my car is getting up there in mileage. I’ve owned it for just over 3 yrs now and it has 53k on it already :facepalm Luckily the LSJ uses forged internals (sans pistons) and a pretty beefy valvetrain, so as long as I don’t rev it past 7200 it should last a long time (one can only hope). ---
**Author:** ![tdi\_logik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tdi_logik/32/6310_2.png) [@tdi\_logik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tdi_logik)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7314 "2010-09-13T20:54:45Z")
> [@AlpineSkiier"](#): > > It was about even with my car on low-octane timing. > > He has a stage II reflash and a new DP, so his is probably faster I would assume. he already modded it? that was fast… apr SW? ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7315 "2010-09-13T23:10:12Z")
> [@Yo delPrad"](#): > > strut tower typical NE Mk3. both sides or just the passenger? ---
**Author:** ![Hooked\_on\_240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Hooked\_on\_240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hooked_on_240)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7316 "2010-09-14T00:27:32Z")
Extra set of snows were burned off :ninja ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7317 "2010-09-14T05:08:47Z")
> [@Motion to Add Real estate and Housing forum](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/motion-to-add-real-estate-and-housing-forum/34975/36): > > typical NE Mk3. both sides or just the passenger? Just the pass side ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7318 "2010-09-14T05:12:39Z")
my ‘foot slipped off the clutch’ again. hate that shit. ---
**Author:** ![20wrx09](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/20wrx09/32/6532_2.png) [@20wrx09](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/20wrx09)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7319 "2010-09-14T11:55:38Z")
washed the car and it doesnt even look clean. then threw a P0103 code on my way home :facepalm ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/7320 "2010-09-14T16:19:53Z")
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