# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1458
**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:** [March 17, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557/1458 "2009-03-17T04:52:57Z")
> [@FS: Full Bedroom Set](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-full-bedroom-set/15530/14): > > Well it’s not because of anything they did wrong. > > The manifold I had didn’t require many things. When I went back to stock, I didn’t have a lot of stuff and I didn’t realize stuff was missing (I wasn’t the one who originally took the stock stuff off). Once I realized I’m more into aesthetics than power and sold the 2000 IM, and started to troubleshoot, I saw what was up. > > I ran her tonight after undoing the coolant bypass, etc. She runs so much better. Throttle response is much smoother, idles better, seems to be a little quieter although that might just be me. Just waiting for my coil packs to come in so I can remove the one that’s bad and have 5 backups in case. 99’s are famous for coil issues. > > But yeah…I learned a lot. I guess that’s what I’ll take away from this experience. No biggie. It’s not like I lost $2k trying to fix it. I think I spent like $600 total. Most of those parts were done as preventive maintenance so I’ll never have to worry about them again. > > I did manage to drop the nut for my front strut bar though and never saw it again. I spent like an hour looking on the floor/in my engine bay. I’ll just have to go to Napa tomorrow and pick out the same one so I can attach the strut bar like it’s supposed to be attached. you felt that much from a tb coolant bypass eh? :rofl --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-did-you-do-to-your-car-today/239557)._