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And that's coming from a DIE HARD Chevy guy I would get in heated arguments In school.
Because back then, and this is true to this day, the early 90s Silverados were hella reliable and easy to work on compared to Ford's.
It took a loooong time for me to admit Chevy dropped their monumental lead. Even when I currently own an f150 and it's the biggest piece of shit I've fixed it literally 20 times in a year a half. It's all bullshit
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Anyone know what to do about boost leaks? I just found one right near my turbo :/
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25272775 - 06/16/18 05:05 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't think Chevy dropped the lead at all. Fords going 6 cylinder. Screw that. GM is still the best. ZR1 vette setting records over $500,000 cars. The ZL1 Camaro will smoke most anything on a road course. They have great reliability also. I love the ZL1 with the big grill and carbon fiber hood scoop. Looks sweet. I think the new vettes are the best looking ever. The ZR1 looks crazy.
Corvette is completely dominating the American LeMans series. They just won their 9th manufacturer title. They were so dominant that every other manufacturer quit the class. Now the class they race in they make less power then the factory ones.
Cadillac is also dominating whatever series they race in.
Fords stopping making all their cars except for 1 model of the focus and the Mustang.
I would never buy a Chrysler now. Half owned by Fiat. They are behind the game compared to GM and Ford.
Somehow everyone thinks foreign cars are more reliable. It's not true. It's because Consumer Reports and the media. I beat the crap out of my cars and they have all been reliable except for a 4 cylinder Mustang I had that the engine and trans were made in Germany. Most foreign cars if you take it to the track it voids your warranty. Not with American cars.
Yeah the Trans Am has the slotted rotors. I love the styling of it. The newer body style the best. I have always like Pontiacs styling. I like all GM styles the best. Ford the least. The new Mustang is the only one I like except for the back. The only Challengers I like are the ones with stripes or other decals. I liked the last gen Charger. Dart is lame as hell. I was reading the Viper is supposed to be coming back as a v8. You just can't beat a v8. The new vettes might be going mid engine which I think is stupid. They are much harder to work on. Why ruin a good thing?
I have no experience with turbo. I would suggest throwing it in the garbage and buying a supercharger. Joking. That's why I like superchargers better. More reliable and low end torque.
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: ds442]
#25272876 - 06/16/18 05:50 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well people don't think foreign cars are reliable based on myth. There's no denying that Japanese cars, mainly Toyota's, are reliable for decades to come. No other brand over engineered like Toyota did in the 80s and 90s. And no other brand has as strong of a reputation for reliability. That's not a myth based on the media. What does our media have to gain from falsely implying foreign cars are more reliable? And of it was an opinion people based on consumer reports that's not a myth. That's people reporting their experiences in after they bought a car.
Seeing as how most cars no matter the brand are foreign in some way or another the debate is no longer as cut and dry as it was. But even now America cars are on the low end of the reliability scale. Ford is the big reason i believe.
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I'm the same way for the most part, I still prefer GM in general, I've loved many Corvettes and Camaros but only that one mustang.
Personally I don't think foreign cars are anymore reliable now, what I was talking about earlier was specifically during the 80s invasion when there was a black and white difference in product and fuel economy and purchase price and it rocked the industry and American companies followed suit.
To this day a lot of that can be seen if you look at the sticker of a Chevy Aveo it says 95% of the car is foreign parts.
As far as reliability I think it's all a crapshoot that is a case by case basis as I was saying. Despite the branding, every time a new Camaro comes out it's a new chassis. Each time it needs to be evaluated as a new car.
There are examples of cars that always do well it seems and Corvette and Camaro are probably good examples of repeat good perfoance because they're the flagship sports car of a large brand. Camry is another one, there was some stink about the accelerator pedal failing and going wide open throttle and hurting people it was all over the news but it turned out to be old people and idiots - hurt Toyotas image a lot and wasn't even true. They're solid vehicles in today's market.
But again back to my mustang ii example, no one planned a failure when they designed the new mustang, but it was a huge oversight in the design of the mustangs front end and, if buying simply off the success of previous mustangs and not looking at that new rolling chassis as a new car, you'd be pissed.
I personally think Chevy dropped the ball big time in year past compared to early 90s late 90s but I don't base that on ant racing pedigree, just over the road reliability.
When I started wrenching there were no big regular failures I can remember on GMC or Chevy trucks. The cars back then we're pretty bulletproof too as I recall. Everything had failures but not like the fords.
But then like 04 or 05 I noticed a drop in reliability in the cars especially shortly after that was the ignitkon switch recall which was a big big deal.
Every car has issues but I remember far less with GMs back in the day.
It's hard even as a mechanic to look ahead and buy smart. Consumer reports are good and I think JD power award is one of those that people a year after purchase are asked their opinions and that's valuable info.
Kia comes to mind. Lots of people gonna hate but I love Kia I've had one and one Hyundai, amazing warranty and vehicle for the money, made leaps in car design over the past ten years but the reason I like them is they used to at least save all money in r&d by buying old engine designs and manufacturing molds.
So for example Toyotas Camry engine when they discontinue and move on to a new engine block they sell the molds and plans, many times to smaller countries / companies I guess, but Kia started buying the good bulletproof stuff that has like ten years actual road data millions of customers billions of miles kinda deal, and they just put up to date electronics on it and there you go. Slightly noisy enfines if you have a tuned ear. Noisy valvetrain. Cheap tiny starter sound on startup.
But the epitome of cheap efficiency in a new car
And they have some sexy designs now
Ford has always been shit since the 80s if u ask me Chrysler really took a shit over the past ten years look at the Durango and how many thousand of ball joints separated in moving vehicles and mlw lots of electronic issues my buddy had a 300 had 2 pcms go out that's inexcusable basically that's cheap parts, having a contract with a cheap Chinese supplier to save .05 per unit or similar, fuck you, fuck you for ever putting me in the position of having a failed computer, if it's in warranty it's gonna be a week for diagnosis and approval and they never want to give a loaner and if it's out of warranty your bullshit profiteering attitude cost me $1200.
Planned obselescence. I watched a documentary on that the other day, "the light bulb conspiracy". How back in the 1920s light bulb designers started designing them to fail sooner and how that cascaded through the economy. They could all make better cars if they wanted to.
The goal is who can make the best looking car that doesn't make a creak for 3 years or 36,000 miles and then shakes itself to pieces and shoots the oil plug out shortly after
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Wolfie - is that video a joke? It's hella late I can't sleep and may be delicious but it looks like a corn husk or something is crammed in there lol I thought it was a neon colored steering column cing out of your firewall but it looks like a blown out corn husk lol
Uhhhh if your pipe is a blown out corn husk like I'm seeing right now on no psychedelics u need to replace that section lol
If it's just a leak treat it like any other pressurized air system, rtv red is acceptable under your rubber couplers, use very little and let fully cure before starting up. Use quality hose clamps and get a 1/4 drive ratchet and socket to fit the adjustment screw don't use a screwdriver.
Only go as tight as it takes.
The video is too short for the third time I see a blown out corn husk so I'm going to bed
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Its a leek XD
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25274747 - 06/17/18 03:39 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Seriously though, I need to get a new boost controller because my Eboost Street shit itself. I'm looking at the GFB G-Force II which is around $350AUD.

Anyone had any experience with these? Or know of a good boost controller around the $300 range?
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25274815 - 06/17/18 04:18 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I can't believe I didn't noticed that the first time. Thats hilarious! That means someone might have seen you with a big ass leek under your hood and was probably thoroughly confused.
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Ohhhhhhhh nice! Lmao I still didn't get it after he told me leek, that's such an unfamiliar food term to me. I see people spell things wrong online all the time tho nice one I'm gonna watch it again now
I know nothing on controllers
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25281775 - 06/20/18 07:19 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Aaannd here we have the definition of irony -.-
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25283338 - 06/21/18 01:18 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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You do know GM built a 6 cylinder for Toyota in the 80's. Toyotas are reliable but also slow as hell and the people that own them don't beat on them. They also have lame styling. Dodge is the least reliable American car now. Ford's v8's have always been pretty good except for the 4.6. I see older Honda's all the time pouring out smoke. I have worked at car dealerships that have owned multiple brands and they are all around the same reliability now.
The media has their own agendas. Everything is about money. They are making money from foreign companies. The Clintons made a shit load from China when good old Bill passed NAFTA.
I was just in WI. I went to a distillery and a brewery. On the way back to my campsite I run into a new charger on the highway. It was an SRT 392. I finally get him to go. We gunned it doing 60 till about 80 maybe. He only pulled on me about a car length. Not to impressed with that. He has a ton more HP than me. Even the Demon's are not running the times Dodge has claimed. They are losing to supposedly lesser cars.
I got the racing stripes and 1 was messed up so I didn't get them on. I put 2 smaller birds on both the sail panels right behind the windows. I have birds all over now. I love them.
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: ds442]
#25283352 - 06/21/18 01:26 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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HumbleNewcomer look into how Consumer Reports rates cars. They are a joke. When the new Camaros first came out they rated them below average reliability. Based on what? They were some of the most reliable sports cars and they rate the new ones below average. JD Power is good.
My Dad was a mechanic and when he was younger loved Mopar. Now all he buys is GM. He didn't really teach me shit about cars. I learned mostly on my own from experience and the internet. He doesn't know shit about newer vehicles.
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: ds442]
#25283415 - 06/21/18 01:59 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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If I was alive back then I bet I wouldve been a Mopar guy too.
Plymouth roadrunners just looked so over the top badass and the cuda, so cool even Don Johnson rocked one with Cheech on tv for years.
Gas was like a quarter a gallon or something f back then everyone just making mad displacement throwing big blocks in cars and selling them to teenagers.
What a time
And how things change, Plymouth roadrunners and the Plymouth minivan, the twin with the Chrysler one back in the 80s those were EVERYWHERE Now Plymouth is nowhere
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I love the old Cudas, Chargers, and Road Runners. I was at a muscle car dealer over 20 years ago. They had a Hemi Cuda convertible plum crazy purple. He said a guy offered him $200,000 cash for it and he turned it down.
They had a thing on the wall were they tested all the muscle cars down the 1/4 mile. The Buick GS was first. The Oldsmobile 442 w-30 was second. That's my favorite muscle car. They made over 500 ft lbs of torque. I just seen a red one with black stripes. Just what I want for $90,000 with very low miles. Not bad when other more popular muscle cars are going for over $250,000. Then the GTO Judge was 3rd. The Hemis were really heavy so they didn't run that good of times but you could make them fast as hell.
The Camaro ZL1 back then was all aluminum 427. It made over 600 hp.
Here is a cool video from a company that converts new Camaros to Trans Am's if anyone is interested. They are over 1000 HP and handle insane. Sick. I wish I could afford one.
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: wolfiewolfie]
#25284585 - 06/22/18 05:18 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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wolfiewolfie said: Aaannd here we have the definition of irony -.-

don't feel bad I just bent a valve lol
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: HappyHigh]
#25287241 - 06/23/18 12:21 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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That trans am is siiiiiiiiiick I wasn't aware anyone was doing this.
90k on the Oldsmobile 442, you're talking buying one that's already been rebuilt?
You can find a lot of sweet older cars to restore yourself for 12k or less, many not in bad shape.
I don't chase collector cars and I know the older more rare ones are more but I can't see 90k I dont love any car that much.
I'd have to get stupid rich to change my value system.
Id like to spend about 6500 on a sweet Monte Carlo or Cutlass supreme or something and half restore it. El Camino. Sweet little beater for a few years, little exhaust, clean ass paint job shiny muscle rims those $50 ones with the holes in them
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Re: Anyone into modifying cars on here? [Re: ds442]
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What 6 cylinder are you referring to? I don't know of any 6 cylinder toyota engines that match that. I know the m series of engines in the supra but Chevy had no part in that. Link? And what significance does that hold? And slow as hell? You must not get out of your comfort zone much. Or at least you stay in an echo chamber. And you must not have anybody that actually uses there car around you. My first yota died with 230k and I abused it. Bad. My second one had over 300k. None of these were taken care of. My current rebuild will last far longer. A 2jz is one of the strongest and most reliable engines out there. And also one of the highest in tuning potential. Head studs and a tune and you'll eat alot of cars alive. You have a very close minded view of cars. There is no "foreign" vs "American" anymore. All American cars are mostly foreign now. Youre stuck in the 70s And you weren't even alive then. There is no giant media conspiracy where they lie and tell everyone their cars last longer.
If you've seen a 1stgen celica. 1st gen pickup. Mark 3 and 4 supra. Celica g Even a little ace van and you still say it's "lame" styling then you too far gone to be helped.
It's all well and good to claim everything is a conspiracy and the media is behind everything but that's childish. Saying we make money from foreign companies and the reason the car reviews are skewed is because of that is also childish. If anything the media will shew it in American brands favor. Why on earth they would make up shit for imported cars is beyond me. The reliability reputation gotta has was earned since the late 70s when they showed you can buy smaller more economical vehicles and not miss a giant sorry land boat. American cars have always been wasteful and excessive. Door as hell but excessive.
Also your 600hp camaro numbers are very generous. Your bias is showing. Very much.
Your over here saying that everything bad about American cars is stupid and everything good about foreign cars is a conspiracy. Liking them is one thing but blatantly ignoring facts and years of proven research and saying "nah that's the media" is something else.
Your limited experience with shitty car owners isn't indicative of an entire market or brand of cars. It's no opinion or media bias that Toyota's last longer. Certain Toyota's if course. I'm not saying they all rock and will last 1 million miles. But I am saying more toyotas will reach 1 million than any other brand.
And actually after researching a little to see when GM built an engine for toyota. Which I never found by the way so I'm looking forward to yoir link. What I did find was the joint venture in the 80s between Gm and Toyota. Toyota needed Americans manufacturing facilities bad. So they took over a GM factory that had the worst reputation in the entire industry. It pumped out shitty cars and was notorious for strikes and drugs and all around incompetence. Until toyota took over and made it the most efficient plant they had. Look up the NUMMI plant.
So until you show me a link I'm calling bullshit on your claim. The only v6 engine toyota had in 80s was the vz series and gm had nothing to do with that. Toyota would never go to a company with horrible quality and reputation when they were in the prime of their reputation.
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When you said Toyota / GM had a partnership at a factory in the late 80s I immediately wondered if that had anything to do with the Geo brand.
Geo motors brand was launched under Chevrolet in 1989 and the Geo prizm was built at this NUMMI plant.
I read basically Toyota agreed to come down and teach GM the Toyota production line method and GM sent 30 executives to Japan to learn their streamlines management methods, all in exchange for Toyota to have greater access to the American market basically, the factory partnership meant building cars here was cheaper and they did not have means for a place to themselves on US soil yet
Geo motors was shut down in 1997 but the lighter fuel efficient models were continued under Chevrolet names
Undoubtedly Geo took a lot of design hints from Toyota during those partnership years
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