Tuesday, May 4, 2010

forgetful

i forgot to add a few stories that made me laugh/sad/worried about this winter project...
story number 1
took the car out for a drive to see how everything worked... did a few pulls did the 3rd pull... car moved pretty well, then all of a sudden this weird liquid explodes on my windshield and theres a loud pop (didnt have a hood on at the time) and it happened on the drivers side so i ugh slowed the f down tried seeing where i was going and pulled into my subdavision right away.. (nick was driving behind me to make sure nothing was leaking etc etc, he thought i blew the motor up lol)
anyways... i pull over theres a TON of oil all over the ground, the engine bay, windshield, mirror, everywhere... look around and the god damn oil cooler line blew the f off... yeah barb'd hoses work for shit. so we tightened it up drove it home which was only like 1 mile... it lost 4 qts of oil, lets just say oil isn't cheap... that oil was brand new too lol. shiiiittty.
story number 2
we were on our way to our friend ron's house to have him put on my exhaust (diff spot w/ new turbo) and since the car doesn't like shifting it revvs @ like 4grand when im doing 60mph... so things are gonna get hot... the liquids were getting warm so i wanted to pull over and let it chill.
pop the hood and take a look around... notice the an line for the turbo oil feed line is just about cookin thru... i had it going thru the manifold hole (hard to explain) so in other words... it was so hot it started burning a hole thru that an line... holy shit. i was so close to blowing up my brand new turbo. i would of cried! so instead of driving it to ron's (we were more than half way there) he came and towed me to his house... fixed up that line and did the exhaust... hes a great welder, i must add.

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