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Offline normancw

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2480 on: May 06, 2014, 10:14:16 am »
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on May 06, 2014, 10:00:04 am
Quote from: normancw on May 06, 2014, 09:03:56 am
Not really related to my current car, but I gave away my 86 Toyota MR-2 service manual to a neighbour that just got an MR-2. 

As I was driving by, I saw the the owner in his garage.  I went home, grabbed the manual, drove back, and introduced myself.  It turns out the MR-2 is his girlfriend's.  She was so happy to get the manual (she had been looking for a while).  He has a modded WRX (not sure if it's an STI) that makes 460whp and 500+ lb-ft of torque!

He works at a tuning shop in the east end and can get Amsoil and Motul oil at good prices.
mind passing on the contact? I am looking for a good tuning shop to bounce some ideas off of...

I forgot the name, but I'll drop by and get it.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2481 on: May 08, 2014, 10:12:17 am »
Got P0300 and P0303 on the Passat, probably coil pack on cylinder 3.  Should be an easy fix.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2482 on: May 08, 2014, 10:57:17 pm »
donuts in the rain today ::)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2483 on: May 08, 2014, 11:24:31 pm »
Quote from: Cutlass Mechanic on May 08, 2014, 10:57:17 pm
donuts in the rain today ::)

Hows the turning radius?
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2484 on: May 09, 2014, 01:06:17 am »
Got the winter boots taken off - it looks and feels like I have a new car with the alloy rims and all-season rubber.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2485 on: May 09, 2014, 01:14:00 am »
Put my finger THROUGH the moonroof button on the Porsche just now....FFS.  Must not have used enough unicorn horn powder during the plastic injection process...
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2486 on: May 09, 2014, 03:33:35 am »
Hole-y smokes!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2487 on: May 09, 2014, 05:15:24 am »
Slowly checking everything on the new car.  Today  found the tires were at 40 psi instead of the 32 specified on the door label.  Went down to 36 for a couple of days  to try the feel at low pressures and I'll go to 32-33 next week.   Tried some NAV functions...these FGC engineers sure make it complicated. Example: you can enter a 'Vcard' into the cars 'directory' for use with the phone.   But to navigate to that address the Nav has to make a copy of the address portion in the directory.  Fortunately it has room for 2000 entries or so it says ( 60GB hard disk)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2488 on: May 09, 2014, 12:43:05 pm »
Quote from: tpl on May 09, 2014, 05:15:24 am
Slowly checking everything on the new car.  Today  found the tires were at 40 psi instead of the 32 specified on the door label.  Went down to 36 for a couple of days  to try the feel at low pressures and I'll go to 32-33 next week.   Tried some NAV functions...these FGC engineers sure make it complicated. Example: you can enter a 'Vcard' into the cars 'directory' for use with the phone.   But to navigate to that address the Nav has to make a copy of the address portion in the directory.  Fortunately it has room for 2000 entries or so it says ( 60GB hard disk)

Interesting.  The MDX was delivered wit 42 psi all around instead of 35 as per door label.  I wonder if this is done on purpose? 

And congrats on the new ride.  :thumbup:   
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2489 on: May 09, 2014, 01:07:41 pm »
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on May 06, 2014, 10:00:04 am
Quote from: normancw on May 06, 2014, 09:03:56 am
Not really related to my current car, but I gave away my 86 Toyota MR-2 service manual to a neighbour that just got an MR-2. 

As I was driving by, I saw the the owner in his garage.  I went home, grabbed the manual, drove back, and introduced myself.  It turns out the MR-2 is his girlfriend's.  She was so happy to get the manual (she had been looking for a while).  He has a modded WRX (not sure if it's an STI) that makes 460whp and 500+ lb-ft of torque!

He works at a tuning shop in the east end and can get Amsoil and Motul oil at good prices.
mind passing on the contact? I am looking for a good tuning shop to bounce some ideas off of...

If you can make it to Kingston there's a guy in my club who used to wrench in Europe and might be more familiar with Italian stuff. (he used to work on the Audi pro-rally team as well IIRC)  Anyhow, you can probably talk to him on the phone and see if he can help.  His name is Laurenio (sp) and he works at Car Medics.  37 Rigney St, Kingston, (613) 547-8473

I remember hearing him talking about tuning Ferrari carbs by the colour of the flame coming out the headers.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2490 on: May 09, 2014, 01:09:56 pm »
Quote from: blur911 on May 09, 2014, 01:07:41 pm
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on May 06, 2014, 10:00:04 am
Quote from: normancw on May 06, 2014, 09:03:56 am
Not really related to my current car, but I gave away my 86 Toyota MR-2 service manual to a neighbour that just got an MR-2. 

As I was driving by, I saw the the owner in his garage.  I went home, grabbed the manual, drove back, and introduced myself.  It turns out the MR-2 is his girlfriend's.  She was so happy to get the manual (she had been looking for a while).  He has a modded WRX (not sure if it's an STI) that makes 460whp and 500+ lb-ft of torque!

He works at a tuning shop in the east end and can get Amsoil and Motul oil at good prices.
mind passing on the contact? I am looking for a good tuning shop to bounce some ideas off of...

If you can make it to Kingston there's a guy in my club who used to wrench in Europe and might be more familiar with Italian stuff. (he used to work on the Audi pro-rally team as well IIRC)  Anyhow, you can probably talk to him on the phone and see if he can help.  His name is Laurenio (sp) and he works at Car Medics.  37 Rigney St, Kingston, (613) 547-8473

I remember hearing him talking about tuning Ferrari carbs by the colour of the flame coming out the headers.

thanks for the heads up, will give him a call and see what he knows about the Busso V6
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2491 on: May 09, 2014, 02:12:12 pm »
Sparred a wee bit with a new C4S on the way into the city the morning.  I need a V-8!!!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2492 on: May 10, 2014, 12:53:40 pm »
Oil change on the bike this morning.  Old stuff out. Fresh Amsoil 10w40 synthetic in.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2493 on: May 10, 2014, 02:04:57 pm »
I used the truck to pick up a half cubic yard of sand for the sand box.  Thus far the truck experiment is a rousing success.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2494 on: May 10, 2014, 02:27:22 pm »
Succeeded, after several semi failures, in getting some properly formatted Vcard contacts into the car for phone AND navigation.  The manual says it can be done but is silent thereafter...I think that good orderly Germans have all their phone,mail and email contacts all lined up line soldiers with every field correct...unlike me.

Succeeded after just as many semi-failures in getting the contents of some CDs into MP3/AAC and loaded into the car. The car won't rip them itself, that has to be done elsewhere and that meant I had to make iTunes work on my PC...a program I have been avoiding for years.

I bet that I could do/have done a much better job of the UI to this stuff.  After all, it has a mouse, a rotatable wheel, 7 fixed buttons, 4 soft buttons, 2 SD card slots 1 USB port and a colour screen. A 60 Gb hard disk internally with 20Gb free for music. Should be able to control a spacecraft with that.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2495 on: May 10, 2014, 09:47:54 pm »
Quote from: tpl on May 10, 2014, 02:27:22 pm
Succeeded after just as many semi-failures in getting the contents of some CDs into MP3/AAC and loaded into the car. The car won't rip them itself, that has to be done elsewhere and that meant I had to make iTunes work on my PC...a program I have been avoiding for years.

IMO the best program to rip CD to mp3 is Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/

Just make sure you don't click on a spam link. The program is awesome though and highly regarded by many audiophiles.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2496 on: May 10, 2014, 10:10:35 pm »
Used the Sonoma to pickup 1200lbs of concrete pavers, then another couple hundred pounds of interlock bricks, then a run of 18 bags of screening. Handled the weight like a champ  - especially considering it is a lowered Sonoma.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2497 on: May 11, 2014, 12:18:40 am »
Washed the car:




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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2498 on: May 11, 2014, 12:32:16 am »
Lovely!

Are those headlamps stock? Color temp seems very cool.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #2499 on: May 11, 2014, 12:45:36 am »
Quote from: mmret on May 11, 2014, 12:32:16 am
Lovely!

Are those headlamps stock? Color temp seems very cool.

Yep, stock:
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