***Official Car and Gearhead Thread***

[BigRedChief]

Seems like we need one on here to talk cars, mods and the coolness of your or their car.

Interested? Chime in

[Marcellus]

Would love to be doing something but broke my rear end today. Snapped the nose right of the housing of the center section. Its a 9" Ford rear, pretty odd.

Think I will go to an aluminum housing this time.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Would love to be doing something but broke my rear end today. Snapped the nose right of the housing of the center section. Its a 9" Ford rear, pretty odd.

Think I will go to an aluminum housing this time.

I had a shot at a really good deal on a drag pack the other day but passed because I dont want to buy a rear end just yet lol

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by hometeam

I had a shot at a really good deal on a drag pack the other day but passed because I dont want to buy a rear end just yet lol

This is all new shit from the build. Not sure why it gave out.

[hometeam]

Speaking of builds, I am thinking of forgoing the nitrous. I already have all the parts, a full bottle etc.

Car runs correctly now and everything else but Nitrous has like tripled in price over the last 6 months because of the factory explosion. Might just sell it all and boost~

[Nickhead]

in thread humor:

i was showing our 17 and 14 year old some bits under the hood of the car. coolant dangers, dip stick, oil levels, how not to put oil in the dipstick tube, rather pour into cap, etc...

the reason for this is my battery went dead on me today, and i needed to change it. so i break out the whole never bridge the two posts as it could electrocute you, etc.. which is ground, why not to let the positive contact any metals.

so then i start to remove the battery. ****ing nut on battery post broke loose so fast, my spanner ****ing bridged the posts should have seen there eyes (and mine) when sparks started flying. we did have a good chuckle after i quickly knocked the spanner away, but **** me running wasn't that embarrasing LOLPMSL

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Nickhead

in thread humor:

i was showing our 17 and 14 year old some bits under the hood of the car. coolant dangers, dip stick, oil levels, how not to put oil in the dipstick tube, rather pour into cap, etc...

the reason for this is my battery went dead on me today, and i needed to change it. so i break out the whole never bridge the two posts as it could electrocute you, etc.. which is ground, why not to let the positive contact any metals.

so then i start to remove the battery. ****ing nut on battery post broke loose so fast, my spanner ****ing bridged the posts should have seen there eyes (and mine) when sparks started flying. we did have a good chuckle after i quickly knocked the spanner away, but **** me running wasn't that embarrasing LOLPMSL

Rofl. Shorting a battery won't electrocute you. It's only after it goes through the coil that it bites the shit out of you. Or else it would have thermonuclear you when you made the connection with your wrench (is that what a spanner is? - ****ing Australians!)

It takes amps to bite the **** out of you which happens in the coil. If you want to teach them that tell them you have to see if you are getting spark to the plug and stick a screwdriver in the plug wire give it to them, and bump the starter. Boom. Lesson about amperage!. I'm here to help.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

It takes amps to bite the **** out of you which happens in the coil. If you want to teach them that tell them you have to see if you are getting spark to the plug and stick a screwdriver in the plug wire give it to them, and bump the starter. Boom. Lesson about amperage!. I'm here to help.

....When I was 12, a friend of my moms did this to me when my Steen Hodaka wouldn't fire.

I'll never forget that moment. He about fell over laughing.

[Nickhead]

thanks for the tip, but i don't know if the boys will ever know what a spark plug is, and after my last demonstration i think they probably trust me even less

[lewdog]

Need help figuring out the color of our 2007 Civic, so I can order some touchup paint. I can't locate the color anywhere and I don't see much listed inside the door frame. They literally have like 30+ colors for that model and I can't tell from the online graphics which one it is. Any help.

The plan is to touchup this car in spots, practice wet sanding/polishing down these marks, before attempting similar on the Mustang rock chips. I touched up some spots on the Mustang but some are raised or a bit too spread out and give a funny look on the car. I'd like to try to normalize them somewhat but want practice on the car we don't care about first.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Need help figuring out the color of our 2007 Civic, so I can order some touchup paint. I can't locate the color anywhere and I don't see much listed inside the door frame. They literally have like 30+ colors for that model and I can't tell from the online graphics which one it is. Any help.

The plan is to touchup this car in spots, practice wet sanding/polishing down these marks, before attempting similar on the Mustang rock chips. I touched up some spots on the Mustang but some are raised or a bit too spread out and give a funny look on the car. I'd like to try to normalize them somewhat but want practice on the car we don't care about first.

Send me the VIN I can pull it from Hondas system since I work for them now.

[hometeam]

Sooooo.. I did a thing... (ignore the g8)



Moser 9 inch for f body, backing plates, gusseted, 35 spline axles, and my favorite.. wavetrac. Will likely need a new drive shaft, going to go chromoly, and some new wheels bearings to complete it.

Brand new, should be in the car next week, no more shit ten bolt! gonna load that ****er up and let er rip!

Only thing that sucks is between the iron block 6.0, the 4l80, and the 9 bolt its going to be a bullet proof boat.. methinks she needs boost instead of nitrous

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by hometeam

Send me the VIN I can pull it from Hondas system since I work for them now.

Check your rep message.

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by hometeam

Send me the VIN I can pull it from Hondas system since I work for them now.

Shouldn't there be a paint code somewhere?


Also I know O'Reilly can shoot it with their match gun thing and mix it up on site.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by hometeam

Sooooo.. I did a thing... (ignore the g8)



Moser 9 inch for f body, backing plates, gusseted, 35 spline axles, and my favorite.. wavetrac. Will likely need a new drive shaft, going to go chromoly, and some new wheels bearings to complete it.

Brand new, should be in the car next week, no more shit ten bolt! gonna load that ****er up and let er rip!

Only thing that sucks is between the iron block 6.0, the 4l80, and the 9 bolt its going to be a bullet proof boat.. methinks she needs boost instead of nitrous

Yes, go for boost.

And man I am going to wish I had gone your route with a full upgrade but a buddy of mine has a perfectly good center section, same gears etc...and all I can drop into my car for $500 this week and get it back on the road.

I think it was a freak deal but I guess we will see.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Marcellus

Yes, go for boost.

And man I am going to wish I had gone your route with a full upgrade but a buddy of mine has a perfectly good center section, same gears etc...and all I can drop into my car for $500 this week and get it back on the road.

I think it was a freak deal but I guess we will see.

I have port/polished/milled 243s right now, so boost is a little complicated, IM already running something like 11:1 compression so will have to either go e85 and upgrade my injectors a bit (from 42lbs to 60), or will have to run a meth kit, which I think is more feasible since this car is a driver and e85 just reduces range so much.

I already have headers exhaust blah blah blah so supercharger may make more sense than turbo but god damn are they expensive. Gonna just run it this year and see how it does, I think with all this weight I would be happy with a 12.0 N/A.

Thing sounds nasty though :P

You will be good for a while I bet on your 3rd member, didn't you say it was a freak thing for it to break in the first place?