Take 10-What are u working on this Superbowl Weekend??? 04-05 Feb 2012.

[KFizz]

sometimes when I wake up I wish i was Mmmboost

Agreed. Just lock myself in that garage with my computer, camera and a bunch of beer. If I had all those toys at my disposal..... I'd never leave that place.

[A4SoftWalker]

sometimes when I wake up I wish i was Mmmboost

Aint that the truth. He gets into the raw guts armed with camera and a good eye for a shot...

[EBG 18T]

The infinity looks good.

I failed at the garage door install. Ended up hiring a guy to come this week and take care of it.

Hopefull I get the rover back with the new bored 4.8L motor on friday. My mom will get the rover for the weekend while she watches my dogs and I fly to Breck for a few days of snowboarding.

[A4SoftWalker]

Wrapping the weekend up...

Friday - 6-pack, General car cleaning, Mount spoiler.
Saturday - Have Taillights tinted, Perhaps repaint rear rings and trunk strip gloss black, as opposed to the matt black they currently are. Bottle of rye. Fuel filter.
Sunday - Humungus pot of chili, game, beer, sleep.

Catching up on sleep after endless nights of studying. If the weather is nice a carwash is in order.

Lofty goals hope u got a good chunk of all that done.

All my b6 got was a wash and paste wax as opposed to the quickie wash and spray wax... sigh

Drinking.

That started Fri night 3 Feb for me …

Installing my test pipe......

It’s a lot harder than meets the eye.
Hope u had better luck than I did with my 034 HFC install.
Took me all day I posted my experiences on here a while back. Missed a 034 dyno day then.

In other news my 27 feet of various diameter silicon vac hose is out for delivery today!!! heres hoping my order from GAP really does arrive Saturday. Is Fedex home delivery in the AM or PM, anyone know?

I got my most recent Fedex home delivery in the afternoon replacement Spec stage 3+ clutch disc.
But I have also got them in the mid morning hours too.
Might depend on where u fall on the delivery route unless a specific delivery time was requested.

check his build thread.

Oh and as for me, I might snap some shots of the car, if time permits. She's been sitting in the garage all week, waxed and tire shined, while I racked up miles on my commuter.

YES that thread was ridiculously high in quality pic content…
Your pics came out fine. Like the monotone approach.

Just did my 01V tranny filter and fluid change today, and it was so time consuming.

I hear ya... all that under the car fluid changes take time.
I took 2 spilt days to do my rear differential and front diff+tranny flush.
Also did the oil while I was draining stuff down there to get ready for the winter.

The infinity looks good.

I failed at the garage door install. Ended up hiring a guy to come this week and take care of it.

Hopefull I get the rover back with the new bored 4.8L motor on friday. My mom will get the rover for the weekend while she watches my dogs and I fly to Breck for a few days of snowboarding.

Thanks for the props EBG - the lady is lovin it, me, and my work too I might add.

What is the std size for that motor 4.4L???

[waldo1324]

Good to hear Waldo. I'm glad we're on the same maintenance schedule, at the rate I'm going, I'll probably never actually replace the thermostat in my b7. I've had the part sitting on the shelf for months...

In other news, did a little autopsy on my SJP assembly, and it appears to have been working fine after all. It was the 3-way check valve that was shot. Of course I pulled the top off the SJP trying to separate it from the Y hose thing, so it went in the trash anyway. No sense in keeping it around. I also noticed the end cap is MUCH beefier on the revision D SJP. It looks to be MUCH sturdier and appears to thread into the body of the SJP rather than being a push fit cap. Pics:

^^^Rev. D (My new one)



^^^Rev. B (What I had)

nice-- soon the excuse will be " its too hot" and we coast through summer!

so what were your 3 way fail symptoms?

[Charles.waite]

nice-- soon the excuse will be " its too hot" and we coast through summer!

so what were your 3 way fail symptoms?

The valve itself failed. It failed the blow test, it was leaking air back through. I did notice a faint hissing coming from that area still, so I'm thinking I still have some clamps and check valves to replace down there. I need a better pair of pliers though if I'm going to be talking some of the smaller hose clamps though. Mine are really cheap and don't "grab" well enough to pull the smaller OEM clamps off easily...

[waldo1324]

The valve itself failed. It failed the blow test, it was leaking air back through. I did notice a faint hissing coming from that area still, so I'm thinking I still have some clamps and check valves to replace down there. I need a better pair of pliers though if I'm going to be talking some of the smaller hose clamps though. Mine are really cheap and don't "grab" well enough to pull the smaller OEM clamps off easily...

yah hopefully i can get at my guts a bit during my TB job, either that or take off the intake manifold and give her a what-for

[Charles.waite]

yah hopefully i can get at my guts a bit during my TB job, either that or take off the intake manifold and give her a what-for

What I discovered helps a lot is to assemble as much of the parts that you can outside of the car and then you only have to wrestle with tightening a few clamps in the car. Sounds obvious I guess, but worth mentioning. I took most everything connected to the SJP, 2-3 components out from it, and it made is MUCH easier. Then I just matched the angles everything was sitting so it would connect right up, installed, and done.

The SJP is the stupidest shit ever. How they thought that the original design would be even remotely reliable is beyond me. The rev D one looks VERY solid in comparison to my B part.

Also I noticed some of the hose clamps were loose enough to spin on the hoses with fairly minimal effort. Those damns OE clamps are freaking useless...

[A4SoftWalker]

What I discovered helps a lot is to assemble as much of the parts that you can outside of the car and then you only have to wrestle with tightening a few clamps in the car. Sounds obvious I guess, but worth mentioning. I took most everything connected to the SJP, 2-3 components out from it, and it made is MUCH easier. Then I just matched the angles everything was sitting so it would connect right up, installed, and done.

The SJP is the stupidest shit ever. How they thought that the original design would be even remotely reliable is beyond me. The rev D one looks VERY solid in comparison to my B part.

Also I noticed some of the hose clamps were loose enough to spin on the hoses with fairly minimal effort. Those damns OE clamps are freaking useless...

^^^My protoge-jedi is self tutoring very well

Same technique works good for the mess of clamps and vacuum-lines under the intake manifold too.

[Charles.waite]

^^^My protoge-jedi is self tutoring very well

Same technique works good for the mess of clamps and vacuum-lines under the intake manifold too.

I learned from my mistake of trying to assemble my PCV abomination in the car, with the manifold in. Worst experience ever...

[A4natomical]

Non HDR's from this past weekend....

[CrazyCal]

Well, I changed my oil and my spark plugs this weekend. I thought a fouled MAF was causing my rough idle, so I was gonna clean it... but to my surprise, when changing the spark plugs, I discovered that the middle two plug wells were covered in oil. There's my idling problem! Ordered a VCG, some new Bosch Aero wipers, and a fuel filter. Turns out, when you order a few things together at ECS, the shipping isn't so bad ($16). Then again, the stuff I ordered is relatively small... Looks like I have more work next weekend!

I learned from my mistake of trying to assemble my PCV abomination in the car, with the manifold in. Worst experience ever...

I tried to tell people that when installing the 034 breather kit. Some people just wanted to go at it with the IM still installed. So much easier with the IM removed. It's not as big a deal as people make it out to be. Easy stuff. They should try removing the IM on the Mazda 2.5L V6 in the Ford Probe GT... not so easy.

[Samulis]

Valve cover gaskets, chain tensioner gaskets & half moon. Also an oil change. Followed by a multitude of beers.