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06-29-2019, 06:13 PM | #12189 |
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Track day today, back at Summit Point Main. Car was great, but the tires are toast (RE-71R's), the brakes are in need of bleeding, and there's a new clunk from somewhere. Temps didn't pass 260 (oil), but that's still a little high for my tastes.
But holy cow, it was eager to slide I was having all sorts of fun. On my cool down lap I got thumbs-up from the people sitting in the grand stands in miataland (turns 5, 6, 7, and 8). I was sliding all over the place, and it was awesome. The car really feels like a proper sports car now!
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06-29-2019, 07:14 PM | #12190 |
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Don't mind me, just gluing my lip to my bumper so it doesn't fly off at speed
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06-29-2019, 08:25 PM | #12191 |
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Kind of venting...
Couple of days ago I realized my inspection is up at the end of the month and I cant find the registration renewal. This morning decided to hit the DMV and inspection station just to get it fixed. Everything is going decent until the inspection where they do a series of quick startups and shutdowns when they move each car through the inspection station. Some dumb policy about the cars cant be idling in the stations. Its hot today and im getting worried about all the cranks and lo and behold the car doesnt start. We put on jump packs but will not start and there is sufficient power. Now my car is holding up the inspection line and I eventually find out how to pop the DCT into neutral and we push the car out. As I'm researching faults, using protool to read diagnostics, no CELs, nothing comes up. As Im researching deeper i find a thread with the same symptoms and solved but the site went down for maintenance. Thinking the monkeys at the inspection station burned out my starter motor or whatever, i relagated to getting a tow to the house. $120 later the tow drops off the car at home, I put the battery on a tender and goto a kids bday party. I get back later and pull up that thread with the sypmtoms and solved and it was the starter cable. I move mines around and it didnt start, gave it one more push and the car started! Damn, if the site didnt go down for maintenance this morning. I probably couldve saved myself some time and a tow. (I could not pull up an archive of the thread either.) |
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06-29-2019, 09:33 PM | #12192 |
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Your username isn't "lowandslow," so it's good that you prepare for such things...
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06-29-2019, 11:07 PM | #12193 | |
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06-30-2019, 05:51 AM | #12194 |
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Yeah, I definitely don't drive it slow. Coming from great windy back roads in PA to mostly highway and bridges in Florida I've just been driving it faster. Need to make sure the front end stays together for those 150+ early morning bridge pulls
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06-30-2019, 12:06 PM | #12195 |
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Couple decent test pulls, so far so good. Tomorrow will be the real test driving to work
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06-30-2019, 01:42 PM | #12196 |
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Drove two hours to meet up with my cousin and his friends for some white water rafting action! It was a blast and the 1er made the 4hr round trip fun!
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06-30-2019, 05:56 PM | #12198 |
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And another MFactory diff bites the dust. Driving calmly on the highway at about 72mph...
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06-30-2019, 08:25 PM | #12199 |
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No bueno!!
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I need to see if MFactory will do anything about this. I have my doubts...
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06-30-2019, 09:26 PM | #12201 |
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07-01-2019, 08:06 AM | #12202 |
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Wow- that sucks Chris!
Two diff's in as many weeks, wonder if we're gonna see a third fail?....
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I guess my reservations about MFactory isn't so unfounded now.
Sorry both of you all are dealing with this. I stand by my statements earlier that MFactory needs to be held to task on these failures more than what they've done so far with affected units. |
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Anybody want to recommend a diff for a DCT car? Mostly daily driven, lots of fun mountain/canyon runs, some track/autocross driving for fun here and there. |
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At one point Dinan had a diff for our cars. But that thing was stupid expensive. $4k if I remember correctly. I guess they didn't sell very many of them as it's been off their website for quite some time. |
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07-01-2019, 04:45 PM | #12208 |
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I finally threw some red apex center caps on... Not bad
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Diffuser way too close to exhaust tips and burnt I should have had the tips adjusted before running it. Good thing I didn't wait two months for this thing lmao
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