Recent content by fastfwd

Yeah, for sure. But even if you can mount and inflate your own spare (and make room in the trunk for your removed wheel+tire) in 15 minutes, do you really save any time vs relaxing in your disabled car for 4 hours while you wait for a tow truck? I mean, these cars need oddball tire sizes --...

Depends on what you mean by "usable". You can drive slowly for a few miles on basically any tire that holds air. My 1994 spare looks brand-new; I'd expect it to work fine in an emergency,

A pair of pliers is a helpful addition to the tire-repair kit. Makes it easier/possible to remove the object that punctured the tire. Also, lack of access to the rear tires can make repairs very difficult unless the wheel is first removed from the car. So make sure that whatever jack you put in...

Fix-a-flat, mobile phone, and a credit card (and optionally a AAA card) will solve most tire problems. If you think you'll need to repair a puncture yourself, you can carry a kit like this (although it can be hard to use on sportscar rear tires): Western Weld Professional 65 Piece Flat Tire...

Yeah, they run forever. I've put 320K+ miles on mine with just ordinary maintenance and occasional replacement of aged rubber and plastic bits. Engine and transmission have never been opened.

Don at Hill Top Auto in Daly City.

PPF can lift factory paint, too. The risk starts to really increase if you leave it on the car for more than 4 or 5 years.

My experience with PPF is that it's best to do either all of the car or none of the car (or just a few tiny areas like behind the wheels, front bumper, etc). With none of the car covered, the paint looks great and you can buy tons of touchup with the money you saved. With all of the car...

Project Mu B-Force here, with OEM calipers and slotted OEM rotors. More dust than @Honcho's NS, but good feel, good bite cold and very good hot (well, warm -- none of these would be great for the track even with street tires), no noise, low rotor wear. Same cool color as all of Project Mu's pads.

@Radarnyc if you remove any of those screws, remember where the gold and black go. They're not interchangeable, but they're not different enough to prevent you from damaging a mounting hole by forcing the wrong screw into it.

I can take pictures of mine this weekend. But you can also contact BZ directly and ask for the PDF instructions. He's friendly, even though he's a bigshot satellite engineer now. Email address on the page you linked should still work; if it doesn't, let me know and I'll call him.

Seats and carpet are still out of my car, and I'm considering doing exactly that, because otherwise it'll be impossible to disconnect the cable from the throttle body in the future. Sigh.

Thanks. I found that and it really helped with those carpet clips. But the video ends with the removal of the cable, so there's no information about the installation. FYI for anyone who's doing this repair in the future: The AS Motorsports cable does not have the reduced-diameter section in...

Well, that was the most miserable repair I've ever done on any car.

Ok, so now I've got everything out except the passenger-side console carpet. Is there a trick to removing it? The manual shows what look like keyhole-shaped clips on the top edge of the carpet -- is there a way to get them to release without removing the center console? Also, the air vent...