boring v8 section

[RonPorter]

Best kit I've found is the 3M kit. Worked VERY well on my very yellowed '89 headlights. Tried polymer wax a coupla times afterward, but that didn't seem to help. One 3M kit with last for two uses. I do it about once a year.

 

[three50one]

Ha. If that were a parking lot bump I would have never bought the car. That was a 40 MPH "I'm so sorry I was late for work and didn't stop at the stop sign" hit.

 

[96blackSHO]

my cars away for the winter tore down intake and had the butterflys bored and remove plates and rods, repainting intake repainting calipers 11.6 rear brake upgrade ss lines that i never installed making a custom set of headers upgrade front sway bar list goes on and on i want to fix rust and repaint car but well see what the budget has to say about that!

 

[madsho97]

I bought a house two months ago..... so mine is in storage in MY garage.

So, that's cool.

 

[BamSHO]

Mine is put away for now, might get it out for the KOP meet in Jan, that depends on the weather.


Brian Michael
98 black Gen3

 

[dohcsable]

Mine is long gone.......probably turned into beercans

 

[E1]

Wow.

For some reason, my account which hasn't worked since 2007 is able to be accessed again.



huh.


Mine are all rusting out at about the same pace. Don't expect 4 of them to last more than 2 to 3 years tops.

 

[toledogt]

I just purchased 2 new rear tires and the car looks better. Last year I had a strut fail which basically ruined my tire so I had the local tire dealer throw on some used 225/50/r16. The car looked like it had a dead body in the trunk. I now have the correct 225/55/R16 that match the front. Car sits level again. I was doing the math and it looks like 50% is 4.43 inches per side and 55% is 4.87 inches. .44 inches per side times 2 plus 1/16" new tread is 1 inch. Anybody else ever run non factory size tires?

 

[98SF19]

non OEM tires

The last 2 sets of tires I bought (1st was direct from tirerack and the 2nd was Discout Tire, since they matched tirerack) have been non OEM. I noticed that the price PLUMMETS when you go non-OEM. I had to go with a slightly beefier sidewall since the scrap guard on the front of the splash shield would always make a horrendous sound when I was pulling out of my parking space at work. Curb was built too high apparently.

As for the original intake working better with a tranny rebuild, I would expect Mr. Porter to have something to say about that, as his namesake on this site and v8sho is probably the most popular intake upgrade (at least it was a few years ago).

 

[RonPorter]

I dunno, my intake with Home Depot parts (Named Porterized by someone else!) that I did about 13 years ago is about the cheapest way to get about all the air that you can get into the stock airbox. With a bunch of other little changes, it made my '99 the first gen 3 into the 14s, followed by a few other folks (Ian, Paul Nimz, Ryan Dudek) with basically the same mods.

As we've learned, this stuff just nibbles at the edges. But, to do the other stuff that the Gen 1/2 guys have done (turbos, s/c), there is the tranny and cooling issues on a Gen 3.

Although Carter and Eric Lehmann (E1 above) have put s/cs on their Gen 3s. Plus another setup done by someone out here by Doug Lewis, but I believe that car has been put back to n/a.

 

[kevinspann]

I dunno, my intake with Home Depot parts (Named Porterized by someone else!) that I did about 13 years ago is about the cheapest way to get about all the air that you can get into the stock airbox. With a bunch of other little changes, it made my '99 the first gen 3 into the 14s, followed by a few other folks (Ian, Paul Nimz, Ryan Dudek) with basically the same mods.

As we've learned, this stuff just nibbles at the edges. But, to do the other stuff that the Gen 1/2 guys have done (turbos, s/c), there is the tranny and cooling issues on a Gen 3.

Although Carter and Eric Lehmann (E1 above) have put s/cs on their Gen 3s. Plus another setup done by someone out here by Doug Lewis, but I believe that car has been put back to n/a.

Lol. The car that Doug built got an entirely different drivetrain, since the motor that was in it was junk. The S/C stuff got put on another car, then removed. Dunno where it is now.