Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: Short
Oi, Silly Delilah. Shes doing fine, but should get on with her 100k mile service soon. Well when she turns 100k that is. It's the only major maintenance for the VR6 engine, the other one is every 60k for timing belt change. The 100k service entails taking out the engine and replacing the timing chain, the chain guide (a very important piece of plastic), coolant flush, and while we're at it, a clutch + flywheel replacement. It's gonna cost around 1400$, if i want to i could add a LSD, but i dunno. Another 1200 for the LSD and install and it might entail a tranny rebuild as well, which is more $$.
Lets see, Delilah is about to get it's 95k oil change. Since i don't drive it much i wonder how long it's gonna take for the other 5k.
Time to list things out (if i remembered correctly):
Brake Fluid Flushed, ATE super blue - 90k
New Tires installed, Bridgestone G 009 - 90k (minus the one)
ECS Cadmium Slotted Rotors installed - 70k
Porterfield RS4 Brake Pads - 50k
Red Line MT-90 Tranny Fluid Flush - 60k
Timing Belt Replaced - 60k
New Dimensions Oversized Spark Plug Wires - 60k
Bosch +4 Spark Plugs - 65k
Bilstein + H&R Stage 1 suspension - 60k
Tim Tomas of Tomas MotorSports is my hero. All i gotta say is when all you need to do is listen to the engine and then placing your hand on the engine cover and knowing whats happenning to the engine. Thats what i'm talking about. I can sorta do that to bicycles, but nothing like how Tim does it.
NapTime During Lunch: Short
Oi, Silly Delilah. Shes doing fine, but should get on with her 100k mile service soon. Well when she turns 100k that is. It's the only major maintenance for the VR6 engine, the other one is every 60k for timing belt change. The 100k service entails taking out the engine and replacing the timing chain, the chain guide (a very important piece of plastic), coolant flush, and while we're at it, a clutch + flywheel replacement. It's gonna cost around 1400$, if i want to i could add a LSD, but i dunno. Another 1200 for the LSD and install and it might entail a tranny rebuild as well, which is more $$.
Lets see, Delilah is about to get it's 95k oil change. Since i don't drive it much i wonder how long it's gonna take for the other 5k.
Time to list things out (if i remembered correctly):
Brake Fluid Flushed, ATE super blue - 90k
New Tires installed, Bridgestone G 009 - 90k (minus the one)
ECS Cadmium Slotted Rotors installed - 70k
Porterfield RS4 Brake Pads - 50k
Red Line MT-90 Tranny Fluid Flush - 60k
Timing Belt Replaced - 60k
New Dimensions Oversized Spark Plug Wires - 60k
Bosch +4 Spark Plugs - 65k
Bilstein + H&R Stage 1 suspension - 60k
Tim Tomas of Tomas MotorSports is my hero. All i gotta say is when all you need to do is listen to the engine and then placing your hand on the engine cover and knowing whats happenning to the engine. Thats what i'm talking about. I can sorta do that to bicycles, but nothing like how Tim does it.
Labels: Tomas Sport Tuning
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