Da Groj

Charles wrote:
Kenny,
I sprung an exhaust leak at Sunday's event that made the car sound like our Suby's used to

Removing that stuff is NOT a fun affair on a SR so I'm crossing my fingers the other nuts are as loose as the few I checked and that closes up the leak.

Got a chance to take a closer look at the car today.....

On my SR I have 8 nuts to secure the exhaust manifold to the head.

1 - Totally missing and stud appears to have been snapped off many years ago, it's too short to put a nut on.

1 - Barely finger tight

6 - Wimpy tight but I at least needed a wrench to get them tighter

Combination of 3 bolts and 2 nuts to secure the downpipe to the turbo:

2 - nuts MIA
2 - bolts MIA
1 - bolt I removed by hand that was finger tight.... thats all that was left holding it on. That and my downpipe has a brace that attaches to the side of the tranny.

4 nuts to secure turbo to manifold:
2 - Fronts are both barely finger tight
2 - Rears are both MIA

I guess it's a good thing I decided to skip my afternoon runs last Sunday and drive the car home

Apparently 3-4yrs of drifting followed by 3-4yrs of grip driving loosens things up

Hopefully my trip to the hardware store will be enough to get me through next weekend, afterwords I think it's time for the whole manifold/turbo assembly to come off the car.......

Charles wrote:Apparently 3-4yrs of drifting followed by 3-4yrs of grip driving loosens things up

More likely "stuff that was never properly tightened comes loose over time".

Loren wrote:

Charles wrote:Apparently 3-4yrs of drifting followed by 3-4yrs of grip driving loosens things up

More likely "stuff that was never properly tightened comes loose over time".

That could be too.

For whatever reason its common on the SR's for the turbo to come loose from the manifold regardless of what you do, too much weight(turbo) held up by 4 small nuts maybe? Some guys actually add a tiny spot weld between each stud and nut before they put the assembly on the car :shock:

The rest of the stuff coming loose, you are probably right.

5speed4dr wrote:I know it's a bit late, but I thought I'd throw in my $0.02 on this course.

Never too late...and we now have a whole forum for course reviews, with the goal of improving course designs. I'm moving this and Jeremy's comments to a new topic there.

http://www.kickflop.net/autocrossbb/viewtopic.php?t=521

uh, where did they go?

Look in the new topic under Course Discussion.

aparke wrote:

meicalnissyen wrote: That black SPEED3 that zoomzoomed by is a heavy pig compared to the snotsucker

BUT it is a rippin fast pig!!!!!

Mikey has a new toy

Uh oh! ...do I sense some fierce competition? You'd better start learning how to drive that thing! Yellow_Colorz_PDT_08

I haven't even learned to drive the 140hp car
the new one scares me silly