geo- regarding why its a good idea to take it slow for the 1st 1000miles on a brand new engine. From what i've read from tuner books. It has something to do with the rods stretching/compressing, not sure about other engine components, but they did emphasize the rods. Since the parts are new, they haven't become used to, expanding, compressing, expanding, compressing, due to heat (streching when in use obviously), and cold (when running really slow, or the car is off). After the break in period, the parts are so used to all this stuff happening, that they don't happen as erratically as before.

Soooo if you redline a new engine constantly, w/o a break in period, the rods are gonna be more stretched than they were originally, or something to that effect., for the life of the engine, or until you swap them out for better ones =)

It gets really technical, I only understood half of it, lol. Gotta read it again. But thats the general idea. So its always a good idea, to do a break in period. =)

Hope that helped some. I still got lots of learning to do.

Carlos - I lost my fender liners, when I installed my injen cai a looooong time ago. They got blown out, while I was on i-95. The way I see it, my engine has a lot of ventilation now, lmao.

 

serg - are you gonna be at the meet on wednesday? should i bring the hood... lol

 

Still waiting for postal service

The buyer is from Guam.

Yea more than likely i'm going on wednesday.

 

Hey Deny or Geo, did either of you guys see the cop that had pulled someone over, wen u guys were leaving?, lol

 

guys, i had to annually renew www.1upcrew.com's domain name. it came out to $10 for another year and they already charged me.. there's 10 of us so i need $1 from everyone in 1up. and peter, please upload those pics asap. thanks everyone, i'll pick up fees this wednesday. if anyone has any questions, please let me know.

 

yea, i saw him, im like Damn, hope thats not Joe, lol

 

1 dollar????? This is highway robbery!!

 

hahha.. i got you homie $2 comin yo way

joe - naw what happened?

 

hey Denny remember this?

http://www.scion.com/broadband/index...h=0&sh=0&ep=0/

on index click special events then click miami event

 

hahaha flash back homie... flashback

 

update... 95miles left and counting... =o)

 

It was me!!

 

Hey guys does anyone know or heard of clear coated metal? Like to they make a special clear coat for metal/aluminum. I wanna try something out, just curious.....

 

pete - these are the motormounts i was talking about:

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...389&highlight=

let me know if theyre any good

 

yea dont do it... trust me on that.. ur better off doing something else in another direction...

they look pretty str8 but DAMMM 200 bucks?? with no pics and no r&d to really back it up... plus the polyurethayne is kinda small ... the speed source ones have some more beef on them then these... ill do some research on them asap... cuz i need new mounts...

im very good with a dremel lol... hey dude...not this weekend but the following.. do u have free time.. on te weekends.. im going to be sceduling some installs and i can get yours out the way.. on wed. take the heat wrap so i can look at it and see if its even possible to wrap those headers the way they need to be wrapped..

 

^Yea I don't have anything planned that weekend so its perfect. I think its possible to wrap those headers right, its just gona be a reeaaal pain in the @ss. I'll bring the wrap and the gauge pillar so you can take a look at it. Thanks.

 

Wow $200 for those.

I personally like the speed-source mounts. These other ones look kinda wimpy lol. I only installed the front one. At low rpms, the vibration is high, i wonder if its because theya are still being broken in. Once im on the highway, its feels really smooth.

My brother took a ride in my car the other day, and he noticed a huge difference. I can't wait to drop the tranny, exchange it, and get the rear mounts in too.

 

any idea when youre gonna finally do it?

 

Im talkin bout a strut bar though....same thing??

 

you serious? what 4?