Fate has brought into my possession none other than the infamous Spy Rocket. It's awesome that I'm getting back into the scene with a hard-hitting AWD. Mods will be slim to none for quite a while due to financial issues and the fact that the car is pretty damn sweet as she sits. Just have to get that heater fan going.

good to hear I have 2 new AWD's that can't wait till summer. they want to play with the goats new ride.

I'm glad to see you finally got a car to put all those parts on, LOL. Hope to see you on the track.

I doubt you'll see me at the track.... you'll get a good gander at my taillights, though.

HAHAHAHAHA........bring it goat boy.

^^^ROFLMAO^^^

Probly so Goat, Probly so.

I'm having similar issues Goat. Make sure your blower motor is getting power first.

The fan speed control relay is definitely getting power because I can hear it clicking when I go to high. I'm either loosing power from the relay to the fan, or the fan is siezed up for some reason (cold, rust, mouse nest). Or, maybe the fan crapped out. I'll fix 'er. And then the heads will roll.

Make sure little critters haven't made a home in there for the winter... had that happen once to me.

we had that happen to an old firebird formula some mice made a nest inside the headders, man did they have a bad moving day.

Congrats on the new ride, Goat! I have some parts with your name on them. I'll be putting up a for sale thread before too long.

I ain't affraid of no goat.

You know, it's really sad to see that you spent so much time and effort making a pretty little sign, when I'm still going to put you over my knee and spank you like a kid in K-Mart. And not in a good way, either.

You see, there's a certain E3 16G that will be coming back into my posession soon. Then where you gonna run? It doesn't really matter; I'll get there at least 2.3 seconds before you do.

I didn't make the sigh I found it online.

an EVO3 16g nice. but not enough to make me run and hide.


get her running good goat next summer is going to be a blast.

Got the heater fan working again. After pulling out a basketball-sized hedgehog nest from the heater fan and cleaning it up, it works like a dream. Now I have to clean up the rest of the ducting to get that "scent-o-death" out of there. Dan, looks like we've got the same battle to fight.

Nice....

Hmmm...where's Dan pulling the hedgehog nest with the scent-o-death from?

Sooooo....... any chance of me getting my thread back?
Nate, Dan's 94slow is the vehicle with BO problems.

Spoken like a true wise man Nate.

BTW Goat, I'm going to want a piece of this so called "racecar" this spring. I should have something fo yer pooper!

I have split topics, please move the modding cars discussion to the topic titled "Image's rant" This is Goat's thread and I'm giving it back to him, we shouldn't be whoring it.

Turbohcar, I will attempt to move your post to the other thread.

Brett, you're welcome to get yo ass spanked. Just hop in line behind my wife, Dan's wife, and Dan, and I'll serve up some steamy sweaty-palmed beatings for all of ya's. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some mouse poop to clean....

And thank you, Nate, for realizing that it's ME and NOT my thread that should be whored out.

Sounds good to me! I like mine hard and with an open palm. Sometimes the g/f likes to use a paddle on me

Ok now we're getting off topic. Goat, consider the Goat Rocket owned where it stands!

Got the front seats, console, carpeting and some other odds and ends pulled out today. The carpeting won't be going back in. Neither will most of the console. Anyone have a steering wheel puller or a trick with a regular 3-arm puller to get the wheel off? I know I've done it before, but this little thing won't budge!

And Brett, that's the Goater Sled to you. AKA paddle on wheels.

You're going to miss the carpeting. I know after having mine out for this long with nothing there, it's bugging the heck out of me. I permanently took out my back seats so I'm going to find someone to do one big sheet of custom carpet that goes from the firewall to the hatch. It'll be expensive, but I think it'll be worth it to have some form of covering on the floor.

Carpeting will not be missed. I drive a nice, quiet, leather-clad beauty to work every day. This little treat is only for terrorizing school childeren and retirement homes. Anti-skid in the floor pans and new paint inside will make it asthetically appealing again.

Well I drive a.......... I drive a Cavalier every day so there!! The Talon sits in the garage like a good little firebreathing beast until the day nice weather hits. That's the day you need to be scared Goatey.

lossen the nut, but don't take it completely off... start jerking on the steering wheel. If you take the nut clear off, have an ice pack close by for when you smack yourself in the head. This is how I've gotten all the ones I've ever had to remove off..




god that sounds funny... jerk, nut, smack, get off....

HAHAHA! You sick, dirty old man! I ended up getting the wheel off last night. I tried the puller again. The manual should specify that you need to apply about 30x the amount of pressure needed to break the bolt, wrench and everything else involved before the wheel breaks loose. Don't you love that when you've got about 15 good, hard turns on the puller, and nothing's happened and then...... BAM!!! Joe pooped his pants.

ROFLMAO, I can soooo picture you doing that too. Creek....creek......creek......BAM! Awww crap, honey get me some clean underwear would ya?

Who you calling old?

I think your just a wuss for having to use a puller... should have got your wife to to it for you!

Impossible. Wife was unconscious due to the burning of dinner.

I have looked fear in the eyes.

It has changed me forever.

It's Name? My heater blower housing. Mother of God. I sucked the mouse nest out sometime last week I believe, but decided to go ahead and rip all the ducting and such out for a thourough cleaning. That housing was the most foul thing I've yet to encounter during my small span of years on this earth. The sight wasn't so bad..... but the smell!!! Holy dead rotten coochie, Batman!!! Nothing else I'v smelled can compare to this. I almost threw up about four times.

But the beast hath been slain. And bleached. All will be well within the kingdom soon.

Hey goat if the smell stays with ya. I got an A/C complete duckting for cheap, just to get it out of my garage. And mine don't smell dead!

nice to hear goat... so, the heater core and shit will work?

send me a pm with your addy... is that you with the 309 that i missed phone call from?

Yup, everything was in working order. Just covered in mouse poopie.

Came across this Fidanza flywheel on Ebay for cheap. I think it's legitimate, and since they're claiming the Fidanza name, it's hard to believe that it's a knock-off, but I know anything is possible. If you fine folks think it's genuine, I'm picking it up.

Wow... looks like the real thing to me.

If you search the completed items on ebay you will find that is not an uncommon price. I would say you are pretty safe. I even saw one that had a buy it now of 169.99.

That's all good to hear. It's just so much cheaper than most of the performance shops I browse, that I was skeptical. Buying it........ now.

Things are progressing, but slower than I would have hoped. This project is now requiring a certain type of dedication. But what defines dedication? Wrenching on the car while you're all doped up on codine? I'd say so. Items once needed are now in my possesion; the stars are aligning, and so are my wheels.

Are you sure that's such a great idea?

I'd be more worried if you could spell...

hey, that sounds like me

Can anyone give me the settings for a MAFT v1.3 running 550s? Just the flat, baseline settings that you start from, nothing specific. Also, I know what each knob controls, but if someone could tell me which direction is lean, rich and so on, that would be helpful. I seem to have lost my instruction manual. Thanks.

If I remember right counter clock wise is lean and clock wise is rich.

Nevermind, I found the manual online finally! Thanks anyways.

How's it running Goat?

It's not. Multiple problems springing up all over the place. Wheels falling off, exhaust coming apart in the middle of the street, you know, that sort of stuff.

I take it you finally got that trans bolt holed helicoiled?

Better get her running good...I need someone to run on SCDC day...

Well, I suppose it's time to officially announce it: Goat's Bane is back on the streets! Not in the shape I'd prefer, but I need to get some fun out of this car to maintain my motivation for working on it. I've been correcting boost leaks as they've been found, replacing worn bolts, and generally taking it easy while I find out what needs to be tweeked.

I ended up tapping the tranny for a 1/2" coarse thread bolt 1 1/2" long. Holds mighty fine. The main problems I need to correct right now are tuning, replacing the o-ring on the biss, and replacing orings, nut and lockwasher on the power steering pump (it leaks a bit under hard turning). It also feels like the tie rods are out of whack (steering jumps a bit when you hit a pothole), so it could use an alignment or whatever else you guys might know for a cheap home-job alignment.

But in light of Kicks GETTING kicked in the yam sack by the DSM gods yet again, things are going really well for me. I won't make SCDC, but that was never a goal of mine, so no loss there. I'll keep reports coming in.