Author Topic: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? [Baller wheels]  (Read 17125 times)

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2017, 09:08:21 am »


So what note is the cruise control cable supposed to be tuned to?  Like a C#?

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2017, 09:09:48 am »
It's self-driving.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2017, 10:04:51 am »
Does it rev to 2500 rpm in stop and go traffic on a hot day?
(isn't that normal?)

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #28 on: June 28, 2017, 10:05:33 am »
Does it rev to 2500 rpm in stop and go traffic on a hot day?
(isn't that normal?)
I kept meaning to adjust the cruise control cable when I had it because that's exactly what it would do.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2017, 10:06:44 am »
Does it rev to 2500 rpm in stop and go traffic on a hot day?
(isn't that normal?)

3-4k.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2017, 10:04:04 pm »
Good to see the car is still around.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2017, 09:56:19 am »
I was sold on the stripes after having the gaffer tape ones for a month.


Masked up with random tape/paper to copy the widths


First dust coat


Thicker


Unmasked



(I'm a masking genius)

Stripes!

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #32 on: July 16, 2017, 10:06:19 am »
Oh, you wanted an _actual_ update?

Uh...  I put air in the tires & checked the oil.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2017, 02:39:14 pm »
I found a good reason for this pop-out cupholder.



(Oh, and replaced a burned out blue tinted Sylvania SilverStar, ricer PO...)

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2017, 02:46:34 pm »
Haha, those weren't the blue-tinted ones. They get way ricier.

RIP expensive yet short-lived lightbulb.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #35 on: August 11, 2017, 02:49:55 pm »
Haha, those weren't the blue-tinted ones. They get way ricier.

RIP expensive yet short-lived lightbulb.

Don't make me dig it out of the garbage to prove you wrong...

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #36 on: August 11, 2017, 03:03:55 pm »
I found a good reason for this pop-out cupholder.

I've never had one in a vehicle but all I picture and imagine is hitting a bump and scalding coffee flying everywhere over myself and a screaming passenger

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #37 on: August 11, 2017, 03:13:39 pm »
only if youre currently accelerating, in which case the coffee is already all over the screaming passenger.

Mine is mostly used to catapult coffee up into the windshield where it can drip slowly into my heater vents.
It gives my shift boot a nice patina as well.
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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #38 on: August 11, 2017, 03:23:16 pm »
Ya'll need to drive smoother.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #39 on: August 11, 2017, 09:17:35 pm »
Don't make me dig it out of the garbage to prove you wrong...

Let's let the public decide.

Is this bulb tinted, and if so what colour?


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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #40 on: August 11, 2017, 09:19:33 pm »
This seems like a lot of effort to go through in order to assert that I would willingly spend extra money on my car's appearance.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #41 on: August 11, 2017, 09:46:02 pm »
Lilac or lavender?

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #42 on: August 11, 2017, 10:39:40 pm »

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #43 on: August 11, 2017, 11:41:41 pm »
Osrams are the way to go for next time. Such rally.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #44 on: August 12, 2017, 09:10:04 am »
https://www.powerbulbs.com/ca/

Thats where I order my ricer bulbs

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« Reply #45 on: August 12, 2017, 09:54:00 am »
Osrams are the way to go for next time. Such rally.
I loved my 80/100W Osram bulbs that lasted three months. I still have the Daniel Stern H4 harness, I think. Like driving around with a miniature sun.

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #46 on: August 12, 2017, 10:37:41 am »
The colour temp on those is supposed to be "daylight"  8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

https://www.amazon.ca/SYLVANIA-SilverStar-Performance-Halogen-Headlight/dp/B000M5Y720

Looks like a minor tint to turn the yellow into more of a white. So I vote "daylight"
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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #47 on: August 12, 2017, 12:39:06 pm »
So, fixed the rear sprayer.



Ensured the pump was working, slowly added more & more pressure until fluid/air came out the nozzle.  Then tested bit by bit & found the obstruction was in the "last line" so I investigated.

The line inside the hatch was like a foot too long, and was sharply kinked acting like both a restriction and a bonux anti-drainback valve, haha.

Also, continuing being the antithesis to the "cosmetics oriented" previous owner I adjusted the steering joint so the steering wheel is straight.  (no pics, envision a pic of driving straight & having the wheel be straight)

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Re: GrantC's Winter Beater Beater? (Somebody that you used to love.)
« Reply #48 on: August 12, 2017, 12:59:08 pm »
Sometimes its the little things that count.

Beaters are fun!

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« Reply #49 on: August 12, 2017, 02:19:21 pm »
Damn, I was wondering what was up with that sprayer. I guess when they installed the new hatch they must have made their own line.

It would work sometimes, usually only when pointing uphill, and then never again for a long period of time.