What Did You Do To Your Car Today?

[k31th]

yes, mickus, they have bi-modal exhausts.

[PTR_NITRO_FG]

Goddam posts not refreshing fast enough....Wiggums was actually funny so I retract my post

Edited 23/02/15 07:37 AM by PTR_NITRO_FG

[JETURBO]

Jet!

Some bloke left the gym the other day in a new R8 cwubby, and his exhaust was all quiet until im assuming bimodal opened it up and it sounded good??

Do they have bimodal exhausts?

It was all quiet quiet quiet Mcfkuken ROAR sounds awesome quiet quiet

Roar sounded good, but quiet was terrible, and the transition was poo

If yours has bimodal, yeah left shoulder that crap....

Yeh its open at idle so it rumbles then closes at 2-3k so its quiet to pass ADR then opens again to roar to redline, its nice but I disconnected it so it roars the whole way, for a stock system its nice 1-3/4 headers hi- ish flow cats and a good design 2.25 twin system with merge x pipe and then bi model mufflers down back

[tab]

Poor Dickus...doesn't get out too often.

[ms700]

I get out, but they usually find me and lock me back up...... cnuts

Wasnt a fan of how this R8 sounded hey..... the transition was too sudden.

And im sure if the owner of said R8 knew his car sounded like @ss he'd do something about it too

I was just doing my bit for jet, letting him know of the possibility that his car sounded like fukushima.

but luckerly he fickered it

[PhilMeUp]

Replaced the rear axle bearings on my BFIII wagon taxi a couple of weeks ago.

I'm organised - got a few spare sets of axles these days, so I can get a pair ready with new bearings and just swap the axles over.

Did that. ABS light comes on at 100km/h. Diagnostics says it's the driver's side rear.

Pull it apart and have a look. Clean the ABS sensor. Put it back together.

Still getting ABS light at 100.

WTF.

Put original axle back in and test. No ABS light. Definitely an issue with the replacement axle.

Pull it apart again. Have the engine running and watch the replacement axle and ABS rotor rotate. Looks all good, nothing out of alignment.

Stuff it, replace the new bearing on the axle. $27.50 wasted. Remove the ABS rotor and clean it up all nice and shiny. Make sure it's back on the axle correctly and press on another new bearing kit.

Test time. ABS light still comes on at 100.

Swear words. Lots of them. sh*tloads.

Starting to wonder if the replacement axle is just so slightly bent that the ABS rotor and sensor don't agree on things at 100km/h. Will get it tested.

Just put original axle back in. Again. Spent a bunch of hours on this over the last week.

3:15am. Got better things to do.

Now I want to remove the front disc rotors and make sure that the metal surfaces are clean.

First front disc won't come off. Can't really use a hammer at 3am, although I'd like to. On the neighbour's screaming kids, actually (white trash welfare house next door).

Been out there for a few hours tonight and have so far achieved a grand total of SFA.

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In other news, I bought a Dremel today to see if it would be of any use for cutting the old bearings off the axles.

Nup.

Off to the Cupboard of Stuff That I Use Once A Year.

Edited 23/02/15 07:22 PM by PhilMeUp

[arronm]

To cut the bearing use a 1mm cutting disc on a 5 inch grinder. Cordless is better cause to rotates slower

[Mark_Googs]

what did I do today? Stalled it again -.- and its auto.....fml

[k31th]

huh... that's weird... spoken to your tuner about it?

[Mark_Googs]

yes I took it to him this morning, he changed a few digits in the tune and I left. On my way home, same thing happened. I've put it to him again, waiting for a solution. :\