You just don't want to let these sit outside much at much under 40*.

 

Flat spot bad?

 

R compounds get hard if they get too cold for too long, and they don't really soften back up. I've never experienced it but I've been told by friend's that run R compounds and do a lot of road course racing, so I don't know exactly how true it is.

 

so it will be a stand car for the winter

 

Lol Taylor you gonna keep them in your bedroom?

 

No they are on the car sittin in the shop where it spends its winters with its friends lol. We always keep the heat at 50-55* when we aren't there so nothing inside freezes up and so it doesn't take so long to warm up when one of us goes there to work on something. My friend has MT ET streets on his IS300 too so I'm not the only one with stickies, and we have numerous sets of slicks there too, but those aren't the reason we keep the heat up a bit. We did long before any of us needed sticky tires

 

soo would it be bad if my slicks saw low 30's? because they did sitting in the garage last winter

 

I don't think you'd have to worry too much. My old slicks saw a winter in a cold garage (much colder than 30 lol) and they were fine the next year. I did put a little WD40 on them though the night before I raced on them to loosen em up though, just in case.

 

had 2 set backs so far this month. got a tint ticket again and then the balt was sandwiched the next day. not how i wanted to spend my money right now but **** happens. so the ion is on hold yet again

 

Cobalt totaled?

 

no. only about half the value in damage

 

Thats good. Seriously love that car, simple and clean. Sucks the ion is on hold once again. I feel like thats been a longer project than my car and thats saying something

 

Question. Whats a reasonable price to pay for an lsj short block used/needs rebuilt? I've been looking for a second engine to do a build with and have no idea whats a reasonable price to pay. All the local partouts around me seem a little expensive but i could be wrong. Just curious as to what guys have been paying.

 

Kind of depends on if any of the parts are reusable. Typically ~$350 if it's in good shape

 

Yeah there was a guy asking $900 around me for a blown block and another 200 for a head with 32000 miles with only the accesories on it, no blower or throttle body.. like what? thats ridiculous lol.

 

also theres another guy that wants $1200 for a g85 trans is that reasonable? It has 79k miles on it. I may pick up a tranny to swap when i swap engines.

 

Absolutely not lol. Go to car-part.com

 

im aware of this. i have some money left to spend on it. just need to get the ball rolling on it. been trying to balance mods for both cars




you can snag lsd trans for around $700 by me. i thought $700 was steep though

 

how do you specify the 2.0l on car parts.com its giving me 2.2l when searching the engine block, but when i search engine it gives me options for 2.2l or 2.0l

 

They share the same block

 

Only certain years do. Different generations. Avoid 2.2 altogether. They're either weaker or missing
Oil squirters.

 

To my understanding all gen2 blocks have oil squirters which would include 07+ l61s

 

is the 2.0 just a sleeved 2.2? is that the reason for the displacement difference? if thats the case it will be way easier to get a block and i can just get a head from an ss.. im gonna resleeve anyways.

 

im talking lsj btw not the LNF

 

just kidding all the electronics are different and would cost a ton to modify to work. need an lsj block