What Have You Done To Your Cobalt Today?
11-25-2012, 07:25 PM
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Made it home from Florida. Bought a new throttle body that has been ported and polished. Found a supplier for phenoic spacers that are aluminum ceramic wafers. Thinner than the wood resin ones I usually see. I'll be sending templates to them.
11-25-2012, 10:45 PM
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Went out to it, and started it up just to let the fluids flow through it. I hate that its in storage. But I'll bw happy when it doesnt have any rust due to these Wisconsin winters! Only 127 days! But who's counting? 
11-26-2012, 01:40 PM
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11-26-2012, 06:30 PM
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For some reason my PS headlight has condensation in it. So I cussed it for a while, then decided I didn't want to drive it today since it was bad. So I didn't. Got home walked by it again saw the condensation and cussed it some more. I'll deal with it tomorrow.
11-27-2012, 02:07 AM
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Today, I drove it home from Waffle House,
yesterday I. . .
yesterday I. . .
- Drove it to the Shell station
- Got gas (V-Power 93 Octane)
- Drove it back home
- Drove it to the inland gas station for snacks on the way to work
- Drove it to work
- Drove it to Waffle House after work
11-27-2012, 09:44 AM
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So apparently a dying timing chain tensioner sounds the same as a blown spark plug.
A few months ago I took a video of the engine bay ticking and everyone assumed it was the tensioner. So when my car got all messed up while I was driving one day, I figured that was it. I saved up about $1200 and had it towed to the shop yesterday after not driving it for 2 months.
He called me this morning and said it was a god damn blown spark plug. I owe him $3.
A few months ago I took a video of the engine bay ticking and everyone assumed it was the tensioner. So when my car got all messed up while I was driving one day, I figured that was it. I saved up about $1200 and had it towed to the shop yesterday after not driving it for 2 months.
He called me this morning and said it was a god damn blown spark plug. I owe him $3.
11-27-2012, 01:08 PM
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i thought about swapping my wheels and tires out since i have off today, but it's been snowing here all day and since i have to swap garages with it i don't feel like messing around with cold wet tires, so it will wait for another day 
11-27-2012, 02:26 PM
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So apparently a dying timing chain tensioner sounds the same as a blown spark plug.
A few months ago I took a video of the engine bay ticking and everyone assumed it was the tensioner. So when my car got all messed up while I was driving one day, I figured that was it. I saved up about $1200 and had it towed to the shop yesterday after not driving it for 2 months.
He called me this morning and said it was a god damn blown spark plug. I owe him $3.
A few months ago I took a video of the engine bay ticking and everyone assumed it was the tensioner. So when my car got all messed up while I was driving one day, I figured that was it. I saved up about $1200 and had it towed to the shop yesterday after not driving it for 2 months.
He called me this morning and said it was a god damn blown spark plug. I owe him $3.
11-27-2012, 05:07 PM
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I limped her home and she sat there ever since. I took a video of the ticking noise and everyone here figured it was the timing chain tensioner so I never thought twice about it, haha. I didn't want to bring it to the mechanic without a decent chunk of money saved up figuring it'd need a whole near timing set. And since I'm laid off at the moment... it took a while.
11-30-2012, 09:11 PM
#1323
1-Finshed the ZZP intercooler package setup
2-Installed the GM 3 Bar Sensors
3-Cussed at the condensation in my passenger's side headlight lol
4-Got it Tooned
5-Put a bigass smile on my face after realizing that 3rd gear kicks harder than my old TVS in 2nd lol...
Can't wait to put My ZZP Downpipe and retune lol..
2-Installed the GM 3 Bar Sensors
3-Cussed at the condensation in my passenger's side headlight lol
4-Got it Tooned
5-Put a bigass smile on my face after realizing that 3rd gear kicks harder than my old TVS in 2nd lol...
Can't wait to put My ZZP Downpipe and retune lol..
