The Official SoCal Chat Thread

[sw20Tmatt]

wow i am so behind the curve. I leave for a week and everything changes.

so....

ren did you get your car going?

christian did you figure out your wheel clearance probiblem?

mark, did you ever get the red cars trans bolted up?

and finally is anyone going to HIN!!!!!!!

[masagsxr]

Not me.. Try to contact Tim.. I know he pass his business card around right? I asked him questions regarding the discount but he wouldn't give me a straight answer. He was saying they cam in pack of 10, 20, 30 tix but never gave me a price range.... I check on HIN's website and they are like $30/tix

[randomxzero]

never been to HIN but im broke.. :/
so many good events coming up!! D1.. TORC... Bamboozle... EDC... i know theres more but ahhh!!

[Mark_Dorman]

Holy Crap guys!!! I stopped posting last night at like 1am and I come back to 4 new pages. My eyes hurt ...Now i know how everyone else feels

Originally Posted by Davis

Oh man, I wish every rotor was wobbly when I'm doing brakes, having them rusted on sucks! Mr. Rubber mallet doesn't really take them off really well. SO yeah, when you bolt the wheels back up it should be a okay.

Dammit, Mixxer already posted and he explained it way better than me.

Dude...when I changed the brakes on my first bimmer I had to use a baseball bat to get the rotors off and it still too awhile.

Originally Posted by masagsxr

Don't know what ur talking about Ji... hehehe

I laughed so hard when I read this

Originally Posted by sw20Tmatt

wow i am so behind the curve. I leave for a week and everything changes...

mark, did you ever get the red cars trans bolted up?

and finally is anyone going to HIN!!!!!!!

Join the crew...I just have to bleed the clutch line and hook up the linkage. That's all.
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Hey Visavis,

I have a 1100 watt amp (single channel) if you're interested. It's from JL audio...

[mr.asian.m2]

here is the video of our cruise. the road is not as nice as cal. but, a cruise is a cruise.

YouTube - texas mr2 cruise

if you listen....i kind of said..the F word. so, oops... i saw two white chicks on the side of the road.

[masagsxr]

Yeah.. need to person to do the clutch. I was really hoping my tool would work but not enough space in there =(......

You already put the tranny oil and everything?

Frankie: Everyone haulin @$$ or what? Pretty cool video nonetheless

[Mark_Dorman]

Oh...that too...the tranny oil is easy. I have a long hose and funnel I picked up just for it

[mr.asian.m2]

Originally Posted by masagsxr

Yeah.. need to person to do the clutch. I was really hoping my tool would work but not enough space in there =(......

You already put the tranny oil and everything?

Frankie: Everyone haulin @$$ or what? Pretty cool video nonetheless

hahaha...not really. we were only doing 80.

but, i really want to do the cruise over there. you guys seem to have some bad ass road. look like i won't be online as much as before anymore. so, you guys better not forget me.

mark...in one of your photo. everything on the inside of your car look awsome. but, i see the hand brake is still blue. are you going to do anything with that? i just painted mine. good job so far. post more pic when you're done.

[masagsxr]

... yup.. make sure everything is in place.. QA it before starting the car

[masagsxr]

Originally Posted by mr.asian.m2

hahaha...not really. we were only doing 80.

but, i really want to do the cruise over there. you guys seem to have some bad ass road. look like i won't be online as much as before anymore. so, you guys better not forget me.

mark...in one of your photo. everything on the inside of your car look awsome. but, i see the hand brake is still blue. are you going to do anything with that? i just painted mine. good job so far. post more pic when you're done.

frankie? Who is he? .... j/k man.. Why are you not going to be online as much? Business picking up? Don't worry we wont forget about you. Maybe we'll have something to talk about while you are out j/k... Hey at least we won't forget right?

[Mark_Dorman]

Hey Frankie...Yeah...the e-brake is still blue. I'm trying to decide what I want to do with it. I have considered picking up an aftermarked e-brake handle and putting a boot on it but not sure if I want that or not. I'm customizing my shifter so I can use the newer style TRD shift knob on it and don't know what ebrake handle would even match. I like the BMW ones but not sure if I can mix and match . I still have a few more things to try out before my interior is actually finished but it's coming along. I've tried so many things at this point that haven't worked...I should do a big write up on it .

Oh...For all who don't know I picked up a 92 V6 camry this past weekend so I am %100 committed to this swap now !!!

[mr.asian.m2]

hahaha....good one. yeah...work have begin for me. so, that's good. i try to post up once a day or something. nite guys...

[Davis]

Hey guys, the stupid sway bar ruined my day. I started at 2:30ish knowing it was going to be an easy job. Oh no, it never turns out that way. RUST RUST EVERYWHERE. I broke both tierod ends trying to get them off. Luckily my handy dandy vise grips were with me. Got the sway bar off after about an hour. Yay lets put new one in. Mounts reinforcement brackets. Ohhh pretty. Now lets do sways! *looks at new bracket* Say wah, why is it all curvy at the mount points. Hmmm curvy at the mount point + trying to mount + oem bolt looks too short = PITA. So I finally got all the bolts screwed in then what do you know. I forgot about the washers that came with the bracket! So here I am trying to double washer this bolt, not a good idea it seems. Can't get the holes to line up nor screw in the bolt. Oh now it's 5ish and I'm way late for class, so I went. Argh if it doesn't go on tomorrow I'm going to throw the stock bar back on and order some turds.

[Mark_Dorman]

Should've gone with Trusty old TRD in the first place. (I only say that because you gave me that advice ). Sorry that it's been a nightmare...maybe you should just return it and go with TRD. I'll order mine at the same time to save on shipping

[Davis]

I don't think I can return it now, it's pretty banged up from me being angry. and yeah that's what I was saying to myself "should've went turd" But then trd wasn't as stiff as I want it to be. It's pretty much the lightweight of the bunch. :

[Mark_Dorman]

Yeah...but TRD did the research in design so you know it'll be good. Stiffer isn't always better when it come to sway bars ...I'll refrain from the "that's what she said comments".

Stiffer is stiffer...I think a moderate gain is best if you still want to drive it on the road. It's kind of like people who buy race coilovers for the street (*cough cough CHE!)...there's comes a point when it's overkill...

I'm just messing with ya Che

[Davis]

Remember, I have autocross in mind my friend. I made a thread on here and OC to see what people done. Hopefully I'll get answers soon. If not, I'll just throw the stock ones back on and wait until I get my manual rack on and have round 3.

[Mark_Dorman]

I know you're thinking auto-x...but still. I think that the moderate increase in stiffness of the TRD paired with the stock rear will be fairly beneficial. There's so much fine tuning and science behind suspension setup I shouldn't act like I know what I'm talking about. I'm just going off of the suspension setups people in BMWCCA used to run for track and auto-x...

[Davis]

And I'm going off of what people suggest and use. This is making me so sad, then again I shouldn't be, look at Ren.

[masagsxr]

If its made for your car it should fit right in Davis...There should be an easy way or a technique to put those in.