"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
04/19/2016 at 16:20 • Filed to: None
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"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
04/19/2016 at 16:20 • Filed to: None | 2
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Tell them you’reinstalling Champion COPPER spark plugs in your Alfa Romeo GTV6 instead of Golden Lodge 2HL plugs.
They’re $2.50 per plug instead of $25 per, plus shipping and import duties from Italy.
“But but but... the engine was designed AROUND the Golden Lodge. You’re going to burn holes in your pistons!!!” was an actual response.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:25 |
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Next time tell them you’re going to install Champion
glow
plugs. To warm up the engine faster.
Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:31 |
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Originality is king, except where the original parts were crap. Which, in Italian cars, can be a lot of parts.
Car guys can be the biggest hypocrites. They will give you hell for not going all-original dealer-serviced cream puff, but many of their own cars are full of hacks.
aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:39 |
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That’s funny because everyone in the alfa spider community hates the golden lodges and loves NGKs
TheOnelectronic
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:44 |
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How to piss off Italians: Imply that Ferrari is not the greatest car company on the face of the earth.
Seriously, look at any youtube or facebook post with some manner of non-equine supercar. You’re almost guaranteed to find some comment along the lines of “shit car. could never beat greatest car FERRARI”
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:45 |
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Love me some stupid people.
BobintheMtns
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 16:51 |
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Gotta love trolling the purists.... I once joked on a BMW airhead chatboard that I was going to convert my airhead to run on E85... They all went ape-shit!
MUSASHI66
> BobintheMtns
04/19/2016 at 16:53 |
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My mind was so into cars that I spent a few seconds thinking about which BMW car was ever air cooled.
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Chairman Kaga
> Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
04/19/2016 at 17:05 |
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I think they gave up on me when I installed JC Whitney door seals instead of having a new set made in Milan. $65 or $1,200 for 10 feet of rubber. Hmmm. That’s a hard one.
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 17:21 |
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All I can say is, NGK.
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BobintheMtns
> MUSASHI66
04/19/2016 at 17:48 |
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Hahaha!
Übel
> BobintheMtns
04/19/2016 at 19:06 |
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Do it anyways, that would be glorious. I’d love to see that
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Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
> Chairman Kaga
04/19/2016 at 19:43 |
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Can one even tell the difference? I’ll bet the cheaper ones are better made, too.
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BobintheMtns
> Übel
04/19/2016 at 19:43 |
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Well.... I actually do tend
splash the E85 around
quite a bit already.....
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Übel
> BobintheMtns
04/19/2016 at 21:20 |
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Dammit dude you’ve already got me researching how to convert my Trail 70 to E85, don’t make me do my GTI too.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Chairman Kaga
04/20/2016 at 05:53 |
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How is the old girl doing?
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Chairman Kaga
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
04/20/2016 at 11:25 |
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Well, she runs. I need to swap a valve cover as the oil vapor canister inlet in mine was cracked, creating a leak. Messy. I also still have an undiagnosed hesitation under throttle. I suspect it might be the plugs, but with these cars it could also be the AFM. I’m looking into swapping mine for one from an L-Jet equipped BMW. Same layout so installation is a breeze, but larger capacity and a better spring mechanism for finer control of the flap. I also had a broken exhaust manifold, which I replaced, but I also seem to now have an exhaust leak that I can’t pinpoint. Every time I reseat the manifold it seems to move.
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Chairman Kaga
04/20/2016 at 12:28 |
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Very curious...i hate sealing exhausts. It never seems to work for me...
The BMW AFM sounds like a good idea. If it doesn't fix it then it's not money wasted as it's an upgrade anyway.
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Chairman Kaga
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
04/20/2016 at 12:44 |
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New gaskets and Permatex red, still leaks. WHat’s odd is I can hear the telltale gurgle in the garage, but when I break out my vacuum hose/funnel “stethoscope” I can’t find it anywhere. MAYBE I shook something loose further down the pipe while I was shaking the manifold free of the downpipe? Some of the guys were saying you almost have to drop the entire exhaust, then have two people simultaneously reinstall.
And the cheaper, hotter plugs - properly gapped - seem to have made a big improvement. MUCH more throttle response.
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Chairman Kaga
04/22/2016 at 08:59 |
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Glad the plugs have worked :) have that stuck up Alfisti (provided you don’t actually burn a hole in your piston....)
How weird that it’s not discernible. Usually it’s pretty obvious where a leak is coming from. Could you wedge the throttle open at ~3500rpm to give it a bit more noise to pin it down? Maybe outside so you can simultaneously eliminate any reflections from the garage walls and piss off your neighbours at the same time ;)
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MUSASHI66
> BobintheMtns
04/27/2016 at 12:35 |
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Well. I’ll be damned - BMW did make an air cooled car
http://petrolicious.com/just-because-t…
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BobintheMtns
> MUSASHI66
04/27/2016 at 17:23 |
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Cool!