British Columbia DSM
GVRD - BC DSM Club => Garage => Topic started by: Aaron dusseault on November 10, 2003, 10:27:18 pm
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Went to the dealer today and they quoted me 70 bones to flush my coolant. Has anybody done this on their own. Please tell me how.
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not to be mean...
but "12.87 @ 109 mph" is your ET? and you don't know how to flush your coolant???
sheesh... maybe it's just me but i thought that's kinda wierd... anyways
just pull the drain plug at bottom of rad.. let it drain.. fill with water and run car until old coolant is flushed. Then fill with new coolant until fill, keep in mind to get out all the burps
~Ryan
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We need a new rule on this board. No posting of 1/4 Mile ETs without a verified time slip. :evil: That goes for 60's too.......
Non verified times get DELETED. I'd be happy to do the deleting....... :moon:
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or you can get a tee that goes in the heater hose, has a screw off cap that you put the garden hose on. plug your hose in there and run til clean.
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i know aaron....and i can tell you that that definitly is his true 1/4 mile time....any other island guy can tell you to...his car is insane....ask any of the island guys....me, eric, wade, jeremy....or anyone else that knows him
give the guy a fricken break...you dont have to know everything about everything......the guy put a supra sidemount in himself so who cares if he didn't know how to change the coolant..now he knows
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not saying he didnt pull the time... just found it wierd, that's all...
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also, if you take off the pressure cap and thermostat housing, you can clean it up in there really well, and it also drains faster if its off.
I also took the rad out, and replaced the hoses. When its off you can clean stuff up real well, and stuff a hose up in your engine to really clean it out.
Also if its been a while, get some rad flush chemicals from a parts place and use that too and then flush it again. You will see....
the system cannot cool effectively if all the small areas are gunked up. Gunk doesnt transfer heat as well as metal.
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give the guy a fricken break...
Relax Michael, its all good.
Aaron, I chose the wrong thread to start venting my spleen. Shoulda started a new one.
No reflection on Aaron, but lately there's been some "My car runs (insert impossibly good time here)" and ZERO paper work to back it up. :roll:
One person later admitted it was a joke, still waiting on paperwork on the other. Quite frankly if I ran a (insert impossibly good time here), I would have the timeslip bronzed....... :laugh:
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yea its all good chris i guess i got a bit carried away
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I'm thinking he meant a flush with caustic(sp?) fluids to clean out any crap that may be gunked in there. Not many people have the fluids needed to do that laying around the house, so I think his question is valid
Jovan
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I think you can get a can of crap at CT that will flush the rad. You pur it in and idle it for 10min then flush normally. I have used it B4 and it seemed to work well as some really crappy brown water came out.
P.S. I can also vouch for Aarons time in his sig as he beat me like a readheaded stepchild the other week. I think he did scan his slip to Andrew S. anyway because he is on the top ten list.
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Gotta love my island brothers. Thanks for the support guys. I have done all my mods myself turbo stuff as well as vpc wiring and other jobs. I have always believed in asking alot of questions and relying on friends for valuable advice it makes for a happy Talon. As for my time you want my slip i can provide it to anyone who wants it. Must get 11s.Need to improve skills and spend more money. :wink:
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good job Aaron..
what type of turbo are you running? :thumbs:
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he's got a big 16G...hahha there i answered for yea aaron...hhahaa
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My big 16 ported and clipped is not bad but i got fp green / front mount on the mind. that with some tuning should put me in the very low 12s or high 11s. :thumbs:
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everyone better be on the lookout for this bastard hahah...high 11's...wade will be joining you very soon in the 11's..that kid has been doin a crazy amount of work
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easier said than done... you can have all the go fast parts to run a crazy 11 second time... but it takes REALLY REALLY good knowledge and tuning and driving to get your car down that fast...
like I could say my car is good for mid 12's... but because I can't tune and I can't drive I'm still at high 13's... its alot easier said than done...
not putting anyone down though... just letting everyone know that I cant tune or drive :D
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Well said Robin...
Scotty, we need traction!.......
Cap'n, the dilithium crystals are giving all she's got.
If I had slicks, a suspension, and didn't break, I know where I'd be...... :P
Whoops, did I just "arm chair race" just now? :oops:
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yea thats well put robin.....i guess i'm gettin ahead of myself...man these dsm's just get you goin man...you can feel the adrenaline circulating in your blood
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oh yeah man... as soon as you hear someone who has the same mods as you running a crazy ass time you just wanna do it to.... any mod you make on a DSM makes a HELLA big difference... I freakin love it :D
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its crazy how much power you can get from increasiing your downpipe a half an inch...lol or takin off your aircan and replacing the paper filter with a k&n
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lol... first time I put an open air filter (OBX) on my car, I didnt know why the hell the blow off valve started to make noise.... me and a friend of mine put it on and we took it for a rip... before it we never heard any blow off valve cuz it had the stock factory air box, after putting the intake on we heard...
VRRROOMMMM.. PPSSSSHHHHH
I nearly shit my pants cuz I was so happy :D
and that open air filter made a HUGE performance difference....
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yep, these things are pretty cool that way...
throw some plumbing fittings at them and all the sudden, ZOOM ZOOM!!
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yea i had my paper filter and air can on for soooo long...i was too lazy to change it i guess...i thought my bov was crazy before..holy shit...i had the biggest grin on my face for weeks afterwards..i. couldn't believe how nice the bov sound is now......shiftin at like 3 grand is even huge bov....I LOVE DSMS
this thread is really gettin beatin down now eh..haha