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the hand brake uses a different set of pads than the normal brakes. There's a drum inside the rotor on the rear wheels with drum brakes inside. You didn't wear out your brakes and in normal operation the ebrake never gets worn at all. I believe there's an adjustment to bring the lever back to spec, ...

thawa, jamal, and brat4by4 have done this, and it takes some creativity. the rear suspension has a different roll center on later imprezas, and so sti struts give the rear positive camber.

our endlinks (droplinks) are great. you can change how much slop they have by cutting the bushings in half and adding washers, or just using generic pu bushings from pep boys. since they don't rotate like the C endlinks, there's no perceptible wear (ive been running pu droplink bushings for 4 years ...

BAC5.2 wrote:USED condoms? And you wanted to leave them there?

Gross dude.

didn't want to touch them either

found a bunch of petrified used condoms in the crack between the back seat and the side of the car. disgusting. I tried to just leave them there so i wouldnt have to clean them, but i couldnt drive the car without thinking about them.

you can pull the heads with the engine in the car.

ultra, you dont seem to understand that if the car is tending to understeer more, that means you've reduced grip at the front end relative to the rear. It the most fundamental concept in suspension tuning. That's all ive said this whole thread.

True, there may be more tendency towards understeer at the limit, but because there is more overall grip that limit is higher.... your evidence is contrary to your conclusion. All that other stuff you regurgitated is only true in a steady state turn on a perfectly smooth surface with no throttle or...

ultrasonic wrote: I would add more front before adding more rear bar. Even though more rear bar biases towards the oversteer that feels good, more front bar would create more overall grip.

eh? oversteer happens when the rear end runs out of grip, understeer happens when the front end runs out.

congradulations! you're learning how to drive!

i lurk the motorsports forum. The buttmunches avoid it like the plague.

Manarius wrote:Most Impreza owners are males under 25. That explains basically everything.

hey! thats me!

subyluvr2212 wrote:

Richard wrote:Isn't Suzuki in bed with GM? Or was it Isuzu? I forget.

Both, actually

that's hot.

theres no way GT stands up to xbox's Forza or nintendo's Mario Kart series, as far as racing sims go. And ps controllers hurt my hands. The L2,R2 button hurt my fingers and squeezing those damn pressure sensitive 'shape' buttons make my hands ache when playing sims. I really can't figure how PS stay...

Imprezive wrote:lady friend huh?

took you a while to actually mention the new bedroom toy....

i hope that pissy rant wasn't because of what i said. I'm don't post much on other message boards for the same reason. As car-specific boards go, this is the best i've seen on the net.

I'm not around much. I just don't care about eeking out 10-50hp out of a car, and i don't think hardly anyone on a message board can drive well enough to appreciate what their chassis/brake/suspension modifications have really done. Not to say there isn't some really fantastic individuals on here. I...

wiscon_mark wrote:

scottzg wrote:toyota pays 200$ ea. for the dead batteries.

Did you get a quote on a new set?

nope, not relevent to the report.

the assignment was to interview someone about an environmental topic and then write a report on the interview. the paper is all over the place because each paragraph deals with one topic that i was able to broach while doing the test drives. It was only a 3 page paper, so there wasn't much room for ...

i had to write a paper based on an interview for my environmental ethics class. Figured i'd stick it up on the web, to be immortalized and copywrited. Having wrenched on cars as a hobby and car owner for the last 7 years, hybrid vehicles have always piqued my curiosity. This curiosity took me to Ste...

could also be the fuel filter. Try turning to 'acc' and leaving it there for a bit, then cranking. I like old school problems, im jealous.

Yeah, you should be fine. stock suspension would want a more rear biased brake set up than something that really hooks up. FWIW, i have rs front brakes and a wagon prop valve. I tried running wagon rear calipers (which would provide the same balance as stock) with the prop valve and found a little ...

those people dont bother me nearly as much as the ones who have never heard their own tires squeal but insist they need a big rear sway bar. Fkn dangerous.

I thought they were F-105s, but looking again, I'm not so sure. Did they have in-flight refueling variants? They go by too damn fast. I think the Iranians recently cloned the F-105 and gave it their own name. It may be some kind of Mig. I'm not as familiar with newer fighter aircraft. The jet kille...

you forgot rule #1

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