What did you do to your Gen7 today?

[CrackerTeg]

Had an insurance adjuster finally eyeball the deep ass key job on my PS and was quoted to the tune of over $1200 worth of damage. Good times. Time to plan my scratch proof paint job.

[Arielit0oo]

Changed my tranny oil, it was really bad  . New passenger side ball joint and replaced flex pipe.

[B.R.03EX]

Went to take the spacers off to see if it was a possible culprit of the ever worsening vibration coming from my front end... the jack slipped off (i have no idea how, i made sure the mount point was on the jack right).  It went right up thru my side skirt and dented my 1/4 panel under it.  The straight line of clips for the side skirt now has a kink in it where one of the clips jumps in and up about 1-2 inches... I feel fuckin sick.  I dont understand how I can take the easiest fuckin jobs and royally fuck them up.  I better hit the lottery or get some high payin job so I wont have to think twice about crawlin under my car to get somethin done.  Tonight fuckin sucks, im gonna go get drunk.  Talk to you all tomorrow.

That sucks Ryan. I've had a few of those "oh shit!" kind of moments but nothing that serious. Look at it this way, now you have a reason to buy HFP skirts.

[timot_one]

Ryan, it could be worse.  You could bust a few teeth off 6th gear right after you dumped about $1k on a complete fuel system upgrade, having your tranny case repaired, and a few other small upgrades.  Or, you could have your car sitting on jack stands for 5 months and dump another $4k into fixing and powdercoating the tranny, upgrading your cams and valve springs, running all new aftercooler lines, and then have a valve drop and destroy your head and block less than 10 hours (and 10 miles) later.  I haven't driven my car since April, yet I keep spending money on it.

Ohh yeah.  That destruction that I talked about from the valve dropping.  I removed the valve springs and pulled the valves from my old head and removed the damaged piston from the rod.  I modified my k20a2 oil pump to clear my k24a2 block.  I worked on cleaning up the a/c compressor bracket and the water pump and housing.

[cna]

spend the day trying figure out why i cant get my video from the dock to display  take 2 in the the morning

[accordguy04]

Ryan, it could be worse.  You could bust a few teeth off 6th gear right after you dumped about $1k on a complete fuel system upgrade, having your tranny case repaired, and a few other small upgrades.  Or, you could have your car sitting on jack stands for 5 months and dump another $4k into fixing and powdercoating the tranny, upgrading your cams and valve springs, running all new aftercooler lines, and then have a valve drop and destroy your head and block less than 10 hours (and 10 miles) later.  I haven't driven my car since April, yet I keep spending money on it.

Well when ya put it that way... lol  Ok fine, you got me beat.

That sucks Ryan. I've had a few of those "oh shit!" kind of moments but nothing that serious. Look at it this way, now you have a reason to buy HFP skirts.

Trust me, thats the first thing I started lookin at. haha.  But the last 3 mounting points that hold the side skirt on are all bent back and away so they wont even clip on.  Oh well, atleast its still holdin on.  I got bigger fish to fry.  I gotta get the Timing belt and shit done, new mounts and prolly Sat I'll change the tranny fluid.  The car has almost 100k on it (40k from me alone) and I dont know the last time it was changed.  Seems like a pretty straight forward job.... lets see how I can fucki this up. lol

[accordguy04]

 

[timot_one]

Looks like you need a little bit of body work there.  Get a quote and see if it's expensive.  See what it will cost you if you claim it on your insurance.

[accordguy04]

Thats what I'm plannin on doin.  I'm gonna call my insurance company on my lunch break and see what they think.  But its holdin on fine, so for right now I have more important mechanical things to take care of then cosmetic.  Then I'll worry about costmetics... who knows, maybe full HFP kit... but if I do that I'm gonna want a new front bumper too because its all chipped up and would look like shit with a new lip on it... its a viscous circle. haha

[accordguy04]

Dropped her off this morning to get the Timing belt maintenance done.  First place I called told me they wanted $1300... so I told them to go pound sand.  Then I called the guy I normally take the car too and hes gonna do it for $800 (parts included) AND throw in my XLR8 75a mounts while hes in there.   So I'll take savin $500 as a victory.

Also this weekend, I swapped out the trans fluid, what an easy job!  Seriously, I couldnt believe how easy it was to change. I used Honda fluid and talked to the guy and asked the interval of change, he said 30k miles... that sound low to anyone else?  Regardless, I've put 45k on the car since I got it, I never changed it and I have no idea when the previous owner changed it.  So I changed it, drove it around for 20 minutes, and then changed it again.  What a difference!  The shifter just slides into the gears effortlessly now.

[gargantula99]

I change my transmission fluid  every year and a half.  Which is about 9k-10k miles.  Ryan, you should do a write up about it.

[accordguy04]

Maybe I will.  Dam shoulda thought about it and I coulda done pics of the process.

[timot_one]

I usually change my tranny fluid every 30k.

[accordguy04]

For how easy it was to do, itd be no inconvenience for me for a bit of piece of mind. lol

[gargantula99]

This weekend I had the car detailed and I did the wiring trick for the fog light switch. Now they turn on with my parking lights.