Team3S: 3000GT & Stealth Sunday, June 29
2003 Volume 02 : Number 192
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:11:37 -0700
From: "Riyan Mynuddin" <
riyan@hotpop.com>
Subject: Team3S:
report back from AutoX... awd oversteer!
I just got back from the autocross school and I must say... I never have
been so impressed with anything in my life. I haven't even gotten my rear
sway bar installed yet, but I'm able to put so much power to the ground with the
new tires that I can oversteer. Understeer is almost nothing compared to
what it was back when I had street tires. Flash's tip of pumping up the
rear helped a lot. I didn't need the 120 lbs of sandbags in the back either. I
actually did try one run with it and I was so tail happy that I could barely
stay on the course.
Now... the bad news... I have cords showing (just a tiny bit on the
outside of one tire) after only 6 AutoX runs! I suppose that's what you
get when you buy used tires. Nothing's free, and you get what you pay for.
I paid $160 for 4 of those Goodyear GS-CS 245/40/17. I thought I was
ripped off, but many people at the event actually told me that it wasn't too bad
of a deal since they're still good enough for tomorrow's event which means 9
runs in total on a tire with 20 treadwear rating and a really heavy car. I
guess I did alright considering that these tires usually go for $200 online to
$250 retail each. Still, this is an expensive sport. I'm too spoiled
to go back to those horrible street tires [squeal squeal squeal
understeer] so it's time to rearrange my spending patterns and drum up
some more business! With passion comes motivation ...
What's next?
open track...?
How about if I climb one mountain at a time...
Riyan
93 stealth rt tt
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:55:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrew Wert <
mrstealth13@yahoo.com>
Subject:
Team3S: OT: Alpine Head Unit jammed
2 years ago I bought an Alpine Head unit for my car.
about 15 days
after I got it I was playing a cd and
the cd got stuck in the head unit and
it wouldn't come
out. I took it back and it was under warrantee so
it
was sent to service and fixed for free. Monday night
I was
playing a cd and once again the cd would not
come out when I hit the eject
button and Tweeter is
telling me I will have to pay to have it fixed.
I
have hit the reset button several times and I have
disconnected the head
unit and reconnected it to try
and get it to work. After talking to some
people, I
have found out that I am not the only one that has had
an Alpine
head unit jam. Is there anything else I can
do? I am going to
open up the head unit and take a
look at it unless I get some other
suggestions. The
head unit is a high end model, fully motorized,
I
payed a lot of money for this product to brake two
times.
Thanks
Andrew
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:06:42 -0400
From: "Arthurs Family" <
arthursfam@madbbs.com>
Subject:
Team3S: Install Air/Fuel Meter(s)?
Greetings,
I would like to install an air/fuel gauge on my '92 RT/TT. The
instructions say I can put in a switch & toggle between front & rear
banks. This part I can figure out, but where do I connect the wire(s) to
the o2 sensor?
Any help (as always) greatly appreciated.
Jon Arthurs
Jamestown, NY
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Hey everyone,
I'm installing an after market radio/cd-player in my stealth and am trying
to figure out which wire connects to where. For example the instruction manual
says the +12V wire is red but there are no solid red wire, its always a mix like
red with black and the ground should be black but there is no solid color.
Anyone know where each of the wires (e.g. yellow with
green) are connected to
like (e.g. which one goes to rear left speaker). Hope someone knows this
stuff.
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:17:24 -0500
From: "Wieschhaus, Brandon Kenneth
(UMR-Student)" <
bwish@umr.edu>
Subject: RE: Team3S: Stereo
Wiring
Another option would be (before hacking off the harness connector in the
car) to buy one of the harness kits offered by
www.crutchfield.com or other popular audio
places like sounddomain.com or others. Heck, I think I even saw some at WalMart
the other day. What they do is they accept the factory plug in your car, and
then have wires on the other end that attach to your new radio. This eliminates
the need for cutting and splicing of the factory wires, and makes things much
easier when going from radio to radio, especially if you ever want to put the
factory one back in... Check this site out:
http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-0lfftAw1lvl/ProdView.asp?s=0&c=11&g=103000&I=120707001&o=m&a=1&cc=01&avf=Y
If it's too late and you're already snipped off the old plug you've got a couple
of options. First, you could buy one of these adapters and re-splice your old
plug back to the factory wires. Or second, you could unplug each one of your
speakers and then choose one that you want!
to deduce the leads for,
plug that speaker back in, and check wires where your plug was for continuity,
it should check right around 4ohms... Although finding which wires to check
could be a problem... If you're lucky, the wires perhaps haven't been tampered
with by a previous owner, so you could just look at the wires at the speakers
themselves, pinpointing which pair runs that particular speaker... After
learning about these harness adapters, I don't want to even think about chopping
off my factory plug anymore, and then trying to figure out which wire goes
where, it's a mess!! Hope this helps some.
-b
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:30:39 -0400
From: "Planet" <
planet.j@sympatico.ca>
Subject:
Team3S: SOHC Downpipe
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a used/discount downpipe for my 92' Stealth SOHC. I rather
not pay the $450(CDN) for the stock one. Anyone upgraded and would like to get
rid of their old one?
Also I'm getting a check engine light and I diagnosed it to be the o2
sensor. Does this mean the o2 is malfunctioning or it is not sensing the correct
levels?
Jason
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I have a '92 RT NA. All of the sudden I can barely get it
started, most
of the time not. Sounds like it's not
getting enough fuel- but not sure.
Occasionally it will
start with very low idle, sputters quite a bit
and
black dust coming from exhaust- just a little. Check
engine light will come
on. Some times it will idle for 10
or 15 minutes and then will die- but
usually just a few
minutes. If I turn the key to the on position I can hear
something (sounds like small electric motor) from under
the hood and
more so from the rear of the car. Is it
possible that I need a fuel pressure
regulator? Or fuel
pump? Does this car have more than one fuel pump? and if
so - where are they? Are there any tests I can do to
narrow the
problem? This is not an every day driver and
was running
fine just before this...Should I be checking
the fuel filter? where is
it? - The engine only has about
32K miles on it with a fresh tune up.
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