Tschagfreebird151

Good morning Legacy friends,

Last night I pulled my cylinder 2 spark plug after several p0302 codes needed to be reset.  I had a good amount of carbon built up on the spark plug.  Cleaned it off, checked the injector, that looked good. 

Being the milage, never had to change a new head gasket or any issues what so ever.  I think it is time to begin the process of finding a place that can rebuild my heads locally.

I am i the Seattle area.. 

I was thinking about Drive motorsports as a good starting point.

I would love to hear what you all have to say on this topic. 

Thanks.

Hi Justin,

I love the build!! I love the B on the Ferry pics.  Spec B's love to ride on Ferrys.

Those Damd fenders are so difficult to find.  I have been looking and they look so good.  Maybe one I too will have a set on my 06 too.

Thanks to all for making and creating these great build threads.  

Cheers,

Did you end up selling these?

I'm in Seattle. 

I can buy them.

Let me know.

 

bummer. 

 

I am interested in these.

 

I'm interested you have the complete set?

What's your PayPal?

Cheers.

Still have them?

I want them!

What's your PayPal?

Good morning price for McIntosh, and amp to 98119 please.

I'll buy this.

What's your PayPal?

Cheers.

I always thought that if I had to replace my spec B I'd look into Alfa Romeo as you did. Or a Porsche 911. From the 80's.i find that driving a slow car fast is so much more fun.

Good on you for finding a Spec B. I love mine, and you will soon love yours. Sorry about your first LGT!

Did you ever find out the cause?

Lucky you noticed pieces were on fire, and were able to get out safely.

 

I look forward to reading about your new Spec. B thread adventure.

 

Are you in the Facebook Spec. B. Group? I recommend it if you are not.

 

Cheers,

measuring the valve weight and length for engine rebuild thread. So happy to dig through the boxes of valves to see what I have. Looks like enough to build every set of heads plus a brand new, still shrink wrapped, gsc valves. Sigh...

 

just need another set of v25b heads. Anyone?

This guy, his name is Ben too..

 

He might have what your looking for.

 

a8cada1fe98531fdbaa6853b3eaeba6d@sale.craigslist.org

 

Cheers,

 

Ben.

 

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Im interested in your mirrors.

 

Whats shipping to Seattle 98119

 

Thanks.

In Kirkland Wasington they have a place called Stew's Garage. They have the bays, the lifts and the tools. If one is a good mechanic (I am not at all). It would probally be a great deal. They charge 65 an hour. Not a bad price. I swapped my rotors and calipers in the place. It took me all day.

 

I did have fun doing it. So in the end I won.

 

 

Cheers,

Pins at the coilpack wiring harness?

When was the last time you checked your spark plugs? Do you always run 93 gas or better? Have you ever done a compression test? Leak down test? In addition to checking your fuel pump. O2 sensors could also be acting up.. are you getting a bunch of codes?

 

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Anyone going to the Indy Race at Portland this weekend?

 

I will be on Sunday.

I agree with Max Capacity!! Mine won't close because of all the amazing contents I keep inside it!

Smart, I am going to do that. I would have not thought of that before hand.

Engineering Explained has a great video about this as well. Stainless Steel Brake lines look cool, might provide more feedback, but it is really smoke and mirrors. Rubber brake lines, is money well spent. Stainless brake lines, a waist of $$$ and a more trouble than they are worth.

In short I second Shawn's views.

I think 10k would be a great starting place.

 

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161 is in Seattle WA

 

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I second the same question.

I did the leak down test cold. Should I have done it warm? Would it make a difference? I think that if you have leaks, they will show up regardless of engine temp...

 

Yes, I do think that I probably should adjust the valves, but I just fixed the leaks and I do not want to take it off and do that job again.

 

This morning before I drove to work, as I was warming the car for 30 seconds, the CEL flashed three times but then went away again. Tomorrow I am going to hook the cobb up again and monitor start up.

 

My hope is that my CEL does not come on again for another year or two, or when my engine hits 190K whatever comes first. Then I am going to pull my engine, and do my timing, water pump, adjust the valves, and just go through a lot of the bottom half of the motor, then put in new motor mounts and install studs.

 

I am going to keep driving the car like I have been doing so far, shift when I hit 4500, or 5000 RPMs, and continue to watch oil, change every 3k using full synthetic.

 

And as long as the CEL light stays away, I am going to take it to a tuner, and have the engine tuned for the new larger AVO I installed last week, that will be the second time this car has been on the DYNO, and it will be interesting to see those numbers.

 

Cheers friends, lets hope the Check Engine Light stays away.

Hello fellow Legacy enthusiasts,

I was having a bunch of misfires for the past two or three months. I also had an oil leak on both sides of my valve covers. So I replaced the valve covers, and my CEL light continued to show. Next, I replaced my Diamond coil overs with new stock ones and replaced the spark plugs. Drove the car around and the next morning the CEL Lights appeared. So, I did a compression test results were 130's-140's, and my leak down test results were less than 10% on all four. However, from the leak down test I could see a large amount of smoke coming from a crack in the stock top mount inter-cooler. My Engine has 171K on it, so I replaced the inter-cooler with a new AVO one.

My Spec B seemed to be running better, but three days after the CEL lights came back. Hooked my cobb up and ran codes same misses as before Cylinder #2...

But, just last Sunday I took the B to sell some old Bilsteins to a person on craigslist for $90.00 in South Center. I let my dad drive the car back to Everett, and he got on the throttle and took the car up to high revs, 5K RPM's my (CEL light was showing this whole time by the way!!). I had my Cobb hooked up and was watching for misses, there was not any new ones reporting. I did not clear the code when I turned off the car, and did not clear the code when I got back to my house later that evening. The next morning, with ice on the windows, I started the car and was warming it up for like 30 to 60 seconds like I always do, and my CEL Light blinked three times then completely went away. I have been driving it everyday this week and still no more Cylinder #2 missfire.

I believe that by driving this car hard, I heated up the valves and blew out all that crap right on out of my Invidia Exhaust. I think these engines are designed for high revs, and and should be driven this way every now and again.

I love this car, and seeing the CEL Light really made me angry. So happy to not see it these last couple of days.

here are some photos