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What are some funny mistakes you've made with your car?

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Old 02-04-2014, 03:11 PM
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Default What are some funny mistakes you've made with your car?

I bought one of those ebay resistor "chips" when I first got my car thinking it would give it the 20 WHP as advertised.



Also took my center console and gauge plastic off to paint it and forgot how to put it all back together. Took me a couple of days to figure it out.
Old 02-04-2014, 03:47 PM
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I started modifying it.
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Put in into a guard rail, backwards, going about 80



Looking back that really wasn't that funny, actually hurt quite a bit
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Better backwards than forwards though.



I just wish I'd kept more of the spare parts from my parts car instead of selling them. And maybe it would have been ok if I had adjusted the brake pedal after the manual conversion so the brakes weren't applied 100% of the time for the first few miles.
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Did the slave cylinder mod on my gk the other day. Bled my clutch for over a hour looking at the wrong reservoir... Duuh...
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Bought an auto.



Wait, that wasn't funny and has cost a lot of money to rectify. disregard
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I don't make mistakes. I'm awesome like that.
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When I installed my Airram, I put rags in the intake ports of the head to prevent any nuts or washers inadvertently falling in the engine. Got it all back together and the damn car would just not run AT all. Tried everything. Worked on it till about 11PM. Woke up from a dead sleep at 2AM realizing I left the damn rags in the engine!!! I couldnt sleep, so I got up at 2:30 AM and pulled the Airram off and sure enough, there were the rags! Pulled them out, got her back together, and she fired right up!
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going from a 2.0L to a 1.8L beta..damn i miss my beta lc




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