well guys i added my headers ...turned on the car and sounded pretty good and all and i didnt realize the power wire to the battery was touching the headers and it fried it and melted the battery post and some bit of wiring...i hope i can fix it before the meet this saturday ....what a bummer and i been fixing my car alot this past week just for the meet oh well back to my cave

 

Damn that really sucks, I had that happen on my Harley and the damn battery blew !

 

That happened to me on my truck. The main power wire to the starter caught on fire!

Luckily I was in my driveway when I noticed it and I was able to put it out with the garden hose.

Almost had a Car-B-Q !

 

anyone set the underside of their dash on fire?


was welding in a patch for the shifter hole, had everything else covered in towels, didn't think I'd need to protect anything under there. I put the welder down and stepped back and smelled something, looked under my dash to see a nice little fire just burning away. I tried blowing it out but I just got a mouthful of noxious fumes. ran and grabbed the fire extinguisher and sprayed a quick blast up under there. turned out just to be the headlight switch, nothing more. well, some connector that I don't have a clue what it went to, but everything works still. guess some of the welding slag flew up under there.

 

At least it wasn't like this.

http://www.crossroadvideos.com/Playe...4-D96E9AC6A205

 

My car always likes to break down right before a gathering, or the day after... it does it every time.

This time is no fail. I am currently working on getting it back to its normal state.... seriously pissing me off though..

In other news.. I am probabally not going to make it anyway..

 

What's the matter this time?

 

I think it would be a good idea for us to carry around in our cars a fire extinguisher if you know what i mean

 

Yeah.....I agree.

 

i bought a power wire for like 8 bucks and yeah i had to re-route it behind a couple of stuff but it was worth it....i started my car like 8 times and let it run for a while ...nothing happened but i still need to add the y-pipe and im not sure if i can afford a 3 inch exhaust right now till later but my car will make it to the MEET and i will need a jump here and there if anybody will be willing to since i melted the old terminal from my battery ...i had to use my batt. from my 93 which is still not pretty good in shape but does da job

 

Just ask me. I'm the wiring expert. I've melted more friggin wires................

 

I'm not sure that is something I'd want to be bragging about!

 

rudy...I have a jump box that is charging right now as I type...I got ya.......as for the *****.........**** burnt.......

 

sweeet i appreciate that mike

 

Man, you wouldn't believe... I just started to type a reply to this message today, but then stopped because I had to go to work. Now, something even worse happened on my way to work.

Lets start with the whole story, shall we? I have always had a miss somewhere in my car. In order to get that straightened out, I bought some spark plug wire looms in order to get the plug wires away from the header. Which is what I was assuming the miss was coming from. In order to get the looms on, I had to cut the AIR tubes from my headers. I knew I had to do this anyway, and I wanted to do this. So, I spent an entire day getting everything straightened out. Well, now my miss is gone. FINALLY!. I have always had this miss. While everything was out, I did a compression test in order to make sure nothing truly mechanically was wrong with the car. That went alright, since I have exactly 175PSI compresson on every cylinder.

Anyway, while I got rid of my miss, I still had a funny idle stumble. So I took apart my throttle body and cleaned the whole thing out, including my IAC. Once I got everything back together, the car was running pretty good. Until the day after when I had a long trip downtown. On the way back from downtown, my AC compressor finally dies. It was on its way out, but now its deffinitely out for good. Well, for whatever reason, when that happened, my car would not idle anymore. Its been harder to start too. But with just a little bit of gas, the car will crank right up. I believe that I have a vacuum leak somewhere, probabally in the throttle body.

Now, all of this is NOTHING compared to what just happened to me a few minutes ago while driving to work. Short story, something was in the road, I hit it. I didn't see it because a truck was in front of me. Anyway, my car just puked its oil all over the parking lot and my oil pan is FUBAR'd.

Woo... everything is going great here. I was thinking, MAYBE I would make it out to the track tonight with you guys. But I guess not this time.

 

When it rains it pours. Sounds like my kind of luck.

 

It's the fourth gen gods--it's cause we were slamming fourth gens last week!

 

Lol.. well.. this is simply ridiculous though..

I was able to finally get the car near the shop though. I patched it up as well as I could with some permatex. It still leaks a little bit, but it was ok enough for me to drive it. Now I just need to either fix the leak, or replace the pan. I want to go for the latter, but I don't really feel like going throught that bull****. I helped Scott with his car, and its simply not fun.