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Re: Turbo Died Well, after a bit of searching (and a bit of time to let the fact that I have to spend a healthy handful of cash has sunk in). I've found what seems to be a good solution. Replace the turbo with the RPM bolt-on Stg1, and while I'm at it get the RPM 3" Cat back. All seems well...

Well, after a both good times and bad, my turbo has finally had it. I blew the bearing. Now what to do? Would it be better to rebuild or find a new bolt-on replacement? I would like to get a nice boost in performance now that I'm forced to do something to the turbo. But I don't want to deal...

Re: temp: where does stock get it from? Thanks for the input, I'm wondering why my truck was running so cool beforehand... or if the guage was just stuck at some point. I'm looking at the pump to make sure it's running right this week. So far so good, just a bit paranoid. Just doing my best...

Typically the stock guage ran around 1/4(140º), now I'm getting temps at about 180º. The stock IC pump finally failed (after a cold snap and then a warm up, the pump just cracked down the side) on me, and that's when the temp first increased, but now after replacing the pump there is no...

Re: 2nd Gen door handles in sy/ty style door very cool... kinda wish the handle was painted to match(if you haven't got that far... better yet) although on a side note, personally, I like the old handles, really would love to get a gunmetal version of it put on. what can I say, I never got...

Just a pondering this after some a$$ tried(and failed) to steal my rims over the weekend and mucked 'em all up. I've always been a fan of black wheels on an all black vehicle, so I was thinking, since I need to refurbish my wheels, I could get them powdercoated black. But since these wheels...

Re: Ty vs. Trailblazer SS My neighbor just got an silverado ss, and all I have to say is if the tb ss is anything like that thing, I would NEVER do it. It may have a nice throat-y sound, but man, is it a slug when put againt my ty(which is still a fairly "slow" stock ty). If anything I would...

Re: Other Exhaust Options Well I doubt I'll be going for open headers anytime soon... But is there a noticable difference between keeping a 2.5" cat back or switching to a 3" cat back? w/o mufflers that is. Just wondering if it is worth the cost to put in a new cat to affix larger pipes. To...

Re: Other Exhaust Options what's the stock cat i/o diameters anyway? w/o the cost of a muffler, I can buy a 3"cat... I don't trust my boost control enough to be without one. Of course when you say "not loud", do you mean 1968 gto loud, or 2005 gto loud? I'm a bit pensive about going...

Re: Other Exhaust Options I guess I need to find a good pipe bender that knows what he's doing with stainless then. Although, captain morgan, my neighbors would KILL me if I had two loud cars. They've already tried changing the bylaws to force me to get rid of my '72 Cutlass Supreme. Some...

Re: SE mich sy/ty people I was hoping for a bit closer... but a good mechanic is hard to find, so I might have to take you up on that offer. I'm going to wait and see if I can't find somebody a bit closer... probably looking to bring it somewhere early next year(with holidays quickly...

Does anybody know(or is) a good sy/ty mechanic? Mostly engine/turbo related. To put it simply, I wouldn't mind having somebody that acually knows what they're doing have a look under the hood. There isn't anything really "wrong", but it just doesn't run "right". It's a little on the slow...

Well, with atr down the tubes, it makes it hard to get stainless cat-backs now. Does anybody make them still? as far as I can tell, nope. Next option, does anyone know if borla still does custom orders for ty's? (one would assume they still have the plans laying around on how to make 'em...)...

Re: A whole lotta shakin' goin on I guess I have a few things to look at this weekend(nice checklist NO JIMMY). What I can say, wheels are stock, stock height, made sure the wheels were balanced properly, I'll have to check on the wear on many of the listed components, but if memory serves...

Re: A whole lotta shakin' goin on Thanks for the info. Really leaning toward the balljoints/bushings, I'll check that out(as soon as my dad gives me back my hydraulic jack). I've ruled out the rims, I have a bend in the lip on one of them and had them checked to make sure they were fine as...

Well, since I got my truck I've had problems with vibration at high speeds, I thought it was merely old rotted and flat spotted tires, but after getting new tires, balancing(twice - knocked a weight off somehow) and an alignment I am still getting vibration at high speeds. Feels like an...

Re: Stalled out?... What?!? No, it's idling fine. What it is, is when I barely touch the accelerator, it gets very rough. Under normal circumstances it runs almost perfect(still a few bugs), but accelerating too slowly causes it to stumble. I haven't checked to see how lean I am as of yet...

Truck has been running fine for the past few weeks(I think I got most of the bugs out... finally). But a few days ago I got behind a really slow car, after the light turned green, I couldn't go at idle speed because it was too slow, I was feathering the pedal to keep from ramming his backside(I...

Re: Daily Driver? The only problem with a ty being a DD is that when something goes wrong(which it will) it'll sometimes take a while to figure out what it is, which leaves you on the curb for a couple days. Of course if you got experience with the turbo buick, you should have a little more...

Re: Planning ahead... I didn't know it was possible to port a turbo... guess you learn something new every day. As for the manifolds, I'll have to look around on more info on that, could be a distinct possiblity. That and I like FREE alot.