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Did some last minute prep on the car for the trackcross on Sunday. I'm driving to MD today to see family and then driving down to Dominion at 5am on Sunday so no real time to work on it except last night.
Did a quick oil change with 0w-20 Castrol Edge Full Synthetic and K&N filter. Yeah, so exciting, I know. I was surprised that this car takes almost 5 quarts(4.8) for a little 2.0, but it is baffled from the factory and does have an "oil cooler". Probably change it mid-season.
Then decided to inspect the car. All bolts were snug still. Added coolant and was all set except one thing...
Forgot to snag pics, but the only thing I noticed was the plastic lining on the stainless brake lines had a small 1/10" tear. The tear was in the same area on both front lines. Could not see if it was rubbing anywhere even after turning full lock for both directions. I assume it tore from being pulled/stretched as that's the only thing I noticed at full lock was the line naturally pulled itself a little.
The tiny tear in the plastic lining did not reach the hollow, round, metal mounting piece that it flows through. That piece bolts on the upper arm to keep it away from the tires and other components. That's where I thought it would be rubbing on. The part of the line that did pass through it did not have any marks of chafing.
I'll continue to monitor to be sure it isn't chafing the stainless line itself and will remember to grab pics. It would be bad to have brake failure on an actual track coming down a straight-a-way. This is why we inspect things though. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Anyway, I took apart the center console to fill the shifter turret and grease the shifter assembly and found a nice rusty screw on the interior. Tried several screw drivers of flat and phillips head type and had no luck. Brought out the dead blow and hammered a phillips into it a bit and got it out...
I filled the mostly empty turret and lubed the shift assembly balls with grease. Shifting is much much better to 2nd and 3rd gear in the cold!
I then put the stickies on for the weekend. Let's see how this car does this weekend. Definitely looking forward to it!!![[Image: 6aa74778e8ea6456d9ec32d89e489bfd.jpg]](https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180316/6aa74778e8ea6456d9ec32d89e489bfd.jpg)
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Did some last minute prep on the car for the trackcross on Sunday. I'm driving to MD today to see family and then driving down to Dominion at 5am on Sunday so no real time to work on it except last night.
Did a quick oil change with 0w-20 Castrol Edge Full Synthetic and K&N filter. Yeah, so exciting, I know. I was surprised that this car takes almost 5 quarts(4.8) for a little 2.0, but it is baffled from the factory and does have an "oil cooler". Probably change it mid-season.
Then decided to inspect the car. All bolts were snug still. Added coolant and was all set except one thing...
Forgot to snag pics, but the only thing I noticed was the plastic lining on the stainless brake lines had a small 1/10" tear. The tear was in the same area on both front lines. Could not see if it was rubbing anywhere even after turning full lock for both directions. I assume it tore from being pulled/stretched as that's the only thing I noticed at full lock was the line naturally pulled itself a little.
The tiny tear in the plastic lining did not reach the hollow, round, metal mounting piece that it flows through. That piece bolts on the upper arm to keep it away from the tires and other components. That's where I thought it would be rubbing on. The part of the line that did pass through it did not have any marks of chafing.
I'll continue to monitor to be sure it isn't chafing the stainless line itself and will remember to grab pics. It would be bad to have brake failure on an actual track coming down a straight-a-way. This is why we inspect things though. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Anyway, I took apart the center console to fill the shifter turret and grease the shifter assembly and found a nice rusty screw on the interior. Tried several screw drivers of flat and phillips head type and had no luck. Brought out the dead blow and hammered a phillips into it a bit and got it out...
I filled the mostly empty turret and lubed the shift assembly balls with grease. Shifting is much much better to 2nd and 3rd gear in the cold!
I then put the stickies on for the weekend. Let's see how this car does this weekend. Definitely looking forward to it!!
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