How are you preparing your car for ASS 13?
 

I thought this would be a good question to ask.... How are you preparing your car for ASS 13, driving wise. In other words, what are you checking or changing to make sure the car can make it to Lansing?

I want to see more or less what people are doing in preparations for the trip.

Me personally, I'm changing my oil and possibly coolant. I'm also making sure that my suspension is in good shape.

New stereo, fixed windo regulator glitch, remount rear seat, new wheel hubs, new exhaust, new gauge cluster setup, new dome light, new hid's, new strut tower bars, oil change, new decals, detail the interior, repaint the kit(touch up from winter), new mirror signals, new fog light, new headrests...being broke... On second thought.... I don't wanna talk about it :/

I will replace oil and would like to have the waterpump replaced before going (ecotec internal pump w/ 163k on it, prolly about time), I would also like to confirm that the current slight knocking sound is my power steering pump, which I am 99% sure that it is, I also need to check the clutch on my a/c compressor because it doesn't seem like it is completely disengaging when I turn a/c off and it is slightly squealing, could possibly be refrigerant needs replaced as it has never been done on it?

Unless you have a leak in your ac system you won't have to recharge it..sometimes a/c clutches go out, and they scream like a banshee when they do..

I'm replacing about everyrhing on my car...hoping to make it road worthy..and paint soon if I can find it..

Check oil and tires. Get an extra O2 sensor.

Change the oil (I'm due anyway) repaint the calipers becasue they look bad and I'm going to attempt to remove and paint the front header.

The rest is cleaning

clean the car, oil change, coming up on 3000 miles. coolant already been replaced this year, o2 sensor new, everything else pretty good, all about driving around trying to make things fail before the trip and replace, so far shes running strong so im not worried.

Gunna get a new hood and fender within the next 3 weeks and replace back brakes along with finishing undercoating on the bottom

i also need to rotate my tires before the trip

And I need an alignment lol forgot

You guys are nuts.. my car Is way shittier than all of yours and all I'm doing is air in tires and oil change...

Eh...idk, mine is really shitty...

putting a tranny in it



oh and gas that would help my cause as well

better hurry up jawa

What's wrong with your trans?

BTW, I think most people are upgrading their cars for the show.... I personally am just doing the oil and the coolant, checking the tires, etc.... I should do my rear shocks on the Cutty, but I'm debating.

it blew up awhile back

Well damn...

wasn't sure since it has never had the a/c serviced and is 10 years old with 163k miles

I should try an ac recharge

oh yea............I need to clean my car from top to bottom and inside and under the hood. It is so dirty

Well mine has a kicked in fender and a deer dent so yours is better looking than mine

That doesn't beat my dash with the screws drilled in to hold it in place, the dent where someone punched it because people in VA are stupid like that, and my beat up rear bumper from all of the DC parking

I prefer having a girl in mine.


Anyways, I drive farther every day than I do for ASS, so, nothing. Lol

torque down your turbo bolts ;)

I'll probably just get it detailed.
Running out of time to do anything else.

They have Nord-Lock washers. They can't loosen any farther than they are now.

They only stay tight for the first like, week. It's really dumb. I used Rocksett last time as well (ultra high temp/strength thread sealant) but apparently not enough. So yeah, it keeps being slightly wobbly, but not enough to cause any serious issues. I'm working on it. Stupid bolts don't hold torque, and the housing to the CHRA is very sensitive to how tight it is. If it's ANY bit loose, it'll wobble. I can't keep them as tight as they are the first time I put it together unless I weld it together.

drill out the bolt holes and run heli coils in it then you can touque it down nice n good

real nice like

Dam I'd be pissed

I was too. IDC much about my rear bumper since its just the paint on it cracking. It's the dent that I was pissed about... well any stupidity that happens to my cars in Virginia pisses me the hell off, usually because the Virginia mentality basically is that "I'm right you're wrong no matter what"