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    Coolant Temp question

    It's a cast iron block and heads. It can get quite hot before actual damage occurs. The thing that kills you is coolant boiling, creating gas voids where things get really hot really fast with no fluid to carry the heat away. With a 50/50 ethylene glycol mix and a stock 16psi cap, the coolant...
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    fuel tank vent - can I shorten it to directly outside the fuel tank?

    Can you? Sure. Should you? No. Fumes can build under the rear of the car and create a fire hazard. Reconnect the vent to the intake, preferably through a charcoal canister and burn that gas off.
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    Catalysator

    Thank you. So that changes the question. Does Finland require a calayst? If not, then don't bother. If they do, then being in Finland, I know they can weld anything to anything else... under water upside down with four inches of ice on the surface. Get a universal that matches the pipe...
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    Catalysator

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    Coolant Temp question

    Docs I've seen say 225. In any case, 200 isn't anything to worry about in traffic if it's stable.
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    Factory radio rebuild/upgrade to Bluetooth

    The stock amp was paired with low quality speakers, so there'd be no reason for GM to build a high fidelity unit. The speakers couldn't reproduce it, so no point on spending the money. This lack of fidelity is going to carry through to every part of the unit, so even tapping into the line level...
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    Is it time to change oil viscosity?

    Methanol draws in water and it gets really corrosive, and most pure-methanol builds run REALLY rich, so a lot of it ends up in the oil. It takes a special additive package to manage that.
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    Is it time to change oil viscosity?

    At the risk of devolving the thread into another oil holy war, there is no "best" oil. Which is best depends on your application and how you're using it. But there are a lot of "good enough" oils, and almost everything in a 5w30 or 10w30 you can buy at a mainline store is good enough for a...
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    PCV Elimination Plug

    Even though "everybody does it," there's a better way! Get a breather with a hose outlet and run them to the intake piping between the MAF (If you're still running one) and the turbo inlet. The intake will draw a vacuum on the whole crankcase even when you're wailing on it and burn off those...
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    9:1 compression and pump gas octane

    Running these in any capacity beyond base OE tune and configuration with 91 octane is a gamble.
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    Proper plug gap?

    That's just what the dude at the factory gapped them to... or didn't gap them at all and just shoved them in. This. The gap needs to be wide enough to light the mixture, but not so wide the coil has trouble triggering the spark.
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    PCV Elimination Plug

    it's in a really bad spot. I just had an oil report come back with really high copper. Tore the engine down and the mains were trashed from trash. When I pulled in the intake, there was a splotch of grit on the valley pan right below the PCV valve. The grommet had gotten hard and wasn't...
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    87 GN AC Where to begin

    You didn't mention which compressor you're running. If you're still on the OE compressor, it's likely leaking out of the compressor itself. They will leak out the case perimeter. I haven't taken one apart, but I'm guessing from looking at them there's a giant O-ring that once it gets old, that's...
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    steering wheel options for GN

    I had a junkyard wheel refinished in alcantara by Dallas Custom Steering Wheel: Dallas Custom Steering Wheel They matched the OE color. It was not cheap. But hand sewn leatherwork never is.
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    Best sounding exhaust

    I'm not sure that's a valid comparison. Have you met a goat? The logistics of strangling one are immense, I don't think anybody's actually strangled one, so they have no idea what it would sound like. Entirely speculative.
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