88tandx
04-20-2005, 08:00 AM
goddamit...
SO this coupe i got is obviously a work in progress. one of the things that needs to be tackled first is the clutch. so i looked around, thought about getting the honda replacement, then maybe the exedy one. i saw the power-dura one n ebay oand figured id give it a shot. so i ordered it. i used my friends paypal and forgot to change the address from his in philly to mine in jersey. so he calls me up and tells me got it and i had plans to take a friend of mine out to dinner in philly cuz i owed her dinner cuz of my other car crapping out on me valentines day morning. so i pick her up and we head to philly. now the thing with the clutch is that you cant push it all the way down or less it wont come back up and when you punch the accelerator, it goes up, then down, then up again. so we get into philly with no problem and believe me, going light to light in philly with this thing takes alot of balls. so we get to the restaraunt fine and eat probably the best italian dinner ive ever had that wasnt my grandmothers. my dad is an immigrant from italy and his mom makes the greatest italian food ive ever had in my life. the place we went to was called Felicia's and i do reccomend it to anyone who's looking for a restaraunt to go to in philly. they have this plate called Gnocchi(pronounced Yonki) and it is the fkin shit. anyway so we meet up with some friends for some drinks at a night club/bar that we know the owner of and we can drink underage and usually for free. so after a few drinks we get back in my car and start heading back to center city to drop off my friends. we go about a mile down broad street and my shifter wont go into first at a light. fcuk. so i shut off the car and Voila! it works. so get all the way down to center city and it happens again only this time the turning off of the car trick duz not work. so after trying a bunch of times over a course of an hour we realzie this shit is stuck. so i call AAA and aparently i used up all of my service calls so it would be 30 bux plus 1 dollar for every mile. and just as the lady is telling me this, a tow truck is driving by and he says he'll tow me anywere in 10 miles for 40. so hung up on AAA cuz even though i was only going about a mile to a service station, i wouldnt have to wait 500 hours for AAA to show up. So we tow it to this Fireston service center right around the block from my friends place. its about midnight right now. so my friend goes and gets his jack and tools and get to work right away. unfortunately after almost losing two nuts we figured it wouldnt be smart to continue in such a lack of light. So the next morning the guys from firestone look at it and the guy says i need a new clutch and tranny. even bigger FFUUCCKK. it would be about $1k for everything. i was leaving for a wedding in florida in about 4 hours and it would be nice to have a working car when i get back so i figured fuck it and i let em do it. they wouldnt let me use the part i ordered so i wasnt able to save nemoney there but i did apply for a firestone credit card and even though i got denied i still got the 10% off. so im going to pick up the car tommorow and after i replace the head ill have a practically whole new powertrain. now i just gotta sell this clutch.
-joe
SO this coupe i got is obviously a work in progress. one of the things that needs to be tackled first is the clutch. so i looked around, thought about getting the honda replacement, then maybe the exedy one. i saw the power-dura one n ebay oand figured id give it a shot. so i ordered it. i used my friends paypal and forgot to change the address from his in philly to mine in jersey. so he calls me up and tells me got it and i had plans to take a friend of mine out to dinner in philly cuz i owed her dinner cuz of my other car crapping out on me valentines day morning. so i pick her up and we head to philly. now the thing with the clutch is that you cant push it all the way down or less it wont come back up and when you punch the accelerator, it goes up, then down, then up again. so we get into philly with no problem and believe me, going light to light in philly with this thing takes alot of balls. so we get to the restaraunt fine and eat probably the best italian dinner ive ever had that wasnt my grandmothers. my dad is an immigrant from italy and his mom makes the greatest italian food ive ever had in my life. the place we went to was called Felicia's and i do reccomend it to anyone who's looking for a restaraunt to go to in philly. they have this plate called Gnocchi(pronounced Yonki) and it is the fkin shit. anyway so we meet up with some friends for some drinks at a night club/bar that we know the owner of and we can drink underage and usually for free. so after a few drinks we get back in my car and start heading back to center city to drop off my friends. we go about a mile down broad street and my shifter wont go into first at a light. fcuk. so i shut off the car and Voila! it works. so get all the way down to center city and it happens again only this time the turning off of the car trick duz not work. so after trying a bunch of times over a course of an hour we realzie this shit is stuck. so i call AAA and aparently i used up all of my service calls so it would be 30 bux plus 1 dollar for every mile. and just as the lady is telling me this, a tow truck is driving by and he says he'll tow me anywere in 10 miles for 40. so hung up on AAA cuz even though i was only going about a mile to a service station, i wouldnt have to wait 500 hours for AAA to show up. So we tow it to this Fireston service center right around the block from my friends place. its about midnight right now. so my friend goes and gets his jack and tools and get to work right away. unfortunately after almost losing two nuts we figured it wouldnt be smart to continue in such a lack of light. So the next morning the guys from firestone look at it and the guy says i need a new clutch and tranny. even bigger FFUUCCKK. it would be about $1k for everything. i was leaving for a wedding in florida in about 4 hours and it would be nice to have a working car when i get back so i figured fuck it and i let em do it. they wouldnt let me use the part i ordered so i wasnt able to save nemoney there but i did apply for a firestone credit card and even though i got denied i still got the 10% off. so im going to pick up the car tommorow and after i replace the head ill have a practically whole new powertrain. now i just gotta sell this clutch.
-joe