If you don't care about your car, it won't break down.

If you do care about your car, it'll break down.

Case 1: Yesterday started out pretty good. I got off work an hour earlier. Woohoo, I finally have some daylight left to enjoy. So what do I do? Well first thing's first. I might go for a new look and wash the car today before I head out to the local Thursday meet. Sounds like a good plan. Go home, remove my rear spoiler, lower the front end of my car a little, remove the rear "ACURA" emblem. No problem. Got some residue left, so I drive to the local parts store. I grab some remover, does the job good. So it's almost 6:00 by now so I head to the car wash. Wash the car down and head back home to dry it off. Finish that and I'm just standing looking at the car. Wow! Looks nice cleaned up. Woohoo!

So I get to the meet. Take a friend for a ride. So I left and on my way home I was teasing this Toyota. Did a couple runs with him. Got about 5 miles left to go I started to smell raw fuel. (Note: My car does smell like fuel most of the time, but it has a hint of exhaust fumes to it.) So I'm thinking, WTF!? Got about 1 mile closer to home and walla, fuel gauge starts to steadily drop. Whoa, whoa, whoa! I unstrap my fire extinguisher just in case and get it ready. I'm not pulling over. Hell I rather burn in my car than get shot in the neighborhood I was in. So I get home, put the car in the carport and turn the key off. The car is idling for 30 seconds like usual. (Note: I have an "NA" timer.) Right after it cuts off, it goes "pop!" That's not a nice sound. I pop the hood and the first thing I noticed was a strong smell of PURE UNBURNT 93 OCTANE GASOLINE! With my fire extinguisher in hand, I look around and noticed a leak from the bottom of my AEM FPR. I also noticed a huge puddle of gasoline on my carport. I radio my engine builder and he tells me the procedures and cautions. Then I radio Yack to get more details on the lines. I call up my buddy to come help me. We switched the car to the on position to prime the lines. And low and behold, Mr. B&M Fuel Pressure Gauge was filling up like a fish tank! WTF!?!? OMG! My luck. Out of all the things I was worried about.

Before I was tuned I was revving the **** out of the car, because I didn't care if it blew up. 10,000; 10,500; 11,000. Stock Rods! Stock Rod bolts! Come on! Something give already! I blow fireworks off my rear bumper. I don't wash or clean the car. I do 9,000K RPM burnouts to fry my clutch just for *****'s sake. The inside of my car looks like something is living in there. It's nasty. It's dirty. It's gunky.

So my luck, on the day I clean that ****...it phuckin breaks down.

End Rant

Len

 

fire = bad

 

That's usually how **** goes..

amazing....

 

You speak the truth, last week I went to start the car and let it idle for a bit (hadn't been running for a couple weeks) and how does it thank me? Water pump starts leaking

 

sick. Glad it didn't go up on your way home. You would've been a toasty len.

 

where does Murphy live?!?!

I'd like to kick his *** !

 

The fuel pressure gauge (B&M) burst for Steve when he was dynoing my turbo at Inline Pro.

 

I love the smell of gas. . .

 

Thats why I don't baby my car anymore, I feel your pain. Seems everytime I try to go do something cool or get the car ready for something.... another part breaks or something starts acting up. Your theory is definitely correct.

 

Thats ******* hallarous! its even more funny that you dont care and try to blow your motor.... hey if you dont want it ill take it

 

yeah things tend to happen that way.

Not as bad as your story but when i do find time to wash my car its rains later that day or the next day no matter what,then gets it all dirty again.

you cant win sometimes

 

Len, you rock.

 

awesome. Must been one of those JDM Fisht Tank FPRs. Im never washing my car again. Unless it starts to rust from all this salty goodness from the sanitation department. Its only a matter of time before your chit breaks. And I say if its gonna break, make it break REAL GOOD and hope you still have room to play on the credit card(s).

 

I have this weird voodoo with my winter beater cars, if I ever put more than half a tank of gas in them something always ends up broken. I put in a full tank last night and this morning I got a flat on my way to work, I filled it up last month and my ebrake got stuck while at the pump! damn winter beater voodoo

 

Honda-tech..buy more parts so len can fix his car!

 

lol.. len.. it's just paying you back for the fireworks..

 

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who doesn't? just not inside my car plz... and not right before/while I go up in flames....

Feel bad for Len though... sigh...

 

burning integras is not fun...

http://www.typeracing.com/gall....html

 

I had a similar problem back when I owned my Porsche. Every time I washed it, within 24 hours it would start raining. Regardless of the weather forecast, or how nice it was, it never failed, wash it and it rained. So for the last month I owned it, I didn't wash it, and it didn't rain, but the day after I traded it in for my WRX it snowed 6 inches. Damn Murphey.

 

that sucks.. how many miles on that aem f.p.r.? what was the cause, which part of it failed?

 

The AEM FPR has roughly 2,000 miles on it.

But that's not the culprit. The culprit was the actual B&M Gauge.

 

****.. i'm running one of these too.. mine is installed on top of fuel filter though.. both have about 30K miles..

 

 

I'm assuming you drive a Type R, but regardless, why do you beat the hell out of your Teg and are so proud of doing so, it seems? Maybe you just love modding/working on your car so much you WANT things to break, and you have a boatload of dough to do so? But it seems to me if you did have THAT much dough, you wouldn't be driving an Integra, at least I wouldn't be. "That'll be one M3 to go, please... "

 

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on the day I clean that ****...it phuckin breaks down.
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i can't count how many times that **** has happened to me.... hence....

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