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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 12:52 PM
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My car has 108,000 miles on it. I know that when cars have miles that stuff start to go bad. Well I'm going to start with some things that just come off the top of my head.
I think my springs and shocks are wore out, because my driver side sits lower than my passenger side. The car rides rough, I think a new set of springs and shocks would fix that problem...
Next, I got a SPEC Stage 2 put in the car in August. Clutch doesn't feel all that good, chatters real bad and ****. Not sure if it's the flywheel or clutch.
Next again, I have a kick *** exhaust leak. It's annoying as hell and not sure if it's hurting me performance wise or not.
Then, I logged my car today and noticed that when I was at 76% throttle and 4650rpms I was seeing 11 degrees of retard.

It sucks and if anyone has any comments let me know. I just felt like ranting. Thanks for reading...
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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 01:03 PM
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i know that a SPEC 3 clutch chatters real bad, but i dunno about a SPEC 2, i would imagine a little chatter tho
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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 01:56 PM
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If you don't have it already, get a Lt4 knock module for the retard. Exhaust leaks are the most annoying things, except for a squeak coming from somewhere in the rear of the car (at times I think I'm just imagining it cause I can't tell where it's coming from).
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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 02:33 PM
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Can't help you much on the Spec clutch, but new springs and shocks will improve your ride like night and day. As for you kick *** exhaust leak, get it fix as soon as possible. You are losing performance from it and it could also be triggering that knock retard you have.
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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 03:44 PM
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I was talking to my buddy Mike (Mike02LS1ss) the other day and he was talking about how crappy his SPEC Stage II clutch was (chattering and slipping).
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Old Jan 24, 2005 | 09:10 PM
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Thanks everyone for the respones, once my buddy gets his lift finished I'm going to fix that exhaust leak and when I get the money Eibachs and QA1s are going on the car
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