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JSelk Total posts: 351
Jeffrey Selk2004 Grand Prix GT Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Location: Fort Collins, CO Age: 38 |
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Belo, have you tried giving it some gas as you start it? My car was doing the same thing to me last week. If I primed it a couple times it would start and then die right away... as soon as I gave it a little gas things started acting normal.
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Ed Green2004 Grand Prix GTP CompG Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Location: Amherst (Buffalo), NY Age: 36 |
| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| redross17 wrote: | | Hell, just replacing winter tires with summer ones makes an unbelievable difference. |
Yeah, going from 60 to 55 series sidewall makes more of a differance than I thought, much more responsive, ahhh where the rubber meets the road...oh wait that's Firestone, whats BFGoodrich slogan?
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| Belo Total posts: 577
Brandon Emerson1998 Grand Prix GTP Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Buffalo Age: 40 |
| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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I did the fuel resistor bypass and she runs like normal again. For once, it was the cheap fix.
It did prime yes, and would still die about 5 seconds later.
I put my summer tires on this weekend and painted my front calipers. I'll post pics later. But my god, she handles like a brand new car. No road noise from the f'n snow tires. And soo much more responsive.
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| seen96 Total posts: 2033
Drag Radials Suck on FWD.1997 Grand Prix GT Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: elbows deep in 4t65e Age: 45 |
| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Yeah, going from 60 to 55 series sidewall makes more of a differance than I thought, much more responsive, ahhh where the rubber meets the road...oh wait that's Firestone, whats BFGoodrich slogan?
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Esp. since your speedometer will move a bit faster giving it the look of being faster...ehh prolly not...its like a 2mph difference but, yeah.
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| BigEd88 Total posts: 704
Ed Green2004 Grand Prix GTP CompG Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Location: Amherst (Buffalo), NY Age: 36 |
| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| seen96 wrote: | | Quote: | Yeah, going from 60 to 55 series sidewall makes more of a differance than I thought, much more responsive, ahhh where the rubber meets the road...oh wait that's Firestone, whats BFGoodrich slogan?
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Esp. since your speedometer will move a bit faster giving it the look of being faster...ehh prolly not...its like a 2mph difference but, yeah. |
Well in my case its going from 225/60/16 winters to 225/55/17 summers. My Speedo was actually off with the 16's, will have to check what it is with the stock 17's, if I understand it right it might be even more off because it was reading slow with the 16's. |
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| seen96 Total posts: 2033
Drag Radials Suck on FWD.1997 Grand Prix GT Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: elbows deep in 4t65e Age: 45 |
| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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OH, thats right, you have 17s. But, I bet the tires are the same cercu. as the 205/16R16....just to make reproduction chanes miinimal.
Here's a fuggin sweet site Jay Gerbic showed me...its in my favorites now.
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
Hell, maybe a mod could "sticky" it on here somewhere.  |
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| Joe_Omerta Total posts: 867
Joe Ventresca2000 Grand Prix GTP Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Location: Blasdell Age: 37 |
| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| seen96 wrote: | OH, thats right, you have 17s. But, I bet the tires are the same cercu. as the 205/16R16....just to make reproduction chanes miinimal.
Here's a fuggin sweet site Jay Gerbic showed me...its in my favorites now.
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
Hell, maybe a mod could "sticky" it on here somewhere. |
a 16 sidewall, that's gotta be like just tread and nothing else, must ride like a horse and buggy... but corner like mad 
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