I took a weekend trip to Boston
Saturday - Quincy market, North end, little Italy, China town
Sunday - Quincy market for a quick breakfast then the Aquarium and 3D IMAX - totally amazing and finally Little Italy for dinner & take home pastries and then home.
We had a great time except for my engine light coming on. Rough low idle at times. I'll check it out tonight for what code.
Andy
Andy C
01 Firefox VX
CT
Went and picked up some Ome912s . Sorted out shipment of my new rims.
Getting there nicely. Lifted Vx soon
I got the air intake kit delivered monday afternoon though.
If weather give me a break(has been pretty chilly & windy) this late afternoon I'll have it installed.This weekend I might go clubbing,here's a new latino club's grand opening so I'm up for some salsa dancing
Dakar was just the begining.
well, did some work on my VX yesterday...
1- installed my IPOD cable to my 2-din screen
2- plugged in all the works for the rear view camera and dropped the cables behind the pass seat for now until i have time to run them properly to the rear
3- semi-finished my rear speakers (put the other one in the box and redid the first one i did a little jenky) now i gotta finish the face of them so they look great.. plugged em in, they sound AMAZING!!
4- sliders showed up in the mail yesterday too!!
gonna go get the sliders and the diff guard installed in the next couple of days..and install my air tank..
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did my car wash detail 2 days ago .today.the wify said to take the dogs in for nail clips and wash ..now i got to cleans the insides ...lots of dog hair ..
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just a little BUMP to remind everyone to maintain their VX!
also, yesterday-
i finished up mounting and running my back-up camera, and ran all the wiring for overhead lights...
i also removed the entire interior for dynamatting ASAP
today- picked up 5 QT's of MOBIL1 synthetic for an oil change tomorrow
picked up a new PCV to go with the oil change
MAF sensor cleaner for the MAF and the IAC
new air filter
new fuel filter
tomorrow- change the oil on both of my cars
clean air filters on both of the cars
clean the MAF and IAC on the VX
change the fuel filter
research and get fluids/parts to do both diffs, x-case, and tranny fluid changes
next week- get the sliders and diff guard put on, along with change both diffs, x-case, and tranny fluid
just wanted to update everyone...
ps- waiting on my red tail light film from jdm monkey too! installed as soon as they show up
Last edited by pbkid : 04/10/2009 at 07:05 PM
i need to do my fuel filter.. feelin a bit sluggish of late.. i did check my diffs and trans today.. and gave the vx a very extensive detailing.. so detailed actually that my neighbor came over to take photos! he said his sister couldnt get over the shine so she wanted photos
also rotated my tires (and rotated the full size spare in now that its the same tread depth as all the rest)
my borla exhaust tip came in the mail though! its supposed to "mellow" the exhaust and help with low end torque.. im a bit skeptical but it is borla, so i do trust the name.. we shall see, hopefully by saturday itll be installed
Installed new stereo head unit today . Tomorrow "weather pending" , Install tiny touch screen monitor and rear view camera . Procrastinate about changing fuel filter . Maybe go and pick up fluids for diffs .
tjh-
the backup camera is DEFINATELY worth the money and the $ on the VX because of the visibility problems...
Today i took the day off & had a long 4 1/2 hours drive to binghampton,upstate NY to visit friends.
1rst time ever i drove around 400 + miles in a single day,my VX performed as it was built for,sweapping thru the I-80 & the I-380 lanes at 80 MPH & having some fun changing lanes whilst cornering near the delaware water gap;I was concern about the oil burn,yes i losed about 1/4 of a quart;Had my brother-in-law to be with me as "co-pilot" although he dropped to sleep many times heading back home,hell, a two hours traffic due road work narrowing all the lanes to one extended the time to 6 hours heading back to NYC from binghampton.
Beside the traffic every thing was perfect,three guys on a hyundai 'TIBURON' followed me about 35 miles probably trying to figured out "WTF" is that.
So getting ready to meet fellow Vx'ers on july.'ll be working the following weeks to find the right spot to host all the attending members.
Yeah ! I figure If I want to run some one or something over while backing up the camera will give me an extra edge . I picked up a little pioneer camera, and a 4.5 inch boyo monitor earlier today. I hope they do the job . Also , I just got word of a used mac mini . I might buy it and install it in the VX .
Going to install 3 new pieces of cladding on the passenger side tommorrow.
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Hopefully washing the thick layer of pollen off the VX. Foxfire + Yellow = Disgusting