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    06 OBXT 5MT, 18 Alltrack DSG
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  1. Oh yes, I remember struggling with the coil packs.... I was swapping coil packs back to front to see if the miss-fire followed. One went in fine, the other refused. Thanks for the flash back!
  2. Yup the O2 was going out. The new one fixed it without even resetting the ECU. The surging between 2k and 3k seems to be gone. Although I notice I automatically avoid that rev range without even realizing I am, so I had to pay attention. Look like it's re-learning and adjusting the tables. I'm watching it adjust on BTSSM, needs more time. Still getting a bit of knock here and there, but that's been a consistent theme with my forged piston motor (Ron at Phatbotti was so frustrated with it, he jokingly suggested disconnecting it. E85 at that time....) Happy that it's better and wasn't wasted money or time.
  3. Swapped out the not-really-that-old Denso O2 for a new Denso O2. I've never installed an O2 in the OEM exhaust header, but found it to be cross threaded on the entry. Trying to get it in, it would bite for quarter or half turn and then pop out. What should have been less than 20 min took me about an hour and a half. Turns out I have the correct 18mm 1.5 pitch tap for the O2 sensor, from back in my honda days. The tap went in pretty easy, so it didn't do much. But what it did do is demonstrate the angle the O2 needed to be to bite the correct threads. Don't know if it fixed anything yet, because that extra time the job used up was all the time I had to drive it. I'll drive it tomorrow and see how it looks. I am debating whether or not to reset the ECU, or see if the tables re-learn. Assuming the old O2 was going bad...
  4. I think my front O2 is going out so I ordered a new Denso from Amazon. It threw a Post CAT too lean code. After resetting the ecu, I was watching it on BTSSM and it's making all these fuel trim adjustments (stock tune), and doesn't seem to hold the AFR at cruise the way I remember it should be able to. Before the reset and the code I could feel some subtle surging at cruise. In my experience, this is what it does when the O2 fails/failing, as it the AFR sweeps left and right on the gauge, the ecu adds and takes away fuel to compensate for what is a false reading. We'll see if it makes a difference. I just need to freakin sell it already.
  5. No Tom's Scoop and no wing give the sw20 a different look. Rear deck lid looks to be the turbo one, i don't know how else to tell visually.
  6. Your posts were some of the most interesting and detailed on the internet! Sad to see the LGT go, but I 100% understand that sometimes we have to move on. What will you do with all that time saved from editing and uploading posts to this thread?
  7. Yes, totally works. I have both (but not using either right now). Note that I couldn't use them both at the same time. However, I ran a Y cable on the end of my OBD2 port, just for convenience. I left the OBD2 plug of the Cobb always plugged in, and unplugged it at the hand held unit. Then I had a dangling OBD2 off the Y that I could plug the BTSSM into. Basically moving the port to a slightly more convenient location and not having to swap plugs.
  8. eh, would be nice to have some challenge to the RBs. Even if Aston is fast at the first few races, can they keep up the development pace that the other three do? There's the races we see, and then the race back at the factories. (I'm sure others have said it more eloquently)
  9. KZR: I have the stumble/hesitation between 2-3k on light throttle. I just drive around it and pretend it's not there ("LA-LA-LA I can't hear you!") Probably easier with a manual than with an auto. I'll be curious if the STI FPR helps. jonnyt88: Swapping to another set of tires, if possible, would at least eliminate the snow tires being the source of the hum. I took mine out hunting puddles in the torrential down pours we had last Friday. I know a couple streets with terrible drainage. I got a couple good whoppers where the water came over both sides of the fenders and completely blinded me. Completely juvenile fun. Please-don't-hydro-lock-please-don't-hydro-lock. But on the downside, my dash is developing a bad case of the sticky dash. My windshield sun shade was stuck to the dash at the bottom.
  10. How long was it out of your possession? And how did it come back to you? If you don't mind sharing.
  11. Not weird at all. Same for me with my four generations of Honda Civics. The 1981 Civic wagon was so different on the outside from 93 hatch, but on the inside the 81, 87, 89, and 93 felt like they were all designed by the same team, just trying to make it a bit better each time. But I guess that team retired and didn't hand off, because it changed with the 7th generation.... Pretty sure the BMW '80s - early 00s fans fell the same.
  12. I got questions I got questions I got questions Spiritual questions physics questions! what size hitch receiver? how does the tail not wag the dog with all the bikes leveraged off like that? how do you pay attention to the road when the bike$$$ are wobbling side to side in the rear view mirror? why does the iwire make it run better? better = smoother? how are you not freaking out about the ground clearance of the lowest bike tire? (and i see the curb, still that decent angle is practically nill!) i guess some of those could still be spiritual questions depending on your faith in all this....
  13. That was cool. I drooled a little.
  14. Sergio Perez takes a Road Trip from New York to Miami I laughed.
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