lol, I drove by there a few days ago, but anyways. I can't beleive that the explosion made news in CA. She runs now!!!! I just spent 3 hours ripping her all around from Gurnee, to Libertyville, to Kenosha and everywhere in between. The shop charged me more than twice what their original estimate was going to be. i'm going to be paying it off for months
On the plus side, she bloody rips. The clutch isn't
that bad for daily driving. You can't really just inch forward, you need to wait until you have multiple car lengths in front of you, rev it up to ~2000 then let out the clutch, lurch forward and stop again but hard shifting bloody rocks! the first time I nailed it, I burned most of first, a few feet of second and barked third. It is so cool. The pedal effort is lighter than stock but you can really feel the engagement point. When disengaged the effort is so light I thoguht the pedal was stuck, then it gets really hard at the engagement point, which just encourages you to lurch and burn rubber until you get used to it. All 3 people who have driven it chirp reverse and 1st. The mechanic left a 2 ft stripe in his garage in reverse and he has a 9 sec Mustang dual purpose car. EVerything is more vocal with the interior gone, I hear all sorts of new noises. IDK why I ever considered selling her for a
subaru :ugh. This post is absolutely all over the place. With just the ac compressor and bracket gone I've removed ~30 pounds from in front of the front axles
On tues and Weds I'm off work so I plan on removing every thing else AC related which will be for sale along with the rest of my interior
The filled motor mounts don't really vibrate that much at idle although the dif is noticable, motor oscilation is greatly decresed although not completely gone
HAHA long post, I'm so GD excited!!!!
EDIT: Oh and Yuri, you wanted to know about Bob's. They have great mechanics but their customer service sucks ass and parts markup is out of this world (205 for an oil pump, 44 valve cover gasket, etc.) This repair started with a 3 and had a comma.