bozitatarevic
Bozi Tatarevic
bozitatarevic
Freelance Writer • Race Mechanic • LS Swap Enthusiast • Biscuit Critic

I am sure that you’re likely joking but they add ballast to get to minimum weight for the Cup cars. Read more

In this case, we were the first to report the horsepower figure. Read more

The Lacrosse Super is an interesting exercise of throwing parts at a car. The LS4 and 4T65-E were of course pulled from the Grand Prix GTP but even the supporting upgrades were just directly moved over from other cars.

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How does the A-Pillar to fender transition look?

All the cheap Montero’s are in California. He should buy one. Read more

Online parts sites will typically list the the thread in the description of the part. Here you can see that the flywheel bolt thread for your 2.2L is M10X1MM. Just click through the diagrams until you find the one you want. If you are not getting the OEM bolt, I recommend getting Grade 10.9 for most of these larger Read more

That would have been my first thought but the X5 has a bottom-hinged pedal. Read more

Yep, it has DBW throttle body from VDO. It is possible that some foreign object got stuck inside and caused it to jam but the spring returns it to closed by default otherwise. Read more

His explanation seems very far fetched. The X5 had a drive-by-wire accelerator pedal in 2003 so there isn’t a mechanical cable that could have gotten stuck and even if the pedal was malfunctioning it has redundant position sensors which would likely cause it to go into a limp mode instead of accelerating Read more

Interesting. I’ll have to look into it a bit. That’s pretty much all I have done to mine and it has been pretty compliant. Read more

That seems odd. I’ve had mine on a few tracks and it hasn’t exhibited issues. Was yours on a stock tune? Read more

I would be interested in hearing more about these overboosting issues if you have a link so that I can make sure to protect my car before I take it back out on track. Read more