What are the Things You Regretted Doing to your Car?

[dr. d]

I was duped by my elder brother into buying this electric rust inhibitor. He is older & expectedly wiser so I believed him. I put it into this box type Lancer I just had repaired & hoped it’ll help keep the rust off. Turns out, he really is the smarter one.


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we tried that. built it ourselves, from plans published in popular electronics magazine or something.
hey! it worked! the surrounding bare metal an inch away from the electrical connection to the body, did not rust. beyond that, however, there was rust.

back in the 80s, electronic ignition boxes were a'plenty in evangellista. easy to install.
we purchased a couple, and installed it in our traditional electromechanical ignition cars.
hey! it worked! improved performance was palpable.
but one day, the car engine died on the road.
upon examination, the contact points were found to be dirty.
apparently, the ignitor was designed to send low voltage to the contact point, which would have resulted in less wear, which was one of the claimed advantages of the gadget.
unfortunately, the side effect was, dirt built up because it was not being burned away by high voltage.
we removed the ignitor and restored the ignition back to factory...

[bloowolf]

we tried that. built it ourselves, from plans published in popular electronics magazine or something.
hey! it worked! the surrounding bare metal an inch away from the electrical connection to the body, did not rust. beyond that, however, there was rust.

back in the 80s, electronic ignition boxes were a'plenty in evangellista. easy to install.
we purchased a couple, and installed it in our traditional electromechanical ignition cars.
hey! it worked! improved performance was palpable.
but one day, the car engine died.
upon examination, the contact points were found to be dirty.
apparently, the ignitor was sending low voltage to the contact point, which would have resulted in less wear, which was one of the claimed advantages of the gadget.
unfortunately, the side effect was, dirt built up because it was not being burned away by high voltage.
we removed the ignitor...

The opposite happened to me. Upon the influence of my racer froends, I changed the stock ignition coil to the Bosch heavy duty coil, the red one on my Lancer that still had contact points, not yet modified to be electronic ignition. Binili ko pa ng high tension electric blue colored cables. Ang ganda! Worked great for a couple of hundred kms then the tuning gets screwed up. Mech would file down the contact points then tune it up & after another couple hundreds, palyado na naman. Yun pala, the coil melts the contact points & I should replace the contact point & distributor with electronic ignition type.


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[bloowolf]

For my car, the strut bars improve cornering handling & control. It controls the lean of the car in curves & corners. Not that I fling the car into corners every chance I get. I’ve outgrown that phase. Since I frequently use the SLEX & STAR, I can’t really slow down in the curves of the off ramp. This is the main reason I use it.


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