my car progress/mods, questions occasionally.. Options

[bseaman_5]

I've been a member of this site for a little while now and I've been soaking up as much info as I can get. I asked around and found I needed to change my valve cover gasket so I while I had my valve cover off I decided to go ahead and paint it. So my engine went from
This:

to This:

in the past week! New header too! Sounds pretty good I like it!!
I also went ahead and painted my calipers,

I like them as well. I'm going with a black and blue theme if you haven't noticed.
And then here is an upclose on the valve cover

And that about rounds out my mods that I accomplished this past week!

This post has been edited by bseaman_5: Jul 26, 2008 - 10:18 AM

[_mikeE]

Well, your pcv valve is old and probably all gunky and crap so it'd be a wise idea to replace it, and when removing it off your valve cover you might've created some bit of a leak which would cause your idle to be at a higher rpm than normal until you tap your gas for it to move back down. Also this is noticeable when you're driving and you release your gas pedal but your car is still moving and then you feel that release of throttle like a second later or so.

looks good. get some wrap on your header. also from the coloration on your radiator it looks like it's going to soon be time to replace. start saving for a koyo alum rad. i wish i had known my radiator was about to go out so i coulda been saving for a good one, not just a stock replacement.

I heard this radiator is good and does it's job, however when it comes to turning on warm air, i heard the heat coils don't heat up as good as the stock one and so it takes awhile for warm air...i wonder if this is true or not.

[bseaman_5]

Well, your pcv valve is old and probably all gunky and crap so it'd be a wise idea to replace it, and when removing it off your valve cover you might've created some bit of a leak which would cause your idle to be at a higher rpm than normal until you tap your gas for it to move back down. Also this is noticeable when you're driving and you release your gas pedal but your car is still moving and then you feel that release of throttle like a second later or so.

Well. . Not quite the symptoms I'm having. . I didn't actually remove it, just masked it off, but it is loose, idk if its supposed to wiggle around or not? Idk? It definitely has play in it but yeah, and the whistle sounds like its coming from the exhaust but its hard to tell I guess cuz its pretty much impossible to detect where the whistle is coming from when I'm driving my car