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Thanks for keeping this board up! It's been a handy resource over the years.

I'm also having a problem with my steering rack, it has "hard spots" where it seems to bind, and it also doesn't return to center on it's own, so that makes things challenging! Spray some penetrating oil (not WD40) on the two U-joints in the coupler between the steering column and the rac...

I didn't replace it. I did take it off and check it. It wasn't blocked so I put it back on. No change. I'm going to try to switch it out this weekend. I'll post the results. If it's not blocked, then it will let boost pressure go straight to the wastegate actuator, and then the boost will be regula...

ur also gonna break alot of axles and most likely the diff over time. this is actually not true. I could spin my tires all the way to the 3rd 4th gear just standing in the same spot and not brake axles. I drove around like this for a while and wasn't an issue. If you have R compound 255 tires on th...

Auto or manual?

Rollers started in 95. Single port exhaust started in 96, though I'm not sure if they changed the rest of the head casting when they did that. I ran a 95 head on one side, and a 92 head on the other of one of my motors for a while. Seemed to run fine, but I swapped the entire head, not just the rock...

My cousin has a 99 OBS that the motor blew in. Well maintained, she doesn't abuse it, it ran great ect.... According to the garage she took it to a "piston shattered" I'll diag it to see what really happened but in all likely hood it needs a shortblock. Hopefully it didn't bend any valves....

I had a problem like this on my EJ22 that I'd swapped into my loyale. What it turned out being was that we had swapped the two passenger side injector plugs. In other words, cyl 3 plug on cyl 1 injector. Ran fine, but would miss occasionally at idle. As soon as you brought the idle up it would go aw...