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My 2000 TransAm



haha yeah all street racing videos say that they happen in Mexico. These are local news regarding this subject:

Guadalajara llena de baches aún y con programas de pavimentación - YouTube
BACHES Y LLUVIAS - YouTube

This is what I deal with every day, I mainly have zones or routes that I Just don't take because streets are like that:

Baches en Guadalajara - YouTube
Baches en Guadalajara - YouTube
Baches en Guadalajara - YouTube
Baches en Guadalajara - YouTube
Baches en Guadalajara - YouTube

This happens a lot in rain season, they get covered by water and you can't see it. FWD to minute 1:00
Tremendo bache casi causa accidente gracias siapa - YouTube
 
Juanmiguel said:
I can't lower and/or stiffen the suspension. You see here in this city every moron that thinks that cars drive by their house or business just too damn fast for their taste go and hire someone to put a speed bump outside their house or business without any permit of any kind. So they put as many as they want and as high as they want and the authorities RARELY take out any of these bumps. There's this house in my neighborhood that has THREE speed bumps one after the other right outside. On top of all that they don't take the time to put any signals or even put some paint over the bump so in most cases it has the same color as the road and if you're lucky, it's also placed under the shadow of a tree to make it more stealthy. All these steps ensure two things:

1. The first time you drive by a newly set speed bump you have a very good chance of not seeing it, specially if it's night time or raining which will lead to "Crashing into the speed bump" as I refer to it now. Why? because it's so damn big and you were going so fast that you didn't felt like you went over it, you felt like you crashed into it.

2. Once you learned the location of the new speed bump you stop, but it's so high that you have to pass over it sideways to avoid hitting it with the exhaust which doesn't always work because the street is not wide enough or there's another car next to you.

The rule of thumb to set the height of these things is normally the same height as the curve, but I've seen cases in which they lay down a concrete post (like the ones used for electrical lines) across the street and cover it with concrete or pavement.

Besides all that a lot of the streets around here are in really bad shape. What happens here is that when they make them, they just set the ground surface even and put some pavement on it. No foundation, no concrete. 90% of the streets here are made like that. When it rains they get filled with pot holes and heavy load trucks finish the job. They remain like this the whole rain season, they don't get fixed or nothing until it stops raining. That's a good 4 months worth of random pot holes all over town. Once the rain stops, they go and just cover the pot holes with some pavement (it's just a truck loaded with pavement and 4 or 5 guys with a shovel) and move on. Then the process starts all over again, so after a few years the streets are mainly made of pavement, pot holes, uneven pot hole patches and speed bumps.

Still this is the number one city in Mexico in which people buy aftermarket wheels! lmao! What many of these brave fellows do is that they switch back to the stock wheels in the rain season. But still there are a lot of shops out there that all they do is fix bent and broken wheels and obviously they have a lot of work haha.

So yeah, lowering springs, hardened suspension and lower profile wheels are just a breakdown waiting to happen. :th_thumbsup-wink:
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Then you'll never be fast
 


asite57 said:
Hey man if you want a race car you have to commit and do it all not just leave some stuff stock
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I see, So it's race or nothing? I knew this day would come.

Actually sometimes I want to take off the LCAs they rattle like hell and drive me crazy sometimes. I think I'm going to try a different brand at least.
 
Juanmiguel said:
I see, So it's race or nothing? I knew this day would come.

Actually sometimes I want to take off the LCAs they rattle like hell and drive me crazy sometimes. I think I'm going to try a different brand at least.
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if your not gonna go all the way leave it stock
 
Your LCA's shouldn't rattle, period. You have other issues. I almost thought maybe the person that installed them put them in wrong, but thats impossible. Check the bolts with the car on the ground to see if they're tight. They are just the regular non adjustable ones right?

If everything checks out, are you sure the rattle is coming from the rear of the car? Check sway bar links possibly?
 
I searched in ls1tech and it looks like it's common for the lca bolts to get loose even within minutes of driving. I read some solutions too. I had them checked this afternoon and they were indeed loose. We tighten them up as hard as possible and used loctite. The rattle is gone, hopefully it will stay like that if not we will have to try something else.

The rear end is also very noisy now. I may have a deal on a set of factory 3.23s




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Juanmiguel said:
I searched in ls1tech and it looks like it's common for the lca bolts to get loose even within minutes of driving. I read some solutions too. I had them checked this afternoon and they were indeed loose. We tighten them up as hard as possible and used loctite. The rattle is gone, hopefully it will stay like that if not we will have to try something else.

The rear end is also very noisy now. I may have a deal on a set of factory 3.23s




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sounds to me like when you were beating on that glass factory 10 bolt you chipped the pinion gear, putting factory gears back in isnt a solution theyll just break again you need an upgraded rear end if your gonna beat on it
 
LS1GTP said:
Yes, when you install them, you have to drive the car a few miles then retighten.
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I guess I'll have them checked again on saturday to make sure then.

asite57 said:
sounds to me like when you were beating on that glass factory 10 bolt you chipped the pinion gear, putting factory gears back in isnt a solution theyll just break again you need an upgraded rear end if your gonna beat on it
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That's most likely the case, it wasn't in a very good shape to begin with. It was kind of noisy when going 50+ mph these last mods and punishment probably finished breaking it. I'm going to just replace with factory gears for now. I have a few stuff that I need to fix on it too. It still needs tires, rear discs and brake pads. Labor isn't expensive so it's ok, I'll se about getting a better one when this one breaks again lol.
 


TLSheff said:
A friend just dropped $4000 on this package for his Maro. Its a summer toy and people started catching up to him so he had to step up his game. You need some of their parts.

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He's an idiot.
 
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