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  1. this might seem dume but i have never here of a windom. is it a engien like the rat or is it a term for the car. in 6 years in a auto shops I never herd this term
  2. as far as i know you cant fit those rims. the biggest you can fit is a 19 and even then you may have issuses with the tire rubbing on the strut plate depending on what tire you go with. you may also have to step in your tire size to prevent rubbing. you can lift the care by getting yourself a set of ajustible spindlesto lift the back or you could use a air ride kit. keep in mind that if you do get the rims on your car will be jackt up and will not look right because you will not be able to lower it with that big of a rim. a 20 even with a 30 tire will still lift your car about 2"
  3. and also doing my Just wondering I am doing my Belt and was wondering about the tensioner. Do the ES300 have the same problem’s like the neon or talon/eclipse with tension falier . dose anyone know if I should replace it as well. I am replacing my water pump cam and crank seals plugs I don’t want to have to pull it apart for the next 90,000k. Just wondering what your exp have been with this
  4. According to aldata service Tec maintenance program used in most shops they call for a belt every 70,000 K wich is around 60,000mil do to the extra strain from the quad cam unlike the Hondas how call for one every 100,000k
  5. I would call the shop they may own another shop in your new area my buddy’s dad owns over 12 dealer’s across Canada so there is a chance they may have another dealership near you new home. Many of the dealer owner’s in my area own more then one many in other province’s (just buy chance it doesn’t heart to call)
  6. in my lexus ES300 i got up to 195k on a back road in my street race car i'v gone well over 280k that was when i lost my pase car (73 Dodge dart swinger 440, race tans, B&M race shift and role cage) i was only at 5500 RPM and still knower near out of jam just when you go that fast in a car without a steering rac you stare to loos controle dosent really mater how good your front end parts are i had just broken in my new moter and had rebilt my front end
  7. [ The model I am speaking of works in the same way that the Honda accord EX-R and integera works there are two models one built in north America and one in Japan the car’s are almost identical but have suttel and important differences in the in the accord like the 300 m they have different motors and trany’s the japans have a six speed auto transmission that has a final shift at 160kil dropping the rpm to 3500 for hispeed the north American model Ex-R dose not and the blocks and trans(japans, north American) are not interchangeable. The 300m 97-98 work the same way most were built in North America but a small few were built in Japan and have similar differences
  8. also the 300 M was avalible in a mitsu modle they are verey rare and almost unknowen. the only way to tell is buy the vin or if you pop the hood. they rum a diffrent power train and had a tiptronic shift. there so rare that even at the dealer you would only see one about every 6 months. you would know when you were working on one when you went to the parts desk and there would be no parts parts would if you were luckey be at the warhouse but many time's had to be orderd from japan
  9. [quote=SW03ES,Jul 7 2005, 01:50 first off i'm not trying to say that any of the import company's today hav been complitly taken over but what i am saying is when you look at the amount of stock avalible on the market in each of these company's these companys are the one's that have go and bought the most avalible stock in wich company and in doing such what they have done is got enough controling intrest to be able to get access to all form's of parts and distro services even to the point of offreing the same model for car with only min or miner mods. when they dont have to desine and produce a part engien or entire car they save millions on the production. this has even in some cases help keep the company allive during servere economic times engines coast huge amounts of money to desine and test and many time's end up having recall's so they love to be able to save money and get a proven power plant . also buddy as a mopar freak i only use two words when it comes to (daimler chrysler) they are DODGE or MOPAR daimler chrysler is the new name the company was originall named affter the two brothers how started it the Dodge Brothers the bilt the first engien with any relibity. affter a few years the company went under. at this point the brothers went to work for i belive ford desining engiens . Affter a few more years they reopend and around this time they introduct the chrysler brand and daimler chrysler name that is why to me they are simpley DODGE
  10. ya man the first thing you should do is check the timing if it is out only one tooth then you could see this problem. i had a 98 neon i work on that had a simller problem. the customer bought it affter it had a majer service done (waterpump cam seals Tbelt trany flush and injetor cleaning) the car had lots of power and good respons. but it had poor fule mil and a verey small stumble decell from highway speed. affter whours on the scaner checking outputs and voltag i check the tbelt and it was out one tooth. now the reason it was out was the tenshoner was week and the belt would slip on startup.
  11. in canada mitu is owned by dodge i work at dodge when mitsu came in. in order for them to come to canada they had to remove the Eagle line dodge since it was the canadian virson (Eagle talon and stealth ) were disco to make room for the mitsu line as well the dodge dealers were given first shot at opening a mitsu dealer a mitsu Eclips and Eagle talon are the same car just diffrent bumpers i work in a talon specelty shop working on talon and stealth's also the cross over Eclips and 3000GT. also dodge has been using the mitsu power plants in they car's since they early 80 in everything from 2000gtx to the old dodge D50 pickup and car's like the older 300m were mitsu through and through evern the oil filter were specal order and would coast about $30 for the filter man that made the customers mad
  12. [quo Dealers don't have access to the equipment to modify an ECU, nor the information on how to do so. Outside of the engineers that work for Toyota/Denso brands, and anyone associated with them (i.e. Lotus & the company that makes the high end sports car based off the lotus). try mayfield toyota matrix performance desk Edmonton Alberta they gave me the price and spec on the chip also TD performance warhouse in Edmonton sent a rep to F/X Audio to give us the rundown on there custom chips and clame to be able to make one for any car. info from the rep
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