Well fuck... shit isn't so straitened out today. This morning I turned the car on and started driving to the gas station before work. I even thought to myself about how great it was running and how far it had come (where was some wood to knock on then?). I pump the gas, do a routine check under the hood, and when I start it up, theres a hissing sound coming from somewhere.
The car drove like ass too and from work.. somehow the tps had worked itself loose as well and that problem came back.
After work I fixed the tps and started to diagnose the hissing. I figured it was a vacuum leak; but the idle is nearly perfect and its not surging. All the hoses were connected and looked fine so I started spraying around with carb cleaner to see if any would find its way through the leak into the engine.
Well, it turnes out the intake manifold gasket is leaking. FUCK. Fixing that isn't an easy job like on any other car... I basically have to remove the entire fucken supercharger kit to replace the gasket. So much for getting it tuned Friday.
This car has no forgiveness for me.
In other news, one of the windshield weatherstripping flew off in the downpour on the way to work.
Also, I didn't mention this before, but on the first tuning attampt, the shop bent my lower radiator support trying to jack the car up there. It pushed the radiator up a half inch so now the hood won't close (gsr radiator). They claim they have always jacked civics up from there. I never have b/c it doesn't say to in the fsm.
All this is more shit I need to fix. Oh well thank god for beer and carpools. I need to go run off the frustration.
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