Topic: What did you do to your Kappa today!

[Arabas]

Happy Bday to your wife spf50!!

well, last night after installing my new IC, i uploaded my new tune and went for datalog.
in my first run, from 2nd gear rolling and going WOT in all gears everything seemed fine.

then, as i had my eyes on the road, all the sudden i saw a yellow light on my dashboard and i thought to my self "$hit, CEL".
then i looked at the yellow light and the message on the dic ...... "trunk ajar" with 160km/hour  
looked in the rearviewmirror, the trunk was closed. slammed on the brakes and stopped at the nearset parking lot.
trunk had popped half an inch.

flashback: while my car was on the lift, i popped the trunk and put the factory IC and pipes in, then closed it. but it appears that when the car is on the lift, it gets flexed and probably the trunk didn't close properly  
thank God, no injury or damage was done! so people, when car is on the lift DO NOT close or open the trunk.

car runs better now, no surge in 3rd gear, only just a little bit on 4th and 5th gear when going WOT from low rpms..  

[HAMMER DOWN]

Happy Bday to your wife spf50!!

well, last night after installing my new IC, i uploaded my new tune and went for datalog.
in my first run, from 2nd gear rolling and going WOT in all gears everything seemed fine.

then, as i had my eyes on the road, all the sudden i saw a yellow light on my dashboard and i thought to my self "$hit, CEL".
then i looked at the yellow light and the message on the dic ...... "trunk ajar" with 160km/hour  
looked in the rearviewmirror, the trunk was closed. slammed on the brakes and stopped at the nearset parking lot.
trunk had popped half an inch.

flashback: while my car was on the lift, i popped the trunk and put the factory IC and pipes in, then closed it. but it appears that when the car is on the lift, it gets flexed and probably the trunk didn't close properly  
thank God, no injury or damage was done! so people, when car is on the lift DO NOT close or open the trunk.

car runs better now, no surge in 3rd gear, only just a little bit on 4th and 5th gear when going WOT from low rpms..  

Can look on the bright side. If your rear trunk did pop open at 160Kmph. If would be one hell of air brake, like some fighter jets have. That's if it holds together 

Mike

[Kelu]

Arabas: this remembers me about one of my races, after working something under the hood, I put myself to the starting line without noticing I have the hood open, launched the car and I saw that the hood is shaking pretty hard and I thought the surface of the track is bad   after the 3rd gear the hood started to rise   I thought on high speeds the air will push on it keep it closed but nooo, it was rising like a sailing, I started to brake thinking that will make the hood to come back to closing position but nooo, because the front of the car was lowering on braking the hood still didn't come back  

No damages or any other problems  
Filming my face could end having a nice video, but I did't had any camera inside my car

[Arabas]

we can laugh about these now Kelu, since no damage or injury was done, but it's pretty scary when it happens and extremely dangerous...
in these cases, it's pretty easy to $hit your pants 

[DeepBlueGXP]

A certain owner of a silver solstice that is DDM supercharged had a strange run down the drag strip too.  Half way down he noticed the convertible top not latched and started to lift, grabbed it half way down the track.   

[DickW]

A certain owner of a silver solstice that is DDM supercharged had a strange run down the drag strip too.  Half way down he noticed the convertible top not latched and started to lift, grabbed it half way down the track.    

You mean he didn't  SUPERVISE someone latcning it!!!!

[smartin]

Looking good, Hal!

I took mine in for an estimate - $987.05

And you can't really tell anything was done to it.

[kennysabarese]

A certain owner of a silver solstice that is DDM supercharged had a strange run down the drag strip too.  Half way down he noticed the convertible top not latched and started to lift, grabbed it half way down the track.    

My hood was not latched on the racetrack once. I guess my speeds were high enough that it kept it down. Did at least one full lap with it this way. No damage.

[Chemist]

Prayed over it, hoping the shop (after 3 weeks+) will find the cause of my random misfires and fix it.

[Brad Kenny]

Thought of how we could come through 45 posts by midnight to get to the 80000 mark... Oh here is one. Does it count?

[1LILNDN]

   George ; thats Funny ! When I first got my Solstice was meeting some friends for a mild Dec.day Cruise to local Mall. I was on the side of road waiting for them to pass. I took off to catch up and looked in the mirror. My remark to wife was Theres a Damn Big Truck right on my A$$ .She turned around to see it , And then said Honey the Trunk Is UP. The Solstice in fromt of me Guy had his Arm out the window making Motions then Pulled Over. New Car Owners Luck NO Damage at 35 MPH .     I hit the button on Key FOB       
ALL         later about that

[Brad Kenny]

HAL, recommend starting a new topic for all to see... Or ask Joe to move it into the mod file...

[Arabas]

1 LIL NDN, i don't know if i should laugh or if i should froze....
"a big track right on my a$$.."
 
"and it also has some carpet on it's hood!!" 

"honey, the trunk is up, pull over and let ME drive"
 

that was real funny!!!!
thank God no damage was done to neither of us!! 

[1LILNDN]

1 LIL NDN, i don't know if i should laugh or if i should froze....
"a big track right on my a$$.."
 
"and it also has some carpet on it's hood!!"  

"honey, the trunk is up, pull over and let ME drive"

 


that was real funny!!!!
thank God no damage was done to neither of us!!  

  Was not looking for Carpet just looking in rear view mirror and saw Charcole .I must have hit button when putting key in. That would be a Real Windrestictor for sure . Only had the car about a week. But it was Funnnny though  was time to                  

[DeepBlueGXP]

HAL, recommend starting a new topic for all to see... Or ask Joe to move it into the mod file...

Good idea.

http://www.kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php/topic,5771

[Yogi]

Good idea.

http://www.kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php/topic,5771

So I click on the above link and here is what I got: "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."

Can you help me, Joe?

[Arabas]

So I click on the above link and here is what I got: "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."

http://www.kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php/topic,5771.msg80107/topicseen.html#new

[Brad Kenny]

Great stories today... Never popped my trunk, but definitely forgot to put down the "wings"... It gets really loud at 70 mph.

[DeepBlueGXP]

http://www.kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php/topic,5771.msg80107/topicseen.html#new

Thanks, I had a server glitch earlier and had to fix it.  That caused my link to not work.  I updated the link in my post now too.

[Brad Kenny]

Thanks DBG!!!

[smartin]

I saw the "Men Working Doing Maintenance" icon pop up once or twice.

[Yogi]

Thanks, Joe and Arabas!   

[1LILNDN]

 WOW 8 more pages in this Topic and it will be 100 pages long.  We almost broke another record in (2)years


                          

[G8TR]

Took G8TR for a ride to do some Christmas shopping.

[Critterman]

I have no idea what you are talking about Joe, but it does take two hands to hold the top down.