What does TBCS drive?

[billygoat333]

http://www.123hjemmeside.no/picture.aspx?id=28122898

1985 Honda CRX

I used to have a 87 crx. loved that little guy to death.

[Mark_Hardware]

So I though I would contribute my ride, since I had to work on it today.... It's an 89 Lebaron, and it's seen better days...

If you notice the red strap around the bumper, that's what holds my hood closed.

Ah the engine bay. If you can't tell, the foreward firewll is pushed back, and the radiator almost touches the engine.

One beat up interior. See the hole were my stereo used to be till some chickenhead relieved me of the one nice thing my car had to offer.

As I said, I had to work on it today. Here is why.

It broke yesterday while Iwas driving, making it impossible to ignore any longer.

For those of you unfamiliar with things automotive, here is what a brake rotor is supposed to look like;

The little scrap of metal above the old rotor is what is left of one of the brake pads.

So there we go, there's my ride, in all it's white trash glory. No stereo, no AC, for some reason my odometer doesn't work, so it will have 129,867 miles on it forever, uses about a quart of transmission fluid a week, cracked windshield, bent frame, bent rear torsion arm.... The list goes on....

[luciusad2004]

What happened to your rotor? I've never seen that before.

[blueonblack]

It took me a minute, but those are the fins that are normally *between* the plates on the rotor. One side of the rotor is completely worn off. I've been in the mechanical industry for a lot of years, but that's a first. Wow.

[progbuddy]

Depends on what I'm doing for the time being. I drive a 2006 Honda Civic around town and down the coast and back. Love good gas mileage.

For other purposes, I drive a 1997 Ford F350 with a 7.3 liter V8 turbodiesel built by International. Gets decent gas mileage when driven right. Takes 15.4 quarts of oil.

[mtekk]

What happened to your rotor? I've never seen that before.

He probably ran it too long with either very abrasive break pads, or worn out break pads. Sub-par metal in rotors and extra corrosive anti-ice agents used in states like Minnesota, Colorado and Utah will do this as well. My rotors were not as bad last fall when I had to replace them as too much of the wear surface was corroded and flaking off. Out of something like 2 inches of width for the wear surface only .5 inches were left to wear on. This was on rotors that were in near perfect condition the previous year.

[altec]

Depends on what I'm doing for the time being. I drive a 2006 Honda Civic around town and down the coast and back. Love good gas mileage.

For other purposes, I drive a 1997 Ford F350 with a 7.3 liter V8 turbodiesel built by International. Gets decent gas mileage when driven right. Takes 15.4 quarts of oil.

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That is a nice truck you got there! Whats the Odometer got on it? Any mods?

My dodge has about 224,000 miles on it. It is getting about 17MPG with the worn converter that is in it. Was getting 21MPG before. That is with my lead foot though. Got 400HP Marine injectors, upgraded fuel system, upgraded impeller (Makes about 30psi), open pipe, and the normal boost/EGT gauges. Runs good. I need to get a new lower stall converter, and a shift kit. About 450hp 700ft-lb.

[Mark_Hardware]

What happened to your rotor? I've never seen that before.

yeah thats what happens when you run for a long time with no brake pad left on there, just metal. I can't believe I actually broke the rotor in two, I've never heard of that before lol

[Oneslowz28]

I have a rotor like that hanging in my garage. When I was in highschool I took Auto mechanics and changed out this ladys brakes one day and one of her rotors looked like that. She had not changed her brakes in 45k miles.

[OvRiDe]

She had not changed her brakes in 45k miles.

Mileage matters much less then how you abuse the pedal. Last month I changed out the original brake pads on my 1997 Ford F-150 with just over 70K Miles. My rotors did have a little scoring on them but not bad enough they couldn't be turned. Fortunately for me, a buddy of mine works for an auto parts distributor, so I called him about the brake pads. He looked up the rotors as well, and they were 35 bucks each. Since it was going to cost around 15-20 to have them turned, I figured I might as well swap them out as well and go for another 70K .