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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Dedicated earth for sparkplugs

« on: 20 October 2006, 23:48:28 »

Interesting. I have never heard of anyone doing this.

What guage Do you use on you car?

Sounds like a good idea.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.

« on: 20 October 2006, 23:45:51 »

Long way to send it though, he's in the US!

YUP!

Um so its the lasser. Oh well. Looks like when i get some money together im going to have to buy a new CD player  :-?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.

« on: 19 October 2006, 03:06:19 »

I get it on both. I get it with cdr's its never had problems playing. Its strange.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / BOSE CD PLAYER Flaking out.

« on: 18 October 2006, 07:28:51 »

I got the double din BOSE CD player. For some reason its being quirky and only plays CDS when it wants to. I keep getting a "CD ERROR".

Tried a CD lens cleaning On it multiple times which fixes the problem for about a day.

Ideas?

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Omega General Help / Re: tuning a V6

« on: 01 November 2006, 11:14:42 »

Both of those cars are for chucking around, which is far from an American driving style.  They handle well but not great for what they are meant to do.

The gti was heavier than the impreza. I dont know where the apeal is. I thought they were suposed to be fast. Could have fooled me. I dont know if they amercanized them or what. botom gears were def torquey, the gti didnt even want to lay out any rubber. but once you hit 3 the 6 speeds didnt seeme to matter since it semed like on the impreza there was no more to be had, gti def had a lot to say but not as much as i thought it would.

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Omega General Help / Re: tuning a V6

« on: 01 November 2006, 04:37:49 »

I thought this thread is supposed to be about tuning the v6..

http://www.regal-shop.co.uk/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=1885

I have no idea if this could work, but might be interesting to use the 3.0 throtle bodie and intake.
regal offers a 25% bigger throttle and flowed intake for 325. its supposed to add 15% torque. Im VERY intrested in this for my 3.0 since the larger throtle bodies might go perfect with a set of mild cams. Ad a chip, and the fact that im getting my fuel injectors cleaned, ngk platinum sparks (need to find new leads) and i think i should be doing quite well. there is a tune shop 50 bucks per dyno run.. i dont know if its worth it. but if i decide to get my exhaust manifold done out ill talk em into giving me a few free dyno runs....

these are my plans.
IF i could swapp my trany to a manual I would def go all out on this car. I LOVE THE WAY IT HANDLES. I just test drove an 07 impreza and VW GTI and i swear, my catera out handles them both. heck, it out handled the impreza by a long shot. I dont know why maybe its my driving style but i think the omega is very much worth tunning and we need to make a demand for the parts.
ITs sex factor alone is enough of a reason to tune them out.
 If one person got a custom exhaust manifold machined it would be expensive one time, then other people could order them cheap. Maybe look around see if a shop is willing to design one and then sell a lot.

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Omega General Help / Re: tuning a V6

« on: 28 October 2006, 07:04:27 »

What are these things I hear about mtk performance chips? i was always under the impression that they are bad for the car?

Anyway I have heard a lot of good things about having fuel injectors cleaned and flow tested. for as low as 12USD per injector, they will be tested, cleaned and then tested again. Its def a good place to start. Ive been interested in cams for my 3.0 but my issue is the fact that the engine already produces high rpm horse power , I want more lower end tq wille not loosing any of that HP in the higher ranges. If anyone knows of a good cam for this pls let me know.

Get a shop to polish/terbulance ur intake and then the same to exhaust. Bore if you can.

If you got the bux why not get your whole head flowed. any most bang for buck things are usualy cams and chips.

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Omega General Help / Re: catera misfire help

« on: 01 December 2007, 16:50:29 »

GREAT NEWS.. IT WAS THE LEAD WIRE ON MY 6TH CYLINDER. I GUESS THE WATER STARTED TO DAMAGE IT

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Omega General Help / Re: catera misfire help

« on: 29 November 2007, 17:27:06 »

Yea im thinking its the dis/coil too. I swapped out all my spark plugs. No luck. The strange thing is that it only starts missing after about 10 minutes when the engine is warm. Where does this point? I did get the leads today, so im going to try them out and hope for the best. Just the coil by its self is 500 usd =( .

Yes it's very common  Sad. Have you lifted the bonnet in the dark, revved it and checked for arcing? It could be a lead but my moneys on the dis pack...

I didnt know you could do this. how would you go about? do you remove the leads or what?

thanks for all the help fellows.

changing out leads looks like a night mare. I have no idea how im supposed to get my hands back there anyone got some advice?

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Omega General Help / Re: catera misfire help

« on: 25 November 2007, 04:11:21 »

eek i hope not, wires are 150 us. I just need to get the thing running so i can sell the damn thing.  what gave it away to be the dis pack? is that a common problem?

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Omega General Help / catera misfire help

« on: 25 November 2007, 03:20:25 »

Bad misfire on cylinder 6. Ive already replaced the spark plug and will do wires soon. I found that water had been getting into the well. the wire looks fine but i will replace just to see. Is there anything else i should be looking for to cause the misfire? car is at 96k miles and has been just sitting for 4 months.
Would appreciate some help.  

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Omega General Help / Re: Stuttering at low revs under load

« on: 09 October 2007, 18:58:22 »

Hey I am having a similar problem. I was having a bad oil leak that was coming from where the oil cooler used to be connected in my omega. After I fixed that my car would run fine for the first 5 miles or so and then really start to stutter bad, (sounds like some ancient pos)  through out the rpm range, the emi light comes on and blinks at me, also i noticed my lights seem to brighten with the same rate as the stutter. my lead plugs are drenched in oil curently and I suspect some water might have gotten in some where as well. since no leads in the us will cost me well over 100 usd,  and my plugs have rescently been replaced, im going to attempt to clean the leads and plugs... ill keep you updated

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Omega General Help / Re: rattle me this?

« on: 14 May 2007, 17:46:16 »

the o2 sensor has corrected its self. Ill check the shields when i get off. hope it is the shields. thanks guys.

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Omega General Help / Re: rattle me this?

« on: 04 May 2007, 04:31:40 »

Oh, and i dont know if this has any thing to do with it, but im throwing a check engine light thats faulting the O2 senso.

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Omega General Help / rattle me this?

« on: 04 May 2007, 04:29:59 »

Hi I got a 3.0 auto w 88k miles on it. Im getting a slight rattle around 3k rpm in first and second gear only when the car is cold. When I throw my trans into N the rattle doesn't happen. Is this the transmission going?