Ottawa FR-S

[FRS_Ken]

Originally Posted by roddy

How many of us are planning to make the meet/cruise on June 8th?

I should make it

[UMB FR-S]

ill be there most likely

[FiRStsc10n]

I have a question for those of you who got your FR-S from Bel-Air. Where did they located the front license plate.. Is is screwed into the black portion of the grill or is it drilled into the bumper above the lower grill. Examples of what I'm referring to are below

or link http://postimg.org/image/71mq3k7pf/

[Slick]

Originally Posted by FiRStsc10n

I have a question for those of you who got your FR-S from Bel-Air. Where did they located the front license plate.. Is is screwed into the black portion of the grill or is it drilled into the bumper above the lower grill. Examples of what I'm referring to are below

That is the standard location for the licence plate frame, unless you request them not to.

I asked them to not mount mine, and installed it myself inside the grill.

Like here on my car and others:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...postcount=1346

Oh also, welcome and congrats on your FR-S!

[FiRStsc10n]

Thanks for the reply. Will ask them to not mount it, and either mount it like you have or purchase the grimmspeed towhook relocator. Cheers

[FRS_Ken]

If you look closely on the lower plastic grill mesh where it is actually solid there are two dimples where they are supposed to mount the plate
I request them not to do it and so did the salesman's instructions to the prep guys but they drilled anyway! Had them swap a virgin grill from a demo car in the showroom before I would take delivery.
I bought the Grimmspeed kit and like it much better than the stock method
Cheers
Ken

[86gt?]

So do you guys happen to have a ticking from your engine that sounds like the lifters getting tired in an older engine? I brought it in and they said it was the injectors... Do the injectors on our cars make a ticking sound?

[GodDamage]

Originally Posted by 86gt?

So do you guys happen to have a ticking from your engine that sounds like the lifters getting tired in an older engine? I brought it in and they said it was the injectors... Do the injectors on our cars make a ticking sound?

I've already put 8k on my car since getting it in late march, and have yet to have problems other than a few physical blemishes caused by drifting accidents.

[Slick]

Originally Posted by 86gt?

So do you guys happen to have a ticking from your engine that sounds like the lifters getting tired in an older engine? I brought it in and they said it was the injectors... Do the injectors on our cars make a ticking sound?

Its the ethanol from the gas, makes the injectors tick and sounds like "crickets". I always use Shell 91, but a few times have used Petro94 and I hear it. Goes away again once back to Shell as their premium has no ethanol in it.

[GodDamage]

Originally Posted by Slick

Its the ethanol from the gas, makes the injectors tick and sounds like "crickets". I always use Shell 91, but a few times have used Petro94 and I hear it. Goes away again once back to Shell as their premium has no ethanol in it.

I have also been using strictly shell 91 v-power as well, might be why I never hear pinging

[86gt?]

That's all I use but still hear the ticking.. I should have got them to fire up the demo for me to compare. TG gave me a rough quote for a new engine at $10k!? As soon as i bolt the vortech on warrantee will be out the window. I suppose I will wait till cruise night to get some other opinions.

[brz2013]

Originally Posted by 86gt?

That's all I use but still hear the ticking.. I should have got them to fire up the demo for me to compare. TG gave me a rough quote for a new engine at $10k!? As soon as i bolt the vortech on warrantee will be out the window. I suppose I will wait till cruise night to get some other opinions.

You can get the whole block from Crawford performance built for boost with lowered compression for 5k.

[brz2013]

Off to lachute performance tomorrow for an ecuteck tune

[Slick]

Originally Posted by 86gt?

That's all I use but still hear the ticking.. I should have got them to fire up the demo for me to compare. TG gave me a rough quote for a new engine at $10k!? As soon as i bolt the vortech on warrantee will be out the window. I suppose I will wait till cruise night to get some other opinions.

Why would they "quote you" on a new engine? It would be under warrantee no?

I think some of us are eagerly putting on the kms so we can have an excuse to put a turbo/supercharger on. I'm at 20K already, surely Roddy and Paul are up there too.