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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 06:56 AM
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Well in hopes of getting my S back on the road come April (not sure when) today I purchased oil, brake fluid, new blades to cut hood for Mugen intake. Besides a full detail and fluid change I still need to do a number of other things ala ss brake lines, new diff mounts, and tweek the location of my Greddy unit. Has anyone else begun the slow process of getting their S back on the road?
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 09:10 AM
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I put a new battery in.
I was looking at the brake fluid and thinking it probably needs a flush.
It does need to go in and get an alignment as well.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 09:24 AM
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We thought for sure we'd need a new battery, but it started right up yesterday AM. Rick had to move it due to a neighbor's tree being removed.

The car was put to bed with clean oil, but Rick just purchased all the other fluids and filters and whatever else he thought the car would need to start out the season clean and ready to go.

He'll take it to work in the next few weeks and get those things taken care of. Labor rate for employees is quite reasonable.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 03:12 PM
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I spent my weekend doing installing the following:
New softtop straps from Modifry
Modifry seat belt lock
Transmission fluid flush
Auxiliary cable for head unit
Re-installed rear bumper with new mounts to remove panel gap
Swapped trunks and installed the wing in prep for the dragon
New prodrive GC05F wheels with fresh Hankook RS3 tires
Reinstalled battery and re-tuned stereo
Cleaned K&N filter

These were installed 2 weeks ago:
ATE Brake fluid flush
Hawk HP+ front pads
PVC hardtop stand
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 03:34 PM
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Stuff done:
Engine oil change
Transmission oil change
Diff oil change
OEM Front brake rotors and pads
Full interior cleaning(removed 4 months of dust)

Needs to be done:
A good hand wash and wax(waiting for a nice high 60s day)
Brake fluid flush
Install Mugen replica intake and cut hood.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 04:44 PM
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My '94 Integra blew through an exhaust pipe a couple of weeks ago, so the S2000 started its season a couple of weeks early this year. We nearly got snow this weekend; they "brined" the highways, but the snow missed us. Still, that's the closest to salt the car has seen in 10 years.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 03:48 AM
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I just have a detail and rbake fluid flush left to do on mine, And i think im going to flush the clutch fluid since its probobly still origional, and its an easy task. I have been using ATE Super blue, So my fluid requires a flush every year.

Ill save the detail for my Spring meet on April 16th! Hope to see you all there!
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by S2kRally
I have been using ATE Super blue, So my fluid requires a flush every year.
Who told you that?
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 06:41 AM
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I was told ATE superblue had silicone which requires replacement more often than normal brake fluid? I could be wrong i never researched it but then again I have 2 more liters of unused superblue so it makes no difference to me.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:41 AM
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You do not need to change Super Blue yearly. You're thinking of DOT 5 which has silicon. ATE is DOT 4.
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