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****Warning for 2006-2009 owners (DBW cars)****

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Old 11-29-2013, 04:00 PM
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Just finished checking the valves. Previous owner must have kept up the motor. Clearances were spot on. Guess I had the opportunity to change the plugs while I was at it. .09 intake, .011 exhaust across the board. Motor has 68xxx miles. 2007.
Old 11-29-2013, 04:42 PM
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Thanks for the heads up. My car is at 13k right now.. will get a valve adjustment as soon as I hit 15k.
Old 11-29-2013, 05:33 PM
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Just did my valve adjustment on my 07 with 102K miles. ALL of the exhaust valves were tight. 0.005-0.007". Intake valves were still good at 0.010" across the board.
Old 11-29-2013, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by FISH22
Great info! I adjusted the valves on my old 09 (27k miles), exhaust valves were tight. Did a friends 07, exhaust valves were tight also.

Finally did get the leak down done; 5%, 12%, 15%, 5%.
I'll probably get the head rebuilt next spring.
Old 12-03-2013, 08:56 AM
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Holy crap! I'm gonna have to check my valves! I'm at 29.5k now... Any one know how much it will cost me to get it done?
Old 12-03-2013, 09:28 AM
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Thanks Billman, added this to the over the winter to do list for the S2.
Old 12-03-2013, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by GSteg
Just did my valve adjustment on my 07 with 102K miles. ALL of the exhaust valves were tight. 0.005-0.007". Intake valves were still good at 0.010" across the board.

Redid my adjustments last night. Exhaust valves to 0.011" and intake to 0.009". The engine runs smoooothh.
Old 12-04-2013, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by freq
Originally Posted by Langelo DeMysterioso' timestamp='1385577677' post='22897995
I've been thinking about coming to you for this soon. Pulling up on 23k miles.
We'll be doin another Billman visit at my place early next Spring if you can wait that long. His shop might be closer to you than I am though.

My zip code is 18067, I'm 20 minutes from where the Evans Tuning Meet is / was.
im down for this! def
Old 12-04-2013, 04:01 PM
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2006 here and i too had to adjust the valve twice so far with a motor with 80,XXX miles. it runs so much smoother after each adjustment. intake side is always perfect but the exhaust side always seems to run tighter with due time so obviously i had to adjust only the exhaust side. but always check all valves.
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I've found that I need to adjust my valves sooner than 50k but my car see's more abuse per mile since it doesn't get used to commute in.

Thank you Billman250


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