2001 Buick Century 3.1 66k miles, Very sluggish

[pocket-rocket]

I can't say that this is the correct size for an O2, but this is what a non-fouler is:

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_Spark-Plug-Non-Foulers---14mm-Tapered-Seat-Dorman---Help_5017718-P_743_R|GRPTUNEAMS_____

[bigboi407]

Fuck Autozone, I have had no good experience with them.

It seems these auto parts stores are realizing how much cheaper it is to hire a minimal wage kid versus a skilled tech.

I know a few kids at Advanced Auto, only reason I go there is for the 20% discount I get consistently.

how you do that??? i want..... hell i may even apply for Autozone or advanced

my back is been fine lately... Repaired the Buick, Fixed my Dads 96 Ford aspire, built an engine for his 91 Festiva, dropped it in and im holding up just fine.... i hope that i dont have Severe lower back problems... for like a year or so i was gettin sciatic attacks every 2 weeks or so... sitting in bed for a week every few weeks REALLY sucks... but ive been feeling GREAT recently

but im not down with hourly wages, i can sit online buy and resell things and make more than an hourly job.... being a slave isnt my thing

[TGP37]

Dude i went into Autozone, and the guys looked @ me like HUHHH? but half of them guys dont know sh!t about cars so its pretty funny to sit there and talk to them, because a few of them talk them selves into the dumbass of the year award..

Fuck Autozone, I have had no good experience with them.

It seems these auto parts stores are realizing how much cheaper it is to hire a minimal wage kid versus a skilled tech.

I know a few kids at Advanced Auto, only reason I go there is for the 20% discount I get consistently.

[bigboi407]

Spark plug non-foulers, they look like a threaded cap for spark plugs with a hole in the top of the cap. The advanced auto near me sells them on shelf.

Dude i went into Autozone, and the guys looked @ me like HUHHH? but half of them guys dont know sh!t about cars so its pretty funny to sit there and talk to them, because a few of them talk them selves into the dumbass of the year award..

[TGP37]

Spark plug non-foulers, they look like a threaded cap for spark plugs with a hole in the top of the cap. The advanced auto near me sells them on shelf.

[bigboi407]

It should work, but spark plug non-foulers are much, much cheaper.

Thank you, i didnt even know what they looked like because ive hunted for them through AZ, looks like ill have to go to advanced auto for once.......

u had a link it dissapeared O.o Now its back, WTF?

[pocket-rocket]

It should work, but spark plug non-foulers are much, much cheaper.

[bigboi407]

relax big guy, I'm just being philosophical. Which is why I said "us" instead of "you". That post was more for your use when you run into a raging idiot. Explaining why they are so ignorant.

And you're right, if someone almost caused a wreck with my kids, I'de be angry too. But on a social perspective, people rage against the very thing they fear inside themselves.

edit: I studied the human mind and how to manipulate it extensively. It comes in handy many times. Like this.......a smoker is vulnerable to suggestive commands immediately (1-3 seconds) after hearing the click of a lighter. A drunk is vulnerable to a pop-can opening sound. As a painter I had to run many large jobs with some less-then painters to work with. Inserting small commands "your gonna do great work today" or "Real men work hard" made a difference with some off the jail birds.

As a person commits to sign their name, interupt them just as they put the pen on the page. When you interupt the auto-process of signature, the mind has zero defense against sub-written messages. Next time a banker reminds you of something while you sign your name, look up and say "nice try, but I know that trick".

And when you are aware of it, it doesn't work.

i know all about manipulation and how the average uneducated human mind works, i can say ive been in my fair share of trouble and am done, im almost 24 and my 2nd child is due late october.

as per ur anology of the banker and signing documents, i Read ANY paper i sign from top to bottom and dont sign until im 100% confident in my understanding of how i interpreted the above text where my signature will be place, because ive been screwed before, i wont get into detail, but in a nutshell a facility tried to brainwash me and it didnt work, what happened was my mind caught on to something that no one else seemed to be tuning in on, Now i look @ everything much differently now, and now i know to Listen to what is being said while interpreting the manner in which they speak to Really know whats goin on.... Maybe they screwed me up... maybe they didnt.. but Back to the subject of this Buick....

Do you think this device here will work just fine in eliminating the CEL? the guys on the ford Aspire forums gave me a link to this and i think it might work..

http://www.robearracing.com/pd-megan-racing-angled-02-simulator-cel-fix.cfm

[TGP37]

relax big guy, I'm just being philosophical. Which is why I said "us" instead of "you". That post was more for your use when you run into a raging idiot. Explaining why they are so ignorant.

And you're right, if someone almost caused a wreck with my kids, I'de be angry too. But on a social perspective, people rage against the very thing they fear inside themselves.

edit: I studied the human mind and how to manipulate it extensively. It comes in handy many times. Like this.......a smoker is vulnerable to suggestive commands immediately (1-3 seconds) after hearing the click of a lighter. A drunk is vulnerable to a pop-can opening sound. As a painter I had to run many large jobs with some less-then painters to work with. Inserting small commands "your gonna do great work today" or "Real men work hard" made a difference with some off the jail birds.

As a person commits to sign their name, interupt them just as they put the pen on the page. When you interupt the auto-process of signature, the mind has zero defense against sub-written messages. Next time a banker reminds you of something while you sign your name, look up and say "nice try, but I know that trick".

And when you are aware of it, it doesn't work.

[bigboi407]

A lot of people out there are complete idiots, I'll admit.

It takes great wisdom to realize how dumb we all are. As such, Irony is the jester in the Courts of Creation. Anger towards others is a sublime fear of our deeper moral short comings. Otherwise we express personal sorrow for their faults and mind our own peace. The human mind will use others around them as a tool for resolving conflict that is either ignored or denied by the conscious mind. Typically expressed as anger. Which is why personal reflection resolves a lot of rage and anger towards our fellow humans.

You should calm down some and realize you are exactly like everyone else. Everyone is a moment away from shitting all over their ankles, we all walk the same line.

as per related to my above post i am not like everyone else because i infact am always aware of my surroundings and Always think smart on the road... if i hadnt done what i did, that was 2 accidents that WERE NOT MY FAULT... i do not drive 20mph under the speed limit, i dont ride my brakes and i dont run people off the road or cut people off

And let me try to cause an accident with YOUR kids in your car while your driving, then tell you to pull over so i can kick your ass after cutting you off....... you cannot lie to me and tell me that you wouldnt AT LEAST think about doing smething about it, because Every parent would protect their child, i dont mess with people let alone come out of the house much because i HATE people, i dont have many friends because 99% of the people in this world are F'd Up... i prefer to be at home, no idiots here only my dad that is quite a trip/crazy, i stay home because unfortunately we live in the US, and i have learned what this country is truely about, and what it means to live here... my eyes have been opened due to previous incidents/trouble i got into, then researched for Months, and still do on a regular basis as to whats going on, You may call it a "Conspiracy" i call it FACT... every time i go out into society and observe others, my stomach turns and im Sick of what im witnessing

only thing ive gone out of the house for yet, is to show support @ the Rally of Trayvon Martin which happened Here in Sanford, where i live...... And will keep going because its WRONG!!! but lets not get into that because it seems to enrage everyone that i mention it to and starts a problem..... which im not here to do

[TGP37]

A lot of people out there are complete idiots, I'll admit.

It takes great wisdom to realize how dumb we all are. As such, Irony is the jester in the Courts of Creation. Anger towards others is a sublime fear of our deeper moral short comings. Otherwise we express personal sorrow for their faults and mind our own peace. The human mind will use others around them as a tool for resolving conflict that is either ignored or denied by the conscious mind. Typically expressed as anger. Which is why personal reflection resolves a lot of rage and anger towards our fellow humans.

You should calm down some and realize you are exactly like everyone else. Everyone is a moment away from shitting all over their ankles, we all walk the same line.

[bigboi407]

If it makes any difference, I have a test catalytic installed. But only because I have the turbo upstream. I didn't want to worry about running to rich harming the cat while tuning the turbo. Because I sure as hell wasn't going to lean out just for a catalytic.

But, after all the tuning is done I may just put in a hi-flow cat.

Those douchebags behind you are your fellow brothers and sisters.

Trust me, you dont live in FL, they are NO brothers and sisters, they are infact douchebags........ ill elaborate why i say this

1st problem:
After i dropped the cat, took my gf for a ride in the car, went to a store a good distance away, im telling her how crappy the Area is (Drive-wise).. Pee wee herman is on a damn motorcycle in front of me doing 25mph in a 45mph zone, and a lexus SUV was beside me, he pulls up beside the bike then tries to switch lanes almost runnin the guy on the bike off the road, obviously dude on the bike was clogging up the road and making it Very dangerous... So i got in the right lane, went to pass him.. A buick EXACT SAME CAR AS HERS, pulls out... She SCREAMS!!, i jerked the wheel left, and missed the buick And the guy on the bike... if she hadnt screamed id have CREAMED that buick....

2nd problem:
that occured IN THE SAME AREA!, had my daughter in the car with us, was not driving radical or speeding AT ALL, i was driving down the exact same road, took a left onto a road i always take, im driving on the inside left lane (2 lanes on each side of the road) Someone on the outside lane decides to make a U Turn IN FRONT OF ME!!, so i rode the horn, and swerved from hitting the car... THEN, not even 30 seconds later, a BRAND NEW international tow truck w/ temp plates and AAA tags all over it is in the Outside lane, he changes lanes Almost clipping the front right fender if i hadnt slammed the brakes... So i pulled up beside him, honked the horn threw up my hand and said "WTF DUDE"... The driver looks at me and i read him clear as day "PULL OVER ILL KICK UR F$%&ing A$$!!" so because hes in a company truck, i took him up on his offer, i pulled over, my gf already dialed the number on the truck and was calling the main office, i got out the car, once this guy Realized how big i am, he just sat in the door way of the tow truck cussing me out and calling me names, i told him to get out the truck.... so then i read off the information to the truck to the person on the line...

i spoke with the man in charge, explained to him what this driver did to me and how he was threatening me and requesting i pull over so we can "Fight".. because i had my daughter in the car and my 2nd child inside my gf which is due late october... he fully understood why i pulled over (You cant win against a tow truck on the road if he wants to use it as a weapon) i explained that all i did was hit the horn and ask him what his problem is for almost causing an accident... i explained that his employee is in a company vehicle and on the clock therefor it DOES NOT MATTER how Vulgar or how upset i got with him, Hes supposed to be a professional about it and handled it the right way, he fully agreed with me and said that i did infact mention the appropriate way to handle if it I am "The Agressor" but that wasnt the case, i explained... "That boy has a temper on him, all i did was beep the horn and he wanted to pick a fight with me" he replied "Well that boy aint driving ANY MORE of my trucks & im gonna Tweak his attitude as soon as he steps in my office!!"

3rd problem:
And just yesterday my gf was on the way over in her buick, she went to pass someone by switching lanes, this guy punches the gas while shes switching lanes and almost runs her off the road, then kept trying to run her off the road, this guy was about 2 mins from my house and i couldnt find him... if i did, there would have been hell to pay.............

So yes, They Are Douchebags

[TGP37]

If it makes any difference, I have a test catalytic installed. But only because I have the turbo upstream. I didn't want to worry about running to rich harming the cat while tuning the turbo. Because I sure as hell wasn't going to lean out just for a catalytic.

But, after all the tuning is done I may just put in a hi-flow cat.

Those douchebags behind you are your fellow brothers and sisters.

[bigboi407]

no didnt try out the spark plug non fouler... and theres no fumes comin in the car... the cat is gutted and welded, all fumes go out to the douchebags behind me... i dont notice much of a sound difference and the hell with buyin a cat if were not movin out of FL

[TGP37]

You could possibly mail your PCM to a company that can reflash something simple like that.

Or, lol, get a catalytic converter and have the system operate the way it was designed. Even if emissions is exempt, there is a good side to catalytics. It won't sound as raspy and it will add a little back pressure for low end torque. Plus you won't subject your GF to nasty fumes.

Did you even try the spark plug non fouler?