i got a new gem

martin · backyard mechanic Joined: 04 Oct 2001 Posts: 900

i now officially own 3 gems..

picked up a grandpa spec TE wagon today. It goes like absoulte shit (but ive been spoilt with my ZZ)

the exhaust is loud and it has pretty much no guts.. the engine is fairly new so i rekon it needs a tune, gonna put a new exhaust and extractors on it while im at it...

are TE's supposed to go really slow? cause my TX would kill this thing, is it cause of the smaller valves and pollution shit? looks like im gonna lose my pollution shit if i put extractors on it, what have you people done about that? had the extractors modified or just left it?

TimD · tinkerer Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 456

what year is it?? I have a 79 TE and it has minimal pollution gear

Bean · tinkerer Joined: 12 Mar 2002 Posts: 57

my sister te is a gutless wonder but its an auto

Fastgem · tinkerer Joined: 04 Oct 2001 Posts: 166

just rip the pollution shit off, its a waste of time. Just need 4 bolts to go into the head to block up where the air rail is and then block up the egr pipe.

TravTC · tinkerer Joined: 04 Oct 2001 Posts: 82

Marty,
I dont know if you saw my block when i picked up those quarters but that is exactly what i did.

rob_w · tinkerer Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 395

theyre shite!!!!!
i have a 79 te, and only after substantial induction mods will it climb hills at anything above third gear.
still, i want a tx head and all the other shit too....
oh well, cant be helped.
rob.

TimD · tinkerer Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 456

mines not all that bad and i have done only minimal mods
why do they apparebtly go so shite? what could possibly be the reason for this, everyhing is basically the same as other models??/
cheers.Tim