Cermaic coated headers & Exhaust all on, Got it all together & took it for a quick drive. Had some issues Options

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Here is a pic of my new restored rear Calipers. Huge tanks to Eric at PMB Performance (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) . My calipers are beautiful. I still need to adjust them but will get to that tommorow night. The picture is a little dark but damn if my rotor doesn't look like crap with the new caliper there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I sent my short headers off to get Cermaic coated at a place in Portland. They will do one coat inside & 2 coats outside. I'm having them done in black as they said that had the best cooling. I'll get pics of these when I pick them up mid week.

I also dropped off my muffler & pipes to get ceramic coated at another shop. It was a little cheaper than the place in Portland. The quality won't be as good either but that's okay for the muffler & pipes. I just did these to look nice really. It will help cooling also but not as much as my headers.

Along with these I dropped off a bunch of heater parts to get powder coated for my LE. All the parts that connect to the heat exchangers. I took one full set along with all the spares I had. Made sense to just get them all done & looking nice. I'm excited as this guy is pretty cheap & does nice work. I guess I will reserve my judgement until I get all my parts back though. I will get pics up for this stuff this weekend when I pick them up.

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Okay I got everything on that needed to be on. Started right up & headed into town for fuel. I was way low & my light was blinking. Still it was only 2 miles into town. Started cutting out just as I pulled in the station. Took 13 1/2 gallons before it shut off. No problem except it doesn't want to start after my fillup. I pump the gas a few times & try again. Battery dead (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) Not enough juice to turn it over. Called my wife to come in with jumper cables (of course she was taking a nap). So I am semi on the shit list. Finally get it started & unhook the cables. 10 seconds later the car chokes out & dies. Just the dreds from the bottom of my tank (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) . Anyway I get it started again & rev it for a bit. Still choking out at lower rpm's. Anyway I get it home & notice on upper RPM's I get a plume of smoke. Basically if I floored it once it hit the 4-5k i would get smoke.

I get home & pull into the shop. I jack up the rear end & get a battery charger on. I have a pretty decent drip of oil coming from the bottom of my tranny & adapter plate. Not sure where that is coming from? Rear main seal maybe? I also start it & rev it from the engine compartment. I can see the oil coming out of my dipstick tube. Right around the dipstick (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) . It doesn't have any kind of seal on it? Strange but it must have lost something at some point as it just sits in there kind of loose. I checked my oil level & looks like I overfilled it some. It was reading about a quarter of an inch over full. I'm going to look into getting another dipstick. Any other suggestions?????