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07-10-2005, 06:49 PM

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AHHH Dead bird in my engine

My mom used to drive the maxima and now iv had it for a year... 3 years ago she hit a bird and it got stuck somewhere in the engine, the dealer claimed they cleaned it. Today i climb under the car and see some weird thing stuck in the undercover plastic. pull on it just to realize its feathers of the dead bird... NASTY!!!!

PS , anybody know how much HP gain i get with a dead bird in my engine?

07-10-2005, 06:58 PM

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it will dramatically gain u extra flow

go back to the stupid stealership with the bird sayin wht a great job they did removing it

07-10-2005, 07:00 PM

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Im thinking of installing bird injectors instead of the usual fuel injectors

07-10-2005, 07:01 PM

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Just feathers or the whole bird? You should see what a snake in your car will do...

07-10-2005, 07:03 PM

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You should see what a snake in your car will do...

a rat would be worse

07-10-2005, 07:13 PM

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!! have you seen that clip on one of the Mischief videos where a frog gets up into the air vents by the passenger floormat and then they crank up the fan and you can hear it gettin cut up or something? pretty bad ****

07-10-2005, 07:15 PM

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free lunch......

07-10-2005, 07:16 PM

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Mischief videos where a frog gets up into the air vents by the passenger floormat and then they crank up the fan and you can hear it gettin cut up or something? pretty bad ****

aww man thats pretty disgusting

07-10-2005, 07:19 PM

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yummy, frog legs

07-10-2005, 07:23 PM

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animals do crazy things. a long time ago i was just looking around under the hood trying to locate my knock sensor and I found a rats nest with carpet threads and hair and all kinds of crap from my garage sitting right in the V of the engine! to this day I can still reach in there with this spring loaded claw tool and yank out a little hairball...i should really clean it all out one of these days.

07-10-2005, 07:29 PM

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Funny coincidence but I had the same thing around my KS!

07-10-2005, 07:31 PM

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i didnt have a rats nest...but i had a whole colony of fungi where the wheel well was..took out the spare tire to find a ****ing forest right underneath it...WTF is that?!

07-10-2005, 07:31 PM

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yeah, i think the mice come into the garage in the cold winter months and feel they are free to make themselves at home...

my mousetrap says otherwise...

07-10-2005, 07:33 PM

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wow a car in the engine? that ssome sheiet

07-10-2005, 07:35 PM

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wow a car in the engine? that ssome sheiet

huh??

07-10-2005, 07:38 PM

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:BS: unless we get some pics.

07-10-2005, 07:40 PM

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Yea so a bird is nothing. I got a BIG CAT in my exhaust. I think that's why my gas mileage sucks, not enough exhaust flow...

07-10-2005, 07:42 PM

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Yea so a bird is nothing. I got a BIG CAT in my exhaust. I think that's why my gas mileage sucks, not enough exhaust flow...

The back of the cat does not restrict flow. Stop trying to make excuses for your ****ty car and its' bad MPG

07-10-2005, 07:47 PM

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wow a car in the engine? that ssome sheiet

07-10-2005, 09:52 PM

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4real, is this guy spoking english??

07-10-2005, 10:14 PM

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a car in an engine?...well atleast he didnt say a cat...then it would actually still make no sense?

07-10-2005, 10:33 PM

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i once had a whale in my exhaust pipe

07-10-2005, 11:05 PM

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How did a bird hitting your car get into the engine? Or even the engine compartment?

07-10-2005, 11:43 PM

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How did a bird hitting your car get into the engine? Or even the engine compartment?

it went through the grill....havent ever seen flubber?! it was a flubber bird...how coudl you not know that

07-10-2005, 11:50 PM

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The same thing happened to me last year... luckily I was driving a rented car.

07-11-2005, 01:34 AM

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I had an assload of leaves and those helicopter things that fall off trees. How the f*ck do you get leaves and sh*t under the plenum?

07-11-2005, 02:22 AM

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Well I took a closer look and it seems it is only a pice of that poor bird looks like a wing or somthing, the rest of it mustev been removed. Mom told me that she actuay saw worms dropping out from the engine compartment when the bird was decaying

I will POST pics tommorw

07-11-2005, 09:51 AM

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i had spiders in my car...

07-11-2005, 11:43 AM

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Here are the pics, apperently only the wing was left
Bird1
Bird2

07-11-2005, 11:45 AM

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Here are the pics, apperently only the wing was left
Bird1
Bird2

07-11-2005, 12:37 PM

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That's just....

07-11-2005, 02:44 PM

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****....those are interesting pictures....

07-11-2005, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by g4nismo

it will dramatically gain u extra flow

go back to the stupid stealership with the bird sayin wht a great job they did removing it

Ive gone back showing them the bolts they used for my y pipe when they had to replace it. I hit a semi truck tire on the freeway and ripped my Y and B pipe as well as my cat almost completely off...

Bastards used nuts and bolts that didnt even fit!