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Old Mar 4, 2026 | 11:59 AM
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First and probably most important I have evap leak and fuel smell and think its time to do the fuel pump and seals? Base Model 2008 pushing mostly stock power for now, Don't plan on doing anything to crazy power wise, what pump seal kit should I get?

The car came with a removable steering wheel and the horn isn't hooked up. Would really like to have horn as I street drive the car as well, any ideas on how to wire this in?

Car has a angle kit on it for drifting and I would like to space the front wheels out so I can use more of it. How much wheel spacer can I add before having to get longer studs or worry about getting wide body fenders? Any recommendations on wheel spacers?

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Is there an error code for evap? It's possible you just need an easy solenoid swap but no way to know without the codes.

Horn would need more info too like wheel part number. You didn't mention the year of car etc.

On mine the stock studs won't allow even half inch spacers so I have some ARP extended ones to go on.
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Hi Aardwolf,

There was and I didn't right it down before deleting it. It recommended I change a certain part under the hood and that did help. It now comes and goes, I did smoke test the line and tank and it was leaking somewhere above the driver gas tank. Pretty sure the cover is cracked like a lot of others.

The steering wheel and adapter are NRG, pretty sure it was just 2 wires coming out. Just need to know which wires to jump into I guess? I did its a 2008 base model.

Oh darn, guess that's the way to go. How much spacer would put stock base wheels to offset as much as a wide body c6?
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Old Mar 6, 2026 | 03:52 PM
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Wheel spacers ALWAYS require longer studs to be safe. If you get spacers be sure they are the Hub Centric type.
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