Still waiting to hear what's going on with my situation :/

 

Well, I got my box today.
The box was in good shape but the damper itself had come out of its cradle and was banging around in the box.
It picked up some scratches and good sized dings.
After duty fees I paid 170$.
I would expect that it came in mint condition and packed at least in peanuts for that money... I showed it to my old man and he was kinda unimpressed too.
Did this happen to anyone else.
I'm kinda bummed...

 

received the rest of the parts. thx again excelerate

installed it but didnt take the car on the road, still working on my custom exhaust

 

congrats tom. still waiting on my tune, so i can't tell you how it works either

 

Wow, you weren't kidding when you said your tuner was taking a while...Did you run into any issues that holding it back, or whats going on?

 

we're running the haltech platinum sport 2000 standalone, so it's not plug and play and it requires a lot of research into the triggering patterns and all of that. i gave him my copy of the service manual last night so that might speed him up.

 

I see, why did you choose to run Haltech? Whats the advantages/disadvantages?

 

What I have noticed is that when the engine is cold (i.e.- low temps under the hood) it works better than when everything is warmed up.

This makes sense because if there is a rubber/urethane like compund doing the dampening then it would be more plyable when it's at a higher temp.

 

it's a full standalone. unlike AEM FIC or greddy emanage (piggybacks) i won't have to worry about the ECU taking over and having to have it retuned every now and then.

i've heard many good things about haltech and i trust my tuner as he's hooked up many haltechs before.

http://www2.haltech.com.au/index.php...=105&Itemid=20

 

To my understanding Haltec systems are like $1500+ right assclown? When will you know a date on the car being back on the road?

 

Ahh, I see.

 

yes, that's just for parts haha. no i have now idea when it'll be ready. i gave him the service manual to our cars last night so hopefully that'll speed things up. if you want to see it, you can always roll down to DK's shop in frankfort. or you could just wait your happy ass till it's street ready and i'll bring it to a 502 meet.

 

Any updates on this? I also have the Neuspeed bar.

 

Will this put more or less strain on the transmission - or is that not related ?

 

look on civicdrivr's thread, it is installed already, and he just trimmed the 4th hole off of the bracker, so it did not interfere with the neuspeed strut brace

, and if anything it would be less, as far as stressing the casing/housing itself, because of those mounts not needing to take as much force, but far as the internals go, not really related (but the crappy shifts will become more noticeable though, if it happens to be going out already)

 

Freism - do you have this installed already ? Do you feel this is a good enhancement ?

 

He's got a 6spd swap in his car

I've got the etd and the stock + neuspeed bar. I put a washer under the neuspeed bar and all is good. With the ksport top hats I still have 2 or 3 full threads left

 

, i had it installed before every one else

as far as a good enhancement, i love it, even when i still had the automatic in the car (and it probably actually made my gas mileage go down too :pofl, by the way i started to drive afterwards with it installed)

 

haha yeah, he was the prototype tester i remember the thread he made back in december about it.

 

Just spent the afternoon installing my "stiffy" w/ Neuspeed Strut bar.

1. Trim the upper bracket so the neuspeed sit flush. You'll end up w/ 3 holes. I used jigsaw and then grind down the sharp edges and burrs w/ a dremel.

2. You have to take off the neuspeed strut bar in order to install the upper bracket.

3. I would advise support the engine when removing the stock bolt from the engine mount. I noticed that the engine dropped a bit while I was removing the bolt. This might help to align the bolt hole during reinstall. I didn't have any issue w/ stripped bolts.

4. the stock bolts on the engine were on really tight. I had to whip out my 660 ft/lb impact wrench to get it out.

Once the 2 brackets are installed, the rest were pretty easy.

 

Another group buy is going on in the CL forum:
https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-cl-2001-2003-50/excelerate-performance-ingalls-engine-torque-damper-groupbuy-785412/

 

So im installing mine now as i needed to get a replacement part shipped to me, the instructions say you can put dynamat in betwween the car and the strut tower etd mount bracket. I went to a sound shop and got a scrap chunk from them, but now that my dad and I are looking at it, it dosent seem right to have something with play in between the body and the bracket. I feel that over time this will get loose no matter how hard its torqued...

What did you guys do or have to think about this?

or where would you put the dynamat?