60 miles and no CEL

 

^ nice i just swapped out my defoulers to the smaller one's richie made me a long time ago, hopefully nothing comes back

I doubt you will get a cel anyway... i've only seen 07 tl-s getting lights

 

So what is it that is so hard to installing these things? From pictures, it seems like you take off the j-pipe and put these on the j-pipe and then install them back on where the j-pipe went. Is this correct or am I way off?

 

^ Waaaay off. These replace your precats... in the engine bay. The front one is easily accessed but the rear one is a bitch. Rust comes into play too. Trust everyone when they say, PITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

not only rust, it is the fact that you can't use a torche on an aluminum block

 

got any pics of where they go? I was promised by someone and still waiting for them (*****here) lol

 

Impact gun, breaker bar, a socket wrench and ratcheting wrench is really all you need.

dr brains, they replace your precats! Haha look in your engine bay. The front precat is between the engine block and the radiator. You'll see it covered by a head shield. The rear precat is underneath the strut bar, behind the engine. It also has a head shield (thats a pain in the ass to remove).

The R-V6 precat deletes just replace these precats with straight pipe.

 

I stay busy sorry meng

 

What's CEL again?

How long did it take to do the install? Thanks!

 

CEL = check engine light.
I think the quoted time is usually 4-5 hours. Took me ~6 hours because we had a food break and didn't have a lift. My neck is still sore....!

 

how does the car feel after a couple days of having them on? feel the power?

 

My daily commute doesn't really allow for much WOT'ing

To be honest, the exhaust sounds so good that I really haven't been focusing on the performance gains

Gonna set up a dyno session next Saturday so we shall see...

What do you guys think? Base 5AT, AEM CAI, R-V6 deletes, J pipe, race pipe and Comptech catback.

 

260ish maybe more maybe less

 

Dude your videos suck lol. Can we get a proper day time video which is at least a minute or two long rather than 10~15 seconds

 

^ HAHAH I KNOW! Shit man sorry. I'll try to get some at work tomorrow.

 

BTW for hi def video hosting try www.vimeo.com

 

Dude I'm recording vids with my cell phone.

I need someone around me to help me make something worth sharing

 

Really? I was projecting 230 ish.

 

CEL just popped up after ~200+ miles.

I took some better vids but its 34F outside right now and its pretty raspy (so not a great indication of what my exhaust note sounds like when its warmer out).

Trying to cut out part of the vid... will upload them soon

 

^ which code?

if it is p0443 or whatever i reset the battery and it never came back again

 

^how can you check and see what code pops up?

 

they sell obd2 scanners on ebay... $30

 

Yeah I'm gonna have to borrow a friends. I'll try disconnecting the battery sometime tomorrow...

Here are the vids... my moms visiting me so I had her record them. She doesn't really know how to operate the phone

Revving in P


Revving in N


In 34F weather so its raspy. Will probably replace my race pipe with a high flow cat... damn this cold weather!

Oh... excuse my mother

 

Sounds sweeeeeeeet , exactly how my CL use to sound with CT headers/RT high flow cat/CT Catback , btw you gotta love that back fire


Drive by video?

 

lol your mom a typical mom "is that it" ha

 

raspy? that shit sounded fucking awesome... leave it as is sheeesh

 

Haha yeah i'll try to get my mom to record a drive by... Gotta find a good place to WOT my car.

JnC, did the video help you make up your mind?

Al, perfection is a sickness. I think the high flow cat will top it off good.

 

Haha she was like, why's it so loud?? Is it broken??

 

you gonna sport richie's hiflow?

 

Yup

 

Yes it did ,

Precat deletes + ATLP J pipe + ATLP race pipe

BTW here is a video I just made everything is stock right now, I'll upload some more once the above listed parts are installed.

The micro fiber towel adds 2.5 bhp btw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJuPMEoi7M

 

^ Thats how my exhaust sounded with the J and test pipe. Well, close to it at least. Glad I could help Oh, I'll get those pictures of my headlights to you too.

I can't wait to throw on a high flow cat and a lighter, smaller crank pulley.

I'm definitely feeling a loss of low end torque now...

Will unplug battery after work today and see if the CEL goes away.

 

Yup. Sounds good.

 

I finished "milkman"'s install couple hours ago

Lift was not accessible so settled for jackstands...

That was the first time I've ever worked on my back

No comment how you and richie did it, how do you get the leverage needed to break oxidize nuts

Anyway took me just under 4.5 hours which is a far cry with the lift which takes under 3

 

^stillhere diff got a work out haha...bro i was getting 30mpg on the way home until i started steppin on it went down to 22mpg but the car really moves big time...

thanks to AL and James for a job well done ... thanks for hooking it up

 

Well I was at 27, then after I got up to 125, it went down to 21 rofl

 

My car has never seen a winter... so a breaker bar is all we needed

Damn really? I haven't seen any improvement in my MPG yet.

Anyway, I unplugged my battery last night and CEL is gone... for now. Will report back in a couple hundred miles.

 

if the light comes back, dont unplug the battery get it read... I currently have that pesky p2270 or whatever code (o2 sensor stuck lean)....but it goes away comes back whenever I use cruise control

 

yeah better mpg? ... and it sounds pretty good on a stage 3 i think so stillhere doesnt hehe

 

its not that it didnt sound good, its just it wasn't loud enought