kaliman

hot lookin ride man!!! by the way those rims look familiar....lol...i like your engine bay...what color high temp its that?

minkl81

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haha... its a inch smaller than yours

i used gold for the engine bay

sT04Louis

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Looks good.

Are the mufflers Black?

minkl81

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it was stainless steel but painted flat black

badazzTL-S

I wish my TL would just have about 1% of the hotness that your TL has... Well done my friend.

sT04Louis

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Ah i thought about doing mine black when i got them to make the tips stand out more, just never got to it.


Glad it all worked out for ya!

imj0257

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minkl81

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the shop just sprayed on some high temp exhaust spray. these paint sticks on muffler very strong. wonder if it'll stick onto chromes too

minkl81

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Never thought swapping out oem mufflers with the Magnaflows would make this much of performance improvement. Basically car runs much smoother during idle, smoother gear change, smoother rev to redline, etc... Only downturn is drone at 2,000 rpm and it is pretty loud.

In order to reduce some drone, I'm trying variable size of exhaust opening. It sounds and feels perfect with two of the inner tips closed but it looks funny when fume comes out from only two outer tips. Will have to try few more things before finalizing my new exhaust setup.

BLACKURA_NY

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god i love those wheels.... i really should have pre-ordered them in time, so i could have gotten them... 90 day wait

minkl81

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i probably went with something else too if i was to wait 3~4 months. maybe i should have waited and order them with lower offset.

minkl81

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Setup
-AEM v2
-ATLP J-Pipe
-ATLP Race Pipe
-Stock Resonator & Mid-Muffler
-Magnaflow 14" (2.25in/2.00out)
-ATLP Quad Tips
-Custom Silencer


Outside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0td_MR50E

It used to be much much louder without custom made silencers


Inside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imCgR5Iofb4


I couldn't fully capture the droning sound with my point and shoot camera.

minkl81

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o4Komodo

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Nice work!~ Sounds good.
You should paint the silencers black for a stealthy look

minkl81

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inner tips have silencers painted and welded. outer silencers are not finalized yet. need to find perfect opening size for optimal sound/performance that I like. after that it'll get painted black and welded on.

chuanger

Do those silencers reduce the cabin drone @ ~ 2000-2400 rpm?

o4Komodo

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Ah nevermind, hahah.
Are you going to make another vid. after the other silencers are finalized? =]

minkl81

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all my cabin drone comes from trunk area since i retained all the stock resonators. with this washer type silencers, drone is reduced quite a bit.

from a scale of 1~10, 10 being the loudest. its about 6.5 now with the silencers. obviously noise/drone will go down as diameter of silencer opening gets smaller.

minkl81

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will do. with the current setup, cabin still drones on highway cruising speed and normal city driving. so thinking about fully closing up the inner tips and no silencers on outer two.

EvoToTL

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wow the exhaust aounds great! i wasnt plan on buying exhaust but i think i might reconsider and esp watching ur revs from the inside video ur revs move alot faster from the mods. ur making my mod bug come out =(

trance957

Nice setup

JwongTLS

I like your whip! nice job

very inspiring

minkl81

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get the UR pulley first if you haven't already. lighter pulley will make revs move faster than freeing up the exhaust.

lifetimeofwar

Have you considered a black roof?

Very nice looking TL-S btw!

minkl81

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of course!
it took about three months convincing my gf why i need new wheels.
not sure how long it'll take to convince black roof now

bzyrice

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car is awesome man!! What is the diameter of the ATLP tips?

TSXinity

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yea i too want to know the diameter. I'm trying to save up and get the xlr8 catback, j pipe, race pipe combo at once but get quad 3.5 inch tips to replace the 3 inch tips that the xlr8 comes with.

sT04Louis

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They are 4inch tips.

bzyrice

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Nice.. Thanks!

BoBByLiGhT83

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do you have any idea how long the tips are? Also, what was the inlet size on the tips?

alexSU

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damn your car looks hella good!!

minkl81

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inlet of the tips should be little more than 3"
not sure how long they are though.


thanx

BoBByLiGhT83

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Where can I get a hold of the R V 6 P strut bar??

skd2k1

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Your engine cover looks sick! What color gold did you paint use? Primed? Cleared?

bzyrice

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hey how did you update your thread title? I want to update mine also lol

dmassott

god dam you, now im starting to look at white tl's lol but i wanna keep my tsx too.

minkl81

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another guy missing out great stuff

https://acurazine.com/forums/sponsored-sales-group-buys-10/rv6-strut-tower-bar-edfc-compatible-ua6-7-tl-04-08-a-694054/


here's a link to my old thread

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/wdp-tl-s-painted-engine-cover-624653/

no prime, no clear coating. just high temp engine enamel.


ask one of many moderators in azine for thread title change


KEEP the tsx as fun car since its 6mt and buy tl as a cruiser. i really miss my tsx after getting tl-s..

minkl81

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RAAMmat BXT
62.5sqft

$133.57 Shipped



Already with some Dynamats where it needed the most






RAAMmat BXT60






A layer of sound deadener






Some on the rear shelf & other crucial parts

bzyrice

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^^^ Nice! Does this help keep the exhaust sound out of the cabin? I just got a Greddy exhaust and I drove 300 miles on the highway today.. I wanted to smack someone the drone was so bad.. lol I found myself speeding just to get over 2500 rpms to keep the exhaust quieter.. lol

minkl81

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it kinda reduced the exhaust resonance. definitey worth it if your planning to keep the catback system for a while. i tend to rev up the engine fast too to just get past the 2000 rpm and minimize the drone