rockstar143's '04 NBP progress thread (part deux continues after 6 year hiatus)
03-02-2015, 09:46 PM
Dude, as your questions. We all start somewhere. At least you bother to look and see if the wheel was invented before wasting people's time. I agree...it's all on here. I owe my maintenance and lots of saved money to this website.
Never mind, just reconciled and the site owes me money for how much I've spent frivolously because of it.
Never mind, just reconciled and the site owes me money for how much I've spent frivolously because of it.
03-02-2015, 09:52 PM
You haz no idea 
I wish I had no idea.
I wish I had no idea.
03-02-2015, 10:20 PM
We'll be relentless. You'll ask for mercy.
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03-02-2015, 10:51 PM
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J, you just have an SPC upper arm in the back, right? No camber kit up front? The J Power thread has me spooked that anything other than OEM will make the car squirrely under hard turns 
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03-03-2015, 06:51 AM
I have SPC upper rear and SPC or Ingalls front balljoint.
Stay the fk away from J power. I had the 2 arm lower kit and over time the bushings squeeze out...they don't back the product and there were quite a few maneuvers where I almost lost control because the rear end was unpredictable.
Greenman...nice, man...yeah, sometimes, you have to give yourself a second and relax. Worst case, they make the little blue pill. Good work.
Stay the fk away from J power. I had the 2 arm lower kit and over time the bushings squeeze out...they don't back the product and there were quite a few maneuvers where I almost lost control because the rear end was unpredictable.
Greenman...nice, man...yeah, sometimes, you have to give yourself a second and relax. Worst case, they make the little blue pill. Good work.
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03-04-2015, 09:34 PM
It's not.
03-04-2015, 09:37 PM
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J, you need a project this Spring and Summer, for sure.
03-05-2015, 03:11 PM
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J. I'm currently sitting in my G, at a Jack in the Box drive thru, thinking about your car.
Does that make me a bad person.
Does that make me a bad person.
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03-05-2015, 05:14 PM
I love you guys...
Steven. I know it, man. I certainly will need it.
03-06-2015, 07:26 PM
im sure it will b kewl bruh
03-06-2015, 07:31 PM
Confusing Name Guy
Lets put it this way - It was so cheap I couldn't say no. I got 530s in Chromium black for 500$ USD shipped brand new. They may be relegated to a winter set come next fall though, if all goes well and I fork over the money for a set of Gram Lights or Work MCOs. I also realized that if I went with 19s I would be paying 200$+ more for tires every time 
03-06-2015, 07:37 PM
Congratulations, man! They're gonna look awesome!
03-06-2015, 07:40 PM
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Quick question for you - You never tackled your front sway bar, right? Just added a progress in the back? What setting do you run yours on - I'm shooting for the progress bar + PCI compliance bearings to go on with the Tein SA so I can just set the suspension and leave it be for the foreseeable future (hopefully 
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03-06-2015, 07:43 PM
No sir...I already have a decent front one since I'm 6MT and I never saw a reason to drop frame for it.
03-06-2015, 07:45 PM
Confusing Name Guy
Good point. Hmm, I'm wondering if I should tackle it.
I figure it would be a worthwhile mod since I'm planning on working on the car further and from the research I've done its pretty much a must if you want to balance the progress bar. Perhaps I'll see if the shop that's doing my coils can do it for a reasonable amount while they're working on the car.
I figure it would be a worthwhile mod since I'm planning on working on the car further and from the research I've done its pretty much a must if you want to balance the progress bar. Perhaps I'll see if the shop that's doing my coils can do it for a reasonable amount while they're working on the car.
03-06-2015, 08:11 PM
I doubt it...it's a lot of work. I'd have done it if it wasn't a big deal.
Enjoy the car, man...don't go nuts spending all your damn money
Enjoy the car, man...don't go nuts spending all your damn money
03-06-2015, 09:50 PM
LOL...it ain't gonna twerk...you'll just be able to take on/off ramps faster without the front end walking.
03-06-2015, 09:56 PM
Confusing Name Guy
So much new stuffs, so excite 
Getting my fenders rolled this week, then driving down to Buffalo to pick up my wheels and some other goodies next week, hopefully tires get delivered by then and we have good enough weather for me to install the coils with a buddy or two in the garage without freezing to death
Somewhere in there I also need to find the time to get my side skirts painted so I can get my A-Spec on!
Getting my fenders rolled this week, then driving down to Buffalo to pick up my wheels and some other goodies next week, hopefully tires get delivered by then and we have good enough weather for me to install the coils with a buddy or two in the garage without freezing to death
Somewhere in there I also need to find the time to get my side skirts painted so I can get my A-Spec on!
03-06-2015, 10:28 PM
Rockstar... Car still a beauty. One of the few clean, but simple TLs that you can't help but
bout
03-06-2015, 10:35 PM
Thanks, brother. I appreciate it...
03-07-2015, 12:20 AM
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You better appreciate it J. Otherwise you will find me in your garage at 3am doing obscene things to your exhaust.
03-07-2015, 09:49 AM
Oh snap...my poor car.
03-07-2015, 12:57 PM
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J, it's a good thing you just installed that shiny new security camera in your garage....
03-07-2015, 01:42 PM
LOL...I actually did...we got another dog.
03-08-2015, 10:31 PM
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^^^^ Pictures or it didn't happen.......
03-09-2015, 08:21 AM
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03-09-2015, 07:23 PM
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N1, that's a cutie!
Jeremy, it looks like all 3 are posing......
Jeremy, it looks like all 3 are posing......
03-09-2015, 07:40 PM
They are!
Thanks guys...
cute dog, man.
Thanks guys...
cute dog, man.
03-10-2015, 08:06 PM
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Got more puppy pics?
03-11-2015, 07:45 AM
