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Old 01-06-2014, 11:00 AM
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I wish we had that weather. I love VA, except for the wildly erratic weather fluctuations.
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Old 01-06-2014, 11:06 AM
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When are you picking up the new Genesis??


I walked into that one.


ETA: BTW, 67 and sunny in Phx. today.
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BTW, 67 and sunny in Phx. today.


9 degrees here tonight
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Old 01-06-2014, 12:41 PM
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supposed to be -36F here tonight!
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Old 01-06-2014, 12:51 PM
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Its currently -37* with wind chill here. Safe to say the BRZ in staying in the garage until further notice.
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:32 PM
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Blame the Canadians! Keep your cold weather up there!
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:40 PM
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Oh nice! The Recaro seats look excellent!
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by mikeschicagoRL
Its currently -37* with wind chill here. Safe to say the BRZ in staying in the garage until further notice.
Yea, we took a look at the weather in Chicago (we have another site there) and saw -15 before wind chill.

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Blame the Canadians! Keep your cold weather up there!
Blame Yummy. He sacrificed a Cutler jersey to the weather Gods, and prayed that they'd send the Polar Vortex down here as punishment. BUT THE 9ers WON THIS WEEK YUMMY, CALL THE VORTEX BACK!!!

http://news.sky.com/story/1190455/po...ratures-to-50c
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I know you'll all get tired of hearing this...but really...it's in the 80's here.
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:50 PM
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I know you'll all get tired of hearing this...but really...it's in the 80's here.
Get out
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:50 PM
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It's 80 here right now.

Will probably hit the canyon after work.
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Old 01-06-2014, 01:56 PM
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You hit the canyons, we hit the snowy parking lots.

Seats look great

Why'd you keep the air/oil separator off, though?
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Old 01-06-2014, 02:25 PM
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I'm so insanely jealous of those Recaros
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Old 01-06-2014, 02:38 PM
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I love your seats...just realized you'd updated last night. Congrats, man!
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Old 01-06-2014, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Aman
Why'd you keep the air/oil separator off, though?
It was left off as I was selling the car at that time. But now that I'm keeping the car, it still doesn't matter if I install it. So I'm just keeping it 100% stock.

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I love your seats...just realized you'd updated last night. Congrats, man!
Isn't it amazing that I'm posting updates as they happen again?
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Old 01-06-2014, 03:11 PM
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Honestly, yes. Yes it is.
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Old 01-06-2014, 03:50 PM
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:18 PM
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The Airaid is garbage. They swore up and down that it improved air flow on the car, and had flowbench results to prove it. The problem lies in the fact that they used a flowbench, not the motor, to measure flow. Because of that, you actually lose some power. Also, there were no pre-MAF air straighteners, so you'd get flat spots in the power band. The straw that broke the camels back was on a drive back from NY. I was on the Jersey Turnpike in traffic, changed lanes while in 1st gear around 10mph, and the car stumbled when I tried to accelerate. I nearly got rear ended by an 18 wheeler. The only way to fix the hesitation is with a tune, except that any gains you see are from the tune itself, not the intake - you actually get more power from a tune with the stock intake than you do the Airaid. Shortly after all the issues, they disappeared from the forum, and left plenty of pissed off customers; myself included. I refuse to sell the thing because it's such a piece of shit that I don't want my name muddied by trying to pass it off onto someone else.

So far, the best intake setup on this motor (for NA, obviously) is the stock air box with a smooth silicone intake pipe and either a K&N or TRD filter. The stock system flows really well, surprisingly.
Are you serious, I wasn't expecting to hear that for a reason.. assholes

Is this the stock one? If it's good, have you improved the flow?
Facing that velocity stack to front?



How about the resonator? Does it slow down the flow?
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:24 PM
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well tooo much is tooo bad....

am guessing the airraid did flow well but maybe it was too much air for the motor and reduced intake velocity....not sure, just thinking out loud
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:35 PM
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Which is what happened with my GTI^
Stupid car went crazy, went in to limp mode and cut the turbo.
Needs tune to make the math of the flow Germans
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Old 01-06-2014, 08:06 PM
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Are you serious, I wasn't expecting to hear that for a reason.. assholes

Is this the stock one? If it's good, have you improved the flow?
Facing that velocity stack to front?

http://blog.perrinperformance.com/wp...21-550x329.jpg

How about the resonator? Does it slow down the flow?
The theory is that some of the resonators are there for a reason. They're helmholtz resonators, there to tune the air flow. I've trimmed down the snorkel, not sure if it made a difference. But I didn't do anything else to it. No reason putting money into something for such a small return in power.

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well tooo much is tooo bad....

am guessing the airraid did flow well but maybe it was too much air for the motor and reduced intake velocity....not sure, just thinking out loud
The biggest thing was the missing air straightener. That caused the MAF readings to be highly erratic, even with a tune. Sure, you could switch to a speed density tune, but you better have a really good tuner to maintain drivability in all weather conditions.
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Old 01-07-2014, 06:25 AM
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I know you'll all get tired of hearing this...but really...it's in the 80's here.
Good for you. I love cold weather/snow
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Old 01-07-2014, 08:05 AM
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Good for you. I love cold weather/snow
You can have it all. Leave us with the 50* winter weather

It's currently 9* here, and feels like -5 Thank god for garages though, getting in the car earlier wasn't brutal. But leaving work this afternoon will be.
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No kidding, I honestly wish I had the balance of a warm climate but ability to drive somewhere within 2 hours to go skiing. Can't have it all I guess
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^ This.

Although I'm not a fan of cold weather, the ability to go skiing at will would be nice.
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No kidding, I honestly wish I had the balance of a warm climate but ability to drive somewhere within 2 hours to go skiing. Can't have it all I guess
Raleigh is 2 hours from the beach and 3 hours from the mountains. It gets cold in the winter and it'll snow once, but it has the 100 degree days in the summer as well.
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Old 01-07-2014, 09:22 AM
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Raleigh is 2 hours from the beach and 3 hours from the mountains. It gets cold in the winter and it'll snow once, but it has the 100 degree days in the summer as well.
Same with Richmond. But we have front license plates, so NC is better.
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Old 01-07-2014, 10:04 AM
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No kidding, I honestly wish I had the balance of a warm climate but ability to drive somewhere within 2 hours to go skiing. Can't have it all I guess
Phoenix - 2 hours from Flagstaff and Snowbowl Ski resort.
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Unless you want to live in a home larger than a postage stamp.
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There is so much snow here, we can fill all yo cities with snow.
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Unless you want to live in a home larger than a postage stamp.
Plus it's LA. Which means you have to occasionally interact with the people that live there
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Plus it's LA. Which means you have to occasionally interact with the people that live there
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Blame the Canadians! Keep your cold weather up there!
Fucking . Said this months ago.
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Fucking Canadians need to keep your air to yourselves! If y'all keep this up, I'm going to start sending boxes of African dust and Mexican smoke in the summer.
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You get those stripped bolts figured out yet?
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