I did the intake resonator delete on mine

 

yeah mines just midmuffler delete and dynomax 24235 resonator, probably gonna go with magnaflow mufflers after ..

 

He wants it louder

 

To answere the question ... YES it will effect the emission. Would it fail emission ... I highly dought it. Reason being ... 1st _ they no longer do a sniff test and there is no sensore before or after the 3rd cat ... 2nd _ even with a sniff test I think it would still pass since the TL is super low on emission. But I can definitely tell you I noticed a nice little torque gain in the upper power band. As for the ETD .. im pretty sure it fixed my 2nd gear ptoblem and the car feels a bit more responsive. I steel need to drive it more to be absolutely certain.

 

Shell gas station on Sandalwood / Great lakes. Right by my old high school lol.

You're from my area! I'm positive I've seen your car around a couple times, you ever hit up the Timmies on Father Tobin / Torbram late night? I think I've seen your car there, I live down the street from there.

 

Hey bro how did you get the corner part of the turn signal blacked out with the rest clear? I plan on doing my headlights soon and the way you did it is exactly how I want it.

Did you just cut the amber reflector like the type s and paint it black? If you can go into detail it would be appreciated.

 

The turn signal housing is held in by a ball joint, so I popped that out. I masked off a straight line where you can see it goes from black to chrome, and just sprayed away with the paint. I recommend you use some proper paint masking tape if you decide to do it cause the cheap shit I used ended up ripping off some of the paint when I took it off,and left a jagged line so I had to go back and mask again, respray, then rip it off while the paint was still wet. Up close it still isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than the first time I did it.

 

stage 3 exhaust getting done as we speak

 

DONE.. n sounding sexy as as advertised

 

Yea dats my area still, you've probably seen me yes. And naw I haven't been to that timmies, I didn't even kno they built one round those sides.

 

Cars at the shop now gettin that ricer red removed from the calipers

 

Ball joint?

They're just held in by clips, man.

Remove the chrome trim piece off carefully with gloves on (the chrome rubs off easily!). They're held in at 4 plastic welded places. I usually try straightening it out, but usually end up breaking them off anyway since they are plastic welded to the diffuser.

After the chrome trim is off, just remove the diffuser by unpopping it out of the housing at the far edge.

Here are some headlights I did to give you inspiration:

 

Sound clip!
Lol yeah man the diffuser is held in by the chrome line clips, but I was talking about the signal housing which is held in to the back part of the headlight by a ball joint cause that's what I painted

 

Ffffffff looks sexy

 

Got my car back with black calipers now, guess they didn't wanna go thru the hassel to remove the red paint. At no charge! #wininnig

 

Still boggles my mind they went ahead without your consent and painted them red

Sick to hear they're black now though, must look dope!

 

Ye looks tough I can't even lie nice n glossy. Will post some pics after work. Ill show yall how it looked in red also

 

@guitarplayer

DAMN! that's sexx'd. I'm guessing you cut the amber diffusers Type S style then wrapped it in Di-Noc? Did you just paint the projector shroud red?

Anyone here done ZKW-R? Debating if it's worth it or not. The stock projectors on this thing are awesome as they are.

 

I have ZKW ... it definitely worth it ... I mean ur already doing all the work and baking to take the headlight apart, it just makes sence to swop out the lenses. There only like $50 or so and definitely give a much crisper cutoff line and cleaner light distribution.

 

before:
after:

 

black gloss lookin solid.. when you upgrading those rims son?! lol jp

Anyone consider using the MDX caliper covers for the rear breaks? I might just do that as opposed to painting black.. unless its free of course

 

You mean the RDX caliper covers?
I have them on all 4 corners.

They hide the rear caliper pretty well from a direct view, but from any side view you can see the ugly caliper grey.

You'll still want to paint your caliper regardless.

 

lol, the plan was for rims next year but i been seeing some good deals lately. while i was at the tire shop these caught my eye....still undecided tho.

 

I remember I had something like those on my TL when I bought the car but they were all bent pretty badly so I got rid of them. Should of fix them dam!

 

those are pretty sweet actually.. everyone has the bbs style but i haven't seen with the glossy black like that

 

Its not even black. Its like a smoked or dark grey/gunmetal, kinda matches my paint. Glossy as fuck tho

 

Anyone else have this problem at first with their switchbacks? Right after install they look like yellowish white, and I was pissed. But after having them on for a decent amount of time today they got to a pure cool white colour, whereas the low beams are a warm white. Pics don't do it any justice but I figured I'd post them, now I just need to do the relay mod.

 

That's cause, if you're running stock bulbs, have a color temp around 4600K as opposed to the LEDs being 5 or 6000K

 

Oh yeah I know that, I meant like why would the switchbacks be yellowish at first.

 

Es08tg did you put in a harness for your LEDs Drls

 

Nope just plugged the bulbs in. Only half the tree is lit up, but I don't have the drl warning light on the dash so I'm fine with it. Output is still decent, especially on a day with overcast

 

Those are multiple headlights I showed you lol

The one is blacked out with the amber diffuser cut and wrapped with 3m 1080 carbon fiber. This is a popular choice.
The car it went on was TL_Seth's.

The other headlight set we did the same thing, but painted the shroud anodized red.
The car it went on was DarkNite's.

Here's one that we blacked out, and kept the amber diffuser, but carbon fiber wrapped the ends.



That is pnoyrice's car.

Here's blacked out but retained the amber diffuser:


That went on shtewps' car.

And of course my car in the background with blacked out with Type-S diffusers.

 

did a dyno run today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfit...ature=youtu.be

 

Yo I actually picked up the RDX caliper covers from Acura dealership in Brampton yesterday. I got two for $5 (dirt cheap!) for M/T and/or Type S guys it will give the rear calipers a nice finished look. A/T guys can use it for all 4 corners. For $2.50 a piece you can't go wrong!!

There's a nice informative thread here which shows how to install them: http://ww.tl.acurazine.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=861739

 

Hoping to buy coilovers in the next week or two. Leaning towards Tein Street Basis, if anyone has them please chime in with their opinions for GTA roads and year-round weather.

Alternatively I'm looking at BC Racing but they're a fair bit more expensive, cost is a factor for me at this time. I don't care much for dampening adjustment either.

 

You just found out about this now? I've been telling the other TL guys about this for a while now, $2.43 each

 

Same reaction from me lol

Such a steal in Canada

 

Haha to be fair I only picked up the TL a couple months ago.. still new to the game.

 

My Tein SS coils were fine through winter. I completely laced the threads with grease the first winter I put them on.

After two winters (this season) I cleaned the grease off (took a while) and they moved fine. Needed a bit of force at times, but for the most part they were alright. I will be covering them in grease again before winter mode. Winter won't ruin them if you take necessary precautions.

 

Eh guys, I'll most likely be selling my switchbacks if anyone is interested. They aren't the white that I want so I ordered some 6000k bulbs and I'm hoping these will match my side markers a bit better.