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Snapped a few pics tonight.

 

pimpin! wheels look great!!! drooling over here.

BTW is that the new sonic?

 

Im still grinning from ear to ear from them. Look so much better than i thought. Well...i thought i was gonna have to let them grow on me for a while, but god damn they are so slick.

Yes that is the new Sonic had to get a cherry slush before i went to take pics


ATLP delivers today!

 

looking gooooooooooooood.. missing that ex stripper strapped over your car though HAHA

 

Thanks man. Soon it will sound sexy too.

As for the worn out verticle plumbing specialist, ill pass

 

TGIF

 

gonna install it at home?

brakes are installed first thing today morning. need to brake in them now

 

Nah, i normally use the garage at my dads house. With the rain i cant take his mustang out of the garage, so im gonna have speed concept do it.

So far it hasnt showed up yet, so i may have to call and let speed concept know im not gonna make it in.

Let me know how the car brakes now. My girlfriend had the best description of mine so far. "Its not right how fast the car stops" I can literally hear the dash binding up when i really brake hard

 

^^I can help with your exhaust install if needed. Let me know.

 

You got a garage i can use?

FedEx delivered around 5:30, Speed Concept can get me in later in the afternoon tomorrow, or i just wait for monday. Even though im going to Bridgeport tonight for a movie, and so wanted to be loud. lol

 

i posted some pics here

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/new-rotors-pads-installed-690196/


very curious how loud atlp will be. also very curious how raspy it will get with precat deletes + atlp jpipe + atlp test pipe + atlp catback system. besides, it'll smell pretty bad too

 

From what ive read here and there. The Richie V-6 precat deletes dont smell bad... ill have to search around.

 

it won't smell bad with the 3rd cat intact. but after swapping out 3rd cat with atlp test pipe, it'll smell pretty good. my tsx used to smell bad time to time too depending on the wind direction

if its not a deq issue, i want precat delete along with j-pipe and replace current atlp testpipe with the atlp highflow cat. it'll surely gain some more low-end torque and some horsepower while staying quiet

 

I used to live in oregon about 6 months ago lol i miss it. Wide open roads....brings back memories

 

with my cat delete the smell is ok but once it gets hot from driving on the highway for a bit it stinks

Minkl did your rotors have a L and R on them? the fronts look like they are going the wrong direction..

Sorry AnthraciteBeast im sure chicago isnt as clean as portland but atleast you have a bigger city with more things to do.

 

Mid west isnt bad.

Atleast in the winter when it gets < 32 degrees it will snow unlike up here.

But if you ask me.....STL > CHI Town

 

I have a garage and all the tools, but I can't get you in before next weekend lol. I am out of town tomorrow till wednesday. If Speed Concept can't get you in by next weekend let me know and we can DIY it here. Sounds like they may get you in though.

As to the cat talk with the RT cat I only sometimes smell if I run it hard up the 217 hill to 26 otherwise it never smells. But our Pilot does the same thing on that hill lol. I have heard that test pipes can leave some smells but no first hand experience. Can you pass DEQ with a test tipe?

 

i havent DEQ yet but im not throwing anycells..i put a o2 bypass on there so its helping

 

damn you scared me. they are in right direction. i was about to go kill nick if it wasn't on the right direction rotors rotate in the direction of calipers.



if deq does a visual inspection, it'll fail. also if it smells pretty good than probably they'll notice

my test pipe from atlp comes with brackets so that oem heat shield covers up the test pipe.

 

sorry didnt mean to scare you.. thats why i asked mine called for the slots to go to the front and i noticed sT04Louis slots point towards the front too so i was just checkn for ya =)

anyone go to the streetwarriorz tonight?

 

did anyone felt the power difference yesterday with cold weather? my tl was so much responsive and powerful than any other day. wish its always like that regardless of weather changes

 

Mine seems to have some more Pep. My intake temps are in the mid 70s now...


Oh and im sure my ATLP helps with that feeling too

Thanks for the offer of the garage Chris, but i just went ahead and did it at home today.

 

ive got a case of the mooondays today....

 

i just cant stop yawning.. atleast i get tomorrow off for a good cause =)

 

looks like the weekend is shaping up to be decent.. YAY!

 

Im gonna be at PIR running Friday, and Saturday night.
Others should come

 

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

 

80k mile club!

 

exhaust sounds good!! 80K mile club? damn you have been doing some driving. heheh.. im still at 54K

 

Bought the car Jan 07 with 46k miles. Drove it from here to Texas and back. Then from Ft. Lewis to here every weekend from June 07 - July 08.

 

sounds great!

Sitting down here in sunny San Diego at a business meeting, I think I just might move.... LOL

I have noticed a bit better gas mileage with the weather cooling down but I can attribute that to no A/C... Probably should get around to cleaning up the air filter...

 

Did you drive down to Cali?

 

I noticed a mile or 2 better but i figured it was cause i did an oil change and new plugs, i figured we wouldnt notice a difference this year since oregon passed that law on more ethonal in the gas..

 

Isnt it like 10% Ethonal now?

My milage went to crap after sunday....too much time spent around 3-4k rpm range with the new exhaust.


So whos going to PIR this weekend? Probably the last good weekend of the season.

 

ya its somewhere around that.. i forget.. it sucks cause it makes our fuel filters crap out earlier.. i might go saturday depends on how im feeling.. flu season has hit early

 

Knock on wood, no flu here yet.

Im debating if its worth it to remove my rear seat....
Im thinking i will, because i just found that one of my bolts is missing from when it was taken out after i was rear ended, gives me a excuse to fix it.

 

while youre at it take out the passenger seat =) save a few more pounds.. might as well get the carbon hood too of course that will cost some more money but the others are free weight savers make sure to be down to 1/4 tank cause gas adds mass =)

 

I leave the passenger seat in. The girlfriend is going with me on friday. Yea last time i ran all i removed was my sub, spare, and whatever was in the car that wasnt needed. Had a 1/4 tank of gas, and ran that 14.7.

The hardest thing is getting the car to cool down, my fastest run was my first run. Each one after got slower and slower. I thought about throwing a couple washers under the brackets for the hood, but dont want to look ghetto. Plus it would be pointless, once i hit the return lane i pop my hood to let cool air enter, crank heater full blast. Then once im back to the staging lanes i have hood open, fans running, heater still blasting and i struggled to get under 160deg water temps. ( Use water temps as a reference to engine temps. Only temp gauge my ScanGauge has. )

This weekend should be easier to keep temps down, id guess temps in mid 50s by 7-8 oclock.

 

since youre in the 14s do they still make you wear a helmet? or can you get away without wearing one? i lost track of the rules =/ i wouldnt think it would be an issue now but everyone is all about safety

 

Helmet rule only applies to convertibles, and sub 14.0 second cars.

5$ to rent one though aint bad.

Maybe i can squeak into a 14.5 now that im not running heavy ass ASPECs and ive free'd up a couple more HP with exhaust, especially if i remove some weight.