yeah spoiler is not bad, you have some guy in the TL forums with a serving platter on the trunk, it's an NBP 3rd gen I've seen it on

 

For those that dont know what hes talking about.

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/rear-wing-haters-move-698327/


I love how its listed as a JDM front spoiler. Maybe you could have him do a article for JDMLove.

 

yargh there it is

 

could have served my thanksgiving dinner on that wing

 

I have new brake pads in hand.

 

ya i dont know how i feel about that wing.. no offense to anyone but i think i saw something similar in mexico on a mustang with a jesus picture hanging from the rear view mirror odd enough the car was black

 

here is an update on the pulleys before they go in if anyone was curious

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wonder how long it'll take to repaint the wheels. i'm rarely driving in the tl so i think this is a perfect time to refinish aspec into something brighter color.

 

brandon - are those both NST? I take it on the left is the PS pulley and looks like an UR pulley?

Min - powder coat gold possibly? or wait let me guess, chrome?

 

LL is gettin my wheel sprung...is that cool enough Rachel to hold a cd with my tire?

 

Took out the rear seat to firm up the dampening to try and avoid the slight rubbing I've been experiencing on hard bumpy turns, gave me a good chance to clean the rear seats thoroughly.

Here's something wierd, the TSX is known for steering wheel vibration with OEM brake pads, however; now that it is substantially lower all of that vibration is gone?

OEM Suspension - Steering Wheel vibration
OEM/H-Tech - Slightly less vibration
KSport - NO vibration

Wierd

 

Troooof


Id guess about a week.

Why are you no longer driving the TL?

 

[QUOTE=clee109;10246805]brandon - are those both NST? I take it on the left is the PS pulley and looks like an UR pulley?
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no its a ralco RZ pulley.. had to do alot of begging to get it separated.. UR wont separate from there set and NST doesnt make the PS yet...

car looks cleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan being dumped.. brings me back to my civic days..

 

ah I see, very cool, get on the install yo! Out of all the mods I've done so far the pulleys made the most noticable difference on the butt dyno.

It looks uber hot dumped, now with the dampers set to "baseline" or 2 full turns off of hard I can feel just about everything on the road haha, we'll see on the drive home through the twisties tonight if it helped out with my slight rubbing issue in the front.

 

I was told once that rubbing = good fitment.



Sounds like its time to roll fendersssss.

With my ASPECs they are normally a +45 Offset, and im running a 5mm Spacer on the rears, making them +40mm now. And im able to run two fingers between the tire and the fender edge with a 225 series tire.
My Volks are +39mm off set, so with spacer on the rear brings that to +34mm. But with these im running a 235 series tire.

Im gonna quess ill have a finger gap in front and back between the tire and fender edge with the Volks now that they are rolled. Before rolling i wasnt able to get my finger between tire and fender edge.

 

lol arent women kept around to cook and clean??
you guys are lucky... i dont live where i can put up lights it kills me...


that's fast and furious style i dont know what your talking about its BA --- haha jk

thats because Ksports are awesome!

oh and yes holding a cd - that is skill

 

^^good, so I have the rachel seal of approval now? lol

 

ive been told the TSX cv joints cause the vibration maybe by being lower it helps with the stress in the joint making it rub even????? who knows.. i usually notive the slight vibrations around 50mph or sometimes at 80..

 

^^ Yeah a user in the tsx forum made that point.

 

What is it if you can break CDs with tuckage???


I need to have mine checked. Every now and then i get a "wobble" in the steering wheel when accelerating. I wouldnt be surprised if im hurting my axles...

 

Oh so i forgot to mention...

I was eating at AppleBees in Tualatin last night and i look out the window and see a SSM TL coming down the road, didnt think much of it. Then i noticed it was on atleast 19'' Black w/chrome lip wheels, and then as it passed i could see it also had aftermarket exhaust.

Caught me by surprise...not so much the wheels because anyone can pick up the look at a local wheel/tire store, but the fact that it has exhaust.

Didnt look like CT, ATLP, Greddy, or any of the "normal" for the TL aftermarket systems.
It did look like the standard..."cheap" setup.

Like this, but possibly with a silencer...




I hope my car isnt becoming too cheap that people with no clue can start to buy and mod them.....

 

its just a matter of time before the people with TLs/RLs/andCLs start modifying there rides with billybob exaust systems

im starting to see more TSXs with more then just rims and lowered =/

 

True...I see a TSX on 217 all the time with a Chicken Wire Mesh Grill. :thumbsdow

 

I have more than just rims and lowered, does that make me rice and/or immature?

 

Duh...

 

damn...thought I was cool. bleh CMS training blows, uber boring

 

you arent cool chris until you have the cow sticker on your car or a big fat wing that has the fake carbon sticker around it.. didnt you know the rules?

i givin up on both the things so i guess ill never be cool.. when they make ALTEZA lights for our cars its time to trade it in for something else

 

that one hot looking pwp tsx

i drove my tl about 30mins yesterday (roundtrip to work) after parking it for five days been driving family's '02 crv because it wasn't getting used much recently.

 

i'm spotting more and more of aspec'd tls recently too. ssm, nbp, wdp, anth...
yesterday i saw a 2g nbp tl with full wingswest kit. it looked pretty sharp.

 

There are 4 TLs at my work now. a 04-06 WDP one Chrome MOMOs (Sounds familiar to someone on here) a CGP (i think) 08 Base, a 04-06 NBP ASPEC'd

Ive seen that 2nd Gen twice on 26. Never during the day time though. The guy always just blows by and keeps on going.

 

DAMN those wipper snappers! they just know when to slow down hahaha

 

that must be a hot ride if it can't slow down

 

Speaking of slowing down...
I cant decide if i want to resurface my rotors when i put new pads in. I get mixed answers with each person i ask.

Got 2k on the rotors...

Also dont know if i want to replace the pads before the show and deal with cleaning brake dust...or just wait and burst everyones ear drums...

 

tough call, I say swap em

 

Yea Rotora just emailed me back saying to resurface.

Poooooo time to call SC.

 

2K on them.. i think i would of been lazy and taken sandpaper to it.. not that many miles on them... but i guess when in doubt..

 

reminds my i need to look at mine.. i am getting a small squeak from them

 

Yea i called the guy i work with at Schwabs and he said that at only 2k i may not need them done. That he wants me to bring them in and check them before i go spending money on it.

Got the same answer from JC Motors (family takes all cars there).


Dilemma....

 

Ill show you a squeak..

 

we take our cars to cooks brakes on belmont, always give good honest answers and very knowledgeable