minkl81

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that should be good too. maybe meet around 11:30am for pics?

i took some short drive on sunset highway. with the precat deletes, its totally different beast. car pulls crazy with added noise and smell it drones quiet a bit on highway when gas is applied. also small amount of exhaust smell comes into cabin with the heater on. used to love that smell when i was a child but now it gives me a headache... will have to put the 3rd cat back on and see the changes. if i feel the loss in performance with the 3rd cat, i'll have to order atlp highflow cat soon

sT04Louis

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Sounds good. Im gonna PM you my Cell #, let me get yours in case something comes up.

bluecarbonfiber

im curious on what kind of numbers you would be throwing down now minkl
imagine if someone came up with some software for you to tune the car what you could do then.. oooooooooh the possibilities haha

minkl81

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i went out for another short drive and funny thing happened. i was all concentrating on hissing sound and any other dynamic changes after the precat delete install. i floored the gas after taking a left turn into tv highway and went up to 50mph and slowed down. all of sudden something flies away on my right and it was jeep grand cherokee srt-8 trying to catch up to me. haha... it was two lane left turn street merging into tv highway and i never knew it was srt-8 right next to me. i had a head start but probably he couldnt catch up if i didnt slowed down.

minkl81

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other guy with typeS at(blackura?) dynoed 294whp with stock 17s. i have all the same stuff except carbonfiber hood and atlp catback. plus he's currently running on stock 3rd cat and i have straightpipe.

bluecarbonfiber

makes me wonder if the jeep is that guy from PIR..

sT04Louis

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didnt he run a high 12?


Min
Im still on for today, gonna go start getting ready now. See ya at 1130

bluecarbonfiber

how did the photo shoot go?

sT04Louis

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I got some nice photos.

About to upload now, just took 2 hours touching up

sT04Louis

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Here is the link to the thread.
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...1#post10125970

Min add your pics in when you get them.

Cars looked awesome together today.

clee109

I need to pay more attention to this thread! We should all get out for a photoshoot before the weather turns to crap.

Min did you get new gaskets for your install?? Did you use the OEM hardware or new? None the less, it'd be interesting to hear no cats with the ATLP cat-back....maybe you should uhhh.... pick one up?

sT04Louis

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Kinda spur of the moment shoot

We will have to do another soon.


Got lucky and got to drive Min's TL, pulls hard after 3k rpm.
I offered to let him see how mine pulls with ATLP Cat-Back, but he didnt want to hit anything with my car being so low

Ive gotta get Jpipe and kill the kitties.

minkl81

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My pics are up on the link.

Kyle - I'll just drop off the ATLP race pipe at SpeedConcept after the 3rd cat swap. You can try it out and see if you like it and give discounted price if you decide to keep it


Chris - The precat deletes came with two new gaskets, but I'm thinking to go grab some more at the NAPA and double layer the gaskets. Some of the TSX people had a exhaust leak problem after installing RT cats and double layering the gaskets solved the problem. Hopefully it seals up good.


Car felt little different compared to last night while driving back home after a photoshoot. It felt like it lost some low end torque. It might be the cause from exhaust leak or no backpressure from running catless. Definitely will slap back on the 3rd cat.

minkl81

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btw.. i'll never get ATLP catback. its plenty loud for me haha..

this is how it'll sound with atlp catback added to my car.

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-performance-parts-modifications-112/curious-how-atlp-quad-race-pipe-j-pipe-r-v6-pre-cats-sound-693086/

clee109

^^that sounds good though!

sT04Louis

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Today driving in to work i noticed that i had no drone. The RPMs were steady at 2k going up a slight incline on 26 doing about 65mph and all exhaust noise was clearly coming from the back of the car and not resonating right under the front seats.

I dont know, it sounds great and i love it. Drove home after the shoot yesterday with windows down no music. Gotta love the second gear rip in the far right lane of the on ramp of I-5 south from 217, that big wall echoes so well.

EuroR08

so dissapointed ... stereotypical to say the least

lol its ight tho most girls i know are like that too....
I guess that just makes me cooler than all of them -

muahahaha

EuroR08

lmao

EuroR08

ill be stopping by for sure

EuroR08

this is actually Michael - i work with him....he's on these forums somewhere...

EuroR08

294 whp...thats just sexy...

you should still have your car dynoed just so u have more bragging rights...just dont go to unnatural...

bluecarbonfiber

whats wrong with unnatural for dyno pulls?

sT04Louis

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Tell him to get in on the Oregon thread. His TSX is nice.

bluecarbonfiber

very clean tsx!.. im still undecided if i want to go the black trim route myself.. i suppose once i do get a carbon hood it would help with the black look

EuroR08

i just dont like unnatural...i special ordered some magnesium blue TE37's (now you would think when you spend over 3k on just rims things should go smoothly, all paid cash up front) It was suppose to take 3 months...after 4 they said they should be here any week. they kept saying that refusing to give me a tracking number or anything. i started getting really mad and the ashley girl - who i dont think works there any more - had a major attitude. wes told me he'd take care of it. well i got their contact info for the rep thru speed concept cuz im good friends+ with the guys and come to find out my wheels had never even been ordered...they finally showed up some 10 months later...oh i was so angry. since then i kinda have a thing against them. i know stephen with the grey tubo tc running around beaverton and they did an awesome job with his car...everyone else i know who takes their car there gets screwed.


oh ur all probably not to interested in TC pics but they were beautiful...still have them 4sale if u know anyone with a 5x100 bolt pattern

clee109

Possibly burnt in the mufflers? welcome to the oregon chat EuroR08

bluecarbonfiber

man that sucks... sorry to hear about your luck.. most places when you waive a grip of cash they will take care of ya.. I guess i was lucky enough i didnt buy anything through them.. i just did my dyno.. i thought there was something wrong with the dyno machine there or something haha.. wish speed concept had a dyno.. i would rather go there.. only cause i have a good relationship with tony and never had issues there for buying parts..

nice rims though... i have a TC as well.. fun cars to drive.. just wish they had more HP after 5200 rpm.. it seems like it just poops after that..

sT04Louis

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EuroR, whats your actual name? You're the only one here in the local chat whos name i dont know.

EuroR08

my name b Rachel...your Kyle right? I think me and JJ (from speed) were talking about you the other night lol

sT04Louis

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Ha, yea im kyle. Yea i know JJ, hes helped me out alot with parts. What were you two talking about?

EuroR08

i think we were talking about ur wheels...we were scoping out pics of WDP tls online...and he was like hey thats kyle...i was like ya i met him at the Acura meet at sonics i think...and i think u were at the honda tech meet

sT04Louis

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Nice, i was at Sonic with my busted rear ended version of my TL, and at HT right after it was fixed with the White wheels. So much has changed since then







So PDXmas registration has opened up. I just sent in my registration to try and get a spot in-doors
Come out, and uh....root for me

clee109

^^I might be able to make that.

bluecarbonfiber

might be the outkast there.. guess we will have to give you as much support as possible!!

minkl81

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just put the 3rd cat back on right now. kyle, i dropped off the atlp racepipe at speed concept to dan. you can try it out if you like (jj wants to buy it for $50 haha...)

minkl81

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i feel the bottlenecking already with the stock 3rd cat

bluecarbonfiber

why did you do the 3rd cat?

minkl81

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first, my girlfriend notices the smell (she doesn't know if i bought new parts again).

second, i felt bit of low-end torque loss. it really pulls on higher rpm but almost useless in city driving.

EuroR08

<<<you know he reads all this right??? just like how you didnt rep speed when someone asked where you bought your brakes lol

bluecarbonfiber

you could just said the cat is going bad and to deal with the smell =) but i guess low end is good for city too..