The fiberglass is just a sheath there, and you're going to contour sand the edge in prior to paint, right? I was considering doing something similar on mine, but I think it might violate DOT rules for side markers on my car. Still, that is going to reduce a little drag and the flow should be...

Noobersmakemybrainesplode too, mainly because they never know WhoSharted in the VTEC yo...Best thread tags I have seen so far... ROFL

My reaction exactly... I have pump envy. OMG

"Pardon me. Do you have any more Gray Poupon? I see you painted your car with it..."

EXACTLY!!!The body line is no different, but the 2gb GSX hoop is goofy and should have been thrown in the drafters trash can long before it went to production. Anyone driving around with one on their car can't say a damn thing about anyone else being "rice" while sporting a 2gb wing.As soon...

I know for a fact that many of the reported inducer gains is height, not width. If this is the case, a larger reported inducer may actually be the same size, but "extrapolated" out to be a larger size... Extended tip doesn't mean larger inducer, even if it means larger consumption. Turbo...

That is a T3 77 Trim wheel. Coupled with a 35r, it is a high rpm street/normal drag turbo on a 4g63.

That's all easily fixable with a little fiberglass, a lot of sanding, and a little paint. Not sure I would go through the trouble of doing so myself, but it wouldn't be hard.

I'm not against having a wing, but there are so many DSM's with big, goofy wings on them that a low profile or wingless drop point back on the rear makes it look a bit more subtle, and more unique to people who know what they are looking at. That said, I have been contemplating putting an Evo...

I hope you kicked him in the balls. Seriously. That sort of asshattery really makes him a candidate to be filmed for YouTube being beaten senseless with a wet sock full of dogshit while wearing a sign that says "Stoopid" (yes, spelled wrong). You just don't do that to other people's car. That's...

I discovered something rather annoying that may be helpful with this. I'm not sure, but it smoothed out a slightly rough idle for me. I have a green top, and there is a seal on it for the shaft... These seals are 20 years old, hard, crusty, and cracked... The oil in the head splashes on the CAS...

Yes. It wouldn't run well, if at all, and the compression would be low.

Reminds me of a late model WS6 Trans Am spoiler... I like it just for being different. :thumb: Same old stock looks are boring, regardless of what the "stock is best" guys think.

Yea... I know someone who found that out the hard way. It's pretty strange to be able to hear the fluid at the diff boiling standing beside the car. Needless to say, it was completely destroyed.

In some states, like here in New Mexico, a turbo is considered a muffling device. They do actually break up the sound waves some and disapate some of the exhaust pulse pressure, so technically that is a muffler. LOL

Just pull it and get it on a stand before jumping straight to buying a new motor... 7 bolt motors are pretty damn tough to break beyond repair. A brand new crank and bearings is $300 if they are messed up, rods are easy to find in the classifieds, if the bores are ruined you can bore it and get...

Well, if the headlights tripped it into doing it steady, it's load related. The more load on the system, the harder it is to make the alternator spin. New belt could be skipping along on the pulley, but the battery should buffer that if it were the only problem. Sounds like a combination of...

I want to see that. Seriously...

I was sitting in my car today, wondering what would hold my interest after this. I believe battery tech will have advanced well beyond Li ion banks weighing a thousand pounds that only provide marginal range. Carbon nanostructure is opening up some amazing possibilities in energy storage...I...

Dunk it in Muratic acid for a few minutes. Remove, scrub with wire brush, and Viola! new looking O2 housing.

ROFLYup, they can be harsh. Sprung 6 pucks have a bad tendency to chatter with engine braking too. My wife is exactly the same... She refuses to drive it and doesn't like riding in it very much either. I have become pretty good at making it drive smoothly, but it doesn't forgive you at all...

The .338 Lapua and the .338 Remington Ultra Mag are virtually identical ballistically. Everyone wants the Lapua because AI sniper rifles have been so widely accepted for extreme long range performance by military snipers, but really it's only a tiny bit different than the Remington. If you have...

You theoretically wouldn't have to goof around with making the VGT work without ECU control... But you can get an HE351 with VGT for dirt cheap, usually because the electronic controls failed, and rig it up to a wastegate actuator for a fairly effective VGT for less than $750... At $2400, those...

Savage 10FP .270 long range target rifle (love Accutriggers!) W/ a Nikon 870 scopeWinchester .300 mag hunting rifle with a T10 Redfield.Ruger Mini-14 and a 10/22 with a bull barrell for sillouette shooting.M1 Garand 30-06 (ping!)Remington 1100 12ga shotgun with an extended magazine...

I run a 2200 lb pressure plate and a sprung 6 puck. It has held around 400hp...pulling after launch. During the start of the launch, it slips. If you're running 400 on a DD, you'll want a heavier pressure plate than 2200 lbs, for sure.

Just have a cut out pipe and flange welded on. you can unbolt the plate and be as noisy as you want if it won't be a problem, then bolt it shut again to be civil... that's what I did. On the track, it's open and loud as hell, but on the street my car is pretty well mannered. Easiest way to have...

ROFLThe anti-lag sounds really harsh on my phone... Makes the speaker pop and crackle.Whole set up cost me $125. The pipe is stainless mandrel pipe, all 3" from a new Ford truck that was upgrading the pipe. I hacked it up and welded it together to fit tight to the body and be straight as...

Ok, I dislodged my head from my ass and fixed it... Here ya go.DSM complete 3" Catless pipe with a Magnaflow - YouTube

I don't know.... I'm obviously YouTube Impaired... How the hell do you get the video to show up here as a video and not a link?

As promised... Though the sound recording capabilities of my phone are less than impressive, from what I could tell reviewing it on the phone. This is the first time I have tried to record anything like this with it. Hopefully it sounds better on different speakers...

They both sound like crap...I'll put my money where my mouth is and get a video of mine at an idle and revved... Not saying it is the best or anything, but I run no cat 3" all the way and it is just as free flowing as a straight pipe. I will leave it up to you to decide if it sucks or not...

Dammit Glenn, quit being right ya bastige. :pI'm 35 too... Jacked up my back in a motorcycle wreck in '98. Crushed 3 lumbar vertibrae that are now fused masses of "sonofabitch that hurts!", and I have a clinical lack of dopamine in my brain which can make me get jittery like I have Parkinsons...

Yup, that's what it sounded like........ass. :tease:Listen to that video objectively... That car sounds like a weed whacker as soon as it gets any gas. In person, that sounds retarded for a street car. For a dedicated drag car, eh whatever... It doesn't matter, so long as the speed is there to...

If you have a welder or know someone who does, don't worry about it. If the welds are shit, fix them. No big deal on an O2 pipe. If he bolt holes are off though, that can be a real pain in the ass. You can slot the holes and risk it leaking or moving, weld them shut and re-drill them, or send...

*Bleh* :|A straight 3" pipe on a 4g63 sounds like a broken weed whacker. I had one for a week while waiting for my Magnaflow. It was embarrassing... It did not sound good at all. My wife went so far as to say it sounded like chick repellant, and that she didn't mind me having it, because no...

ROFLI don't know man... When black paint starts sun fading to gray, I think that might be "Stage 3" high performance paint that actually improves the aerodynamics of the car, allow it to slip through the air like a tapered turd. :tease:

EXACTLY... I welded together most of mine from some 6 month old stainless 3" Ford truck exhaust piping a guy was replacing with bigger pipe. All mandrel bends. I just hacked it up into elbows and straights, welded up as much as I could fit myself, then took it to a local exhaust shop. The guy at...

Why the hell do people say they have "stage X" parts?? That doesn't tell you anything about anything, and it make the person who said it sound really stupid."All stage 2 parts..." Wow, I bet that faded POS totally runs 10's, at least... Yea right. :rolleyes:

ROFLAin't karma a bi***? I love when shitheads get what they deserve, especially when it is their own doing.A good machinist won't mind if you look at the shop, see their work while they're working, and ensure you are comfortable that they can do the work you need done or refer you to...

Here ya go... Another article on DIY manometer use.http://autospeed.com/cms/title_Ultimate-DIY-Automotive-Modification-ToolKit-Part-1/A_111109/article.htmlAutospeed is good site to browse through.

There is a guy on here with a modded minivan that'll run... 1BadVan I think is his name on here. He did some pretty impressive work to that van.

Unless they really change it up, I don't think it'll go past 1 season either. It is a dumbass time waster, but when there's nothing else I need to do at the end of the day, I enjoy some blantant stupidity and a beer. I also just like Steve-O. I met him back when they were still doing Jackass...

ROFL Don't feel bad. I have done the same thing... I blame the nasty ass beer we were drinking that day. It does suck showing up at the autoparts store again to buy more oil after having just been in earlier buying the same thing... They always ask me what I f**ked up when I do that.

Well, you can't argue with tripling your money! :thumb: I am not saying that you shouldn't run it, I just haven't heard of that company before... If it is clean and doesn't have a bunch of crap in the CHRA, it should be fun. I love my 18g. It was a nice step up from the 14b I had before. If...

Well, the wheel looks like mine... Except that thing is in some rough shape, and who the hell is TEC? Other than the general fin pattern of the wheel, the housing has a few lumps and bumps the aren't on my MHI 18g.

ROFL That would be embarrassing... And very noisy. Why didn't you stop when it banged off the pavement? I would expect it to flop around enough to make some ugly noises smacking the bottom of the car and bouncing off the strip that you'd let off immediately.

Killer Karaoke sounds stupid as hell, and it is, but it is much funnier show than I expected. Steve-O isn't a smooth host like Joe Rogan or anything, but it seems to fit him because the whole damn show is awkward... If you were a fan of Jackass, Steve looks a lot different. He doesn't look like...

ROFLThat would suck, but as soon as you said Impala, that's exactly what I was thinking. Unmarked cars. That's pretty common around here, this being Jaurez drug smuggler central... You really have to watch during the day to see what unmarked cars are in town, because there are a lot of them...

Unless you're wideband is full of oil or coolant, no. ROFL

I had a hot girl talk trash in a group of other car guys, saying she'd spank my car with her stock 350z. I had the choices of looking like a total wuss and not race her, or race her and risk the legal problems with doing so... I took option 2, but took it out to an abandoned section of highway...