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Octopus Magic posted:I'll have to check it out, I forget the ballast brand off the top of my head... I've only had the hood open myself like, 8 times now. Well, the ballast itself isn't really the important part, that's not the "custom" bit. It's the housings that are the important part, crappy housings give you bad beam patterns and such.
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| # ? May 21, 2012 21:44 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 14:50 |
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Car has been sitting around at the shop for a while, but progress has been made on dumb stuff like this:  No more stupid locking hood pins that barely work. Work maybe coming slow, but it's being done right.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 15:19 |
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That dust looks like the kind of thing that would shred the gently caress out of your lungs.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 17:24 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:That dust looks like the kind of thing that would shred the gently caress out of your lungs. Well that's the raisin I'm having someone else do it. Edit: They needed to attack the old hood pins with an angle grinder.
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| # ? Jun 7, 2012 20:46 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:That dust looks like the kind of thing that would shred the gently caress out of your lungs. If it's real carbon fiber, you would definitely not want any of that near you without the proper protection
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| # ? Jun 8, 2012 13:59 |
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Had a new downpipe built for less restriction: Still only making 360 WHP on race gas. HMMMMMMMM..
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| # ? Jun 9, 2012 01:28 |
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In further thought, I'm starting to think it might be the cheap SS Autochrome intercooler being a big restriction in the system as well, or the cheap Brian Crower cams.
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| # ? Jun 9, 2012 02:40 |
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IC. I've found the BC cams to work well enough. Yeah they're not GSCs but our Subaru still made a ton of power with them. Your intercooler, on the other hand, is probably doing very little to actually cool the 300° air coming out of the turbo. Is your IAT being measured at the MAF or the intake manifold?
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| # ? Jun 9, 2012 19:20 |
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jamal posted:IC. I've found the BC cams to work well enough. Yeah they're not GSCs but our Subaru still made a ton of power with them. I don't know off the top of my head on intake temps, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me. I'm just not sure if I wanna drop another grand on an IC setup just yet. :\ HKS stuff has been the gold standard for cams for a long time for 4G's but I'm not going to worry about that stuff yet.
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| # ? Jun 10, 2012 00:18 |
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Well that would be the first thing I'd check. The outlet temp of a 30R at 25psi is about 450F. And ETS makes a nice core.
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| # ? Jun 10, 2012 05:50 |
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Hello thread!  Rear brake lines need to be thrown on, but I think we're closing out the car from shop phase.... Two months later. 
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| # ? Jul 16, 2012 20:56 |
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I know why the car isn't putting down as much power at it should be - you have blue anodized lug nuts, not purple ones. That's like 40 WHP right there.
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| # ? Jul 16, 2012 21:01 |
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I saw this thing in person when I stopped by that shop to get work done and it's 2 fast 2 furious level of rice. You need to race it that way.
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| # ? Jul 16, 2012 21:26 |
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Muffinpox posted:I saw this thing in person when I stopped by that shop to get work done and it's 2 fast 2 furious level of rice. You need to race it that way. did west coast customs get their hands on it i didn't ask for this
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 00:17 |
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Sweet racing coilovers.
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 00:24 |
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jamal posted:Sweet racing coilovers. They came with the car!  
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 00:59 |
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jamal posted:Sweet racing coilovers. I noticed the K too 
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 01:10 |
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Funny story about k-sport: A friend of mine in AZ has KW race coilovers (a step above clubsports) on his STi which are about 3500. He's friends with the k-sport guys so they offered to give him a set for free. When he said, "no thanks, I like my current suspension," they asked him why on earth he would bother to spend that much on coilovers. And these are the guys that go racing with that RSX. I don't get it.
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| # ? Jul 17, 2012 01:21 |
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jamal posted:Funny story about k-sport: You mean coilovers aren't just for a sweet drop?
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 14:04 |
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Sick drop, Belldandy. Sick drop.
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| # ? Jul 18, 2012 15:31 |
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They're done with the car! Yaaaaaay  Picking it up this weekend!!!
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| # ? Jul 24, 2012 02:08 |
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That must be a great feeling. Just don't accidentally drive it into the ocean. 
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| # ? Jul 24, 2012 02:20 |
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Octopus Magic posted:Hello thread! Hey, there's a DSMTuners thread where they've been talking Evo upgrades, the recommendation is to move to a 3rd Gen booster/master to maintain pedal feel, have you taken a look at that at all?
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| # ? Jul 26, 2012 21:42 |
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MikeyTsi posted:Hey, there's a DSMTuners thread where they've been talking Evo upgrades, the recommendation is to move to a 3rd Gen booster/master to maintain pedal feel, have you taken a look at that at all? Yeah I'm going to do that later down the line (maybe if I swap to a SMIM), the pedal is apparently a bit mushy, but I didn't feel like having the car sit there any longer. I'm seeing them for 60 bucks on Ebay, so it's not an expensive upgrade, just a pain in the rear end. 
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| # ? Jul 26, 2012 23:05 |
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So I picked up one of the princesses today (The Talon), took the HID bulbs out, put the stock catted downpipe (from my old Eclipse) so yes, it does have a cat on it (A very very old catalytic converter), and threw in my silencer that rattles around everywhere. Battery drain is better now that I don't have an alarm in it, but still is dead within 3-4 days. I ordered an OMP cutoff switch and hopefully that'll fix it, along with DSMLink V3 so I can keep my old settings when the battery dies. Front quality rolling job.  Rear.  Yay all mounted.  She's smiling at you.  Cat. Anyways, I need to get my red car home and transfer over the oil cooler, seat, roll bar, steering wheel, maybe the gauges and get some parking in Boston that is indoor.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 02:25 |
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Octopus Magic posted:I ordered an OMP cutoff switch and hopefully that'll fix it You really need to put "fix" in quotation marks in that context. Why not spend 30 minutes with a multi meter and figure out what the hell is wrong instead of spending $60 on a cutoff switch?
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 03:44 |
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Looks good, love the wheels.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 03:45 |
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Motronic posted:You really need to put "fix" in quotation marks in that context. Because it's already been played seek and find by people who are much more qualified than I am? Considering the fact that the car is going to be driven at best once or twice a week, it's cheap insurance.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 16:41 |
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It's really not hard to put an ammeter on the battery connection, and unplug fuses one by one until the drain stops... And if not, move on to relays, then fuseable links...
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 17:01 |
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mafoose posted:It's really not hard to put an ammeter on the battery connection, and unplug fuses one by one until the drain stops... And if not, move on to relays, then fuseable links... That's the way. It's really, really easy to diagnose these things down to at least an individual circuit. Depending on what circuit that is and what is on it things can get trickier after that, but it's typically not too difficult. Not fixing it means you have an unknown issue that very well may come back to bite you in the rear end in the form of a failure on the road or worst case a fire.
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| # ? Jul 29, 2012 17:10 |
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Octopus Magic posted:Yeah I'm going to do that later down the line (maybe if I swap to a SMIM), the pedal is apparently a bit mushy, but I didn't feel like having the car sit there any longer. Yeah, they've been mentioning that it's a bitch and a half to get the old one out and the new larger one in.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 07:00 |
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MikeyTsi posted:Yeah, they've been mentioning that it's a bitch and a half to get the old one out and the new larger one in. It's one of those "I'll get around to it when I get around to it" kind of things where I buy the parts and they sit on a shelf for a while until I finally get around to it. I think the thing that's putting me off on it is the additional braided stainless line that I'll have to have made and urhghgghghgh.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 14:09 |
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Motronic posted:That's the way. Good thing he won't be daily driving it. What exactly is so hard to understand about "Because it's already been played seek and find by people who are much more qualified than I am? Considering the fact that the car is going to be driven at best once or twice a week, it's cheap insurance."
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 14:33 |
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Belldandy posted:What exactly is so hard to understand about The part about not understanding the potential for failure or fire in an electrical system that has an obvious problem.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 15:32 |
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Motronic posted:The part about not understanding the potential for failure or fire in an electrical system that has an obvious problem. He can spend $60 to fix the issue and be done with it instead of spending hours/days chasing down an electrical gremlin. This car is, again, NOT a daily driver. A failure can be remedied with a jump and a fire is incredibly unlikely.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 15:39 |
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Belldandy posted:He can spend $60 to fix the issue and be done with it instead of spending hours/days chasing down an electrical gremlin. This car is, again, NOT a daily driver. A failure can be remedied with a jump and a fire is incredibly unlikely. This will be my last post on the topic, as if you don't get it after this there is no other way I can explain it: The entire time a malfunctioning electrical system is in operation is when there is a potential for a failure or fire. This means the "couple time a week" when the car is being used. Obviously there is no potential of an electrical failure or fire when the battery is disconnected manually or with a switch, nor was I ever suggesting that.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 17:46 |
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Octopus Magic posted:It's one of those "I'll get around to it when I get around to it" kind of things where I buy the parts and they sit on a shelf for a while until I finally get around to it. I think the thing that's putting me off on it is the additional braided stainless line that I'll have to have made and urhghgghghgh. Yeah, I STILL have my MBC, pillar pod, intake, and gauge sitting around because I can't be arsed to roll around my driver's side interior to poke the line for the gauge through the firewall. You could probably find a suitable stainless line off the shelf somewhere though,...
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 19:27 |
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MikeyTsi posted:Yeah, I STILL have my MBC, pillar pod, intake, and gauge sitting around because I can't be arsed to roll around my driver's side interior to poke the line for the gauge through the firewall. There's like 8 billion things to do and I just want to covert it back into an Eclipse and get my oil cooler/seat/JIC's on it.
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| # ? Jul 30, 2012 21:37 |
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Ordered a bunch of used stuff to clean up the interior: Center console, AC bezel, rear license plate bracket for the eclipse bumper,a pillar trim and a few other doo dads that just clean up the broken garbage interior in the car.
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| # ? Jul 31, 2012 14:55 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 14:50 |
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So one of my biggest issues with the car coming up is the parking situation. Do y'all think I can survive a few months outside in a lot versus garage parking (Then doing a storage situation for the winter)?
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