any progress??

 

Thanks!

None that I can really speak of, gonna try and redo the rear coilovers a bit today If we get a chance.

 

Got the rear coilovers sorterd yesterday. Much better!

 

up early workin on the car, eh?

 

Actually they are clunking again I am beginning to hate Stance I will revisit them one night after work.

 

sometimes you get what you don't pay for ...

 

The Bilsteins gave me much less trouble but I will get them setup and hopefully all will be good. Once all the suspension stuff gets installed then the car will be corner balanced.

 

wth?

 

Quick update! Car will be back in the body shop soon but TubingChamp received the last of the parts and will be shipping them out to me soon.

Any good ideas for an exhaust? I really have no idea what i want. It turns out the one i wanted is no longer for sale (the greddy evo tt).

 

I am also switching to 10f 8r kg springs.

 

exhaust? you mean midpipe/catback?
Headers--unless you custom make some like Team or Eric Meyer-- dont give you a lot of gain for the buck and they make the engine bay hotter.

Why are you going with heavier springs? Whats bars do you have?
Been waiting for ya to come back dude---glad the light at the end of the tunnel is showing.
OD

 

The springs that were sent out with the kit were incorrect. This presented a chance to order the spring rates I wanted fairly cheap. I am using Hotchkins sways.

At this point I am not interested in picking up a new exhaust manifold. I do not want the extra heat in the engine bay. I'm just not sure what I want to do for my mid pipe and rear section exhaust.

The last of the parts for the SC were recived yesterday.... or so I hope

 

i have the bhr mp and borla exhaust on my pettit supercharged 8 and love it. i used to have bhr mp and mazdaspeed v2 and that was good as well.

 

I just picked up the BHR mid pipe. I really want a 3" exhaust but worry about it being to loud. Every 3" exhaust I have herd is much to loud for me.

Dondo do you have any sound clips of your set up? I bet it sounds nice and deep.

 

i don't have any recent ones with the borla, no. you can just come visit and i'll show you.

 

Is your car going to be in Vegas?

 

That would be a very long trip for me at the moment.... lol. I actually may be up that way a few hours south of you in Portland later this year. It would be cool to hear something before then

You going taking your car to the Vegas meet up?

 

likely not as no one else from WA is going

well def make your way up to seattle then. i'm chasing boost leaks at the moment and the blower is out of the car or i'd go snap a vid for you.

 

Right on man. Well is is loud and dose it have a deep tone? If I had to guess I would bet your set up sound just how I would want mine to sound.


I am just not convinced using anything with a smaller size then my mid pipe is a good idea.

I swear sometimes 9k and I think a bit to much alike. He prolly posted that as I was writing my last post....

 

yeah it's deep since there's so much air moving through it. it's loud but could be louder without being annoying

 

great minds think alike. Whatshisface has the Borla on his 40th and it was the best sounding exhaust I have ever heard on the 8.

 

What jackass has a Borla on his 40?

 

you have a Borla JS? Man we need to sit down and talk again.

 

Hoss--I think you will be wise to get some more spacing between that mounting plate and the alternator? I cant tell you how hot that thing gets. It looks like that plate will heat soak and carry it to the sc unit and your piping?
You should be able to machine some more space there?

One thing I did was to remove the metal heater supply tube that runs across the firewall. To do this all you have to do is to turn the heater supply tube that exits the engine on the drivers side toward the bottom and then run a hose under the engine, mount it on the front cross member and run it up to the heater fitting on the passenger side. That gives you a lot more room on that back firewall and removes that heat source.
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Thanks for the advise OD right now I am more then wast deep in that that has to happen with my car... I will most deffently look into what you are saying when the install starts. The pipe that is next the the Alternator should be cool air coming from the IC. There should be a bit of a gap between the mounting plate and alternator.

I was thinking of having the hot pipe from the SC thermal coated rather then wrapping it. Anything i can think of to do to keep the engine bay temps at bay will help.