Garrett Turbo

Look at that bad boy!  Garrett has releases the GT3071R (Good for 475 BHP by itself) and the GT3076R (Good for 525 BHP by itself).  The best part of this turbo set-up that it is ENTIRELY bolt-on.  No welds or modification neccesary.  One just removes the stock snail and puts this one in it’s place.  Good job Garrett for making such an innovative turbo.

I’m still waiting to see how laggy each one of these is.  [Lag is the time it takes the turbo to spool and thus how long before the car makes real power] Hopefully someday I will have the funds to get one of these bad boys in my car.  The FP Red is another nice turbo for the X but it seems a bit laggier than I would like.

Any which way I can’t wait to see some people get these in their cars!

black tips are sexy

The exhaust is finished and on the car.  It sounds AMAZING (as you will hear once I upload the video) and looks fantastic.  I have a few teaser shots for now and next post should contain the video.  Thumbs up to Dino for taking his time making a flawless product.

Varis Front Lip Installed

Got the baby installed!  Really great fit and great quality.

Ahh, my baby is looking sexy now!  She does need a drop though… but that’s a project for when I have more money.

missing pics

Here they are!  Again, I am sorry for taking so long.

In the world of sad news, it was raining today… so I did not get to install the front splitter.  Hopefully Sunday will be a better day.  Once it’s on pics will be coming this way!  Saturday I am getting an alignment and transimission fluid changed.  I may or may not be doing the tranny fluid at home.  That all depends on how much the shop wants to charge me and how the weather/my free time look.

New stuff

My Varis front lip arrived via M1 Autosport.  Not my car but the same lip on the same color car.  Can’t wait to get it on.  Hopefully Thursday will be my install day.  Once I do get it on I will post up the new pics.  I have a feeling when I get it on I’m really going to need a drop.  Nothing drastic, just about an inch.  I don’t really want lowering springs… so I will have to save up for coilovers (full suspension to lower the car and increase handling).

The parts for my AEM Wideband arrived and with them I successfully fixed the gauge.  Now I’m ready for my tune!

Lastly, I installed my Project Mu HC++ brake pads.  Wow… they squeak like you wouldn’t believe.  This isn’t unexpected as they are very aggressive pads.  Speaking of them being aggressive, while doing the initial hard brakes to break them in it felt like my face was getting pulled off.  These things stop on a dime.  I am very happy with them so far.

I promise I will get the pics from the slideshow up eventually.  I keep forgetting every time I am at home!

Seibon Matte Carbon Fiber

Found an interesting picture today.  A CF hood from Seibon that is not clear coated.  Looks really good with the Graphite Grey car.  Would look pretty awful on my Octane Blue… but it’s not on my car so that doesn’t matter.  Owner of the car is xbox4414 on the forums.

Beyond that, poor Dino from SpeedCircuit is having some vendor issues.  As quickly as he gets anything done someone else always holds him up!  He is still waiting for the new exhaust to come back from the bender.  As soon as these arrive at his shop I will be getting it on my car and getting a video.  Look forward to it!

what’s new

First of all, I have to apologize for the strange happenings in the slideshow.  For some reason a few of the pictures lost quality when they were converted.  I tried to re-upload the whole thing a few times with no luck.  I’ll re-post the pictures once I’m home again so you can get a better view of the car.

Xtremeboost, makers of a great sounding o2 dump downpipe, are now making a recirculating downpipe for those who want a quieter option.

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This is the current prototype.  Another great looking product!

And now for updates on the broken gauge from my earlier post!  After contacting AEM, I’ve learned what I need to replace.  The wire for the gauge runs from it’s location on the A-Pillar through the dashboard and the firewall(the wall that separates the engine bay from the inside of the car).  Once there, the wire runs down underneath the car to where the exhaust is.  Down here there is a harness and than the sensor that attaches to the test-pipe(replacement for a catalytic converter).  The harness is what is broken as we discovered at the shop.

This is a problem because AEM does sell the harness by itself.  So I have to buy the wire that runs to the gauge just to get the female half of the harness… and re-buy the sensor to get the male half.  So I need to get $100 worth of parts to replace a $10 harness.  Atleast At least I’ll have a back-up sensor if the one on the car ever goes bad!

A Day at the Shop

This weekend I went to Dino’s shop, SpeedCircuit, to help out and have my car checked out.  My wideband air-fuel ratio gauge has been failing to properly work.  It has just been displaying 14.9ish and not fluctuating.  We checked it out and decided the connector harness went bad so now I’m going to call AEM and see if I can get a replacement. While there we also put new Eibach lowering springs on his Evo and cleaned up the shop a bit.

Blue Beast

Sitting at home being sick and I found some older pics of my car.  Not up to date, but decent pics anywho!

More Tuning Madness

X-Dan from over on the forums recently got his car tuned by Sean Ivey.  As we’ve seen from other tuning methods (SpeedCircuit, Cobb, etc) the car put down some sick numbers.

No denying those numbers.

X-Dan says all he had before the tune are Nisei UICP, LICP, AMS intake, MBC, Cut-Out.  340WHP with a couple pipes and a tune?  Dear lord it’s great to own an X.  These cars will keep on putting down more more amazing numbers every day.

Congratulations X-Dan!