Feels good to hit boost again

[awptickes]

I oppose historic plates, mainly because it's a method to get cars that are not road-worthy onto the road.

I have little faith that all of the historic tagged cars could pass a safety inspection.

 

[TurboRex90]

Lol. One requirement for historic tags is that the "vehicle" has "high modifications", so i can agree that most historic tagged cars can pass.

The car is legal, but i would like to continue to modify it and run it the way it is. With the exhaust, and idle issue, it wont "pass" emissions. But other then that, its essentially legal.

 

[TurboRex90]

Still waiting on the downpipe to ship.

But snapped this decent shot the other day.

 

[awptickes]

You need to clean that engine bay.

 

[eg6sir]

if its not a show car.. what for?

 

[awptickes]

if its not a show car.. what for?

Rust in the engine bay, we haven't had the roads salted yet this year, but if there's lots of dirt and crap on everything, it'll stick longer.

 

[TurboRex90]

yeah it could use alittle clean up here and there but its a Daily, not a show car. Im satiafied with the overall look of the build.

Then again Pickles, youre anal about that stuff. lol

 

[TurboRex90]

Recieved this pic from Go-Autoworks this morning. Mine is the 5bolt on top.

Its shipped, should be Friday.

Edit: fixed pic.

 

[awptickes]

what pic?

 

[TurboRex90]

So friday im spending the later part of the night detailing, prepping and painting my friends new SOHC ZC for his coupe. Should come out looking sick. Ill post pictures then.

 

[TurboRex90]

My buddys ZC. Valve cover is drying wrinkle black.

Wish i had time to do this to my setup.

 

[TurboRex90]

Pix of the downpipe. Its open end, so ill have to get a flange welded on first before i can use it.

 

[TurboRex90]

I got offered to trade a set of prelude wheels i was gonna use for winter, for these rsx wheels. Idk the tire life of either set yet because my 'lude wheels havr been in storage for quite some time.

opinions?


Update: Turns out the tires on the Lude wheels are shot, so he said hes interested in flat out buying them as is.

ANyone know how much lude wheels are worth?

 

[TurboRex90]

Did some work for a friend and scored this bad boy. Replacing my skunk2 manifold for this for some much better flow.

 

[Matts96HB]

I have a performer x on my build. Love it

 

[double0Si]

Damn, didnt see the wheel post. Too bad, I love those RSX wheels.

 

[TurboRex90]

Matt. Did you use or block off the extra ports on the bottom of the manifold? I have a vacuum block, so i dont really need those ports right?

 

[Matts96HB]

I blocked off any ports that I wasn't using. You can either use the vacuum manifold, or the extra ports. It doesn't really matter. I did find my wastegate/BOV to be more accurate when they were run directly from sources and not through a manifold first.

 

[TurboRex90]

im gonna have to modify my charge pipes because of the new angle of the throttle body.

 

[Matts96HB]

Yeah that's the only crappy thing about the manifold. It moved my TB down about 3 inches so I had to re-design the upper portion of my charge piping. It's worth the work though, my car made significantly more power on the same amount of boost.