My Winter Upgrades

[Halon]

My experience with mufflers is just Thermal, Magnaflow, and Hooker. And that is the order in which I rate them from favorite to least favorite. I like all 3, but that is the order I like them.

Also I have heard cheap bullet mufflers that sound like arse. This cheap one I bought may fall in that category, but all I need it to do is muffle a little as the magnaflow will do the most. So we shall see.

[JET]

Your exhaust is going to be a bunch of mufflers welded together :lol:

[Halon]

yeah baby :D

[Halon]

Spotted a tiny leak that looks like it's starting to form at one of the heater hoses where it is clamped. Glad I found it now while scouring all over for any leaks, instead of finding it when it blows up on the freeway somewhere.

So I ordered up both new heater hoses since they are both probably from 1991 and the other one is probably just waiting to go out too.

[Halon]

Well got to drive the shit outta it this weekend since it was beautiful out. I've got about 200 miles on it now since the rebuild. So far it's running pretty damn well. I used to have the FIAV/ISC blocked off. I decided to reinstall it all, so I could have an ISC again to help the car idle better. I did still leave the FIAV blocked off though since the car isn't driven in real cold conditions. With the ISC installed, the car idles 100X better then it was in the past. Just start it up and idles right away. It still hiccups every now and then, which I blame on the large injectors and cams. But I don't need to worry about it almost dieing or anything. I think I'm really going to like having that ISC again.

One issue I am noticing is that after a good bit of driving, the car likes to push some coolant into the overflow. And if it gets too full, pukes it out the overflow drain. So I bought a 1.1 bar cap from O'Reilly's since they have them on the shelf, hopefully that'll help a little. I still may buy a 1.3 bar one from MAP though. And I still need to finish building my scoop underneath to help direct some more air into the radiator.

Oh and I also wired in, and am now running, an Evo8 MAS. I used the plug n play airflow adjustment numbers off the DSMLink Wiki, and they appear to be working pretty well.

All in All, I'm just happy I've been able to drive it around for 200 miles, and for the most part it's running great!!

[x-pride]

Nice! I wanted to take mine out too but was too lazy to put the battery back in the car. I can't wait to check out your car again!

[FattyBoomBatty]

Yeah, likewise. This spring has been a long time coming.

[scheides]

Congrats man, must feel good! Now go sign up for the dyno day :D

[Halon]

Yeah it feels great being able to drive it around!

As for the dyno day, not sure if I'll sign up considering I'd like to get it on the dyno and tuned here soon at DB. So not sure if I want to spend another $50 shortly after to make nearly the same numbers.

[JET]

Gratz B-man! I am jealous!