Dave's Evo X Build/The Life of Dave blog

[Mark Leasure]

It's tough to judge what your thought process was for the de-evolution in power, the twin scroll PTE was boss...Enough and sorry for the negativity, I bet it will be nice to get it back on the street!

[Murlo26]

It's tough to judge what your thought process was for the de-evolution in power, the twin scroll PTE was boss...Enough and sorry for the negativity, I bet it will be nice to get it back on the street!

I do miss the twin scroll PTE, the setup was beast and pretty much everything I wanted out of the evo.

However, I decided it was time to get my finances in life straight. Being single with no house was easy to justify the stupid spending on the racecar. But when I got a steady gf and a house, I was really strapped for cash spending money on the evo. So I decided to just let it rest a bit and wanted to sell off some stuff to pay off debt. Now I am in much better shape, just my house and a car payment for my dd for debt! No more silly 0% stuff for car parts or what not. Also now have a savings account and starting to add stuff to 401k, so much much better off financially.

It did suck making the decision to demod the evo and go to half the power (no power right now) but in the grand scheme it was smart for me.

I am also working on refinancing and after that I will be doing a deck, sprinkler system, new sod, black dirt and landscaping hopefully. Trying to spread the love to other stuff in life besides the evo. I will get back to it though, don't worry :) And in the meantime I will enjoy the stock turbo.

[Murlo26]

Anyone know what Buschur uses for their exhaust clamps?

This is what it looks like (see below). Mine were rusted and snapped the bolts last year so I want to replace it with new ones.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b252/Murlo26/photo1_zps55ae920b.jpg

Bill at MAP sent me these links:

http://vibrantperformance.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1022_1070_1132

http://vibrantperformance.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1022_1070_1331&products_id=62

The first one they don't have a 3" for some reason. And I have no idea what the difference is between the first style and the second one. I am thinking of just going with the second one, it looks right to me.

Thoughts?

[goodhart]

The first one looks closer to what you have in the picture. I've bought those at NAPA before, I can't remember what diameter they were though. Might be worth checking some local exhaust shops first

[Murlo26]

Sounds like busch nuts will sell these to MAP for like 20 bucks. So I am just going to buy them from him so I know I am getting the right ones even though I am sure you are right and NAPA or someone probably has something. But 20 bucks seems reasonable.

[Kracka]

Silly Buschnuts and his crappy diesel truck parts... Like the semi-truck radiator hose he cuts up and calls intercooler couplers :lol:

[TkrPerformance]

Go to the parts store they are well under 20.00 each.

[goodhart]

Sounds like busch nuts will sell these to MAP for like 20 bucks. So I am just going to buy them from him so I know I am getting the right ones even though I am sure you are right and NAPA or someone probably has something. But 20 bucks seems reasonable.

You know Buschur finds the cheapest eBay clamp and marks it up 300% right? That's what he does with half the things he sells. LOL

Design won't matter one bit, if the pipe is round it will hold it on there all the same, unless you have square exhaust piping?

You wanna be smarter financially? Start by stop over spending. ;)
http://www.amazon.com/Dynomax-33230-Stainless-Steel-Hardware/dp/B000CQHUYQ/ref=sr_1_20?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1398875450&sr=1-20&keywords=stainless+3%22+exhaust+clamp

[cmspaz]

Go to the parts store they are well under 20.00 each.
Yep, had them in stock at the O'Reilly store I worked for.

[cmspaz]

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/ROL0/E30ST/N0082.oap?ck=Search_N0082_-1_1513&pt=N0082&ppt=C0022