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Ordered me one of these. That will finish what I had planned for the exterior mods. What do you know...this car is almost done as far as parts orders go.

http://www.aprperformance.com/images.../AS-106757.jpg

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What is a box with a red x going to do for you?

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http://images.icanhascheezburger.com...0899575669.jpg



This picture applies to Evo's too, specifically the 4th little paragraph.
http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_i...0019_large.jpg

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I've never been one of the cool kids.

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Looks good mlomker!

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I saw scheide's LED work light while at his house on Sunday. Fell in love with that! No more broken incandescent bulbs. I also have to be able to pack all of my tools into a box that I can carry so this is a much better solution.

http://mlomker.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8...c5e73e5970b-pi

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....But why?! :(

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Umm, because I like carbon fiber? You guys act like the X doesn't come from the factory with a wing that'd make Boeing jealous.

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I like the look of those wings, but would never spend the money on one...too many other things to buy.

And lomker is right...the X wing is gigantic stock anyway.

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Dave's thread with his new rims has me itching to get mine on. As soon as the car is back I'll be ordering the Star Spec 275/35/18's just like he did.

This is a repost from earlier in my thread but I want to salivate for a minute. Notice how small the stock wing is? Can barely see out the back window, honestly. The biggest problem is how thick the damn thing is. I'm betting the APR wing will be a lot narrower since it's carbon with aluminum supports.

http://mlomker.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8...6c86499970c-pi

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A local guy down here has a carbon fiber replica of the stock SSS wing and it looks great.

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I bet it'd look good on a black car but I didn't like the pics I saw of one on red.

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Its on a white car actually with a few other CF accents (front lip, front bumper trim, hood scoops/vents, fender vents, etc.) and its really sharp looking. Its a 2010 from Southcoast; he either bought it like that or put all the stuff on ASAP since it's still on the temp dealer tags.

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I've heard good things about Southcoast. It might pay to buy one there and have it shipped out.

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If nothing else they're a good bargaining chip when negotiating a deal from a local dealership. I've heard of quite a few dealers matching SouthCoast's price + $500 to offset what would be the cost of transportation.

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:lol: Can't argue with that.

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That wing will look really gay. Yuck.

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I skipped the rainbow flag option...costs extra.

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Scroth Rallye 4 harnesses? Seems like a reasonable compromise for someone that is only planning on HPDE and auto-x.

I really liked Trevor's harness bar but these should accomplish the same thing...they both use the stock, proven seat belt anchor points.

http://www.schrothracing.com/ximg/thumb/1575/16100.jpg

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We have a team tech harness in the blue viper. They are nice, but I am guessing you wouldn't have a good mounting location for them. They are easy to install/remove in the viper.

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Quite a few magazine articles about aero this month. There's more to life than the 1/4 mile, although you'd wonder at times if you read the forums.

http://mlomker.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8...f9f7823970c-pi

http://mlomker.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8...f9f782a970c-pi

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Are you trying to justify that wing of yours? ;) There are plenty of areas of each forum that are dedicated to turning the wheel if you look for them. Are the stock X wings functional? The 8/9 wing creates 200 lbs. of downforce at ~100mph.

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^The stock X wing is very functional...there is a whole article of how they designed it in the wind tunnel on evom somewhere.

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Awesome, all the more reason to keep it!

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The best reason I can think to get rid of it is the weight...the trunk/wing weighs a ridiculous amount.

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No, I always intended to put a carbon wing on the car--you can see pics that I posted of the Varis car many pages back in this thread.

I'm struggling with the front-end more than the rear. I already have factory Aero so I figured I'd add the APR splitter. The problem is that splitters cause some convenience problems (having to pull the bumper to dyno and hindering access in general under the car). I think I'll just have to wait until I have the car back and eyeball & measure things. It's tough to visualize without having the car.

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Dont let hughes get you down, he bought a knockoff vortex generator ;)

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They make those for the X but I've never liked the looks of them. The 8/9 and the X have different roof-lines though.

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LOL ouch! It's carbon fiber though :D

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They say that Star Specs run wide. Since I only went with 9.5" rims I decided to play it safe and ordered 265/35/18 instead of 275s.

I'm going out on vacation from the 9-18th. The plan is to get the tires mounted on the rims in the AM on the 19th, pick up the head at MAP, and then run them both over to DB.

I don't see a point in dynoing on Winter tires since there seems to be some question about how they affect results.

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Good choice.. winter tires seem to be the suck at dynoing.

Ps. My 275's might have possibly come in today...and they might possibly be getting mounted today at 4:30 and on the car...hehehe;)

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Winter tires seem to suck up about 10-15whp, so yea, def get the summers on there.

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Star Specs are heavy tires, especially that large of ones. Compare the weights on TireRack vs. your snow tires. Good call on getting it all setup in summer trim for dynoing though.

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Monster truck ftw! :score009:

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Yup, gonna look monster truckish for sure, lol. But at least i will get some grip back:)

I looked at the weights of rims and tires on tire rack i think i picked up 2lbs per tire/wheel (since rpf1's saved me some).

Gonna have to go 2 piece rotors I guess to balance that shit out;)

But my winter tires are heavy too.

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Not sure if my bathroom scale would be accurate but maybe I'll weigh them both for giggles. The Winters are 245's since I didn't go smaller than stock and the new rims are lighter.

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TireRack lists the weight for most tires and wheel weights are easy enough to find.

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Well I think my rims are 2 lbs lighter than stock...so I picked up 4 lbs per rim/tire over my OEM summer tire/wheel.

Kind of a lot, but who knows, I guess we will see what happens next week. Star specs are 32lbs per tire, stock advans are 26 and my winter are 25 (thought they were heavy but for sure not, lol).

Maybe I will have to move it up a notch...been eyeballing this for next winter:) http://www.amsperformance.com/cart/a...turbo-kit.html

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The Summer combination came out to 1lb lighter since the stock rims are 22lbs. The new lug nuts are also a lot lighter (enough to make you wonder how they keep the wheel on).