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I have yet to meet a single person who didn't like it better with the pill gone; even the biggest of the ultra whiny bitch boys! I don't care how many miles you have on your car, removing it does nothing but improve the feel and lengthen clutch life.

Oh yeah, and get a MBC.

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LOL wow! Can I touch my balls while you work on my car?

I do agree though; zero negative effects. Worse case scenario, we just put the pill back in for you, but I've NEVER heard of anyone wanting to do that. I really don't understand why so many X guys are afraid of this, it was the same thing with the 8/9 guys...but not quite as bad since so many were previous DSMers. My stock IX clutch actually started slipping during hard downshifts so that's when I removed the pill; I then put another 15k miles (including autocross) on the clutch without it slipping even a single time.

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I just see it as completely the package you've already started. You gave your hand all the niceties with your shifter and bushings, why not get your foot a little love too? If the car were bone stock I'd see it otherwise, but for an already modded car that you've spent thousands on, why stop and skip the easy/cheap stuff that frankly will give you a more noticeable benefit on a daily basis than your $730 intercooler?

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Well being one of those guys that is reluctant to do it, I think you pretty much have your answer in what I said above. I don't see a problem with it as it is. It sounds like this is one of those life lessons you'll learn once it happens to you with a big fat "I told you so!" at the end of the story, lol.

It could also be a few other things, such as "Well Mitsu must have put it there for a reason" or "I don't understand how the whole thing works, so if it's not broken, don't fix it". I think I fall in the latter of those 2 statements. :(

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It's not something you feel until after you've done it. It really does make a world of difference.

I'm going to second the "quit being a goddamn fucking woman" bit. Just do it.

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I now apply both those statements to your stock intercooler, shifter, bushings, etc. :)

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I have $400 and an Evo to my name right now. Next paycheck ;)

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Oooooh, very good point! I'll have to think about how to respond to that. Perhaps we can get to the bottom of why guys are reluctant to remove it.

He was referring to my 2 statements in quotes in my previous post.

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Was talking to Rmondoh, not you ;)

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Well fuck, we can do them together then... just, really really far away.

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Newbs who have never owned a Mitsu before.

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I can agree to that. I would totally fall under that label except you'd have to tweak it to "never owned a manual Mitsu before" because I've had 2 Galants before going to the Evo (both automatics).

And that makes perfect sense. Case and Point: I didn't mod my Evo for almost 2 years. Even after reading up on stuff across forums and going to NTEC meets, I was still reluctant to even mod it but eventually I did. I will say that I was nervous as shit when I first turned the car on after swapping the UICP, FMIC, and Intake. Having never done it before, it takes nerves.

I'd say you're probably spot on with that answer.

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You can forget about trying to please Kracka. He points fingers at guys like me that do too many mods as well. Unless you do exactly like Kracka then he's gonna bitch. You don't have a WW Evo so you've already lost.

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*edit: This post was pointless.

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Blue is my 2nd favorite X color ;)

No offense, but look who's car has been up and running at 100% all summer and who's hasn't. I never said you've modded too much, you've just taken the long, complicated, route when a simpler/cheaper would have net the same results. You probably have the most expensive and complex fuel system for any street X yet you still have fueling issues.

To each their own though, just glad I don't have to constantly dick with my car to keep it on the road and getting me to/from work each day. I bought my car to enjoy it and drive it on a daily basis and I'm doing just that :D I give advice to the best of my ability but at the end of the day if it's not taken it's really no sweat off my back so mod on fellas and have a good time doing it since that's the whole name of this game :)

Also, my apologies if it ever seems like I'm mad or getting pissy with anyone; I've been in the DSM/Evo scene for over 10 years and am just very passionate about it. I've done a lot of great mods but also some bad/dumb ones too so I just try and take some of the knowledge I've learned along the way and pass it along to the guys newer on the scene.

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Got the Torque Solution drive shaft bushings installed this evening. Hopefully my allergies won't make me miserable tomorrow so I can do the Beatrush rear diff bushings before the NTEC meet @ Kincaid's in the evening.

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i wish i could hit up that ntec meet but i have to work :(

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Come to the monthly meet on Tuesday. I will probably show up after everyone is done eating (mom's bday dinner). Look forward to meeting you at some point though. :)

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Beatrush rear diff bushings installed this morning! Car is ready again to go rock around DFW with the new bushings, Specialty X exhaust, and CF gurney flap (which I added for looks which makes me a ricer according to Lomker, but I'm sure it adds "some" downforce so it's not total rice, lol ;))

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Nice, you'll enjoy the rear diff bushings a lot I think; I love mine!

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Well I just went and did a few errands, came home and got some rags, and went to wash the car. I LOVE how the car feels and sounds now. The exhaust note sounds absolutely perfect to me. It's louder than my old HKS Legamax but not obnoxiously loud. It's pretty much perfect. I know it will get a little bit louder when I throw the test pipe on there, but I don't care, it sounds great. It also feels great too.

I'm not sure I can really tell the bushings are making a difference though, but I know they are definitely better than the stock rubber ones. A visual comparison makes that obvious. Perhaps as I do more driving then I'll feel it a little more.

Either way, I'm super happy with everything!

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Great to hear!

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Get a big wing or walk in my shadow. ;)

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So it's been a while since I posted anything so I figured I'd update this.

Last week I started hearing a noise coming from the front driver side whenever I would accelerate or decelerate and while in gear or out of gear and it only happens at around 18mph. It sounds like a "wump wump wump".

At first I thought it was something I did recently, but the only mods I've done in the past few weeks were my Specialty X catback, drive shaft bushings, and rear differential bushings. Since the noise was happening when the car was moving and whether in gear or not, I thought maybe the drive shaft bushings were to blame. So I put the stock ones back in and unfortunately the noise was still present. I was getting a little worried at this point because I've always looked after the car.

Well I ended up taking the car to Don Herring Mitsu and I explained to the service guy and the service tech what was going on. The tech took it for a drive and heard the noise I was referring to. After a bit of inspecting, I'm told that my front driver's side tire is cupping pretty bad. The inside of the tire is wearing a lot more than the rest of the tire and even then, the tire isn't wearing evenly. I checked the remaining tires and the front passenger tire doesn't feel anywhere near as bad, but it doesn't feel like even wear either. The rear tires feel fine though.

So I'm relieved that there is nothing wrong with the car itself. When I got home, I decided to do a google search and this is what came up:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=goodyear+ea...season+cupping

Looks like the tires have been known to have some issues. Today I took the car back up to Don Herring Mitsu to get my alignment checked. Reason for that is I want to have some proof for Discount Tire that IF my alignment is perfectly fine, then I have an issue with the tires. I know if I had gone to them first and brought up the issue, they probably would have said I need to have my alignment checked so I decided to remove any doubt first before going to talk with them. I only have about 15k on the tires and they still have PLENTY of thread left. I don't really abuse them at all.

It's been about 3 hours since I left the car so I hope to be hearing back from them soon. I'll keep everyone updated as I have news.

*edit: I keep my tires at 32psi and rotate them every 5k.

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This makes me think your front toe is out of whack which is very common with the factory alignment.

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UPDATE 1:

Just got the call from Mitsu. They found my alignment to be PERFECTLY fine (even after 29k miles :)). The ONLY thing they found was that the passenger side rear tire was off 1/10th of a degree. Based on that, the only logical deduction is that the tires are crapping out on their own. I'll be going to pick it up in a half hour and then heading on over to Discount Tire and probably getting into a fight with them so we'll see!

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UPDATE 2:

Well I'm never going to Discount Tire again unless it's to fix a flat tire. They were less than helpful. They blamed the wear on the toe/camber settings of the car despite having shown them that it is up to par with the factory specs. So apparently factory specs are not good enough for any tires put on the Evo X. They also couldn't pro-rate them because of the thread loss and the uneven wear, so even if they sent them back to Goodyear, they would get nothing back. The only thing they could do for me was rotate my tires and tell me I have a really nice car. :jackoff: Of course, they tried to get me to look at other tires but I said no thanks to that.

For now, I guess I'm just going to wear these out, rotating them as necessary to minimize the cupping damage. I plan on going to visit PTP in Ft Worth when I need new tires as it's better to support a local shop full of good guys than a store chain that can't help you. I should have plenty of time to decide which tires to get by then. I'll most likely have to change my brake pads by then so I'll probably do it all at once (EBC Redstuff or RB ET500).

If you have tire suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I think I'll be going with a summer tire this time.

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Good news about the alignment, bad news about the tires :(

Based on what I know about your driving habits, I'm going to suggest the Sumitomo HTR Z III (I've had 3 sets of these) or the Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110 (thinking about trying these next).

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UPDATE 3:

Managed to get my oil and oil filter changed after getting back from No Discount Tires. Also was able to put the Torque Solution drive shaft bushings back on. I could not manage to undo the bolts holding the cat to my catback. I blasted them with WD-40 and even busted out my dad's torque wrench to get more leverage and nothing. I ended up giving up as it was 6pm and parents were starving.

I realize now that I probably should have done the cat first when the bolts were still hot/warm instead of doing the oil and bushings. Lesson learned!

I'm heading over to Kracka's early tomorrow morning (well...trying to be there before 730 if possible...which for me is a hard thing to do, lol) to try and do the cat/test pipe swap before heading out to Cobb for the dyno day. Hopefully all goes well and we can get the pipe swapped so I can flash to Cobb's OTS Stage 2 for the dyno day. :)

For those who might be wondering, I really want to dyno the car with Cobb's OTS Stage 2 map because my mods have stayed the same from my Stage 1 OTS dyno pull until now. Swapping out the test pipe will allow me to run OTS Stage 2. So it will give me a good comparison of how well Cobb's OTS Stage 1 and Stage 2 maps compare. I'm currently on a Stage 1 protune from Cobb and making 317whp/322wtq. I made 305hp/291tq on their Stage 1 OTS. I'm guessing that with Stage 2 OTS, I'll probably be around the same hp/tq that I'm currently running. I plan to go back in a few weeks for a retune with a Grimmspeed 3port and a Synchronic BOV. Goal is to be a 330whp daily driver. After that, the car will be donezo!

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Based on those 2 tires, I'd have to go with the Sumitomo only because the Hankook's look like my Goodyear Eagle F1 A/S. The guy at Discount said he recommends asymmetrical tires as opposed to directional tires, especially for a car like the Evo which runs negative camber. Whether he was blowing smoke up my ass or not, that's what he said. I looked at my Advans and they feel/look ok. Nothing like my Goodyears. Tirerack has those Sumitomo's for $123 in the stock tire size. That's a pretty good deal if you ask me. The other thing I liked about the Sumitomo's is this

Considering that one of my Goodyears wore pretty badly on the inside shoulder, that part of the Sumitomo description gives it a +1 from me. I guess I'm adding the Sumitomo HTR Z III's to my list, which consists of just 1 tire so far...Sumitomo HTR Z III, lol! Thanks for the recommendation Kracka!

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Star Specs are directional tires so I'll have to call bullshit on that--many people run them on Evos. Then again it looks like I'll only get 10k miles per set due to track use.

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NTEC Dyno Day 10/3/2010!!

Picture of Car
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/...26c6e109_z.jpg

Strapped on the Dyno
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/...caa07434_z.jpg

*Note: Before anyone mentions it, the mods listed on the dyno graph are not entirely right. The ones listed in this spreadsheet are the correct mods.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/...c02a1ede_b.jpg

Dyno Graph
http://accessecu.com/dyno/graph.php?...rgb1=000000255

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Here is a comparison of Cobb's Off The Shelf Stage1 vs Stage2 LWG:

http://accessecu.com/dyno/graph.php?...rgb2=204000000


Here is a comparison of Cobb's Stage1 Protune vs Cobb OTS Stage2 LWG:
http://accessecu.com/dyno/graph.php?...rgb2=204000000

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Going to get pro tune at some point?

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Yes sir! I'm hoping for the end of this month or early November. Just placed an order with our friends at MAP for an AMS LICP, so I'll wait for that to come in. Final parts going on will be a GrimmSpeed 3port, AMS LICP, and Synapse Synchronic BOV. Once those go on and I'm retuned, car is donezo! :)

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Awesome graph, power all the way across feels good, doesn't it?

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Yes it does! Yeah it's a little disappointing that Cobb's OTS Stage2 produced basically the same thing as the Stage1 protune I got from Cobb back in April, but I expected it. However, comparing Stage1 vs Stage2 (only real difference between them being stage1=cat, stage2=HFC/test pipe), they seem to line up pretty well. I think if I had gone with the Non Lowered Waste Gate map, I probably would have been closer to 320whp. Then the difference between Stage1 and Stage2 would have been more apparent.

Stage1: 305whp
Stage2 LWG: 315whp
Stage2 (estimated): 320whp

Assuming I would have gotten to 320whp with 3 more PSI of boost, then the "test pipe adds between 10-15hp" statement would hold true. Either way, once I go get retuned, I'll hopefully be at 330whp since I'll be running 26-27psi and Calvin (Cobb Plano's tuner) will be working with a 3port. Hopefully that will give him enough control over the boost that I'll break 330whp, which was my goal from Day 1. :)

It's been exciting every step of the way and I can't wait to see how it all ends up! Then maybe after it's all done, I can go about life again trying to find a girlfriend and writing code in my spare time, lol!

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Hello brand new nice and shiny LICP. :)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/...e217c40e_b.jpg

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Just installed my LICP a while ago (using my brand new Craftsman tool set :D), rechecked the clamps, put her back together, took for her a spin making sure to throw down the hammer every now and then, and everything checked out perfectly! :score010:

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Nice. You going to keep those worm clamps on there that are shown in the pic, or get some T-Bolts on there eventually?