View Single Post
Old 02-09-2009   #19
Halon
Pewp Champion
 
Halon's Avatar
 

Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blaine
Drives: Teh Bean
Posts: 12,309
Send a message via AIM to Halon
Re: My Winter Upgrades

Yup, turns out Forge just sent me a brand new valve, for free. Awesome.

Couple Updates. Drove it to Maple Grove and back yesterday since the roads were dry and clear. Kept it under 4k RPM's, just took it easy on it in general. Rode and drove great, just need to get the thing aligned.

Decided I no longer want my gauges mounted on the A-Pillar. It was a good spot for them, but the A-Pillar liked to fall down for the past coupler years, like it was just too much weight for it. So I took my gauges off and ordered up some cups so I can mount them elsewhere.

I do have one exhaust leak, but overall I still want to try and quiet down the exhaust a big more. Currently It's a full 3" Turbo Back utilizing all V-Band connections, with a Hooker straight through oval muffler, and a 3" Vibrant Resonator. In the quest to keep it quieter, I ordered up a new standard SS Magnaflow straight through oval muffler (no bling finish, just standard finish) that will be replacing the hooker. I've been happy with the hooker, but it's the only NON-SS thing on the exhaust, and I want it to be entirely SS. Thermal makes my favorite sounding muffler, but everything I could find from them was a bling finish that I don't want, so Magnaflow it is. Also ordered a SS PYPES brand straight through bullet muffler that I'll be welding in right behind the resonator (as long as ground clearance is still somewhat decent). So hopefully 1 resonator, 1 bullet muffler, and 1 Magnaflow oval muffler will be enough to quiet it down some. If not, I may try replacing the PYPES bullet with a Magnaflow bullet in the future, but it was only $49 so hell I figured it was worth a shot.
__________________
B-Man - FlexFuel Mafia
1991 TSi AWD E85 - BEP S362, DSMLink V2, Built 2.0L Idle Vid 628hp Graph 541hp Vid 10.93@137 Vid
1992 SC300 E85 - BW 84-75, Vlad Infinity, NA-T, 6spd Idle Vid 709hp Graph 709hp Vid 11.1@131 Vid
2006 Bayliner 195 - Carbed 5.0 Top Speed Test

Last edited by Halon; 02-09-2009 at 08:58 PM..
Halon is offline   Reply With Quote