Deadmau5X: MOAR Mods 'N Stuff - Page 10

**Kracka** · 12-11-2010

We got it on last night followed up by some ghetto Mexican tacos

Fitment was ultra close, had that anti-walk tab been any further off there is no way the bar would have fit. It just barely fit, but it did end up fitting nearly perfectly with a little force. The driver's side bushing is jammed up against the tab, but the passenger side is nearly 1/2" away; if they're not going to be positioned properly they might as well just leave them off since it would have made installation much smoother.

From a few texts late last night it sounds like Armando is happy! He mentioned being able to carry extra speed into a corner he regularly takes. For those who care, we put it on the medium setting which is roughly equivalent to the Whiteline soft setting. Another thing, I was shocked at how much lighter the Perrin bar is compared to the Whiteline!

**goodhart** · 12-11-2010

So, with it not fitting right, is the bushing sqaushed in there? Whats gonna stop it from eating bushings like your whiteline did?

**Kracka** · 12-11-2010

It actually squashed in nearly perfectly, it just took a lot of force to get it there. I will be shocked if this ever needs to come apart. I'm sure Armando will get under there and snap a few pics in the daylight.

My Whiteline bushing damage was a separate issue related to reusing the stock saddles; Whiteline has since sent me revised saddles and the correct bushings.

**goodhart** · 12-11-2010

sweet

Rmondoh · 12-11-2010

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Originally Posted by Kracka

It actually squashed in nearly perfectly, it just took a lot of force to get it there. I will be shocked if this ever needs to come apart. I'm sure Armando will get under there and snap a few pics in the daylight.

That's correct. I wanted to take some pictures of it installed before I update. I've been running errands this morning and am just about to put up the Christmas lights, so once I get some time either today or tomorrow, I'll get under there, take some pics, and update everyone.

Rmondoh · 12-12-2010

So here are the pictures as promised. So I am glad that it fit and the bushings actually closed properly. As Kracka said, if that stopper tab had been any closer to the bend, the bar would not have fit and that bushing would have been all jacked up. I'm still not too thrilled at how it was made, but after putting it on and seeing how it fit, it's good enough to where I don't want to go through the hassle of getting a 4th sway bar.

Bad Side

Good Side

Bad Side

Good Side

**mlomker** · 12-12-2010

Lots of whiners in TX. I'm happy when shit works at all.

**Kracka** · 12-12-2010

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Originally Posted by mlomker

Lots of whiners in TX. I'm happy when shit works at all.

Whatever it takes to use our cars daily rather than let them sit in pieces for weeks/months

End of the day, Perrin just needs to stop welding anti-walk tabs to the bar if they can't do it accurately. They don't have any real-world benefit anyway.

**cmspaz** · 12-12-2010

Looks like Hughes used his "special bushing lube" on those...

Rmondoh · 12-12-2010

That's my lube and there's plenty more of it to go around.

The grease that came with the Perrin sway bar is Energy Suspension Formula 5 Prelube. It doesn't feel like the grease that came with the Whiteline bar nor the grease Hughes and I have. This stuff feels like thick maple syrup.

Rmondoh · 01-01-2011

So Hughes and I finally got around to doing the fluids on my car. We did the tranny, xfer case, and rear diff. None of the fluids looked bad really for 33k miles without a single change. Not a lot of metal shavings to be honest and I think the xfer case fluid still looked a bit red. Not too hard of a job to change them all. I'd say the hardest one to fill was the xfer case just because you couldn't really see if it was dripping out of the fill hole due to the location. Overall a pretty easy job. Fluids used were as follows:

Transmission: Redline Cocktail (2x MTL, 1x MT-90)
Transfer Case: Diaqueen 90W LSD
Rear Differential: Diamond ATF SP III + Diaqueen 90W LSD (rear diff takes 2 fluids. 2 different compartments for each)

I've been driving around for a week or so now with the new tranny fluid and OMG. The difference between the Redline mix and the OEM stuff is night and day. I really love how smooth each shift feels now.

I also picked up a Cobb downpipe from a fellow NTEC member down here for pretty cheap and in good shape. So we should be able to run a test and see what a full 3" shorty downpipe does without the o2 housing being changed. I'm still optimistic about it but if it ends up doing nothing, I'm content with losing what I spent for it.

Also got a MitsuStyle sticker from Hughes today! I got the standard white lettering with red mitsu symbol. Thanks to Scheides for bringing those down to Vegas and handing them off to Hughes!

**Kracka** · 01-01-2011

Lookin' good!

**scheides** · 01-01-2011

Woohoo, redline and sticker mods!

Rmondoh · 01-01-2011

Ah I knew I forgot something.

Back when Hughes helped me install my Perrin RSB, he told me he heard an exhaust leak. I didn't look into it right away. A couple weeks ago I noticed that my wideband started reading weird when the car was idle and eventually threw a "Service Engine Soon" code, P0171, which is "System Too Lean". On first research, it looked like it might be a MAF scaling issue as nothing had changed on the car since I got tuned back in early November. Well I emailed back and forth with Cobb on the issue and eventually told them I was going to bring it in (since I got off work early one day due to holiday). As soon as they pulled it into the shop, I heard the exhaust leak and was "OMG...". It sounded pretty bad from outside the car. You couldn't really hear it that well from inside the car, even with the windows down. So Calvin checks out the vac lines in the engine bay and all looks good. He goes to check the exhaust leak and tells me that's what the issue is. Since I have my wideband tapped into the downpipe near the stock o2 sensor, the leak (at idle) is causing enough of an issue to where the car would read a false lean condition. So the manager at Cobb gave me a gasket and all was good. They didn't charge me a single thing! Nice guys at Cobb.

So I go to change the gasket and this is what I took off the car (note: I'm actually holding it upside down):

That would be kind of a problem!

So I put in the new gasket and fire up the car. IMMEDIATELY sounds WAY better and my wideband also IMMEDIATELY starts reading back to what I used to see. Just goes to show how something so small might cause issues elsewhere. If I didn't have my wideband tapped into the downpipe right next to the stock o2 sensor, I probably wouldn't have known the readings were getting thrown off. Lesson learned!

Rmondoh · 02-13-2011

PPI ported exhaust manifolds came in Friday. Really really nice job done on them. Very happy with how they look. Took them to SPC with Kracka to get them ceramic coated. Should be done by the end of the week hopefully! Here's a link to my before pictures of the manifolds. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmondoh...7625906551813/

**scheides** · 02-13-2011

Mmmmmmm ported hooooooootness!

**goodhart** · 02-13-2011

Nice. I'd really like to port the turbine ho0using/mani on my car, I was looking into PPI as well. Looks like they do nice work!

**Kracka** · 02-13-2011

Wayne @ PPI is a great guy, his portwork is very nice for the money. It's not as sexy as Bob @ MAP's, but it's also less than half the price even when you select his "extreme" option.

**goodhart** · 02-13-2011

Did you guys go with the extreme option?

Rmondoh · 02-13-2011

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Originally Posted by goodhart

Did you guys go with the extreme option?

Yes we did. There wasn't a part of the manifold that wasn't ported. Runners were done all the way. Hopefully the pictures I took reflect that. It was hard enough trying to get the flash and focus of my camera to get in there, but I think I got enough of it to show.