Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I personally don't know if I would spend the money again. I paid 800, I think, for my used nameless header. It is coated inside and out.

Actually, you've just put me over the edge. It most needs tightened up past the differential. I should spend that money on custom half-shafts. Some tougher cv joints.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Actually, you've just put me over the edge. It most needs tightened up past the differential. I should spend that money on custom half-shafts. Some tougher cv joints.

The juice just isn't worth the squeeze to me. I could decat a stock header or buy a Tomei and get most of the gains for a lot less. There is also a kid in a stock power BRZ that has laid down some stupid lap times at the Ridge and PIR.

That reminds me, I need to go through and repack my CV's again and build a heat shield for the driver side

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

The juice just isn't worth the squeeze to me.

I really am satisfied with the power, and I have strong feelings about cats. I would only run it if I could pass minimum efficiency with only the downstream cat. I'd have to score a spare stock front pipe and install a bung all for the experiment.

That reminds me, I need to go through and repack my CV's again and build a heat shield for the driver side

Yeah, that hot spot is real. Overpipe cooks that sway bar bushing too. Shit, the whole tunnel gets hot.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I really am satisfied with the power, and I have strong feelings about cats. I would only run it if I could pass minimum efficiency with only the downstream cat. I'd have to score a spare stock front pipe and install a bung all for the experiment.Yeah, that hot spot is real. Overpipe cooks that sway bar bushing too. Shit, the whole tunnel gets hot.

I've contemplated going fully back to stock exhaust and just having the car setup for flex fuel and maybe just run a cat back. I haven't decided. I have a couple goals I am shooting for.

My sway bar bushing surprisingly does not look terrible, but I will likely replace it along with a few other bushings. As much as a pain as some of that stuff can be I might as well do it while I have the car apart.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Actually, you've just put me over the edge. It most needs tightened up past the differential. I should spend that money on custom half-shafts. Some tougher cv joints.

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

The juice just isn't worth the squeeze to me. I could decat a stock header or buy a Tomei and get most of the gains for a lot less. There is also a kid in a stock power BRZ that has laid down some stupid lap times at the Ridge and PIR.

That reminds me, I need to go through and repack my CV's again and build a heat shield for the driver side

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I really am satisfied with the power, and I have strong feelings about cats. I would only run it if I could pass minimum efficiency with only the downstream cat. I'd have to score a spare stock front pipe and install a bung all for the experiment.Yeah, that hot spot is real. Overpipe cooks that sway bar bushing too. Shit, the whole tunnel gets hot.

Stop. Giving. Me. Ideas.

Already debating whether to get a overpipe coated to stop my sway bushing from melting again.

[soundman98]

no, you should definitely do that.

[cjd]

E85 at half the price of 93 is far too tempting (it's not that way any more, but not long ago it was). Then again, I hardly even get the car out of the garage these days so what's the point of even having it? decisions... I'm also tempted to just get silly and add boost to the mix.

I can't entirely compare Ace to Nameless due to a different tune, but the Nameless pulled harder up high and the Ace is better in city driving. The difference is quite surprising. Worth the cost vs other options? Hard to say. I'm a min/maxer so the answer is clear to me (thus swapping the PP Brembos for AP Sprint/vanilla OE - seems now I could have kept the Brembo rears but at the time I couldn't find data on bias).
As long as you have fun with your process/result I'm not sure it really matters. Pick the parts that do what you want them to do.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Stop. Giving. Me. Ideas.

Already debating whether to get a overpipe coated to stop my sway bushing from melting again.

You could always just wrap it.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

You could always just wrap it.

Stop. Giving. Me. GOOD. Ideas.

Excuse me while I go look up things about exhaust wrap and see whether it's worth it to remove the over pipe heat shield...

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Stop. Giving. Me. GOOD. Ideas.

Excuse me while I go look up things about exhaust wrap and see whether it's worth it to remove the over pipe heat shield...

Oh, get on with it and jest wrap it! -

Bubba

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Oh, get on with it and jest wrap it! -

Bubba

That looks a bit like how I fixed the hole in my exhaust in college.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Stop. Giving. Me. GOOD. Ideas.

Excuse me while I go look up things about exhaust wrap and see whether it's worth it to remove the over pipe heat shield...

I dunno... It's pretty easy to replace that bushing. I still haven't replaced mine but I don't really lean on it for any length of time.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I dunno... It's pretty easy to replace that bushing. I still haven't replaced mine but I don't really lean on it for any length of time.

Oh, I got a Perrin front sway bar going in with it's own bushings. I just don't want anything to happen to that one lol.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Oh, I got a Perrin front sway bar going in with it's own bushings. I just don't want anything to happen to that one lol.

Meh. Consumables.