drucea's Lancer Build Up Thread (crap load of big pics)
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OK, got the header and springs on and my grill done. I don't want to type it all again so I'll paste it from my other thread.
So this weekend I went to my friend's house to put on some new springs and the Kamikaze header/DP/RRM test pipe. Everything came out great. The springs give it a nice low stance and look great. I recommend B&G to anyone who wants a drop. I'll have some before and after shots soon. Put on the header/DP and came into some problems getting the stock stuff off. The second o2 sensor got stripped and the test pipe is way too loud. So now I'm running super rich, draining gas like a viper, and I won't go over 2000 RPMs to avoid the noise. So I need to get the sensor fixed and a High flow cat installed before I get to feel the results. Then spur of the moment, Tim (kustomconcepts) decides he wants to cut out my grill. I always wanted to but didn't want to mess with the bondo and cutting and stuff. He did it and it came out great. You can kind of see where the slats were cut off because we just sprayed over it with black spray primer, but we'll fix that up later. It looks fine for now till I get some money to make it look better.
Now for the pics:
Compared to stock, the stock runners look a tiiiiny bit bigger...
But the exit is definately bigger and theres no cat or screen
It's a bit too long so it pushes my muffler out more and rattles against my rear sway bar perch. That will get fixed when I have a high flow cat put in because the exhaust is way too loud with no cats.
Springs:
New grill, I'll be getting mesh eventually. Not too worried about it now.
I'll get some daytime pics of all this soon. We just happened to only finish things once it got dark.
Thanks for the help Tim. I decided to go home next week so I can get this all fixed first.
So this weekend I went to my friend's house to put on some new springs and the Kamikaze header/DP/RRM test pipe. Everything came out great. The springs give it a nice low stance and look great. I recommend B&G to anyone who wants a drop. I'll have some before and after shots soon. Put on the header/DP and came into some problems getting the stock stuff off. The second o2 sensor got stripped and the test pipe is way too loud. So now I'm running super rich, draining gas like a viper, and I won't go over 2000 RPMs to avoid the noise. So I need to get the sensor fixed and a High flow cat installed before I get to feel the results. Then spur of the moment, Tim (kustomconcepts) decides he wants to cut out my grill. I always wanted to but didn't want to mess with the bondo and cutting and stuff. He did it and it came out great. You can kind of see where the slats were cut off because we just sprayed over it with black spray primer, but we'll fix that up later. It looks fine for now till I get some money to make it look better.
Now for the pics:
Compared to stock, the stock runners look a tiiiiny bit bigger...
But the exit is definately bigger and theres no cat or screen
It's a bit too long so it pushes my muffler out more and rattles against my rear sway bar perch. That will get fixed when I have a high flow cat put in because the exhaust is way too loud with no cats.
Springs:
New grill, I'll be getting mesh eventually. Not too worried about it now.
I'll get some daytime pics of all this soon. We just happened to only finish things once it got dark.
Thanks for the help Tim. I decided to go home next week so I can get this all fixed first.
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Went from a 215/40/17 to a 215/45/17. People have told me it looks more natural on the car rather than having that thin tire wall on the smaller tires.
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Every now and then when I'm backing out of parking spots real slow, there's a short point where I can hear it rub for a second, and that's it. I was surprised it doesn't rub more, but definately not complaining.
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Got a high flow magnaflow cat installed finally. Got it from justmagnaflow.com for $63 free shipping. the shop wanted $250 installed. They installed my cat for $45 labor. Sounds waaaay better and moved the high pitched raspy noise up by redline to where I only hear it when it's between 5-6000 rpms. AND, no more rattling from my muffler hitting the sway bar perch. All thats left is to get an o2 sensor bung put in and put the sensor back in.
BEFORE THE CAT
WITH THE CAT
I listened to them back to back like 20 times and all you can tell from this camera is that it's a smoother sound without any pops. But in person it sounds way different.
BEFORE THE CAT
WITH THE CAT
I listened to them back to back like 20 times and all you can tell from this camera is that it's a smoother sound without any pops. But in person it sounds way different.
