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Met up with Bambi who gave me a K&N air filter to replace the stocker, much thanks to her. Then she offered to help me debadge the mitsu and lancer symbol and she did an outstanding job. Learned alot about the importance of paint and how to treat it. She even did a full body cavity search on my paint and saw things I wouldn't have seen in decades
Needless to say, Graphite Grey is an amazingly beautiful color on the X in my opinion except it LOVES to show scratches. And no matter how far away you park in the nose bleeds so people don't become the cause of any sratches you just have to deal with it happening one way or another for those who have no respect.
Anyways, just wanted to thank Bambi for her special care to detail and positive attitude to make this an enjoyable learning experience. Since then I've been in ninja mode and taking photos of license plates to any and all near me. By May I think my memory card is going to full with nothing but photos of this.
Needless to say, Graphite Grey is an amazingly beautiful color on the X in my opinion except it LOVES to show scratches. And no matter how far away you park in the nose bleeds so people don't become the cause of any sratches you just have to deal with it happening one way or another for those who have no respect.
Anyways, just wanted to thank Bambi for her special care to detail and positive attitude to make this an enjoyable learning experience. Since then I've been in ninja mode and taking photos of license plates to any and all near me. By May I think my memory card is going to full with nothing but photos of this.
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Met up with Bambi who gave me a K&N air filter to replace the stocker, much thanks to her. Then she offered to help me debadge the mitsu and lancer symbol and she did an outstanding job. Learned alot about the importance of paint and how to treat it. She even did a full body cavity search on my paint and saw things I wouldn't have seen in decades
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@ Bambi - I was metaphorically speaking that your attention to detail is nothing short of marvelous. I do that sometimes
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I'm not waiting til summer for my shifter! I'm probably going to do it the soonest weekend after my car gets out of the shop. Such an amazing set up!
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AMS, ETS or AGP only. Bar and plate or nothing at all. AGP is the cheapest route. Im not going Cobb catback because i want something with a little more aggressiveness yet not too loud like ETS V2 (not the extreme model thats all pipe but the one with two mini mufflers on the catback).
Just my 2-cents, but you're going to want something a bit more mellow than the ETS V2 catback on a DD street-car. Those "mini-mufflers" (they're actually Vibrant resonators) do very little to reduce drone. I'd suggest something with a larger single muffler such as the Magnaflow, ETS V2 Quiet, Buschur Crossflow, Cobb, Perrin, etc.
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the UR stuff is fine if it isn't driven hard. Goofys car was put through hell at the track quite often, thus able to find the weak points of the part.
josh has even managed to crack all the welds on his ETS exhaust by the mufflers too. ETS offered to fix it but we just did it in house to save a ton on shipping. i believe michael at ETS even said they also found it was a weak point and could crack there and had changed designs a while ago so it didn't do it anymore. the ETS cracks werent nearly as bad as the UR failures though.
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the UR stuff is fine if it isn't driven hard. Goofys car was put through hell at the track quite often, thus able to find the weak points of the part.
josh has even managed to crack all the welds on his ETS exhaust by the mufflers too. ETS offered to fix it but we just did it in house to save a ton on shipping. i believe michael at ETS even said they also found it was a weak point and could crack there and had changed designs a while ago so it didn't do it anymore. the ETS cracks werent nearly as bad as the UR failures though.
josh has even managed to crack all the welds on his ETS exhaust by the mufflers too. ETS offered to fix it but we just did it in house to save a ton on shipping. i believe michael at ETS even said they also found it was a weak point and could crack there and had changed designs a while ago so it didn't do it anymore. the ETS cracks werent nearly as bad as the UR failures though.
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no doubt you make much much more power then sean, but how much power you make isn't a good measure of how hard its pushed (for example the FP journal bearing turbo debate for evo 8/9... road racing caused lots and lots of failures, but street/drag/autocross never got em hot enough long enough to cause the problems). tell me some lap times at any local track and i'll tell you how hard its being pushed. if you haven't or dont take lap times, then i promise, it wasnt pushed nearly as hard as sean. the color of your brakes will be a great indicator of how hard it was pushed too... joshs are completely black. seans did the same.
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Here is some food for thought Krisko. If you have Cobb do all the work and stick with Cobb parts or parts they order for you... You get this kewl thing called a warranty, parts, labor, the whole shooting match. I know ETS and AMS stand beside thier parts and they are prolly others. Just think about the hassle, freedom aspect. I have almost 50k miles on my evo now with still no issues. Over 400 hp and stable as a rock.