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by Marrkin » Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:41 pm
Well,
got my new intake yesterday, but wasn't going to install it. I had actually logged into the game and realized i was crazy tired so i logged off. Couldn't get to sleep and I was bored as hell, so I went out in the pitch dark and the rain and decided to start tearing my engine bay apart to install this. Wasn't too bad though, only about 2 hours total. Gives a mean throaty growl after 3k rpm. Sounds much nicer than the usual strain of a 4-banger.
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by Blackferne » Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:50 pm
As a Prius driver I'd like to say "please don't hurt me."
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by Furiel » Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:35 pm
Blackferne wrote:As a Pussy I'd like to say "please don't hurt me."
*fixed
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by Vespasian » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:17 pm
It's always nice when it doesn't sound like you're a telletubby driving a clown car.
Cuspar eats dead people.
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by Marrkin » Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:18 pm
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by Skiggity » Sat Nov 03, 2012 12:28 am
Very nice, sometimes a bit of underhood manual labor is the answer to all problems. And gotta love that hard-tube short-ram sound! I've got a Comptech on my Type R, it's a short ram like yours with a box enclosure and a secondary tube that runs down to the fender. Occasionally I pull the top off the box for the truly obnoxious VTEC wail; it's comically loud in that car. I miss the tunnels in Pittsburgh, we once had 5 Type Rs in the mile-long Liberty Tubes, with not traffic ahead of us...sounded like a half-speed F1 race with engines at 8500 RPM...
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by Marrkin » Sat Nov 03, 2012 2:50 am
Yeah I have the tube to convert it to a Ram air setup, but currently nowhere to mount the ram air intake. So for now I'm just gonna hold onto those pieces.
And yes its loud as hell when I hit about 4500+ RPM. May have to look into putting Dynamat in places inside the cab.
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by Skiggity » Sat Nov 03, 2012 4:34 am
Dynamat is weight! Weight is the enemy! You should instead strip out the existing insulation, and unnecessary things like carpet, speakers etc.
Fun fact: My roll bar goes through the rear speaker holes, so they're gone, and when I came across a pair of aftermarket speakers that boasted being lightweight neodymium magnets I bought 'em to replace the fronts. 1.3 lbs. each!
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by Marrkin » Wed Nov 07, 2012 4:46 pm
Moved on to the interior, just to try somethings out. I have started working on parts of my center console, adding a carbon fiber "wrap" to certain pieces. On this first piece I also painted the ring around the shift boot, since Nissan just has that generic looking silver paint there. Thought it might clash too much with the new CF look, so I went with a slightly textured metallic black paint.
This was my first one:
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by Skiggity » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:05 pm
That came out really sharp! How difficult were the curves with the CF wrap?
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by Marrkin » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:12 pm
Honestly not bad at all. I didnt even need to use a heat gun, though I do have one. Basically I just pulled on the excess to make it tight around the curves and smoothed it down with my thumb. Afterwards I went over it with my felt-sided squeegee (this stuff can get pretty biffed up by a regular one since it is actually a textured CF wrap) just to help seal it to the smoothest surfaces. I would probably suggest using adhesion promoters around the smallest/sharpest curves though. I didn't and that may have en effect in the future, but for now its plenty good for me.
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by Bulwark » Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:13 am
that looks amazing! well done!
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by Vespasian » Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:03 am
Bulwark wrote:that looks amazing! well done!
What he sais
Cuspar eats dead people.
