11-27-2012, 02:06 PM | #197 |
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Well it is a very very sad time. It is that time of the year again where I gotta put Amber into storage :(. The worst part about it is that she is stored in my dad's garage which is 300 miles away so I don't even get to see her everyday :(. While she is in storage though I plan on doing some mods that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do while I drove it daily. Most of the mods I have planned are for the engine bay. I just sent out my IM to get ported and I also plan on getting it polished. I also intend to do some painting to my valve covers and plenum cover.
In the mean time I am stuck driving the winter beater depress-mobile, my '06 Hyundai Elantra lol. |
11-27-2012, 03:42 PM | #198 |
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So sad bro lol but I can't wait to hear what your impressions on the ported manifold are...Rx or mace? (I wonder if your throttle body made that decision ) that will be my last possible bolt on mod :( haha
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11-27-2012, 04:00 PM | #199 |
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Haha I went with Mace, the whole throttle body thing actually didn't have anything to do with my decision belive it or not. Lol unfortunately I won't be able to give ya my impression on it till like March or April lol.
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11-29-2012, 10:17 AM | #200 |
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Haha well you got me there, but I've been in Similiar situations like with RPI so I can sympathize. But anyways that's cool, I'm really diggin the polished look as well and can't wait to get mine too. I can almost lose traction with T/c on wondering what the ported manifold butt dyno will tell us...
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11-29-2012, 10:59 AM | #201 | |
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11-29-2012, 11:52 AM | #202 |
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Well that's good lol and nothing to terrible but they're not easy to get ahold of and took me weeks to get my money back...same thing happened to a friend of mine and they gave her the run around and she's still waiting for her refund
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11-29-2012, 02:26 PM | #203 | |
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That's a bummer. Knowing my luck I should prob just avoid them all together haha! |
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12-10-2012, 05:37 PM | #204 |
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My Mace Stage 3 ported IM arrived today and I can't wait to install it. For anyone who is acutally follow this and expects me to do a review on it I am sorry but I won't be able to give a good one. I plan on doing a couple of other performance mods this winter (hopefully BBK headers ) so I won't be able to give an exact review on it, also not to mention going from my crappy 4 cylinder car to my camaro will be a drastic diff I prob won't remember how it drove before these mods I plan to put on. Next over the winter I am going to polish my intake manifold and plenum cover, get a plenum spacer, change some of the bolts and hopefully paint some of the IM and plenum cover. Hopefully it will look good when I am finally done lol.
I could use some advice on getting the plenum cover and IM polished. I talked to a place that can polish them for $75 an hr and they said it would take about 2-3 hrs so that is about $150-$225 and know I will be happy with how it looks. Or I can go out buy everything I need and over the course of the winter I can do it myself slowly but surely prob for much much less. Anyone have any ideas? |
12-10-2012, 05:58 PM | #205 |
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Wow! looks like you're gonna be a little busy this winter! Have you tried Tracy (sc2150) for the IM polishing?
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12-10-2012, 07:23 PM | #206 |
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Yea he doesn't do it anymore since it is too time consuming lol. I'll have to do a little research and see how to go about doing it myself.
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12-10-2012, 11:35 PM | #207 |
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Wow that looks great bro, how about you ship it to me and I'll give you a review? I need this mod but more importantly better driving skills at the track...numbers were embarrassing for the mods I have the funny thing is my reaction and 60 ft time weren't bad at all -_- just the quarter mile time???
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12-10-2012, 11:38 PM | #208 |
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Lol at first I was like who the hell is Lil'Nasty haha! Don't feel bad I suck too at the track lol best is 14 flat .
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12-11-2012, 12:06 AM | #209 |
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Maybe you'd be better off just painting the manifold? If you polish you also run the problem of having to upkeep it when it dulls out
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12-11-2012, 12:20 AM | #210 |
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i was adopted into a family of bumblebees where i live haha and thats the name i was given but lets just say i wish i could get that time Times like these makes me glad i got a manual
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