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God it just makes me that much happier to have my muffler.
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silverGPX wrote:God it just makes me that much happier to have my muffler.
:thumleft: does yours have a 4.5" tip aswell??haha
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destinationtoby wrote: nice what are the specs? is it a 3" pipe? and how many hotdogs in it? sounds way better and your right, mine has a note at one stage then it just disapears.. i have noticed better acceleration but expected more for the price :x
Not sure about the resonators, it came along with the car :) Think it's a 2.5 twin...

Btw, aim for getting extractors as your next mod. Well worth the investment I've heard.
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destinationtoby wrote:cool u found it. thats the one. and no its not loud enough, that big tip does nothing but look shithouse. only a abit of a note at high revs, i wanted something deeper and meaner something u can just hear at idle atleast. :-x


will get a vid in a minute
Your not going to get the idle that your after with a 2L v6 mate, especially if you want it legal.
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Taz wrote:
destinationtoby wrote:cool u found it. thats the one. and no its not loud enough, that big tip does nothing but look shithouse. only a abit of a note at high revs, i wanted something deeper and meaner something u can just hear at idle atleast. :-x


will get a vid in a minute
Your not going to get the idle that your after with a 2L v6 mate, especially if you want it legal.
Honestly what is legal these days changes every month
gotta get there one day :)
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ZFL45H1 wrote:
Taz wrote:
destinationtoby wrote:cool u found it. thats the one. and no its not loud enough, that big tip does nothing but look shithouse. only a abit of a note at high revs, i wanted something deeper and meaner something u can just hear at idle atleast. :-x


will get a vid in a minute
Your not going to get the idle that your after with a 2L v6 mate, especially if you want it legal.
Honestly what is legal these days changes every month
I just kinda go with whatever and pray i don't get picked up :lol:
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so today i did this! luckily i was doing about 60km. have decided that my car is too low for daily use.
so im going to put the "low" king springs in the front for now and see how it goes. shuld lift up a fair bit.
but im sure ill still get plenty of people telling me that i have a nice supra :-D


oh just out of curiosity, do i need a new sump??
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That's a fair whack, I'd replace that...
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Holy f**k good effort haha
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At least urs is still intacted mine looked like that and a whole piece of metal around the sump plug blew out haha
gotta get there one day :)
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yeah theres a heap of oil coming from around the plug area so i think it did the same thing but must only be a little split. farrksake,
where the hell to do i get a new oil sump from and is it a hard job to DIY??
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good effort mate oh is that my old rims painted in the background they look good :)
FTO ftw
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mattman wrote:good effort mate oh is that my old rims painted in the background they look good :)

yeah man they are coming along good, one at a time, going to paint the calipers aswell before i put them on.
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+1 The rims are looking nice :)
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new wheels on
not bad for $70 imo
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Not bad at all I'd say!
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the wheels look hot in black and suit the car nice job
FTO ftw
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had a couple hours before work so threw in a new air intake pipe and pod.
to be honest dont really notice any difference. but heres some pics.
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slow progress
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:facepalm2:
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