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Old 04-11-13 | 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by A_Grasso
Your car sounds really good! Do you have an intake as well, or just the exhaust itself? I wonder how loud my set-up is compared to yours. I'm always looking for ways to make mine louder lol
I do have an intake. Just a generic ebay intake though

Would you happen to have a link to your exhaust clip as I tried searching through a lot of the threads you've posted in and I can't seem to find it.

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Old 04-11-13 | 12:00 PM
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hmmm... don't know I may still have you beat by a couple decibels. lol

I want to hear it in person one of these days!
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Well I wouldn't doubt it since yours is a custom set-up! Yeah sure. Where are you located?
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Well I wouldn't doubt it since yours is a custom set-up! Yeah sure. Where are you located?
I live here in Downey and I manage the performance department here at Mckenna BMW, Porsche and Audi so if you're ever in the area you are more than welcomed to stop by and check out our Audi R8's and other cool cars we have in the showroom.
Old 04-11-13 | 01:45 PM
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Just got some new rubber installed on my car. Replaced my cambered out Michelin PSS 225/40/18's with some new ones and now I'm rubbing a lot when I go up a driveway. These cars have to have one of the worst suspension setups I have ever seen!



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Originally Posted by e46m3lol
I live here in Downey and I manage the performance department here at Mckenna BMW, Porsche and Audi so if you're ever in the area you are more than welcomed to stop by and check out our Audi R8's and other cool cars we have in the showroom.
Awesome! I work in oc, so i'll stop by sometime
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Here is a picture I took 2 days ago of the new strut bar I installed.

Don't know if it actually made a difference but I suppose it looks cool in the engine bay. lol





Had to raise my car a little bit last night as I will be going on a weekend trip across the border this weekend. Gotta have some wheel gap to fit all sloots after the club
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Good stuff you've done. Interested in wrapping my wood grain pieces on my gs350. Can you do part of the steering wheel? I'm not sure if the strut bar helps on these cars, but I've had them on my 5.0 mustangs and they help alot since the frame is a unibody. Wwhere did you buy it from. I'm in OC.
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I love the look of the strut bar but hate that you have to lose the two side engine covers to use it. Uggh....
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Just got back from the weekend get away and during the trip my oil change light came on so as soon as I got home I did an oil change and decided to do the differential fluid change as well.

The covers would have to be trimmed slightly in order for them to sit nicely with the strut bar installed if you don't trim them they just sit too high up and ends up looking tacky.

MCCR... I'll send you a pm in regards to the trim wrapping but yeah I can do it for you!
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where do you get em twin loop muffler? they looks really nice
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where do you get em twin loop muffler? they looks really nice
I got them from a local aftermarket parts distributor. Took a lot of modding for the actual mufflers to work but my exhaust guy made it happen.

With the valves closed the exhaust sounds deep and throaty.
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Did you black those headlights out yourself or were they aftermarket? Dig the set up man car looks great!
Old 04-15-13 | 07:22 AM
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Thanks papalex!

I did paint the housing in gloss black. Wasn't really digging the chrome housing since I first bought the car. It made a huge difference in the overall appearance to the front end as I did also paint the grill in gloss black.



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