Mingofish Atlanta RCF build
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Got this few days ago. Thought I’d share my experience.
I have a separate set of track wheels which don’t have Tpms since our car only excepts one set at a time without having to reset the car’s receiver. I swap rims all the time so resetting was not a good option.
Thought this standalone Tpms was a good fix.
I think for people who have a set of winter tires, this may be a fair option too.
The set comes with a display that gets powers from cig lighter.
The 4 sensors are battery powered and has a gasket that keeps the air sealed to stem since it has to depress the valve to read the pressure. Hope the seal is good. I’ll let y’all know if it’s a problem down the road.
I tested the tires with my high quality tire pressure gauge and it’s on the money.
The sensors also read temperature but that wasn’t so great.
My rims were all stacked in garage so they all should be the same temp, but the sensors gave me 3 different readings on 4 tires. Although the readings were only 2 degrees off from lowest to highest.
Guess I can’t expect high precision from a $60 product.
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Thanks to JT2MA72, I also got this Ctek gadget to monitor my RR battery’s capacity.
Last time at track, I left the car in accessory mode and went to lunch. Came back to a dead battery when I shoulda been on track ripping it up. Cost me like 10 minutes of track time.
This lil gadget will allow me to see the capacity when I’m within Bluetooth range. Although that won’t do me any good if I’m far away but at least I would be able to see the battery state. Helpful at home too since my car isn’t a dd.
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Went to the local Atl caffeine & octane F meet last Sunday that Justin aka MisterEun organized.
Always nice to meet a few new F owners plus few old faces.
Justin had a photographer stop by to give us a quickie shoot.
Thought I’d post it up. Never had a professional shot of car at night.
Thanks Justin !
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Went to the local Atl caffeine & octane F meet last Sunday that Justin aka MisterEun organized.
Always nice to meet a few new F owners plus few old faces.
Justin had a photographer stop by to give us a quickie shoot.
Thought I’d post it up. Never had a professional shot of car at night.
Thanks Justin !
Man I love this shot. Looks so good!
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Ming, can you send me some of those pictures!?
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Went to the local Atl caffeine & octane F meet last Sunday that Justin aka MisterEun organized.
Always nice to meet a few new F owners plus few old faces.
Justin had a photographer stop by to give us a quickie shoot.
Thought I’d post it up. Never had a professional shot of car at night.
Thanks Justin !
Always nice to meet a few new F owners plus few old faces.
Justin had a photographer stop by to give us a quickie shoot.
Thought I’d post it up. Never had a professional shot of car at night.
Thanks Justin !
Definitely need to do a lunch meet vs the 6am thing, that's for sure haha
Overall a good showing though, albeit a bit staggered timing-wise!
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all I got was that one Josh. Think the photographer took a few more but one was all that Justin sent me. Guessing the others didn’t turn out? Hit Justin up for others may be? I know photographer took pics of a few other F cars that morning.
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Since most of them were long exposure shots, I'm sure he chose the one he liked best and edited it.
With only 30 minutes to do multiple cars in long exposure, I doubt that there were many to choose from.
Josh his IG handle is @likemindmedia
Feel free to contact him directly about it (:
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Well...had some issues with car lately.
Started getting codes/Cel after last track day.
Multiple codes were all related to left bank air fuel sensor circuits being high and low, and poor catalyst performance.
I thought the air fuel sensor was faulty due to oil fouling, since my engine does consume oil when on track. Upon inspection it looked fine. I went ahead and bought a new oe one (expensive!!) but the codes persisted.
For a minute I thought my RR tune was lost or corrupted due to the recent Lexus recall. Thought the tech may have flashed my ecu for updates even though the fuel pump recall itself does not mandate an ecu update.
After talking to Rafi, he assured me the tune was intact, and suspect the PPE o2 sensor extension as the issue.
A call to PPE confirmed the issue. They’re sending me a new extender as a warranty claim.
Will install this weekend and see if it fixes the issue.
Now I will say PPE was very pleasant & kind to respond immediately. But the tech did comment about the extender wires being easy to get burned since it’s really close to the headers. My question is why are these extenders not better insulated if they know it burns easy?
Getting to the top plug/clip to swap this little extender wire isn’t so fun...
Started getting codes/Cel after last track day.
Multiple codes were all related to left bank air fuel sensor circuits being high and low, and poor catalyst performance.
I thought the air fuel sensor was faulty due to oil fouling, since my engine does consume oil when on track. Upon inspection it looked fine. I went ahead and bought a new oe one (expensive!!) but the codes persisted.
For a minute I thought my RR tune was lost or corrupted due to the recent Lexus recall. Thought the tech may have flashed my ecu for updates even though the fuel pump recall itself does not mandate an ecu update.
After talking to Rafi, he assured me the tune was intact, and suspect the PPE o2 sensor extension as the issue.
A call to PPE confirmed the issue. They’re sending me a new extender as a warranty claim.
Will install this weekend and see if it fixes the issue.
Now I will say PPE was very pleasant & kind to respond immediately. But the tech did comment about the extender wires being easy to get burned since it’s really close to the headers. My question is why are these extenders not better insulated if they know it burns easy?
Getting to the top plug/clip to swap this little extender wire isn’t so fun...
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Well...had some issues with car lately.
Started getting codes/Cel after last track day.
Multiple codes were all related to left bank air fuel sensor circuits being high and low, and poor catalyst performance.
I thought the air fuel sensor was faulty due to oil fouling, since my engine does consume oil when on track. Upon inspection it looked fine. I went ahead and bought a new oe one (expensive!!) but the codes persisted.
For a minute I thought my RR tune was lost or corrupted due to the recent Lexus recall. Thought the tech may have flashed my ecu for updates even though the fuel pump recall itself does not mandate an ecu update.
After talking to Rafi, he assured me the tune was intact, and suspect the PPE o2 sensor extension as the issue.
A call to PPE confirmed the issue. They’re sending me a new extender as a warranty claim.
Will install this weekend and see if it fixes the issue.
Now I will say PPE was very pleasant & kind to respond immediately. But the tech did comment about the extender wires being easy to get burned since it’s really close to the headers. My question is why are these extenders not better insulated if they know it burns easy?
Getting to the top plug/clip to swap this little extender wire isn’t so fun...
Started getting codes/Cel after last track day.
Multiple codes were all related to left bank air fuel sensor circuits being high and low, and poor catalyst performance.
I thought the air fuel sensor was faulty due to oil fouling, since my engine does consume oil when on track. Upon inspection it looked fine. I went ahead and bought a new oe one (expensive!!) but the codes persisted.
For a minute I thought my RR tune was lost or corrupted due to the recent Lexus recall. Thought the tech may have flashed my ecu for updates even though the fuel pump recall itself does not mandate an ecu update.
After talking to Rafi, he assured me the tune was intact, and suspect the PPE o2 sensor extension as the issue.
A call to PPE confirmed the issue. They’re sending me a new extender as a warranty claim.
Will install this weekend and see if it fixes the issue.
Now I will say PPE was very pleasant & kind to respond immediately. But the tech did comment about the extender wires being easy to get burned since it’s really close to the headers. My question is why are these extenders not better insulated if they know it burns easy?
Getting to the top plug/clip to swap this little extender wire isn’t so fun...
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Steve,
All PPE headers are catless.
I’ve actually got a custom mid pipe being made by them that has high flow cats and resonators.
Hopfully it won’t rob too much power.
My current ARH mid pipe sounds good and feels good. Just that the fitment is terrible and rubs the car chassis so I had to find a new option.
When ahead & got cats this time since I’m sick of people telling me my car stinks
This PPE one will be my third mid pipe since I started with Meisterschaft (too loud with headers). Think I’m nuts...
All PPE headers are catless.
I’ve actually got a custom mid pipe being made by them that has high flow cats and resonators.
Hopfully it won’t rob too much power.
My current ARH mid pipe sounds good and feels good. Just that the fitment is terrible and rubs the car chassis so I had to find a new option.
When ahead & got cats this time since I’m sick of people telling me my car stinks
This PPE one will be my third mid pipe since I started with Meisterschaft (too loud with headers). Think I’m nuts...