With the brake fluid a little firmer. I had flushed out system a while back from Ford Heavy Duty brake fluid to the ATE SuperBlue, but decided to do one more flush to get it really cleaned up.

With the Castrol 0W30 green oil, feels a little smoother than the gold version of the fluid. Engine starts up a little quieter. I don't notice much on the track, but these are much warmer and wetter months.

Both of these are fluids I strongly recommend if you can get your hands on them.

 

Lexmex, def make this a sticky.

name it: "Random Q&A You've Never Wanted to Ask"

we have discussed a lot on these 9 pages haha

 

I am actually going to keep this separate...for the time being, but I'll keep it in mind.

I have had a few other threads of mine run on some pages before.

 

cool i hope i can get some...maybe from a website or something.

yes we've definitely talked a lot of these pages!

so lexmex what are your plans for your muffler? did u make it to the place where your uncle works to get the muffler you wanted? which muffler is that?

 

Well I haven't had a chance during the week to go see the mufflers, but on Saturday I got around to several places. Many places had a two outlet/one inlet style. My idea is to turn the muffler around and have the y pipe enter the two pipes on the back and have a single outlet on the exit of the muffler. However, the mufflers I saw were flattops, not ovals. I know these mufflers exist here, it is just a matter of finding them and not getting hosed on price.

I may end up getting something from the U.S., if I don't see something I like here.

Below is something close, an APC 156019.

 

I may not stop there.

In the picture below is a very interesting array of resonators that I have shown before.

From left to right: a glasspack (I used one of these for one day and it was incredibly loud), Sankei Resonator from a Honda Accord (I used this one for a few years and not too bad), a Flowmaster resonator previously used on a Seat Leon and finally a Hangar-1 custom resonator (this is the exhaust shop where this one was taken and this last resonator is my current one).

I may actually move to the Flowmaster resonator shortly after I move to the muffler I described in my last post.

 

sweet i like that muffler

whats a resonator exactly?

 

Think of it like a pre-muffler. If you look underneath the middle of your RX300, you will see a long muffler-like tube...that is the resonator. Resonators are usually longer (though not always as shown with the Flowmaster above) than the muffler at the end of the exhaust system and like the muffler are used to cancel out sound waves. Generally, resonators are fabricated to reduce what I like to term raspiness (thinking of for lack of a better series of words...a short set of farts, or sometimes popping noises).

 

i know what u mean. when do u think you'll do some more work on your muffler or go find the right parts?

 

As soon as I can find the parts.

I did check with Hangar 1 on even the Flowmaster resonator they used to have and they didn't have it anymore. They are almost exclusively APC and Magnaflow now.

Thing with ordering from the states is that if you ship it, Mexican Customs is very arbitrary in what they charge on tax, regardless of having a receipt or declared value. I would prefer to get everything bought down here and buy locally-made clones of what I need. I plan to take another look on Saturday afternoon.

If I go home to Florida this year, I definitely need to modify the exhaust as it would probably cause a wrath of "imperial tie fighters" to descend on me otherwise.

 

hahaha

cool tell me when u find what ur looking for b/c it's prob what im looking for too!! so are you from florida or mexico? r u mexican or american?

 

American and Floridian.

I'll keep you up-to-date when I find what I am looking for.

I wanted to ask if you are considering other modifications for your RX300 besides the exhaust/intake.

 

ok

other than modifications to my exhaust and a cold air intake the only other thing i might do is a light-weight crankshift pully and a tom's radiator cap. im not sure of anything else that can be done for what im trying to accomplish, but feel free to make suggestions!

 

Crankshaft pulley might be hard to get given it is no longer being made and the other company, Sportivo Concepts, that was going to make a 3 pulley set, haven't heard from them either in quite some time. The radiator cap is snap to do, but really needs to be combined with the TRD T-stat, which is a major pain to install. At the very least the radiator cap and a bottle of Redline WaterWetter is a good start.

What about exterior and interior modifications?

 

yea i guess maybe should rethink some of those things then!

as for interior/exterior mods i don't really have anything...my dad won't let me do anything to the interior to make it appear to be aftermarket except for add a sub (but that's only because it can easily taken out). things like TV's and such aren't allowed. as the exterior i thought a grill replacement + chrome handles + some other things but i voted against it. so basically there's not many other mods that i can really do! i think ill have the intake installed and then start talking about where to go from there!

what about u?