Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Mattr567]

16 minutes ago, terrytek said:

jesus fuck that's bright

ikr. Its pretty insane. That's not the brightest model either I think lol. Got them for cheap through a friend of mine.

13 minutes ago, warmmilk said:

For those of us not up to date on "stage" lingo for every aftermarket company for every car out there... What's stage 1?

For APR for Audi B5 A4's its an ECU software upgrade. With a aftermarket exhaust its a 50-60HP gain and 74-82 torque gain, depending on engine model/code 1.8T wise. There really isn't anything for the 2.8 V6, those cars are only good for 4.2 swaps  That's pretty good jump coming from a stock figure of 150HP/162 Torque.

[RevoltTrain]

So what happens when you upgrade your intake manifold and throttle body side? Will it just make more power without tuning at all? Or will it just cause something else with the stock sized exhaust? I wouldn't upgrade those parts until the exhaust is fully upgraded still for sound reasons

[RevoltTrain]

7 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Throttle response goes up. You also might get some intake noise (which I love)

 

I've always heard that with tuning, you'll gain HP and torque, true? Or just throttle response?

[RevoltTrain]

6 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

You need a tune for that but yeah. Though if you're gonna go to the trouble of getting a tune, wait till you've got the exhaust too. Then you'll see moar gains. 

I'm doing some research right now trying to find the best exhaust system for power, that isn't going to have my mom and girlfriend wanting to kill me for the noise

 

I'm thinking about maybe a catback like this, a test pipe, and then maybe some nice 4-2-1 Headers?

 

 

[RevoltTrain]

1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

Get a header and talk to the guy at the muffler shop. 

I was thinking about going in with a header, and a nice muffler, maybe find something from magnaflow? 

[RevoltTrain]

23 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Maybe. Just keep the cat and resonater. I'd not go any larger than + 0.5" diameter as well. When I have the exhaust done on the s10 I'll be doing jba headers, 3" pipe, high flow cat and magnaflow muffler

I was thinking de-catting for the extra little power and it being cheaper. Maybe not though, don't want to be obnoxiously loud. I'm looking at a Vibrant 4-2-1 header, 2.5" piping, highflow cat, and either a magnaflow or obx twin loop muffler. Along with doing a full intake system as it already has the piping and filter done, just to do the throttle body and the intake manifold. But for power mods that's the most I would do while it would be my daily driver

[Cracklingice]

The mugen twin loop does have a pretty good sound.

[RevoltTrain]

2 minutes ago, Cracklingice said:

The mugen twin loop does have a pretty good sound.

I absolutely love it

 

 

[ttoks]

So i'm a huge bike nut, ridden dirtbikes my whole life and work on them as well, a few pics.

 

Lot's of pics below.

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RevoltTrain]

3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Keep the cat. It'll help a lot with keeping the noise down. I mean look what happened to the Smurfstang when he got high flow cats and headers. He has a louder muffler on it too but he had that before a full exhaust and look what happened and the cat really doesn't to anything to hurt performance so you should just leave it in or upgrade it. 

Would a high flow cat be a good medium? Not too loud, but not too quiet, and still cleans well. 

[RevoltTrain]

Will any catalytic converter work? Any cat can be welded in, right?

[Cracklingice]

1 hour ago, ttoks said:

So i'm a huge bike nut, ridden dirtbikes my whole life and work on them as well, a few pics.

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also do all of my own maintenance, I drowned this Kawasaki KX450F engine in a muddy creek and had to rebuild it, big end bearing was shot (but fortunately didn't let go)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a few other bikes too, 1984 KZ500, I ALMOST have it back to 100% origonal, just need to find a stock airbox somwhere to replace the paper air filters on it

 

 

 

Here's my 2015 Yamaha YZ250FX, 2008 Honda CRF250R, 2007 Suzuki DR-z 125L and 2009 KTM 300 EXC-E, i've also got a 2008 KTM 450 EXC-R, and a 1999 Kawasaki KX500 

 

 

I've had a dabble into into fast car's too, I bought a 1994 R32 Nissan skyline GTR, turned out the body was rusted and junk, but the engine was quite a find, i ended up getting about 700 rear wheel hp out of it

 

 

But in this car, a 1986 VL Holden Commodore wagon, which is just so happens came standard with the nissan RB30 and RB30DET engine in them, so putting the RB26DETT in them is actually fairly simple with a sump adaptor to delete the front diff from the skyline, quite the sleeper, i left it looking as stock as possible.

 

 

 

 

Latest car project was to freshen up my father's 1996 VS holden commodore ute with a 304 cu holden V-8 in it, just a light tinker, mild cam (it's a manual, so go to lumpy and it would be horrible to drive around town), .5mm oversized piston's and new bearings, rockers, pushrods, oil pump and dizzy.

 

 

 

 

And my daily drive, a 2009 VE holden Commodore ute, just a plain 3.6 liter V6 6 speed manual, 270ish crank HP (when it came outa the factory) with over 120k miles on it, no mods except a liquid injection liquid natural gas fuel system (automotive LPG is very popular here in Australia, and much cheaper then petrol), i've since taken the wannabe looking 20 inch rims off and put the stock 18 inches back on it.

 

 

 

holy pictures.  Be kind to those poor fools on mobiles and use a spoiler.  haha

[ttoks]

you can do that on this forum? i'm only here coz Linus makes me laugh (and i've just started getting into Tech in general as an interest), how do I hide the content as you did in your quote?

[ttoks]

Hmm, i've figured out how to use the spoiler feture, but managed to delete all of my pics to the proccess bar one, but i am learning pretty much everything computor related on the fly at the moment lol

[Cracklingice]

Well all your pictures are still in the post I quoted of yours hidden behind the spoiler.  Did you insert links or upload to the forum?  If they're on the forum you can actually add them back by clicking insert other media and clicking insert existing attachment.

[ttoks]

the picture's are hosted to photobucket and linked, will see if i can make this work lol.

[ttoks]

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also do all of my own maintenance, I drowned this Kawasaki KX450F engine in a muddy creek and had to rebuild it, big end bearing was shot (but fortunately didn't let go)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a few other bikes too, 1984 KZ500, I ALMOST have it back to 100% origonal, just need to find a stock airbox somwhere to replace the paper air filters on it

 

 

 

Here's my 2015 Yamaha YZ250FX, 2008 Honda CRF250R, 2007 Suzuki DR-z 125L and 2009 KTM 300 EXC-E, i've also got a 2008 KTM 450 EXC-R, and a 1999 Kawasaki KX500 

 

 

I've had a dabble into into fast car's too, I bought a 1994 R32 Nissan skyline GTR, turned out the body was rusted and junk, but the engine was quite a find, i ended up getting about 700 rear wheel hp out of it

 

 

 

 

Latest car project was to freshen up my father's 1996 VS holden commodore ute with a 304 cu holden V-8 in it, just a light tinker, mild cam (it's a manual, so go to lumpy and it would be horrible to drive around town), .5mm oversized piston's and new bearings, rockers, pushrods, oil pump and dizzy.

 

 

 

 

And my daily drive, a 2009 VE holden Commodore ute, just a plain 3.6 liter V6 6 speed manual, 270ish crank HP (when it came outa the factory) with over 120k miles on it, no mods except a liquid injection liquid natural gas fuel system (automotive LPG is very popular here in Australia, and much cheaper then petrol), i've since taken the wannabe looking 20 inch rims off and put the stock 18 inches back on it.

 

 

 

Here we go, this is MUCH better, okay so I am a HUGE bike nut, and car's ect, and a few pic's to go alot above, thank you Cacklingice for your help

[carguy86]

drove the 86 to visit dad at the hospital today (he is in hospital because of something that happened yesterday but dont worry he is awake and okay at the moment) i could see him clinging to the window of his room as i rolled up (revved it a couple times, he was smiling like a lunatic)

 

ps: dad was in a room right next to the parking spots, i wouldnt have revved at some random person in a window far away.

[PandaCopyRight]

1 hour ago, ttoks said:

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I also do all of my own maintenance, I drowned this Kawasaki KX450F engine in a muddy creek and had to rebuild it, big end bearing was shot (but fortunately didn't let go)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a few other bikes too, 1984 KZ500, I ALMOST have it back to 100% origonal, just need to find a stock airbox somwhere to replace the paper air filters on it

 

 

 

Here's my 2015 Yamaha YZ250FX, 2008 Honda CRF250R, 2007 Suzuki DR-z 125L and 2009 KTM 300 EXC-E, i've also got a 2008 KTM 450 EXC-R, and a 1999 Kawasaki KX500 

 

 

I've had a dabble into into fast car's too, I bought a 1994 R32 Nissan skyline GTR, turned out the body was rusted and junk, but the engine was quite a find, i ended up getting about 700 rear wheel hp out of it

 

 

 

 

Latest car project was to freshen up my father's 1996 VS holden commodore ute with a 304 cu holden V-8 in it, just a light tinker, mild cam (it's a manual, so go to lumpy and it would be horrible to drive around town), .5mm oversized piston's and new bearings, rockers, pushrods, oil pump and dizzy.

 

 

 

 

And my daily drive, a 2009 VE holden Commodore ute, just a plain 3.6 liter V6 6 speed manual, 270ish crank HP (when it came outa the factory) with over 120k miles on it, no mods except a liquid injection liquid natural gas fuel system (automotive LPG is very popular here in Australia, and much cheaper then petrol), i've since taken the wannabe looking 20 inch rims off and put the stock 18 inches back on it.

 

 

 

Here we go, this is MUCH better, okay so I am a HUGE bike nut, and car's ect, and a few pic's to go alot above, thank you Cacklingice for your help

i have always kinda liked the look of the 09 holden ute ... dunno why or how ... but looks nice 

 

i would like to get into motorcycles ... but yeah stuff and stuff and afford anything  

1 hour ago, Strando123 said:

drove the 86 to visit dad at the hospital today (he is in hospital because of something that happened yesterday but dont worry he is awake and okay at the moment) i could see him clinging to the window of his room as i rolled up (revved it a couple times, he was smiling like a lunatic)

 

ps: dad was in a room right next to the parking spots, i wouldnt have revved at some random person in a window far away.

glad he is ok  

[carguy86]

3 hours ago, Mister2010 said:

i have always kinda liked the look of the 09 holden ute ... dunno why or how ... but looks nice 

 

i would like to get into motorcycles ... but yeah stuff and stuff and afford anything  

glad he is ok  

yeah, so am i, he goddamn near gave me a heart attack last night.

[JoaoPRSousa]

9 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Anyone on Forza Apex able to beat my 2:27 lap time around Rio full track?

EDIT: now its 2:24

 

Which car?

 

9 hours ago, FuzzyYellow said:

you guys think that chameleon tint would look good on the accord?

 

Mate, defog those headlights or get some new ones. Please.

[PandaCopyRight]

1 hour ago, Strando123 said:

yeah, so am i, he goddamn near gave me a heart attack last night.

please dont die ... or your dad ... we need good, smart people on this planet  

[chaozbandit]

Who wants to buy a broken car?

 

"Ran when parked"

 

Interestingly, I think this is the same wrap thats on TJ Hunts car. It really does sparkle.

 

 

[carguy86]

6 minutes ago, Mister2010 said:

please dont die ... or your dad ... we need good, smart people on this planet  

lol, no worries, dad is fine and im fine too, he is probably coming home again in two days.

[PandaCopyRight]

3 minutes ago, Strando123 said:

lol, no worries, dad is fine and im fine too, he is probably coming home again in two days.

oh wow .... noice