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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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5 minutes ago, Mattr567 said:

I think you mean the 2.7TT V6 from the S4. The NA 2.8 from the A4 there isnt too much you can do and its expensive. The main thing i've seen is throwing a PES supercharger on it, adding 100HP but thats 4 grand to do. There isnt some magic chip that adds power like the 1.8T.

ah. didn't realize the two had different engines. i thought the s4 shared the same engine as the a4, but with 2 turbos tacked on.

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so this came in early, yay, get to use it at my track day tomorrow

 

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2 minutes ago, warmmilk said:

so this came in early, yay, get to use it at my track day tomorrow

 

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I bought one too. it's supposed to come today! :D

 

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Timing is a pain but I finally got it

 

 

where the intake cam has to be positioned it wants to spin. So you have to hold it there while lining everything else up. Took me 4 tries. Zip ties helped a lot though lol

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20 hours ago, BOT Edward said:

don't trash the mk5 golf's dude, they are actually a really good car lol

 

Looking to purchase an old merc w124, would prefer v8 model but who knows what will pop up. v8 - turbo build would be mint for a bag setup'd merc

I own one.. I'd say its decent

 

Old 124s are a pretty good choice for a v8 swap. The engine bays are a bit tight though

 

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12 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Timing is a pain but I finally got it

 

 

where the intake cam has to be positioned it wants to spin. So you have to hold it there while lining everything else up. Took me 4 tries. Zip ties helped a lot though lol

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huh your car seems to have markings on the head itself. nice. mine doesn't. ://  

 

and it's kinda weird how your engine is smaller than the 2.0 in the protege, yet it makes about 15 more hp than the protege.

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7 minutes ago, terrytek said:

huh your car seems to have markings on the head itself. nice. mine doesn't. ://  

 

and it's kinda weird how your engine is smaller than the 2.0 in the protege, yet it makes about 15 more hp than the protege.

It's all tuning. 

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@bcredeur97 did you make sure to tension the belt the proper way?  I know with my honda it's rotate the crank a certain amount and then tighten the tensioner.

There's something cool here - you just can't see it.

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im thinking that our weedwacker begins to take shape as some form of fire-breathing monster.... (cheapo ebay pocketbike "performance" exhaust, 32cc cylinder and head from a tiny dirthbike, crankshaft and con rod from the same tiny dirtbike, 20mm carb (with ported and polished intake manifold, tiny little cone airfilter wich fit the carb and it is jetted up with a random jet i found that was a decent step up from stock to eventualy cope with the boost from an electric turbocharger (5$ air pump wich actually delivers some decent additional airflow))

it sounds like a dirtbike, it backfires and it is probably a ticking time bomb. (i dont understand how it hasnt blown up allready)

 

 

ps: this is just something i threw together with bits i had lying around from a project that never happened, built it out of pure boredom today.

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6 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

It needs a tachometer because racewacker. :P 

 

EDIT: and a shift light

lol, i actually have one of those cheap electric tachometers (powered by a button-cell and then it has one wire that you wrap around the sparkplug wire) and why the f*ck would i need a shift light??? the weedwacker is direct drive, no centricugal clutch or anything like that the driveshaft is just bolted to the output shaft on the flywheel side of the engine.

(jk, anything that has an engine that is modifed needs a shiftlight, nitrous, a massive external tachometer and neons (also for bonus points, a bigass stereo, a bodykit that is beyond rice and the most anoying and obnoxiou BOV ever known to man)

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1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

You need a shift light because my buddy with his el Camino  has a 3 speed automatic has a shift light. 

 

And it would be funny. 

lol yea, mowing away some shrubs and tall grass with a HUGE tachometer (with a shiftlight) duct-taped to my weed wacker and just "shifting gears" sometimes by leting go of the throttle for a while and pushing it back in to whitness the biggest backfire ever.

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1 hour ago, Cracklingice said:

@bcredeur97 did you make sure to tension the belt the proper way?  I know with my honda it's rotate the crank a certain amount and then tighten the tensioner.

Yep. Rotated engine twice and then tightened tensioner down 

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Almost done! 

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kinda weird how you can get an acura nsx to sound like an e36 m3.

 

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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Ordered gifts for my girlfriend's birthday on June 21st, the final gifts are arriving tomorrow, her birthday was on the 3rd, everything else was here on time, but these, and they are shipping from the closest location, Saint Louis, stuff from Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK got here just fine. The struggle is real. 

 

Unrelated, Ian wanted to come down with the car on the 23rd, which won't work because I'll be out of state for Warped Tour, the struggle.

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#firstworldproblems that moment when you get burned by the stupendously huge backfire from your modified weed wacker.....

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"If a Lobster is a fish because it moves by jumping, then a kangaroo is a bird" - Admiral Paulo de Castro Moreira da Silva

"There is nothing more difficult than fixing something that isn't all the way broken yet." - Author Unknown

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I was bored. :D

 

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2 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Needz supercharger

how do you know it doesn't have one already? :P

 

also, 

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wow, everybody seems to be buying the neochrome film already. i wanna join, but i don't have the money or do i have a car to drive around right now.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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@vetali if you were ever deciding on buying a new mazda 3, i'd wait till a refresh. http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a29978/refreshed-mazda3-2017/

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

how do you know it doesn't have one already? :P

 

also, 

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I'll order some after I hopefully own the Prelude :D

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1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

Chameleon Gang fam :P

fo sho dawg. we gon' lit up dis country.

 

sorry, best I can do at gangster talk. I'm a white boy. :/

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