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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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14 minutes ago, Juvel said:

I only have a Vauxhall corsa C 1.3 CDTI (70 BHP). I get 65 MPG. What more could a student ask for (more power).

Cut the spings and weld a large exhaust tip to the end, but dont touch any other part of the exhaust.

Then make sure you put in an after market head unit bought on ebay and at most a $40 amplifier, but don't connect anything to it.

Finally, cover your rear window almost completely with stickers. Each one adds around 5 horsepower.

Remember to always fill it up with 95 / 98.

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Maybe a Suburban or Tahoe, big ass vehicle with a V8 that just guzzles gas.

I could stretch out in the back of that with a ton of room in the bush mud boggin

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42 minutes ago, IKnight said:

There can only be one real one. Unless you've got hookers and blow. 

cmon, grow up.

 

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42 minutes ago, Juvel said:

I only have a Vauxhall corsa C 1.3 CDTI (70 BHP). I get 65 MPG. What more could a student ask for (more power).

More torqq. 

 

Welcome to the MPG masterrace . 

1 minute ago, Ridska said:

cmon, grow up.

 

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not making fun of ya its just that i showed tha discord server if ya wanna join. 

Thing is , we already have a discord set up just for that thing ... 

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47 minutes ago, Juvel said:

I only have a Vauxhall corsa C 1.3 CDTI (70 BHP). I get 65 MPG. What more could a student ask for (more power).

wait Vauxhall = Opel? thats at least what im fining when looking up the car

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13 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

wait Vauxhall = Opel? thats at least what im fining when looking up the car

yep vauxhall is what opel is in the UK. i think with the astra 

Opel - europe (excluding UK)

Vauxhall - UK

and for some generations 

Saturn - USA

Holden - Australia

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32 minutes ago, Mister2010 said:

yep vauxhall is what opel is in the UK. i think with the astra 

Opel - europe (excluding UK)

Vauxhall - UK

and for some generations 

Saturn - USA

Holden - Australia

interesting, didnt know that :) 

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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4 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Headlights and covers came out pretty good. Still some moisture spots under the covers but they say they’ll go away within 2 weeks. 

 

Can’t wait to try the headlights at night

 

Xenons are getting tempting. Since it has factory projectors lol. I guess someone at mazda planned on putting factory xenons in the NB2’s but the plan was scrapped?

 

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Gonna eventually convert my car to LED headlights from Auxbeam and I can't wait

42 minutes ago, Mister2010 said:

yep vauxhall is what opel is in the UK. i think with the astra 

Opel - europe (excluding UK)

Vauxhall - UK

and for some generations 

Saturn - USA

Holden - Australia

My car shares suspension with some Saturn, can't remember which one

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16 minutes ago, RevoltTrain said:

Gonna eventually convert my car to LED headlights from Auxbeam and I can't wait

My car shares suspension with some Saturn, can't remember which one

LED's are neat if the assembly uses them right and they don't look tacky. But just as bulbs... nah I don't care for them too much. They are hard to project outwards properly without blinding other people because the light is very intense, but it lacks distance.

Xenon is pretty well proven to work in the correct headlight assembly so I think I rather just that... might as well make use of these $1000-to-replace projectors lol

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4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

LED's are neat if the assembly uses them right and they don't look tacky. But just as bulbs... nah I don't care for them too much. They are hard to project outwards properly without blinding other people because the light is very intense, but it lacks distance.

Xenon is pretty well proven to work in the correct headlight assembly so I think I rather just that... might as well make use of these $1000-to-replace projectors lol

Xenons make perfect sense for you, I have a buddy with a 1st Gen 9-5 Aero Sedan around here with Auxbeam bulbs and man are they bright and project super far

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2 hours ago, IKnight said:

There can only be one real one. Unless you've got hookers and blow. 

 

You're too young for that, stfu

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What are some *good quality* xenons that’ll work in my Miata, ignoring price? 

 

Preferably id want something OEM quality... I.e. perhaps the bulb can be replaced separately from the ballast like you would be able to do in a car with factory HID’s

 

idk if such a thing exists. But what’s just super nice and well made out there?

 

and no I don’t want a crazy high color temp. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-7000K is fine.

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4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

crazy high color temp

 

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

7000K

 

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

is fine.

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retrofit or bust

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1 hour ago, RevoltTrain said:

My car shares suspension with some Saturn, can't remember which one

the saab or impala? xD 

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Just now, Mister2010 said:

the saab or impala? xD 

Saab

 

I keep forgetting I own the Impala, just because we've had it for 7 or 8 years and I've been basically driving it since July

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1 minute ago, RevoltTrain said:

Saab

 

I keep forgetting I own the Impala, just because we've had it for 7 or 8 years and I've been basically driving it since July

i mean the 9-5 uses the GM2900? platform so it was shared with the opel vectra IIRC most likely some kind of holden, vauxhall and saturn as well :D 

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Just now, Mister2010 said:

i mean the 9-5 uses the GM2900? platform so it was shared with the opel vectra IIRC most likely some kind of holden, vauxhall and saturn as well :D 

I knew about the Vectra becasue BC makes coils for it so I tried to buy some at one point, wouldn't ship them from AU,but I can't remember which Saturn, was going to get adjustable control arms for whatever Saturn shares suspension with my car to maybe get a little more camber adjustment

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9 minutes ago, vetali said:

 

 

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retrofit or bust

lol I was literally just saying numbers... can't quite remember what stuff looks like. All I know is want *white* rather than *blue*

what would I retrofit? Can I like pull ballasts out of a nissan or something? But then what about the bulbs? how would that work....

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16 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

I would very much like to get my hands on one of these.

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Newer 2500.

Remember when I told you people ruin cars around here?

 

 

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3 minutes ago, RevoltTrain said:

I knew about the Vectra becasue BC makes coils for it so I tried to buy some at one point, wouldn't ship them from AU,but I can't remember which Saturn, was going to get adjustable control arms for whatever Saturn shares suspension with my car to maybe get a little more camber adjustment

according to wikipedia its Saturn L series cars 

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Just now, bcredeur97 said:

lol I was literally just saying numbers... can't quite remember what stuff looks like. All I know is want *white* rather than *blue*

what would I retrofit? Can I like pull ballasts out of a nissan or something? But then what about the bulbs? how would that work....

halogen projectors != HID projectors. they will still blind oncoming drivers. retrofitting involves putting a HID projector in place of the standard projector in the housing.

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5 minutes ago, Mister2010 said:

according to wikipedia its Saturn L series cars 

That's what came to mind, but it's been months since I looked into it

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4 minutes ago, vetali said:

halogen projectors != HID projectors. they will still blind oncoming drivers. retrofitting involves putting a HID projector in place of the standard projector in the housing.

a miata 2 inches off the ground isn't going to blind anyone lol

 

besides maybe.. other miatas.

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Why do I feel an argument about projectors coming on?

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