Let's see your ride

**chops** · August 21, 2016, 10:00 AM

Still waiting for my hand crafted carbon fiber front lip to come in from Japan, but while I'm waiting, I ordered a new clutch pedal assembly. The stock one sucks, no feel, no feedback of any kind, and the narrowest window where the clutch actually grabs (friction window), causing many jerky 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd gear shifts. It makes you look and feel like you just learned how to drive a stick.

This aftermarket one is all laser cut, designed and hand assembled by one man up in Canada. It's fully adjustable on the fly with a turn of a knob. You can adjust the friction window to anything you like for quicker shifts or smoother modulation or anywhere in between. You can also have that window anywhere in the travel of the pedal, all the way at the top, all the way at the floor, or anywhere in between. On top of that, you can also adjust the physical height of the pedal as well as the weight of the pedal.

**chops** · August 24, 2016, 09:49 PM

Well darn it, I did it again. Now that I'm waiting for both the lip spoiler and the clutch assembly to arrive, I've been browsing the net for other goodies. This time, improving that good ole' exhaust flow in the way of an HKS Hi-Power cat-back exhaust system. Fun times!

**Dpod4** · August 24, 2016, 11:12 PM

My Targa GTS back from ceramic coating and clear bra.
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**Audioseduction** · August 25, 2016, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by chops

Well darn it, I did it again. Now that I'm waiting for both the lip spoiler and the clutch assembly to arrive, I've been browsing the net for other goodies. This time, improving that good ole' exhaust flow in the way of an HKS Hi-Power cat-back exhaust system. Fun times!

Nice Charles!

**Audioseduction** · August 25, 2016, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by Dpod4

My Targa GTS back from ceramic coating and clear bra.
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Can't see the car. Something is in the way.

**chops** · August 25, 2016, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

Nice Charles!

Thanks George.

I'm still debating on going with high-flow cats or resonated test pipes, since we have no emissions tests down here. No need to upgrade the stock exhaust manifolds as they are actual equal length shorty headers. Everyone says upgrading them only nets you maybe 4-5 whp. Not enough for gain for the major PITA of removal of the stockers and installation of the new.

I'd be better off spending that money converting over to E85 as there are gains of up to nearly 20 hp and torque possible across the board with a tune and stock GT-R injectors.

**sheltie1** · August 26, 2016, 10:11 AM

Beautiful car!

**sheltie1** · August 26, 2016, 10:13 AM

My wife's new Challenger. Scat Pack Shaker package (6.4L with a Shaker Hood). We have owned several performance cars in the past (from Vettes to 911's and various others), and I have to say that this Challenger is one of the most fun we have had. Tons of room inside, lots of power, fairly decent handling and incredibly smooth ride. It's quite a blast really. The 6.4 also sounds quite amazing....

**Dpod4** · August 26, 2016, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by sheltie1

My wife's new Challenger. Scat Pack Shaker package (6.4L with a Shaker Hood). We have owned several performance cars in the past (from Vettes to 911's and various others), and I have to say that this Challenger is one of the most fun we have had. Tons of room inside, lots of power, fairly decent handling and incredibly smooth ride. It's quite a blast really. The 6.4 also sounds quite amazing....

Awesome color choice

**sheltie1** · August 26, 2016, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Dpod4

Awesome color choice

Thanks! My uncle had a TorRed Superbird for years that I always loved....so this was really the only color choice that was considered for this car.

**Audioseduction** · August 26, 2016, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by chops

Thanks George.

I'm still debating on going with high-flow cats or resonated test pipes, since we have no emissions tests down here. No need to upgrade the stock exhaust manifolds as they are actual equal length shorty headers. Everyone says upgrading them only nets you maybe 4-5 whp. Not enough for gain for the major PITA of removal of the stockers and installation of the new.

I'd be better off spending that money converting over to E85 as there are gains of up to nearly 20 hp and torque possible across the board with a tune and stock GT-R injectors.

I'll stick with 93. I'm upgrading to equal length long tube headers with no cats. I'll net at least 30 HP.

**Audioseduction** · August 26, 2016, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Dpod4

Awesome color choice

Make that 2!

**chops** · August 27, 2016, 10:23 PM

Fully adjustable clutch pedal kit arrived today!

**Audioseduction** · August 28, 2016, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by chops

Fully adjustable clutch pedal kit arrived today!

Nice but no clutch for me, love my paddle shift!

**chops** · August 28, 2016, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

Nice but no clutch for me, love my paddle shift!

I'll take a clutch any day of the week. That's what turned me off about the Alfa 4C. It only comes with paddle shifters because the foot wells are way too small for three pedals. No thank you.

**Audioseduction** · August 30, 2016, 06:21 PM

The hart of power! Going in tomorrow.

**chops** · August 31, 2016, 03:47 PM

Here's some hand laid carbon fiber goodness straight out of Japan...

And the shipping carton it came in...

**Audioseduction** · August 31, 2016, 06:49 PM

That's the real thing all right! Sweet!

**chops** · September 2, 2016, 11:40 PM

Made another purchase, to finish off the exhaust. Decided on replacing the stock cats with test pipes, Motordyne ART test pipes to be exact.

**bzr** · September 3, 2016, 04:34 AM

Damn... looks like something out of the movie "Waynes World"

**Msmoto** · September 3, 2016, 05:28 AM

Love to post image, but need to have more posts on this forum....oh well...

**chops** · September 3, 2016, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by bzr

Damn... looks like something out of the movie "Waynes World"

Now that you mentioned it... LOL

These test pipes are quieter than straight test pipes AND high-flow cats, plus they make more power than the other two while retaining low end torque. Thanks in part to those Helmholtz resonators, but also because of the designer/business owner as he's literally a rocket scientist that also works full time in the aerospace industry. They've been fine tuned over the past few years with the size, length, the "dome" end cap, and the amount of packing material in the resonator. Nearly a full 20 hp & torque increase throughout the entire rpm range, with the bulk of it through the mid-band where it matters most.

The car stock puts down 285 hp to the wheels (332 hp crank), with this full exhaust, I should be right around the 306-312 whp mark which puts me right around 355-360 hp at the crank. And that's with no tune yet and everything else stock. Not too shabby at all for the amount of money spent thus far.

**Msmoto** · September 3, 2016, 03:29 PM

Porsche 996 by Tommie Lauer, on Flickr

Click on the photo to make it BIG.... and as to pipes, this runs directly from the cat out the tail...huge sound....

**chops** · September 3, 2016, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Msmoto

Porsche 996 by Tommie Lauer, on Flickr

Click on the photo to make it BIG.... and as to pipes, this runs directly from the cat out the tail...huge sound....

Beautiful 996. And man, those flat 6's make some wonderful noise!

**chops** · September 3, 2016, 09:24 PM

Picked up the exhaust today. 388 mile round trip, and SOOOOOO worth it!

**Msmoto** · September 4, 2016, 06:49 AM

@chops

Those just look beautiful. And, the sound of cubic inches, always "music" to my ears.

One reason I like the vintage car racing, e.g.,

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fantin...57671038113996

....is that because they are "vintage" they are allowed to run the exhaust system as original. Now most race cars run some type of muffled exhaust, even the WoO sprint cars.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fantin...57658585401373

Another "ride" is a new Can Am Spyder F3 which is undergoing an improvement in its sound...will post up something once completed.

**Audioseduction** · September 12, 2016, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by Msmoto

Porsche 996 by Tommie Lauer, on Flickr

Click on the photo to make it BIG.... and as to pipes, this runs directly from the cat out the tail...huge sound....

Nice pic!

**Audioseduction** · September 12, 2016, 05:47 PM

Double post...

**Audioseduction** · September 12, 2016, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by chops

Picked up the exhaust today. 388 mile round trip, and SOOOOOO worth it!

Ah.... very special! Me like!

**chops** · September 12, 2016, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

Ah.... very special! Me like!

Maybe once I install it, I'll come on down for a quick visit!

**Audioseduction** · September 13, 2016, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by chops

Maybe once I install it, I'll come on down for a quick visit!

Charles, you're more than welcome to my humble home.

**chops** · September 13, 2016, 09:41 PM

Why thank you, George! That's very generous of you!

And just as an update, my Motordyne ART pipes came in today! I called up a shop over in Winter Haven that my brother uses (they're right next door to his office and literally right down the street from the crappy Fiat dealership that my brothers and I bought our Abarths from. I'm headed over in the morning to have the exhaust installed!

And for some odd reason, my phone isn't automatically uploading the pics to my PC. Once I figure that out, I'll post up a couple pics of the pipes. I'll take pics of the install tomorrow and post those as well.

**chops** · September 13, 2016, 10:45 PM

I don't know what's going on with the phone/PC uploads, so I had to email myself the pics. LOL

**KingRT10** · September 14, 2016, 07:37 AM

image.jpeg

A point and shoot car!
707Hp

**Audioseduction** · September 14, 2016, 02:28 PM

Love them point and shoot cars! 800HP/721TQ at the crank on a Dynojet Dyno. 13.5 pounds of boost on 93.

**sheltie1** · September 14, 2016, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by KingRT10

A point and shoot car!
707Hp

Nice Hellcat!

**puroagave** · September 14, 2016, 02:37 PM

Not to put too fine a point on the subject, but its "point and squirt" i'm a car guy too

**Randy Myers** · September 14, 2016, 03:02 PM

Charles, I swear I saw some audio equipment in one of those pictures. Shocked the crap out of me

...

**chops** · September 14, 2016, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Randy Myers

Charles, I swear I saw some audio equipment in one of those pictures. Shocked the crap out of me

...

LOL! Yeah Randy. Here lately it's just been getting used on a daily basis. Nothing has changed with it in a while since I got those Martin Logan's. The Outlaw sub is still sitting there with the dead amp. I'll get around to it eventually, but it's only really needed for movies, which we don't watch that many of.

As for the Z, I got the exhaust installed today. Unfortunately though, due to time constraints and mainly technical difficulty, the Motordyne ART test pipes weren't installed.

Anyway, here's a pic of the stock exhaust with the axle back muffler delete section...

And here's the HKS system installed, just before the tips were installed...

And on the ground...

I think I'm going to push in those tips a bit more also...

**Audioseduction** · September 14, 2016, 03:29 PM

Charles, that's just bad ass! I love it.

**chops** · September 14, 2016, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

Charles, that's just bad ass! I love it.

Thanks George! I wish I was able to get the ART pipes installed as well, BUT maybe it's a blessing in disguise. If I can sell off a few things soon enough, I can order a set of headers and just have those installed instead of screwing around with the stock ones (which are actually quite good tubular headers to begin with). Just drop those stockers with the cats still mounted and throw on the new headers.

**Audioseduction** · September 14, 2016, 04:47 PM

Charles, I just noticed by your car tag you live in Lakeland. I'm in Seffner, we are just about 45mins from each other.

**chops** · September 14, 2016, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

Charles, I just noticed by your car tag you live in Lakeland. I'm in Seffner, we are just about 45mins from each other.

Yes sir! I thought you were down in Bradenton or Sarasota for some reason.

**chops** · September 17, 2016, 07:16 PM

**Audioseduction** · September 17, 2016, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by chops

I think your tail pipes are burning up. They are turning blue.

Nice pics as always sir!

**chops** · September 17, 2016, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Audioseduction

I think your tail pipes are burning up. They are turning blue.

Nice pics as always sir!

LOL! Yeah, I'm not too keen on the blue stuff, but that's the way they come. I did slide those tips back about a half inch today though. Now they're even with the edge of the bumper cut-outs, so it looks much better.

And man, I sure hope those Motordyne pipes bump up the output of this exhaust. It sounds good, but just too quiet again... Nearly stock, but with bite.

**highEndguy** · September 20, 2016, 03:18 PM

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**highEndguy** · September 20, 2016, 03:19 PM

New carbon difusor for my M4

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**Audioseduction** · September 20, 2016, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by highEndguy

New carbon difusor for my M4

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Love that carbon diffuser. They have for the Mustang GT S550. I may get down the road.

**chops** · September 21, 2016, 02:28 AM

Speaking of getting things... Arriving tomorrow sometime is the Z1 intake for my car, followed by the EcuTek ProECU programmer a couple days later.

Mine will be all black...

And of course, the tuner which will include a plethora of user adjustable parameters on the fly such as launch control, traction control, retard/advance timing, oil temp gauge hi-jack to display AFR, timing, Lambda, Tachometer hi-jack for switching between various tunes including different tunes for 93 octane and E85, and RPM for launch control. All accessible via the steering wheel cruise control buttons.

I need to find me some GT-R injectors so I can run E85 on this little beast. Luckily, there's a station right down the street that has it!

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