Let's see your ride

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Awesome color choice

Make that 2!

 

[chops]

Fully adjustable clutch pedal kit arrived today!

 

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Fully adjustable clutch pedal kit arrived today!

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

 

[chops]

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.

 

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The hart of power! Going in tomorrow.

 

[chops]

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

And the shipping carton it came in...

 

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That's the real thing all right! Sweet!

 

[chops]

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]

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

 

[Msmoto]

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

 

[chops]

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]

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....

 

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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]

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

 

[Msmoto]

@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/fantinesfotos/albums/72157671038113996

....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/fantinesfotos/albums/72157658585401373

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

 

[Audioseduction]

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!

 

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Double post...

 

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

Ah.... very special! Me like!

 

[chops]

Ah.... very special! Me like!

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

 

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

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