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How do you like the hockey puck mounts? Vibrations in the car or nah?

I had no idea you had a thread for this car. I'm diggin' the black exhaust. Got any leftovers? I'm thinking the 240's exhaust is going to be way too quiet once +T happens.

haltechsupra said:

How do you like the hockey puck mounts? Vibrations in the car or nah?

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Not too bad, if you got all the bolts tight in your dash and you isolate the rearview mirror, and that's only if you got a nice idle. Don't remove the firewall isolation weights. It's not as bad as a unbalanced washing machine on spin but.... there is definitely some vibrations.

This weekend i got around to fixing the exhaust and putting in the flex coupler. It came out nicer than expected . It didn't seem to need an extra mount. no more droop and I was able to slip the band clamp on without reefing on the bolt to get it straight.

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installed a lower brace from a v40 from the junkyard while i was under the car
tightened up the bolts and locktited them on the bracket-tron of a wastegate. I haven't got around to the hooking up the solenoid valve to the boost controller yet.
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I wanna go for a ride in this thing.

This thread is amazing. Love the work!

Sweet ride!

awhile back bonerjams240 gifted me some hydra rims
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On further inspection of the rims; one of the rims is a little bent (the other 3 are ok other than some scratches and curb rash (nothing a little jb weld and some sanding can't fix)
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So I decide what the worst i could do i? Wreck the rim sure. But after watching some youtube video on straightening rims, they increased my bravado to the point I could do this at home. (Cue the A-team montage music)
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Since i had a front strut tube with the hub still on it, I bodged this up to check the run out with my el-cheapo dial indicator
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So armed with a blowtorch, a BFH, 4 ton bottle jack and a laser thermometer I went to work on the rim.

this is the results
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and just for comparison
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hopefully it is straight enough I was planning to take it to a tire shop to see what they say. What are your thoughts TBers? its not perfect but pretty close on the run out with the dial indicator

Nice! I say run it.

I'm house sitting at my mom's for 2 weeks right now if you wanna get together, hang out, whatevs.

I spent the last two friday afternoons was walking the isles the local pick n pull on the hunt for tires for the hydras.
It seams everyone is dichting their beater with last year winters on them in middle of summer or is everyone driving around with winter tires having accidents
I couldn't find a niece pair of 20 55 r16 only four different tires. From my understanding running dissimilar tires at least on the same axles is liken to walking around in two difference shoes.

Anyways, found some hydras on kijiji with tires

here u go
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next problem: cabin fan is only working on high however to check the fan resistor I had to remove the rat nest that wiring i wired previously into the glove box. I decided that there is better way to wire it... a way that I was able to remove the glove box.
So out with the old leaving this

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Since i love cutting boards i found a small one at the dollar store

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this isn't as bad as it looks

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Does this thing run yet?

Bonerjams240DL said:

Does this thing run yet?

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Ya, faster than your car....HA!

I've been lazy of late. I got the rats nest
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cleaned up
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Megasquirt squared away ala arsenix (Shout out to arsenix for the inspiration)

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glove box
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since there was a little down time, while I was cleaning up the wiring. I thought i'd throw these in since... free 42lbs injecotrs and i was creapping up to 90% duty cycle on the T5 whites.
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it took a little to get them in. The fuel rail bolts from the bottom now

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Definitely faster than the two foot express I'm runnin' right now no question Let me know an e-mail or something to get in touch.