Got the front brakes installed last night. Everything fits great and works nicely. They're a bit noisy, but I expected that since it's a metallic pad with a slotted and drilled rotor. I did determine that I need tie rods, so I'll replace the inners and outers in a few weeks. And yes, I do have adapters under these lug nuts. I installed my extended studs (finally), and obviously can't use stock nuts. The spindles also got new wheel bearings.

 

which brakes?

 

Integra Type R calipers and brackets, 2007 Mini Cooper 280 mm rotors, and 04 TSX pads.

 

oh that I read on that the other day. what size wheel is that?

 

15x6 I believe. They're GSR Fat Fives. Just enough room to clear the caliper.

 

yeah im sure wont or if so might work on my 13s drag ones for slicks. but ill wait and just do the wildwood ones and shave off weight too

 

Yea, I doubt it'll work with 13s for drag racing. I think the Wilwoods would probably be more than enough for your car lol. When the time comes I'm going to replace the rears with EP3 parts.

 

Based on offset of them it might work a few people said

 

I received all of my parts yesterday, minus the muffler, but that'll be in today. I need to get a wideband so I can monitor my A/F ratios and then determine if it needs tuned from there. I have a few busy weekends coming up.

 

I like! ill need to do new coils on the car

 

I have to replace my coilovers, upgrade my sway bars, do UCAs in the front and rear, toe arms in the rear, get an alignment, get a wideband, swap engines, get my tires and wheels ready for summer, and a metric shitton of other stuff I can't even remember.

 

Nice! I'm running similar brakes on the front of my coupe except Im using the two pot legend calipers. Great stopping power for sure

 

I think I'm going to get a PLX SM-AFR to monitor my A/F ratio. It's within budget and it'll pair with my Nexus, so it eliminates the need to have a god-awful gauge on the dash or A-pillar. Any opinions on any other brands/models??

 

i always ran aem one for af

 

I'm looking around at other stuff now, and I'm going to post in the tuning forum to get opinions too.

 

It looks like I'm going to order a PLX SM-AFR wideband that I can pair with my Nexus. Does anybody know if I can wire it to replace the factory sensor and feed a signal to the ecu?

 

Just ordered my wideband. I emailed John Vega and he got everything straightened out for me. The PLX unit will read as both a narrow and a wideband. So that takes care of the O2 sensor that the ecu is looking for, and gives me a more accurate readout through the wideband gauge to make sure the tune is safe.

 

good stuff

 

Got my new muffler in yesterday. It's pretty decent for $110. My wideband shipped yesterday as well, should have it here on Friday!

 

crazy style nice. this is my look lol

 

I managed to get out to the shop yesterday and get a few things done. New coilovers are on and adjusted, GSR sway bars are installed with new OE-style endlinks, and the Twin Loop is on the car. I'm gonna have to do some tweaking with the exhaust before I'm 100% happy with it. I need to bend a new piece of pipe for the axle-back, because the factory style bend causes the muffler to hang entirely too low. Like almost-on-the-ground too low. And I forgot that the resonator on the Skunk2 exhaust that I cut up is blown out and rattles right between 3-4k rpm. So just mildly annoying. I installed my Buddy Club P1s again to set my ride height, and I'm finally happy with it. I didn't measure tire-to-fender gap, but rather from wheel lip to fender lip. 4 1/4 inches is what finally did it for me. I adjusted them maybe 4 times before I was content lol. Back to the muffler for a moment, I know Dante wants a video uploaded and I will once I replace this resonator, I promise! It sounds fantastic though. Not too loud when just cruising, but noisy-ish when you get on it. Nice and deep, much better than the vibrant I had. And it doesn't look totally ridiculous from behind.

 

i see what you mean, it definitely needs to come up a smidge or 2....or 3 lol. damn, that thing is soooo close to the ground. at least it looks like it in that last pic

 

It's close, maybe a couple inches lol. If I hadn't shoved it up before I welded on a couple hangers it would be dragging.

 

I remember those mufflers when they came out. Supposed to sound real nice. My Greddy cat back system failed years ago and I had to have the resonator removed because it rattled and eventually leaked. Make sure it isn't just the heat shield, though. Have also had issues with the metal heat shield needing to be bent back so it didn't rattle against the resonator. I've been looking at finding a replacement resonator. My car sounds nice at 6,000rpm but awful at 4k.

 

Nah, no more heat shields on this car I have a new resonator sitting at home, just have to make it back up to dads shop to weld it in.