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A model 3 is simplistic and easy compared to the shapes on the front of these cars. I've made my ppf person redo the front end twice, the roof 3 times (still going to do it a 4th time), the mirrors 3 times, and the valence and one rocker will have to be redone again. I'm all for doing some...

My roll cage in the racecar is 1.5" and that's where my gopro mount is sitting today, so I bought some 1.5" pvc. It should zip tie up fine to the passenger headrest, and then I can use it to mount the gopro to.

So turns out motive didn't have an acura specific adapter for their power bleeder. Instead I bought a top off Amazon, then some tubing and a barb to threaded fitting at the home depot racing. This will work just fine, but sadly the tubing is only vinyl and that is not great for passing brake...

I'm going to be playing with mounting soon, actually. I've thought about the back glass with a greater focal length, but it won't capture enough of the driver. The most ideal place is like 3" behind the driver's ear. I might rig up a pvc pipe with some zip ties on the passenger headrest.

One thing that might help in self review is to try to move the camera back or setup a wider angle so you can see yourself and what you're doing. Where are you feeling the understeer when it happens? I noticed a couple things, one was getting some understeer on turn in, which could be as a...

That's a lot of rear camber compared to the front and that's probably hurting. I'd also check your toe and make sure you're at zero or near it. With most tires the life is measured in heat cycles, with the basic definition of a heat cycle being it reached operating temp for some length of...

Fwiw, after mine was lubed it was good for one road trip and seemed to get worse after using the washer fluid. I had the dealer take a look and they just returned the car. I told them it was the window specifically and how to replicate on 3 of the 4 doors. They did something and it seems better...

I haven't driven on the nankangs but I've been told they're a bit more prone to understeer. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but you'd have to compensate with a lot more toe out in rear, with probably zero or 1/32nd out. Other tires that have more directional tread or larger inside...

I think the question you guys are getting at becomes, "does a larger intercooler which exchanges more heat block more airflow to the rest of the cooling stack?". Truth is, lower iat is nice, but not at the expense of your water temp, and definitely not at the expense of any additional weight...

I got the car back from the dealer this morning. They did not fix the front bumper cowl, and after I pointed it out further they're seeing and understanding what they missed. The stick on fender they also didn't align super well so now the gap isn't even around. They'll get another chance to fix...

I like the evs and j's racing because of how they adjust. The pinhole adjustment is fine, but chance of slipping or misaligning during install (especially if rushed like a trackside replacement) is higher. Interestingly, except for whiteline, they all come with non-serviceable boots. I...

Are there any ball joints out there that aren't whiteline? I've owned a lot of whiteline parts in the past on my subarus and I was a bit let down by durability and support. This was 6 years ago, so it's certainly possible they've improved, but I've seen people in the vw community have a lot of...

I get how that could be annoying. It's like looking up a recipe and hitting a blog that takes 30s to scroll through the person's life story about how this pizza dough changed their great grandmother's life and accidentally hitting ads twice along the way. The secret to life is hitting the "🖨"...

Correct. All stock, minus the alignment pins pulled in front. Getting camber out of the rear is rarely an issue on most cars, unless you want to do some silly toe in or toe out, which I wouldn't recommend. On my gti I could get as much as -2.8 with a 17x8 wheel and knocking the fuel filler...

Looks like dealer is keeping the car another day, but they say they've fixed all the rattles! They told me the alignment couldn't be done yesterday for the rear toe, but I told them that's wrong (because I did measure it myself). They corrected today and got a final alignment in pretty close to...

This is pretty correct. There's no magical tire that can handle Chicago slush/ice/snow, perform and grip well, AND have tread wear as insanely long as 40k miles. If "money is no object", the correct answer is to buy two sets of tires and swap. A set of performance winters will give you the...

Will do! I rented out i29 speedway road course Sept 23rd. I'll be bringing a couple cameras, data logger, GPS, and a proper mic with a mic sock. That will record the sound experienced on track (spending 75% of the time at wot) fairly accurately. Edit: in stock config anyway... I always test...

Not that I've seen. It's fairly large diameter despite it's overall size, it just looks deceptively small. Lht performance built an entire 3" ti exhaust with basically the center deleted and they admitted the 3" was too large and it just wasn't a great sound. Their recommendation, and what...

I would delete the center muffler not the res. Mufflers are for volume and resonators are to dampen specific frequencies. I agree with you on all the other points, though.

I have "two" in the dash area, I think... One sounded like center of dash by the firewall, but there's some plastic trim on the back of the infotainment that's looking like the cause for the faint rattle (that sounded like visor or mirror) and the tech suspects it's also causing the under dash...