• christmas at 507

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:01 pm**

wooo!!!
just got home to find my new megan racing stainless manifold, O2 housing, and downpipe waiting in the living room! everything looks very nice so far, and i'll try to get some pics of it later tonight (i've gotta run to my parent's house right now) and hopefully we'll be able to install it within a few weeks as well.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:44 pm**

its about freakin time! congrats man!

hey don't forget that Magazine your dad was talking about. I was to read it too before hounding the superiors for a raise.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:33 pm**

i have it here so remind me next time you're over and i'll let you check it out.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:14 pm**

what about your turbo? i thought you had to get a new one?

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:24 pm**

well, now i'm not positive...after doing a little more research, it's possible that i've had a really bad boost leak all along, however i could be wrong. after we messed around tightening some crap the other night, things started sounding better with it but it is still making some noise. if my schedule ever calms down, i'll take some stuff apart to see how the internals of the turbo are looking/feeling before i order one or risk putting it on the new manifold and having it be screwed up after all.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:33 pm**

oh, and here's the stuff...

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:35 pm**

OoOOOoooOOoOooooOOoOoooooOo!! thats purrrty.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:39 pm**

yup, it seems real nice

. i'll be so glad to get the nasty brown stock manifold and the busted up downpipe (that looks as if it was beaten with a hammer to clear stuff under the hood) out of there. the performance gains should be decent as well, which is always a plus.

Posted: **Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:42 pm**

+ you bling guage with go up!

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:12 am**

very nice man. very shiney!

Posted: **Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:14 am**

oh nOS!1!1!1! new exhaust = t3H HOTNESS!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:40 am**

Dayom, yo!
Those parts are going to bling your engineBay out! Man... it's gonna look rad with all that under the hood!

So you don't think it's the turbo? That's crazy! I still think you should take it somewhere and have someone look at it. They have to diagnose it for free. I want to see your car running well soo bad! I want to hear that monster spool up and ROAAAAR!!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:53 am**

me too!!!
i can probably do a little diagnostic work myself if i get motivated (i just need to pull the intake pipe off the turbo and see if the shaft has any play in it). hopefully i'll figure it out soon, i really wanna get it up to full stregnth soon and at least make the ocala event.

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:51 pm**

Yeah... we need to get some tandem runs in before Ocala!!!
We need to double it!!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:34 pm**

hell yes, that'll smell good!