It seems a lot of SA do that. It's really a shame when I know more than my SA. Makes me not trust them. What happened to people taking pride in their jobs and knowing their products?

 

Really? I thought I was the only one because I haven't heard anyone mention it. My SA looked at me like I was crazy and didn't believe me until I pointed out that the driver's side was loose and there were no broken tabs.

 

There is no change in sound with the tips. It's just for appearance. I bought them from Assured Performance. They are 304stainless double wall slant cut 4". 2 1/4" inlet 8" long. Straight forward install if you can weld. I cut the old tips off, expanded the 2" pipe to 2.25" then tacked the tips in position. I then took the exhaust down and finished the welds.

What made a sound difference was eliminating the second cat and resonator and replacing it with bullet resonator. Love the sound now. Deeper tone.

 

What resonator did you go with for your delete? I recently did the 2nd cat/reso delete also.

 

I went with the Vibrant 18" bullet. I didn't want to much more noise. Are you ok without the resonator now?

 

Awesome, post up some pics.

 

Installed the JCW intake. I purchased it from WMW. Took a little modifying to make work. Here's what I did:
1. I had to dremel some plastic material off the JCW portion where the MAF sensor insert tube connects. That section ended up interfering with the fuel pump.
2. I also had to dremel the JCW portion where the MAF sensor flange connects.
3. The bottom portion (resonator) of the JCW had to be removed. That was also interfering with the fuel pump. I will make up a plate where that was in order to close the intake off. Right now it's drawing a little bit of air from the engine compartment.
4. Swap the old clips (hold tubes/wires) to the JCW lid and bottom half. One of the clips on the side needed to be drilled and then fastened with a screw because there wasn't plastics to clip to. Another had to be shaved in half in order to clip onto the JCW lid.

In order to make the JCW intake work with the R60, you need the lower half of '07-'10 n14 intake. I found one at a salvage yard. They gave it to me for free because the top lid was broken.

Here are the pics

 

Nice work. Great to know it can be done.

 

Like the JB!!

 

New rotors, EBC red pads and stainless steel lines.

 

Thanks! A little work to get it done but, all in all, not bad.

How do you like the set up so far? Feel more stopping power?

 

They say the break in period can be up to 1k miles. 100 very light braking, another 100 moderate breaking, then 5-6 60-0 stops and let them cool. Not sure yet to be completely honest.

 

Wow. Long break in. Keep us posted.

 

A little snow in Virginia--schools shut for the second day, work closed, but I ventured out with the ALL4 with no problems. Laughing at those two wheel drive pickup trucks spinning their tires. View of my CM in empty work parking lot.

 

Right there with you in VA. Yesterday I unearthed the CM All4 while the 10 inches of snow was still light. Here's what it looked like just before I did it:



Today it was under about 2 inches of icy snow. Our neighborhood is mostly unplowed so I had to force my way through the snow to get out to larger streets, but other than a few icy wiggles, the DSC + All4 did fine. I didn't have to switch to DTC.

 

Other than the wheels and the marker lights you'd be hard pressed to tell it was a CM under there ! LOL

 

Indeed. From Y8S's sig I can tell they had a white roof, but they obviously went to a paint shop and had the whole upper third of their CM painted white....even the windows

 

I am SO sorry I saw that.

 

put over 50miles on the jb+ and already feeling it, there is no dead zone anymore, the mini just pulls.

 

Put on a tag!

 

Which one? ... the Lovers, Do not Operate or plate?

 

Fitted a replacement panel filter, ordered K&N and aFe to compare the two

Ended up opting to fit the aFe as prefer the idea of the dry filter. Took some side by side pics for anyone that's interested, sorry for the basic camera work I was waiting for a gap in the rain to fit.

 

i'll clip some pics when i get a chance to throw you over the edge, i've been meaning to anyway.

 

Where'd you get the tag from?!

 

I had these porsche exhaust tips lying around and was wondering how they would look on my countryman.. any thoughts?