I blacked out my tail lights side lights debadged it and painted the rims gloss black, wow hell of a difference . now im waiting for batman emblems what ya guys think? i want input ill put better pics up tommorow

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Last week I installed a Pioneer 4300 HU in about an hour. Very easy once I figured out how to take out the original.
Yesterday I changed my cabin air and put in a new carbon filter. about 20 min. Nice to be small but hard when your 66. Now its on to CAA.

 

I had my car buffed out this morning.

 

Yesterday, I rode her hard and put it away wet.

Literally. Mixed rain and sun for 100 out of 400 miles. Went to watch an AutoX event in B'ham (2 SRT's entered, 2 Red Roadster Limiteds spectators) and had lunch with #1 daughter. Took the long/scenic route home. Considering a full buff and then wax after washing, or the sissy way out: wash and Instant Kwik Detailer?

Met 2 of 3 xFire owners.

 

installing diffusers on the rear of the coupe today. Measuring for new t-clamps on all my hoses, and a place for the tank that will hold meth mixture. Roadster is getting it's front bumper cover taken off this evening if it cools down a bit...

 

Bought a new cabin filter. If anyone needs one, I would recommend this ebay seller. Although it is not listed as such, it is a premium, activated charcoal Bosch filter.

I have seen these pretty high, $25 shipped is a great price, and the turn around was only a few days...

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Nice find, thanks for the heads-up. It's something I keep meaning to do, but keep forgetting to. I'm probably due a new one, with 53,000 on the original

 

LOL I am with you, I have fewer miles than that, but still the OEM. When I was replacing or painting almost every part of the car, I kept thinking I need to do the filter, and finally got around to it....

 

what filter.....lol.....one of these days....

 

Got a new fuel pump and fuel filter on Friday....

Needswings (Rob) and rcompart (Rudy) did it !!!

 

A while back I had a stainless manifold bolt seize in my supercharger. I tried to get crafty removing it and ended up breaking it off.

I drove over to Steve's and even he was unable to remove it without likely breaking an easy-out off into it and making things worse.

Well, today (actually a couple days ago) I finally got off my a$$ and decided to fix it.

I went out and bought a tap-and-die set but was unable to find a long enough drill bit to drill through the manifold into the supercharger. I did some head scratching and came up with an alternative.

I used the manifold gasket to transfer the bolt locations onto a metal template. After drilling the holes into the metal, I had to improvise a bit (stacks of washers) to secure the template in place on the supercharger. After securing the template I drilled out the hole with a 7/32" bit and taped it to a 1/4" FT. Hopefully I'll find a new bolt without too much aggrevation.


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UPDATE: I installed a heli-coil and I'm now using the stock bolt.

 

All put up on ramps and stands, dropped the exhaust, takeing out the rear end but I can't get ONE bolt out... everything else is out or loose but ONE bolt.

I will try again tomorrow

 

Got a tune from Eurocharged. When I purchased the tune in March, Clint could not get the computers to cooperate so I could either mail my ECU in or go to a tune day or go to Chicago. I swung by Eurocharged in Chicago and within 20 minutes Jake had me taken care of. Cannot ask for a better group to support our cars!

 

I originally painted the NW intake with plasti-dip paint, but I found out the intake gets too hot for the paint to maintain it's texture. As a result I repainted the intake with flat black standard paint. Here are the results.



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I've never used a clay bar before, but today I broke down and gave it a shot. I'm glad I did. Afterwards I waxed her up good for a spanking, I mean photo-op.

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Here are a few more photos of the detail work.

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Lovely shot with the sunlight hitting the wheels... SSB is an awesome color

 

Thanks! It took a lot of work that day to make that shot happen. I must have taken over 200 photos with the wife's SLR.

 

I finally replaced the battery. I believe It was the original battery (white verta made in Germany). It is still strong but leaking through a crack by the the negative terminal. I replaced it with a Maxx-48 from walmart ($82.00+tax) with 3 yr free replacement.

 

well it wasn't today but it was yesterday that I customized my center caps on my AMG wheels. see them here

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