Well I feel I had a productive weekend, finally got around to installing my exhaust, intake, and midnight grille back on the car since I will indeed be keeping it. I cleaned my throttle bodies since I had everything apart and also painted my engine cover and put the strut bar back on. While I had the bumper off I went ahead an installed some 6k 80w Cree LED fogs that state they project an actual Lumen of 800 which seems about right as they are bright as hell during the day. I also went ahead and wired and installed a set of switchback LED turn signals which also offer a Lumen of 650 for White and 350 for Amber. I was looking for LED's that you can actually see during the day and I am very very pleased with the outcome. Some crappy pics below to attempt to show....

before intake and such went back in


Dirty *** TB...sorry wasnt the best angle holding the TB and my phone at the same time




Please excuse the dirty car....shes going for a clay bar on sat now that everything is back on...and just for referrence I have 6k Philips installed for my headlights

 

They certainly look good, but be aware of companies that give out rounded numbers for lumen output: LED Brightness - LED - Research

800 is very unlikely for a self-contained LED

Nick C.

 

I appreciate the info but to the naked eye...even if it is not at say 800 Lumen, my fogs are honeslty about as bright as my headlights. Its not too often that you see compainies or sellers display a Lumen output, yet I happned to run across a few who did....with Lumen levels all over the place. But IMO I feel I picked a good one at this time. Like I said before, I was going after some LED's that will not be dim during the day. Saftey first is a must with the family in the car.

 

I'm still around...I responded to your texts. As for the setting of my sways, I'm on the stiffest in the front and the rears, which is a little different than John's settings. The roads around your town are pretty crappy to begin with so I don't think you'd notice the difference since we couldn't really get speed on curved roads.

Probably will need to be soon as my visits to upstate NY are starting to dwindle.

Chris and Keith, might be driving through Tennessee to California for my move out West. Will keep you posted since it's still TBD but the wife and I are looking to drive through Great Smokey Mountain National Park so might be able to see you guys during the road trip.

 

^Fixed...

Yeah just let me know, I'm pretty flexible the next couple of months!

 

Do you know when your next visit will be? Give me a date, and I'll try and schedule a meet-up for lunch, dinner, a few local wineries... whatever. Look at your calendar and let me know.

 

Yeah.. well that means we should definitely meet up soon again, been a while and go somewhere outback to some less congested area

 

New York Finger Lakes region. Wine country.

 

suuure only a 5 hour drive for me lol

Anyway, been curious about this for a while.... Does anybody know how do these fog light high power cree LEDs from VLEDs perform http://www.vleds.com/bulb-type/fog-l...1-5k-mtg2.html

Verus, let's say 5000k TRS Morimoto 3Five ?

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/hid...l#.U9AaxvldWQQ

If the LEDs provide similar light output as the HIDs,I might be switching over to those LEDs, as I've been getting annoyed with HIDs because as we all know, sometimes one of them doesn't turn on , they may flicker, bla bla bla... that being said, I hope someone can chime in about that new technology high output fog light LEDs

 

Cool. When do you guys want to meet up then? I'd be happy to drive down to Ithica.

 

I guess you didn't sense the sarcasm John I got no clue , I'm quite busy these days especially next few weekends so that is out of the equation for me at least. come up with something and we will see

 

I like the emphasis on yet. I get why it's there. I like the idea of the mod, especially with the southern heat. I'd rather set it up with a bypass valve for summer that can have the flow direction flipped back to stock for winter.

I'm in the same boat though...it hasn't quite pushed me over the edge to put on my mod shortlist.

 

It looks like Saturday will be the day that my Fast Intentions exhaust and RHFC's get installed. In attempting to keep in the tradition of staged mods, I took a crack at installing the CBE to no avail. Even with 15-hours of soak with PB Blast, those bolts refused to turn. However, I was limited to driving up on ramps with no impact wrench.

I took the rear mufflers off first and then found out the bolts on the cats and y-pipe were just not going to budge. Being lazy, I left the stock mufflers off and have been driving around with what's essentially dumps after the rear axle (same as Screwston's muffler delete- literally).

It sounds nice and deep but I'm looking forward to getting the FI setup installed.

 

Those bolts were on ridiculously tight on mine too.

6 point wrench + floor jack took care of I think 3 of 4, the other I used a dead blow hammer on.

 

I helped a friend take apart a CBE off of a G35. It was already off the car but still in one piece. We sprayed WD-40 on the bolts and let them sit for a little bit. After a while they slowly started coming off. After the first one he said he was just going to get a new set of bolts and gaskets anyway so I gave him one breaker bar and I took the other and we both started tightening them to break them off. All of the broke off clean and was much easier than trying to back them off. Especially since you basically had to create new threads since they were rusted over pretty badly.