the AC drain hole is just a straight hole to the ground, so it probably came up through that.

 

Check your cabin air filter and make sure it is dry. Water has been known to leak past the windshield cowl seal and puddle on the floor.

It is highly doubtful that much water came UP through the AC drain.

 

If it came in the windshield cowl wouldn't this also happen while parked? I've had the car parked in the rain for days and the floor board is dry. It's only wet after driving in the rain.

 

Just my opinion, but for that much water to accumulate you would have to have driven through a small river and even then this assumes that the floor grommet failed:

I could be wrong.. But it takes a few minutes to check.

 

Is there a simple fix for this?

 

Yeah that's the spot it was wet. We're under a flash flood watch, received an inch of rain today and yes I had to drive through the worst of it. The parking lot leading to work was a good 1/2" deep for a few hundred feet.

 

If that's the case (first for me) it should be a easy fix. Once you get the standing water out and the carpet dried, you can pull the drain tube straight up and apply some silicone sealant. I went a step further (back when I did the sunroof drain bypass) and removed the grommet as well and added silicone to the bare metal.

 

I got a new panavise mount to replace my proclipusa mount. The proclipusa mount kept getting kneed the rare times I had passengers in the car, even if I told them specifically to watch for it. It was causing it to be less stable. When I installed my dashcam and had to mess with the panel, it failed to the point I was ready to replace it. It was also annoying how it was so low and easy for people to knee.

The panavise will be much harder for people to knee. The vents on the G are more rare than many car vents and I don't want to block them or totally prevent the ability to move them left/right.

The panavise mount screws into the top right screw behind the radio controls and feels very well built.

The panavise phone holder SUCKS. I returned it because despite the same company making the mount, the company failed to ensure that the tone control isn't unusable as a result of the phone mount. Another unacceptable issue is that when you pull the phone out of the holder, the holder comes off the mount with the phone. TOTALLY USELESS!

So I bought this Arkon mount. The downside is it doesn't come with screws or nuts to secure it to an AMPS plate. I used the ones from the panavise phone holder :>.




This one is great because you can adjust the angle/elevation/position in so many ways. You can adjust it at he part where the phone holder is AND the part where the mount is. I positioned it in the pictures above in a way where it's angled towards my face, is out of the way of the tone control, out of the way of the shifter, and as far away from the passenger as possible. It seems well built so hopefully it will last. I'm sick of having to go through different phone mounts/holders because they fail or have serious issues.

 

I have the Panavise bracket too, with a Magsafe charger/mount attached via heavy-duty mounting tape. Actually had the charger come apart pulling the phone off (fixed that with epoxy) so the in-car portion is pretty small. No interference with passengers.




This is before gluing it back together, but gives a good idea of size and shape when installed. Wire runs down that edge of the console into the armrest for the charger.

 

I seem to have had a hard time finding an affodable magnetic wireless charger that fit into the CD spot.
I bought a magnetic wireless charger with a ball joint and a cd phone holder with the similar ball joint all for under $25
So I'll be working on that soon.

I converted my Wife's holder into a wireless one and she loves it, I'm trying to upgrade her idea into a magnetic one.

 

I took it off the tender and pulled it out onto the driveway. Needed to make some space to do some things in the garage. Back in the garage it goes for a few more week.

 

I tried CD-slot mounts before and they never locked into place well without seeming like they were in danger of breaking the plastic faceplate. Otherwise, it's a good mount-point.

I got my wife a Magsafe vent-mount for the CX5 and so far it's both robust and secure to the phone - but we both have newer phones with that built in (and in my case, a magsafe case). That's easy - magnetic holder + charging.

Mine is a cheap Amazon magsafe puck on the Panavise bracket. Same deal - magnetic mount and charging. Would rather have the phone higher and closer to the steering wheel, but there's nothing there to mount to really so...

 

Today I got the SOHO catback with the ThaiTanium resonated Y pipe installed.

When I have the time I will provide a video and measurement of sound. I also have measurements of the Stillen catback with FI RHFC and a hallbuilt single exit with stock cats. I measured these with the same standards/methods that Commiefornia uses.

I'm still in the process of a retune as I need to buy some clamps for my intake. There's apparently an issue with the car not being consistent in it's demands. The tuner says I'm running rich after the car is trying it's best to remove fuel, at times. At other times it's not happening. He said I may have an air leak and asked me about my intakes. I showed him and he noticed no clamps. It was my understanding that the Z1 couplers could be used without clamps lol.

So I'm going to buy clamps for the couplers at the TBs, the couplers later down the pipes and the couplers for the PCV system that go into the pipes and pick up on tuning process from there.

Anyway, here are the pics of the exhaust work:







Now, onto the issues. The shop pointed this out to me. They showed me how the left exhaust pipe was too close to the sway bar and said it would rattle. They said there were no adjustments they could make to fix it. I contacted SOHO and they told me to email them pictures. I'm awaiting a response from them. Here are images:






After I decided to head home with this issue, they were commenting on how they don't like how far the tips stick out. I told them I DO like it and I had asked SOHO beforehand about this and they told me they stick out "slightly past the bumper". I explained my reasoning was fear of burning the bumper (and wrap once car is wrapped). So here's an image of just the tips.



In addition to awaiting a response from SOHO, I was thinking of upgrading the sway bars to ones of smaller diameter to get around this. There ARE rattles, but they are minimal and at certain RPMs. But still, it bothers me.

 

Check out that hanger, its not sitting down in the bushing, your axle back mufflers are pulling it all up. Id suggest simply putting washers or appropriate spacers under the two bolts of each of the muffler hangers to help lower it. Should solve your issue.

 

Are you talking about this gap here?



I need to put something in the slot there to make the hanger sit in that empty gap area?