Well two of 'em have been out to play today, Bob 2 made a run to Gastonia and back with Michelle to pick up some antiques, and the Paddy-Wagon went with me to see a legal client at the North Carolina Research Campus.

I "irritated" a security officer by stopping Paddy in the middle of a nice brick paved traffic circle for a couple of quick grab shots in the 72° sunshine.

Honestly, and sadly too, there isn't enough traffic around the "Research Jewel of The Southeast" to make setting up a card table and playing poker in the middle of the street the least bit dangerous.



But after a couple of quick pics I headed on my way, while "Officer Bob" wobbled back up the street on his Segway.

 

Nice pics Mike!

 

Thanks Tim, just using a "Dumb Phone" camera, my Droid seems to be losing its mind slowly...and I hate going to the Verizon store.

 

Ram Intake:

Will probably remove the SS from it.
Swap to TTR mount:



and E35 tuning.

 

Cool , a hot air intake !!

 

Fer sure. 35% ethanol seems to do fine with it. I seem to get enough air to raise trims 10%. More corn equals cooler engine. 9* diff is no biggie vs that kind of trim increase. I'd run the stock box with pump gas, though.

 

Some how I just figured you would have the numbers on the tip of your tongue. . 08Banchee put one on and I heard it when he went to leave, at first I thought his car was broken, really sounds different even at an idle. Since the air is getting compressed (heated) after that anyway, guess the size of your inter cooler would factor in too. You have one of them gauges that read the air temp, for a comparison?

 

Honestly, The motor mount made more difference in sound than the SRI by transmitting engine vibes to the frame. E35 seems to run quieter, anyway. HPTuners is able to log pre and post IC temps.

 

Yea, i can't believe you havent done that yet, works very good don't it, or do you have the Michelin's still ?

btw how do you hold that thing up, do they make a bracket now ?

 

I'm on Firehawks. Yes It works great. No more engine rocking back and forth. No bracket for the intake. I was going to reach out to Dejon and ask them if they could think up a good bracket solution using their engine cover.