Well it was a semi-busy weekend. Just working some bugs out of the car. The biggest bug was my 1500rpm idle. That was annoying as s***. I adjusted the idle screw all the way down (it was around 2k rpm). So I cut down the spacer in the throttle linkage and that didn't help. I adjusted the throttle cable at the TB and that didn't help. Then I found a little allen bolt and nut that needed to be backed off so the TB butterfly would close completely. Aww yeah. Worked like a charm. Nice smooth idle at 700 rpm and not really much vibration from the AWR motor mounts. Gotta love the V6.
I went to Josh's house then shop for some welding on the exhaust. He got the tubing all welding up and used the old Corksport hangers, with some heating and bending, welding up. It sounds much better now and doesn't drone at all on the highway which I am THRILLED about. My old FS-DE setup droned like crazy.
What do you think about those welds, Josh? Yeah, I thought so. So silly. He welded the exhaust tubing together but the very top so I put the clamp back on and it sealed it up.
Poll time: Rice or Nice? I got it from Amazon and it works pretty well. I like it.
I finally got to clearcoat my DGM hood this weekend. The first round was a freaking disaster. haha. Clearcoating is farking hard! It was all streaky and uneven. So I picked up some 1000 grit sandpaper and wet sanded it and it just looked worse. So I cleaned everything and sprayed it again. I still don't have the perfect spray mixture down but it came out much better. Good enough for this year. I'm sure I'll need to redo it all next year. The clearcoat has some tight orange peel to it. And I just put the hood on today. I've always loved CF bits on cars and especially on o0n8's (Nate from Columbus' silver MSP) car. But too me it looks a little too "Hey look at me!" so I might paint it silver in the fall when the stock hood goes back on for the winter.
And a pic of the engine bay. I still need to wire up my oil pressure guage and HID's.
