What have you done to your MSP today?

some pics from a few weeks ago of my new wheels

just bolted on
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20 mm spacer
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wish i could afford new wheels lol. just gonna have to settle for repainted racing harts here.
 
i really wanna get my spacers on...will have to wait till spring probably
 
/me wants steedspeed to make a downpipe to match his manifold. and sell them as a set...
 
Lol if you installed his intake manifold assuming it gets made with the exhaust manifold and a DP If he made one the car would weigh close to 1000 pounds more haha. I have a exhaust manifold and while i seriously doubt it will ever break it weights a TON.
 
Lol if you installed his intake manifold assuming it gets made with the exhaust manifold and a DP If he made one the car would weigh close to 1000 pounds more haha. I have a exhaust manifold and while i seriously doubt it will ever break it weights a TON.

I think the intake mani is gonna be made out of aluminum, but yeah the exhaust mani is heavy.
 
atleast, maybe closer to 20lbs. It'll out last the engine though.
 
sounds like a spark problem to me. Then I'd say maybe a vac problem, then maybe fuel. WGA is not on my short list of problems though.



Please PLEASE don't put a piggyback on a car that is not running right to begin with. That is a good portion of how the unichip got a bad name. In order to step up your game, you need to make sure what you're working with is solid first.
I think it may be a spark issue, I just remembered when I first bought the car it had very similar hesitation but MUCH worse and it threw a misfire CEL.
I was on vacation when I got this car, I met the owner on a Monday, drove the car and it ran fine. I didn't beat on it as much as I should have on the test drive but I was happy with it. Then Friday before my flight back I met him again to pay for it and make arrangements to have it shipped to Texas. During that week the owner emailed and said the coil went out, He knew absolutely NOTHING about the car so he took it to a shop and paid $500 to replace the coilpacks and wires and install incorrect Bosch platinum plugs in it which made it run like s***. When I got the car I changed to NGKs (stock part number) and it ran better but still hesitated so I got two new coils which seemed to fix the problem. Now it has returned, maybe I should try new plugs? These have about 8k miles on them.
 
Then WTF is wrong with my car, when holding the pedal constant the car feels like it hesitates, around 3500 rpm and it bucks slightly. Sometimes it pulls fine and runs good and most of the time it has hesitation. It cant just be the stock tune, will an incorrectly adjusted wastegate cause this? I installed a Forge WGA not long ago and tried to make the rod as close to the stock length as possible.

o2 sensor?
 
No CELs and the O2 sensor isn't very old, looks like it was replaced not long before I bought the car but I don't know it's exact age.

What I really don't understand is that when the car is cold the first few times I get on it a bit it pulls so hard, no hesitation at all but then it does it. I know it isn't heatsoak it's winter.
 
Picked up a pair of 3" 45 pipes to replace my ghetto ass intake. surprised how beefy they are. kinda makes my 2.25" pipe look cheap and bad lol. good thing they are getting painted. might leave the intake pipes polished.
 
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