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  1. Tide

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    Even with an external mic my phone sucks at picking up the exhaust. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  2. Tide

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    Another thing to note. The exhaust tone/chop at idle is noticeable different when on 93 vs E85. I’ve always ran E85 until recently. With 93 it sounds more aggressive. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. Tide

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    It’s hard for me to drop that kind of cash. Ideally I would go with a supercharger. I could see that easily going over 10k, I bought this thing for 20... Might go with a small turbo if the cost savings is enough. But even then idk if I’ll pull the trigger. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. Tide

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    Bought them used and with the long term hopes of forced induction. We will see. No, VVT delete. I’ve had catted vehicles with the same issue. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Been MIA. Sorry about that. Ditched the dynomax muffler for a stocker. The drone was just too much around 70-80mph after the muffler had 30k on it. I definitely picked up some low end grunt through with the stock muffler back on. The catless 1 7/8” headers and 3.5” factory tubing was just too...
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    Sound deadener is in the cargo area. I Probly won’t do anymore of that, just isn’t worth the hassle at this point. It might’ve helped with some of the deep tones but not a ton else. Having a hell of a time with the interior wrap. I can do the easy pieces but the middle cup holders and radio...
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    Dickies arena. It’s a couple blocks from my house. Their headquarters are in Fort Worth. Wheels will always be chrome. I’d like to do the handles, fender vents, and some pieces of the grill. If I do all of that I’ll likely remove the wrap on the rack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    The weather forecast for the weekend was enough to get me moving today, it’s going to be damn hot. Got all of the doors and roof rack done today. I found a video on YouTube showing how to remove the rear caps so you can access to sliding rails so I went ahead and removed those. So far I really...
  9. Tide

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    All of the vinyl and sound deadening material has finally made it now that I have zero motivation to get this stuff done. Hopefully that’ll change and I’ll get this finally finished up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Still waiting on the MLV and larger vinyl pieces for the interior. I finished up the door panel trim today on the back doors. The front is slightly larger and the 2” strip of vinyl I have is just too close for me. A pro could probly do it but I am far from that, I need more material I can...
  11. Tide

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    40 square feet of mass loaded vinyl heading my way. I’ve got a larger muffler laying around that I haven’t tried out. Going to give that a go soon as well. I might add it in conjunction with the round body dynomax and factory resonator. I’ll see how just the swap goes then adjust if needed...
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    The satin black wrap showed up earlier than expected. Went ahead and got started earlier. Knocked out the first panel, removed the second, and quickly realized the film was a little small. Go figure. [ Side note. Any model that has the silver vinyl like mine with ridges, they will...
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    Did a little refresher on it last night. The closed cell foam won’t make a substantial difference in noise control. Another layer of mass loaded viynl is needed to do that on top of the foam. The viynl is much more costly(3-4 times what the other materials cost). After a few drinks this evening...
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    I would cover 90% of the interior if all of it would be out of the car already. I’d love to get the roof knocked out. I would seriously look into closed cell foam if you are considering doing any deadening. From what I’ve experienced and read it seems to be the real factor in cutting down on...
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    I’ve read in the past that they do have more sound deadening than other trim levels, but I have no idea what that is. I’m guessing most vehicles don’t come with the pad inbetween the carpet and flooring? It doesn’t cover the entire floor, just certain areas. There is padding in the rear driver...
  16. Tide

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    After my last post I immediately went outside and did the cargo door and driver side wheel well where the air pump is located. Drove around and there might be a slight decrease in some of the deeper tones. In typical fashion I went ahead and ordered 36 sqft of 150 mil closed cell foam...
  17. Tide

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    I had zero intentions of doing this but corona and a ton of old sound deadening material laying around lead me to it. 85% of all flooring behind the front seats is now covered in Kilmat or NVS butyl based sound deadening. The NVS is .87 mil thick vs. the .80 mill of Kilmat, the NVS has a much...
  18. Tide

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    Decided to add some more weight to it. Knock off Dynamat going in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  19. Tide

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    That is what my mechanic was thinking as well. My headers are ceramic coated as well so they should be similar to yours temp wise. I’m going to make a log for Justin soon. I’ll make sure that’s mentioned. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Just picked it up. He ran a compression test and everything was fine. Checked the temp of each header close to the manifold and he said the temps got up to 700 at idle. While I was there he started it and after 3-4 min they were over 500 already. He said normal was 4-450 range. Any thoughts on...
  21. Tide

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    Went by this morning to my mechanic. Plan for Monday is new plugs and #7 injector. Also getting the bump stops cut down as well. Hopefully that’ll fix the misfire. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  22. Tide

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    The platinum leather is impressive. The other trim levels aren’t the best from what I’ve seen. I would say the platinum leather is similar to a king ranch or high country level in the truck world. I haven’t seen any with this kind of mileage though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  23. Tide

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    I usually add the conditioner every 2-3 months but this time it got a little past that. For 165k they look pretty good! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  24. Tide

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    Few more randoms. I plan on wrapping all of the silver trim gloss black. I haven’t seen it done with the platinum dash so I’m curious to see how it’ll look. Waiting on the materials to get here. Won’t be here for another month with the shit going on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  25. Tide

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    I’ve got an appointment for tmrw to get the misfire checked out. It has been running better but still not 100%. E85 is in the $1.30s right now so I’m running that every fill up. It’s seems to be running better on 85 vs 93 as well. I spent a few hours cleaning the interior. I’ve got a few carpet...

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