aNAlUBé, a tribute profile Options

[akamiami]

In the vein of what xian and gsx are doing, I'm whoring a thread of my own to sing the praises of my UNBREAKABLE DSM!!!! It's like bruce willis on unbreakable. absolutely nothing phases this monster, not 7k rev launches, crazy quick downshifts, curbs, 89 octane fuel, bad language, conventional oil, leaded diesel fuel....NOTHING! MWA HA HA!


Right now I'm welding in a roll cage. There is a pic on my garage profile.

Also, the speed glass is installed and is sooo sweet. The rear window is already scratched to hell and it's like having tint but not the type of tint that blocks any of the sun, just the effect of it where you can't see out the rear view window very well because it makes it seem like you've got cataracts and everything is blurry and indistinguishable. I guess next time I'll try saran wrap since I've never seen that stuff scratch or crack and it's very flexible.

The speed holes and custom license plate are rather fancy and I think add style to the ride that was lacking. Now it's a venerable show car, and as soon as the faux fur steering wheel cover and neon dash trim kit arrive, I'll go pimp the car show scene like I do the local junior highs. That's right all you pre-teen honeys out there. I'm 24 and I've got a drivers license. Wanna ride to the orthodontist to get your braces tightened? No problem, I'm all 'bout that shi-at.

[akamiami]

Thanks for the input guys on the easy clamp exhaust, but the way it was sitting was already easiest. I have 2- 3" v-band clamps holding the exhaust on with another 3 bolt right before the muffler. The first v-band was right at the bottom of the downpipe where it makes the 90 deg. bend towards the rear of the car and the second was after the flex where the testpipe was positioned. So the exhaust removal was literally a 1 bolt and 5 hanger affair taking a grand total 10 minutes at most to get off with no assistance.

However, I wanted to have aNAlUBé run at the track and on the streets with absolutely zero changes. No tuning, no ditching excess weight, and no exhaust cutouts, though that was a tempting idea too.

I've got the resonators in, though I had to place them pretty much back to back since there isn't enough straight pipe in the CB portion to allow them to be spaced evenly as I had hoped. I'm not sure if the noise cancellation would be optimized if the 3 noise reducers were equidistant, but it would seem so to my uneducated brain. Regardless, I've got a fair amount of perforated resonator under the car now and it sounds great. The exhuast note is sooo sooo much lower. Aside from some annoying rubbing, mostly due to lack of adequate facilities to work on the car, that will need to get hammered (pretty much literally) out, the exhaust is remarkably more tolerable across the entire rpm range and particularly cruising at speed on the highway. I'm very pleased with the results and the install was very very easy even with only access to jackstands, chop saw and my portable mig welder.

I've got video clips including before and after in-car and out of car sound tests and even one of me welding the resonators in place that looks pretty neat, so if anybody is willing to host them, let me know. I'll do my best to figure out how to convert them over to an easily downloadable form.