aNAlUBé, a tribute profile Options

[haunter]

wtf you forgot to take me to get my new retainer yesterday, no gorwnups touching for you!

[JMoushon]

My passage may be big, but I think a tunnel is a bit severe. Maybe a small tunnel, or a large sewer pipe...

[ranta18]

Why not just buy an electronic butterfly valve and have it dump before it hits the cat? I'm sure you could make or find one cheap. Cruise around with good power but a quieter exhaust. Then when some tool in a Saturn, or even a decently quick car, pulls up next to you and thinks he's fast, hit it the valve, and let her rip.

[natedogg]

Kris, did Dan steal your account or are those big city boys messing with your head?

You know what else fits in Moushon's wrecked 'em...

[Kazz5]

As you may know, I'm looking at a 3" TBE and will likely go with a HF cat and a muffler. That's mostly because I hear that a test pipe and muffler is STILL WAY LOUD. I don't need to attract more attention but am willing to have it loud for WOT. Especially if it gets me into the 12s...

I'd rather not drag on the street ... ahem. So I was wondering if, at the track, one could unbolt said muffler. Would something like that be realistic for analube and her resonators too?

Just a thought...

[ranta18]

At the track just make it so the muffler or whatever section you want slips on and off. Make it a nice slip fit joint with a SS exhaust clamp. Thats what I did. Undo the clamp, slip off the exhaust, slip on the dump tube, put on clamp, done. Saves weight too

[SCCA Stang]

what about a 3 bolt flange (like a header collector flange) and wing nuts to make the removal easy..... The dump on my Dakota R/T was set up like that. only for "off road purposes" though

[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.

[haunter]

I can host em

[eclipgst]

i can host em in my ass where they belong,just like you!

[akamiami]

well, the videos aren't turning out well so far. First off, they don't really capture well the change in the exhaust, it seems to be out of the limited range of the camera or something.

And...the camera used is new and I don't even think I've got all the crap I need to upload it to my computer. Thanks for the offers though haunter and rantis, and even you garner, but I've got something else you can store there.

[akamiami]

aNAlUBé hasn't exactly been acting in character lately as the car has been sitting outside of my condo for about a month on 4 slashed tires. As some know, the car was vandalized, along with my dd (which was made not once but twice a lady at the ham-handed attempts of criminals), and the insurance company has been slow to respond. Basically, the car was raped pretty severely and about 3K worth of electrical components (it's not stereo equipment, so take a wild guess) were removed along with random items like boost gauge, battery, some wiring peices, and an ass-load of tools. As a parting farewell, the motherless f*&@s also slashed the tires on the car, ruining my best attempts to put over 100K on a single set of kumhos. Not even the sanctity of the bodywork was recognized as the immaculate hood of the silver steed also fell prey to the greedy pryings of the unpriveledged.

I had planned on putting a alarm in the car once it was running and tinting the rear windows, but I never really thought it was at risk sitting out in front of my apartment looking as ugly as it does. It's not exactly as if I live in the heart of the city surrounded by crack-rock smoking baby-smotherers with pawnshop fencing houses of ill-repute on every corner. Rather it's the suburbs, where atms and starbucks abound and, apparently, the inner-city delinquent thieves come to play. To quote Travolta from Pulp Friction, 'nothing is more chicken-s*&^ that f#$%ing with another man's car'.

But the lube refuses to give up the ghost and though I have lost much of the motivation for getting the car running due to an abundant number of un-related personal projects, I can say with complete certainty that I will not relent and the car will see many miles of ass-pounding this year in one form or another. Neither heaven nor hell will prevent the homer-sexual nightmare that is a grey-hatch, named after the sodomistic carnage from which it was conceived, from returning to the streets in a vengeful rage of traction induced performance.

For the first time since 2001 the car will have new tires, so perhaps now the car will be able to run with the pack. The gameplan this year is to focus on what the car was built to do, corner with high levels of grip, and gain speed through the ability to stop faster, and remain catnip to the ladies. Reliability, and solid engineering will be the goals.

So basically, to sum things up, hp and acceleration are not major concerns.

[xian 1g]

thanks for the update man... nice write up, bad story...

[Kazz5]

Sorry to hear of the trials and travails... I hope she's resurrected and surpasses what you aspire her to achieve ...

Chicago, well ... sux. I know, that's just my opinion. But I would be scared as hell to park up there for long with anything I value. I didn't realized they'd go after tooner parts but, less the ignorant I am now.

Hope to see you when you get down here again - hang in there!

[akamiami]

Got a new stock style hood from JVB off of CII, doesn't clear the engine quite as well, but looks 100% better than the one with the crazy scoop.

And, to disguise the car from future theives, I've painted it....rattlecan, oh yeah!

[mitsu90]

Nightrider reborn.

just the finishing touch

[SCCA Stang]

Nightrider reborn.

just the finishing touch

sweet man, I forgot all about that show...

if my car was still the original black I might have bought that scanner

[akamiami]

The lubey-juice is loose!

Oh yeah, it's been sooo long since I've driven that sweet hotrod. So long that I have completely forgotten what a sweet peice of ass my little lubey is. I finally got the car running and took it for a quick spin around the block. It was like driving the car for the first time. Over the past 8 months of not driving it I had completely forgotten how it felt to drive the car. The low low racing seats, the way the roll bar restricts my leg movement, the clutch engagement and pressure, the shifter movement....it was all just so foreign, like jacking off with the wrong hand.

Seriously though, after an entire wiring harness transplant and shoring up a few other loose ends, the car is now running and as soon as I throw a tune on it, it'll be back on the mean streets, polluting the air, terrifying passive drivers, attracting the attention of the local authorities, and ferrying me from high school to high school as I flaunt my wares in front of the local recently pubescent teen girl scene not unlike a shark fisherman ladeling chum from a drywall bucket full of fishheads, blood, and internal organs.

Guys, I know this car is hot for me too, because I've already got a wet spot under the engine on my driveway from where she's been idling. Damn, this aNAlUBe is just begging for action.

[eclipgst]

Kinda like your dear ole brother noumsi (anyone ever seen the movie Golden Child)? Thats freaking sweet brother! Now bring that car and your sweet ass down to see me!!!!!

[awd4kicks]

Excellent news Kris. Keep us a-breast of the lubilation.