y2ray7697's 2008 Lancer GTS **UPDATED**

A video is gonna come...patience young grasshoppa lol....

Thanks for the props on the paint! I take great pride in all the work I do on my car, and I love when people around here who know me beg me to help them paint their cars too haha. I just painted a black stripe on my girls Tiburon, I'll get pics of that up sometime too!

 

Well, that's the beauty of Plasti-Dip, it comes off if you mess up or don't like it. There's plenty of threads on here how to do it and take the grille out properly. It's also REALLY simple to touch up too, just spray and it blends simply and clean.

 

So, today I got an amazing phone call. For a few months now I've had "Four-J's Electronics" on the spoiler of my car. A few years back when I worked in the same shopping complex as his store, I would give the owner and his family discounted and free food all the time. In return, now he always gives me awesome deals on lighting equipment and I bring him more business too. Yesterday one his sponsored guys came into my store and got food, and we got to talking, I showed him the pics from the car show, and he went back to Four-J's and informed them that their name was on my car, in a show, and I won an award. This prompted Joe, the owner, to call me this morning and offer me a sponsorship! He already has an audio car, I'm gonna be his Lighting car! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!??

 

AWWWW man! Everyone around here asks me where I got it, they love it...Oh well, to each their own.

 

I LOVE the Takeda...mainly because it's completely buttoned up under the hood with the huge heat shield they provide you. That was the selling point for me. Granted, the K&N has one too, but this one just looks really awesome to me, and I looooove being different! Besides, ya can't go wrong buying it from AutoCityImports (PLUG, PLUG)...I ordered it Monday, had it on Thursday!

It's really loud, and the gains are definitely noticeable. The lower RPMs that used to drag, don't anymore. This Intake is definitely worth it, you can even tell that it's only sucking in cooler air because after driving hard for over an hour I was able to put my hand right on the tube...if I had touched my engine I woulda been burned. I'll have a video up within a week or so.

 

Well, video can only do so much as far as sound. As far as ANY axle-back goes, it sounds A LOT louder, and when i drove it away there was a NOTICEABLE difference in tone. I only have straight pipe all the way back to the can, no resonator at all. The resonator is what keep the new Lancer so quiet, so removing that makes it all worth it. The best part is, he used all the original hangers and welded the factory bolty on points onto the new piping, so if I would ever choose to, I can take the axle-back portion off and put the stock muffler back on.

 

Takeda Intake Video

Here ya go guys, this is just a quick video I made for you to hear the intake as I got onto the highway near my house. I would've gone longer, but there was a lane closed off for construction as soon as I got on the damn road...bastards haha. I love the way this sounds, and I'll be sure to get an exterior shot soon for you! (CLICK THE PIC OF THE INTAKE TO GO TO THE VIDEO)
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Hey guys, had the day off today and got bored, so I wanted to do a small project that I've wanted to for a while now...painting my foglight display. Here's pics of the progress on it.

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I decided against taping everything off and spraying it because the tape wouldn't stick right with all the grooves. So I just got some cardboard, sprayed the paint on there and used a brush to PAINT the color on. I think it looks great, and in the light it has an awesome brushed aluminum look to it!

I'm definitely glad I did this simple mod...I try to do one small thing before every show that I go to. Let me know what you all think!

 

Yeah I wanted to be different...as usual...instead of just doing the "ring" I did the whole piece that sticks out. I like it!

 

Photoshoot 9/20/2010

Hey all, just wanted to update with some pics that I took today. I took a bunch of just the front end, for my Ride of the Month pic, and these are the ones that I didn't submit, but wanted to show anyways.

I hope ya'll like (that was for you HUNK haha)

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