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All, I'm trying to get my exhaust built for the upcoming Auto-X season. I have a custom 2 to 1 3" Burns Y-Pipe merge, 3" 100 Cell Cat, and a 3" Borla XR-1 Muffler I need welded together. It's a pretty simple fabrication, it would dump right before the rear axle. Prefer Mandrel Bend, SS. Since I'm up in Cleveland I'd need to travel down on a weekend and get the work down, somehow. Thoughts? Also, if you know anyone in Cleveland willing to do the work I'd take that recommendation as well.

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I never said the car is fast. It's slow, makes loud noises. Only makes 229 @ 207 ft-lbs at the wheel

If it's swapped you'll instantly be in SM, street mod. Unless you want to throw paper at the car, it won't be very competitive.

Still learning the car, I think I found some additional tweaking out at Lincoln that I can apply here. I bought the 128 as a lemon law car actually, so cost helped a ton. The 135 is classed into STU, which is fairly difficult to compete in because you can't fit big enough tires to become competitive. Plus I wanted to avoid issues of N54/55 engines. Mine has been bulletproof

Thanks! Bad wording, I drive it.

I figured I'd share my 128i that I built for SCCA Solo STX Class since the season is over for me. Some of you know the car, but I like showing it off.. Car recently won the ProFinale and Overall Championship for ProSolo in Lincoln, NE as well as 5th/58 in the STX field during Nationals. Wish I could place better at Nationals but there is next year: Season Results: 1st Wilmington Spring ProSolo - Super Challenge Winner 4th Toledo ProSolo 3rd Wilmington Summer ProSolo 1st Toledo Match Tour 2nd Wilmington Champ Tour 1st ProSolo Finale - Overall ProSolo Champion for STX 5th Nationals http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/11999771_10205597206277711_6113555892173754229_o_zpshewzpjwm.jpg Mod List TCKline Dual Adjustable Coilovers w/TCK Caster/Camber Plates Kosei K8R 17×9 with 255/40 RE-71Rs Front/Rear Swaybar Recaro SPGs (Ebay Reps) with VAC Mounting Hardware Subframe + Diff Bushings Diffsonline Custom Differential BMW Performance SSK Active Autowerke Headers + Tune Muffler Delete Hawk Brake Pads 17lb Battery Fender Roll Next year: Softer front bar New Brake Pads Custom Exhaust Intake Pics from a couple events: http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-12_zpsfw7t2r91.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-9_zpszssnhkx3.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-7_zps9vlqrlwt.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-6_zpsj4zonalc.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-4_zpsgwrmluju.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g135/1nFeCt1oN/kherbst-1_zpsbyln3qfb.jpg Videos:

RS3v2s need to be sprayed on a 40 second autocross course. The constant heat cycling they experience from heating up, cooling to ambient is not good for the tire. On a RS3v2 you'll see 100 runs on the tire before they heat cycle out and fall on their face. You'll know it too. My RE-71Rs have been pryometer temps of 140*F, and only get faster. Haven't even sprayed yet in 85F conditions and the tire is sticky as can be. Anyways, my RE-71Rs with 60 runs on them. Need to flip after this weekend. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/03/6aa677e2806c87a0d583ea5ac4db0996.jpg http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/03/dfc525e759356b63c1b1e3d01c4f81d6.jpg

Hankook was the tire last year. Now this year they are a second behind the top tire, seriously. I've seen 1.41 G peak max in turns and 1.2 Gs constant loading throughout the turn. Bridgestone nailed the tire this year. If you aren't running the tire you're not going to be at the top of your game. Easy as that.

With cheaper 1-4 scopes that aren't $1k+, isn't there possibilities that extreme fisheyes could occur and poor eye relief?

I run a Leopold Firedot SPR 1.5-4 on my BCM AR. http://www.leupold.com/hunting-shooting/scopes/mark-ar-riflescopes/mark-ar-mod-1-1-5-4x20mm/ Glass is very clear. Not a true 1-4 but close enough I could get within my budget. Eye relief is surprising generous. The VX-R Patrol is a 1.25-4 and about 1 step up from the Mark AR series

BUT IT HAS CAMBER

Currently in Cleveland http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/02/01/608cef62555fd808248994631e071d71.jpg

Lol columbus. Suppose to be 12" by end of tomorrow.

Ever consider some type of Project Management? You see a ton of field time out of the office, hands on type of work. I'm a very new engineer in the career field (graduated in May '13). ME by degree but I work in the energy field for commercial HVAC. I personally love it, but it's a lot of desk time currently, starting to shape my career to more field and design. Becoming an engineer without a degree is very doable. Just gotta work your day up. My dad's a living example. Never went to college, self taught.

Heat pumps are very inefficient in cold weather. Electricity on a per Btu content is a 3rd less than Natural Gas. Meaning Natural gas contains 3 times as much energy on like for like basis. Also, even with more energy content natural gas is cheaper too (actually much, much cheaper). So when you're thinking about it, you're using more electricity (3 times as much as gas) to heat the same amount of air that is costing you much more. Kind of sucks... Anyways, the issues with heat pumps is that they cannot recover in cold temperatures. If you turn off a unit in the cold, and expect it to catch up it simply can't. You'll lose the building or space. Unfortunately I don't know much on residential units. But you're probably locked out on OA temperature or something

That part doesn't surprise me. My gun doesn't have a safety.

Like I texted you Kale, it is installed backwards. Not only are you not properly humidifying, you're possibly casusing damage to the heat exchanger by corrosion with the extra moisture in the air

Kale, The 5" Filter will just basically be more surface area, so you "shouldn't" need to change as often. The efficiency of a Merv 11 5" versus a Merv 11 1" filter should be the same, in a perfect world. Depending on the filter, you could lead to more pressure drop across the fan and decrease total airflow throughout the house. But you'd really have to look at the specs of both filters and compare the two. I work commercial HVAC, so can't really say if that's an accepted standard. But if I was to guess that was all that was needed to meet the code and permit for residency.

Home automation is a really big thing now. I've been looking at trying to tie Garage, Lights, Door Locks all into a central system accessible by phone. So far I got research done for Kwikset on Locks, Lutron for Lighting...All Z-Wave compatible so they can all tie in

Oh...I want Forgeline so Bad. And everything else in those pictures.

Drove a new A4 when my dad was car shopping. I know you don't care about power but the car sucked on the highway even with simple lane changes. For a turbo I was really disappointed. Why don't you get like a 320i xdrive? Dave Walter BMW up here in Akron are leasing them for like $329 for 39 months at 0 down IIRC. Car has no balls but it is new, and fairly economical?

We're testing out a Droid Turbo in the office for new company phones and it is an absolute beast. Blows the S5 out of the water.

Should have taken pics from work...had a couple inches on the car. Pic is from sitting since 5pm. Got a couple and it's coming down again http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/14/d2b71905112cc6a45e032d1bfe382191.jpg

Yep We easily have 5-6 at work currently. Snowbelt is getting hammered. They were 10+ inches last night