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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 03:09 PM
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looks good, you should do the rears too!
I agree, just painting them wouldn't do justice.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 03:36 PM
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 03:55 PM
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:40 PM
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frank looks awesome.. man you have gone wild with the modding.. cant stop eh
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:44 PM
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Your car is hot.
newton, your sig is awesome!!!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:09 PM
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looks great! did you slam the car even more? the front looks lower compared to your sig?
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:46 PM
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that looks great frank! damn, your c32 is hott!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 06:39 PM
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nope...the rear one's mostly for looks anywayz. I will have the stock rear caliper painted and change the rotors soon.
Frank,

BBK looks great

If you're gonna get brembo cross-drilled rear rotors, let me know. Wanna set up a group buy? I need a set of cross-drilled two piece rear rotors to go with my Brabus/Alcon 4 pot rear calipers.

A group buy would be cool for those who want to upgrade their stock rear rotors...
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 06:54 PM
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by white_w203
looks great! did you slam the car even more? the front looks lower compared to your sig?
the sig pic was with the renntech springs. lol

thx for the comments guys.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 08:57 PM
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thanks ling,

the brake definitely stops a little better than the AMG Brembos due to lighter rotors and bigger pistons. the calipers are also a little wider wich in terms need just a little more clearance.

Very nice. How much lighter are the rotors than stock?
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 12:56 AM
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Very nice. How much lighter are the rotors than stock?
I didn't actually weight them other than by picking them up, but the two piece rotor is lighter for sure.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 12:58 AM
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Looks great Frank, I wish my wheels would allow for bigger brakes. BTW is was good seeing at the meet.
thanks mario...nice seeing you too. wish I could've stayed and ask you for a ride in the beast, but it was one of my friend's bday that day so I had to go.
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 04:01 AM
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Geeeezzz I never thought I'd see the day lol Looks great Frank
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 09:16 AM
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 07:05 PM
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nice car...i want to get mine to look like that
can you tell me where you got the bodykit and trunk emblem?
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 07:35 PM
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 07:52 PM
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nice car...i want to get mine to look like that
can you tell me where you got the bodykit and trunk emblem?
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email me at frank@gtuningwerks.com I can get you everything.
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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 01:59 AM
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installed evosport pulley kit today...some thoughts

Just had the pulley kit installed today. I wouldn't go "WOW wat a difference it makes", but it definitely makes a difference now. The car at full throttle chirps going from first into second (on these 19"). I was only able to do that on cold days before and occationally on fine weather days before the tires fully warmed up, but this was on 100 degree plus day today.

the car pulls stronger past around 3800rpm into the redline and of course the supercharger wines a lot more. No idea on how much increase there is from the Evosport pulley along without the extra i/c reservoir upgrade, but have heard it's about the same.

asked a friend come by in his C55, so I can get some feel on how the two car compares after the pulley. Driving it back to back, the C55's instant response is still better than the C32 and there's still a lot more low-end torque than the C32 as well. It is easier to light up the tire because of the instant torque. However on the same stretch of road in acceleration I didn't feel that the C55 is any quicker or vise versa. Noise side because his C55 is stock my car is heck of a lot louder.

We didn't do a side-by-side run tho. That may be coming in a couple days.
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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 02:15 AM
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Sounds liek a lot of fun~

that being said, would you say when the 2 cars are lined up from a rolling 60, the 2 cars would be neck to neck?
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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 12:10 PM
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you must try to do a race side by side!!!
I sold my C55 to get a modded C32!! Prove i made the right choice!

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Frank:

Adding ODPS will add power.

However, to truly take advantage of them you will need software.

You have been on this board long enough to remember me doing the R&D several years ago.

Do a search under "R&D" and you will see what a proper software can do.
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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 10:52 PM
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yup...of course. that also cost more however lol.
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Old Jun 21, 2006 | 01:02 AM
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Ok, so I raced my friend's C55 today. He just put on the 19" Lorinser LM6 yesterday.

We did a 5-10mph rolling start to avoid the launch issue. He floored it first and I followed just a fraction off. We went all the way up to 90-95mph before shutting down. I pulled about half car at that speed and still inching forward little by little. We were tied to about 60mph until I started inching forward.


on the side note, my car died on the road today earlier this afternoon like 30 second out of my driveway at a stopsign. I pushed the car to the side of the road and the car cranked and restarted after 6 tries. Drove to the dealership with the check engine light on and they found my crank position sensor is rusted. Good thing they have the part, but I still spent 3 hrs at the dealership waiting.

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