realien

Thanks

realien

I'm not sure what happened but I must have sleep walked, I bought a pulley kit and supercharger belt wrap kit yesterday from sharul



Grant.

realien

Just got the car back on the road with all the upgrades, in a word, insane.. I came out of the intersection, punched it, and went sideways until the traction control kicked in. I turned off the ESP and then did a straight line run, and for the first time as the car hit 60mph on a regular road I considered taking my foot off the gas due to the cheshire grin on my fast and my neck snapping backwards, once I hit 100 on a quite road I decided I need some new shorts..

Really pleased with the upgrades, it runs great, drives around town like nothing ever happened, and open the throttle and its a monster

Now for new wheels and maybe a new stereo with the OPTI-1

TheTherapist

Glad you're enjoying the beast now she has been unleashed - only "downside" is, unless you have better willpower than most of us here, then you will find it hard to stop modding. Oh well, I guess there's worse things you could be addicted to...

realien

yeah, I'm deliberately not looking at headers or fuel rails

2000UZJ

Glad you like it. ARH LT's really transformed my car

veejay78

Pics and Vids!

TheTherapist

... for now...

How about a burnout or drive by...?

realien

I'm only looking...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OBX-Exhaust-...-/181823834561

realien

I'll take some better pics tomorrow

realien

Ah you must be a sage, I've started looking at headers...

TheTherapist

Haven't seen these before but they look great!

Aside from cooling, headers should be the first mod on an E55.

kponti

I warned you a month or more ago!

JoeNobody

Get them! You're already working on the car so install will be a breeze! Huge power to be made, with zero downside unlike most other mods.

realien

Thanks nice to see other addicts enabling the illness

I'd probably install the headers myself, I've done a bunch of exhaust work in the past. Planning on the X pipe , resonator delete and 2nd cats delete, I assume the header install isn't a bear ?

JoeNobody

It's a bunch of work but if you have the engine already out the work is reduced to almost none. The OBX are bolt on too so no welding.

realien

The engine is back in the car, so I'd be starting over, you're saying its a PITA with the motor installed ?

realien

A couple more images of the upgrades, the Frozen boost HE 101 installed

JoeNobody

If engine is installed then yes it can be a bunch of work. But if you unbolt the engine mounts and jack up the engine a little, you can then get to the exhaust manifold bolts.

2000UZJ

I would not do anything else until you add a Scattershield for the supercharger pulley.

After that, HEADERS!!!

realien

Already have the scatter-shield installed, headers ordered today

Cheers
Grant

realien

new carbon shift knob from "for my mercedes"

realien

I'm figuring out parts to mate up to the new headers, I had planned on keeping the secondary cats, deleting the resonator and putting in an x pipe, but looking at this diagram pic it looks like I'd have to keep the secondary cats if I want any cats at all, since the X pipe generally goes where they are ?

or can I keep the secondary cats weld them in with some mandrel bends, and put the X pipe closer to the mufflers ?

I'm reviewing this before and after and he put the X pipe where the secondary cats are and stock spaghetti





standard exhaust





X pipe installed where secondary cats are

so options I'm thinking and I'm leaning towards #1 for now but not sure how restrictive the secondary cats + factory h pipe is...

1) Lose primary cats, weld headers to exhaust and keep stock secondary cats and resonator etc, don't bother with X pipe
2) Delete secondary cats, delete primary cats install X pipe, delete resonator. ( no cats worries me for inspections)
3) Delete primary cats, and secondary cats, install race cats between down pipes and X pipe and delete resonator ( I've used these before http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Magnaflow-...-/110847989857 )