The new guy

[Duckie]

Im the new guy. Expect to have another SVX around cause thats what I roll

Its a 92 claret that has modifications on the way. As far as aesthetic mods go: 97 grill, euro front bumper, jdm clear corners, jdm wing, alcyone hood badge(since I wanted an easy 10 horse), and a jdm back panel. Oh and some nice and ricey white tenzo mean 6's.

But as of now its just a claret with a misaligned door

[Nick Koan]

Nice. We got at least two other SVX drivers on the board.

Good work on the exterior, btw.

[MattR]

Nice, I gotta see this thing...Welcome. Come out to a meet so we can check out your car.

BTW, any SVX owners, Eric (qksubi) really wants to sell his stock evo rims and they look really cool on an SVX...

[sti deede]

Welcome Ducky
You should come out to our meet tonight.
http://www.seccs.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1449

[sperry]

Originally Posted by MattR

Nice, I gotta see this thing...Welcome. Come out to a meet so we can check out your car.

BTW, any SVX owners, Eric (qksubi) really wants to sell his stock evo rims and they look really cool on an SVX...

I'll buy 'em, but "retarded cheap, with tires" is a phrase I'm gonna have to hear.

[Duckie]

Couldnt make it out tonight, had to play "drive my girlfriend everywhere because she is too damn lazy" tonight. Speaking of which im bored. What do you all do for fun?

[Duckie]

Oh...which reminds me. I need to find an exaust shop in town who will make a y pipe to my highflow cat, bend up some 2.5 pipe, put my new muffler on, a few mendrel bends, and put my tips on. Oh yeah and put on my new brakes and lines. All for 300 or less...anyone know somewhere?

And btw what color should i pain my calipers...if my car is gonna be white, and I have white wheels. Im undecided

[Weasel 22]

hey! good to see you make it to the boards..im the same Weasel from SVX.net who told you aboot this..get yer arse to the next meet..I need SVX friends then we have something to talk aboot..and welcome!
(im allowed to use aboot due to my Canadian background)
see ya next thursday

[Kevin M]

Originally Posted by Duckie

Oh...which reminds me. I need to find an exaust shop in town who will make a y pipe to my highflow cat, bend up some 2.5 pipe, put my new muffler on, a few mendrel bends, and put my tips on. Oh yeah and put on my new brakes and lines. All for 300 or less...anyone know somewhere?

And btw what color should i pain my calipers...if my car is gonna be white, and I have white wheels. Im undecided

If you've already got a cat and muffler handy, I believe Nate at Subaru Specialists in Sacramento can get the job done for about that. Sybir on this board works there, I'll get his attention to this thread.

[Duckie]

I do indeed have them handy, along with a resonator which i neglected to mention heh. Unfortunantly my baby is sick. The claret is in the shop today (praying its just a bad alt) so we will see. As far as the exaust work goes, I still need to get my new rotors and line. But if i could get just the exaust work done id be happy o_O Screw the brakes for now. Anyway, id be willing to pay 250 for just the exaust work. =)

Oh and weasel thanks for telling me about the place =) And I have a tad bit of canadian in me too...seeing as my family founded Nova Scotia along with the murphys and Baileys =) (Cameron used to be the last name in my family)

[MattR]

Originally Posted by Duckie

...seeing as my family founded Nova Scotia along with the murphys and Baileys =) (Cameron used to be the last name in my family)

Well, at least you're not a Newfie!

[Duckie]

*looks around at all the canadians* When did we invade Reno? Didn't know so many of us lived here let alone in such a specific community.

[MattR]

Originally Posted by Duckie

*looks around at all the canadians* When did we invade Reno? Didn't know so many of us lived here let alone in such a specific community.

I'm not a Canuckistani, but my Grandparents are... , so I guess I'm close enough.

Sperry too!

[Nick Koan]

I can proudly say I ain't no cold air breathing ice farmer.

[dknv]

Originally Posted by Duckie

Oh...which reminds me. I need to find an exaust shop in town who will make a y pipe to my highflow cat, bend up some 2.5 pipe, put my new muffler on, a few mendrel bends, and put my tips on. Oh yeah and put on my new brakes and lines. All for 300 or less...anyone know somewhere?

And btw what color should i pain my calipers...if my car is gonna be white, and I have white wheels. Im undecided

Welcome Duckie.

For a local option, I've taken my last 2 cars to Sid's Alignment & Brake on 4th St., for exhaust work. He doesn't have a mandrel bender though (no one in town has one for exhaust pipes afaik).

[sperry]

An alternative to mandrel bending is to simply pick up the needed bends from Summit (I believe they sell exhaust pipe there)... then whatever shop you bring it to can just cut the straight pipes to lenght and use the pre-fab bends. It's not as pretty as a single mandrel pipe, but it's a lot cheaper and easier than hunting for a shop with a mandrel machine.

Also, I'm another Canukian by heritage (my Mom's a full-blooded Frenchy)... *and* I drive an SVX (well, as soon as it's out of the bodyshop).

[MattR]

Originally Posted by sperry

An alternative to mandrel bending is to simply pick up the needed bends from Summit (I believe they sell exhaust pipe there)... then whatever shop you bring it to can just cut the straight pipes to lenght and use the pre-fab bends.

Yeah, that's the best way to go, probably buy some parts and take it to Sid's or McVay Muffler in Sparks. Summit has all kinds of good mandrel bent pipe choices.

[sybir]

I'd recommend trying to find an exhaust shop in Reno, as well. We don't have a power mandrel bender, and realistically, the time alone in what you're looking to do would probalby outstrip your target budget; we can do custom exhaust stuff, but it's an intensive process doing cut mandrels, so it takes time. To give you an idea, we're doing a header-back on my wagon tomorrow, and it'll prolly take a good 4+ hours, plus parts.


Let us know if you need someone to do the brakes, we do a lot of SVX work. We would of course be happy to do your exhaust, I just don't think we can do it for $250. If you'd like, you can give the shop a call and we can see if we can work something out for you.

[sybir]

Originally Posted by sperry

An alternative to mandrel bending is to simply pick up the needed bends from Summit (I believe they sell exhaust pipe there)... then whatever shop you bring it to can just cut the straight pipes to lenght and use the pre-fab bends. It's not as pretty as a single mandrel pipe, but it's a lot cheaper and easier than hunting for a shop with a mandrel machine.

Also, I'm another Canukian by heritage (my Mom's a full-blooded Frenchy)... *and* I drive an SVX (well, as soon as it's out of the bodyshop).

Summit does sell bends; stainless will run you about $50 for a 2.5" U bend, or you can get aluminized mild steel for like $20. Note that when I was up last weekend, they were out of stainless.......

[Duckie]

Actually landa mufflers does indeed have mandrel machine, however they wanted to charge me 450+ for the job

Well, then I guess my next question is how good are everyones pipe bending skills? Cause if I can find someone who does VERY good work and wouldnt restrict my airflow then normal pipe bends would be fine with me. So I suppose I will increase my budget to 300 for some good work.

On another note, anyone wanna help me install a ECU racing chip on sunday or next weekend? Just need someone who has a soket wrench set...and 1-2 hours of free time. Oh and preferably they should do yoga...

[MattR]

Chip? What kind? I wasn't aware of any chip for Subarus

[sperry]

Originally Posted by Duckie

Actually landa mufflers does indeed have mandrel machine, however they wanted to charge me 450+ for the job

Well, then I guess my next question is how good are everyones pipe bending skills? Cause if I can find someone who does VERY good work and wouldnt restrict my airflow then normal pipe bends would be fine with me. So I suppose I will increase my budget to 300 for some good work.

On another note, anyone wanna help me install a ECU racing chip on sunday or next weekend? Just need someone who has a soket wrench set...and 1-2 hours of free time. Oh and preferably they should do yoga...

Um.. what's an "ECU racing chip" for the SVX? I hope you're talking about a Stage 1 ECUTune chip, because I haven't heard of any other that are worth a damn.

[Duckie]

You would be correct sir =). And there is actually one more chip thats worth a damn, but its still not as good.

So yeah its the stage one chip from ecutune

[sperry]

Originally Posted by Duckie

You would be correct sir =). And there is actually one more chip thats worth a damn, but its still not as good.

So yeah its the stage one chip from ecutune

Sweet! I was thinking about one of those, but having never seen an SVX with one, I was hesitant.

What I really like about the Stage 1 is that there's an 87 octane map... after paying $2.45/gal yesterday, I wouldn't mind saving on gas a little.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by sperry

What I really like about the Stage 1 is that there's an 87 octane map... after paying $2.45/gal yesterday, I wouldn't mind saving on gas a little.

Seriously.. I've got my car running great now on 87 with no pinging. Cheaper gas rocks.