[EarlQHan]

congrats, i guess the order came through on my day off (tuesdays). honestly, i'm not a fan of the rear bumper myself, sides are OK, even if they're a little plain. it should look good on your car with a voltex rear diffuser. can't wait to see it on your car.

[AW04WRX]

let me know when you want to sell the cusco

[nolag04]

Hey Rookie are you back here in MD yet for X-mas?

[toogood]

love the whip...much props

[Rookie84]

Thanks Earl and toogood. I just dropped off my car at the bodyshop yesterday. I took a look at the bumper and it looks good. I can't wait to get it back. I should have everything done by Monday and will post some pics.

nolag, I'm back in the area. I'll be here until beginning of January.

AW04WRX, someone wanted to take the whole thing w/ the bumper because he got into frontal end collision. Since I can sell my bumper cover as well, I'm giving him the first dibs. I'll let you know if he doesn't end up buying it.

[Rookie84]

The bumper is finally on. But I have some clearance issues with my cold-side IC piping because I didn't have a notch cut out in the bumper... It fits but barely. A longer coupler should solve that issue. One popped off tonight and I had to fix it in a random parking lot in the cold.... arrrghhh. I also think a coupler is ripped somewhere as I'm not building any boost and getting some hesitation. I think I'm just going to replace all the couplers with new ones and get T-bolts for every one of 'em. It also sounds like my car has developed an exhaust leak... Can it be sounding like that cause of vacuum leak? I don't think it would but it wouldn't hurt to ask...

Anyway, I'll snap some pictures of the car tomorrow. I'm really happy with how the bumper looks. I would have been a lot happier if I didn't run into these issues.

[13rus]

I had an undetectable exhaust leak for a while, could not find it for the life of me. Turns out the gasket between the headers and the up-pipe had a large hole blown through it, and was shooting some very minor soot up towards the block, barely noticeable. I put my hand over it at cold idle and boy it was blowing! You may want to check there just in case, I guess it's a common exhaust gasket failure point at high boost.

Originally Posted by Rookie84

The bumper is finally on. But I have some clearance issues with my cold-side IC piping because I didn't have a notch cut out in the bumper... It fits but barely. A longer coupler should solve that issue. One popped off tonight and I had to fix it in a random parking lot in the cold.... arrrghhh. I also think a coupler is ripped somewhere as I'm not building any boost and getting some hesitation. I think I'm just going to replace all the couplers with new ones and get T-bolts for every one of 'em. It also sounds like my car has developed an exhaust leak... Can it be sounding like that cause of vacuum leak? I don't think it would but it wouldn't hurt to ask...

Anyway, I'll snap some pictures of the car tomorrow. I'm really happy with how the bumper looks. I would have been a lot happier if I didn't run into these issues.

[munky69]

you're worse than me with the no pics!!

[Rookie84]

Yeah. I am always late with pics. haha. Well, looks like I found all the problems. The IC pipes keep popping off, so I'm getting new couplers that are longer and T-bolt clamps for every coupler. I'm actually getting 3 feet of every size that I need, so I can just make the couplers however long I want. I also have an exhaust leak... I don't know where it is coming from so I just left it up to a shop to find it out for me. I should have everything done by this weekend. Unfortunately, the pics will have to be put on hold until then.

[VSGTS14]

what does the exhaust leak sound like?

[12SecSTI]

Originally Posted by VSGTS14

what does the exhaust leak sound like?

instead of bbbbbrrrrbbbbrrrrrbbb, its like PPPPPPPSSSSHHHHPPSHSHH =)

[Rookie84]

Originally Posted by VSGTS14

what does the exhaust leak sound like?

It sounds like crap. In my case, gasket in my header area somewhere is blown. It makes my car sound like lawn mower

BTW, I couldn't find any couplers that were longer than what I already had so I just ordered 36" long ones for every size for my IC piping so I can just cut it to however long I want. I'm just going to make them really long so I won't have any problems with them popping off again.

[VSGTS14]

yea if it sounds like a lawn mower, it's your header gasket.
do you have remflex? i blew out those gaskets two times now, i'm on my third set.
the nuts always come loose under there, this time i made them uber tight and i make sure to check them every oil change.

[sUbiEchiCk481]

very very nice

[munky69]

good idea on the couplers. i might do that when i change to black ones. tho i don't have any problems now....*knocks on wood*